Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5980H

Aberdeen Asian Smaller Co's Inv Tst

01 December 2015

 

1 December 2015

ABERDEEN ASIAN SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC (the "Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held today (1 December 2015), all resolutions in the Notice of Meeting were passed on a show of hands. 

In relation to Resolution 10 (authority to disapply pre-emption rights), 10.0 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 3,713,955 Ordinary shares as at today's date.

In relation to Resolution 11 (authority to purchase shares for cancellation or treasury), 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 5,567,219 Ordinary shares as at today's date.

The total number of proxy votes lodged was as follows:

Resolution Number	Number of Votes For	% of Votes For	Number of Votes Against	% of Votes Against	Number of Votes Discretionary	Number of Votes For & Discretionary	% of Votes For & Discretionary	Total Votes Cast (Excluding Withheld)	Number of Votes Withheld
01	13,719,293	99.82%	24,630	0.18%	317	13,719,610	99.82%	13,744,240	33,357
02	13,660,529	99.51%	66,294	0.48%	317	13,660,846	99.52%	13,727,140	50,456
03	13,742,811	99.88%	16,488	0.12%	317	13,743,128	99.88%	13,759,616	17,980
04	13,742,650	99.88%	16,488	0.12%	317	13,742,967	99.88%	13,759,455	18,142
05	12,580,964	91.63%	1,149,393	8.37%	317	12,581,281	91.63%	13,730,674	46,921
06	11,767,247	85.71%	1,961,878	14.29%	817	11,768,064	85.71%	13,729,942	47,653
07	12,588,283	91.66%	1,144,911	8.34%	317	12,588,600	91.66%	13,733,511	44,084
08	12,870,749	93.69%	866,534	6.31%	317	12,871,066	93.69%	13,737,600	39,997
09	13,704,748	99.76%	32,083	0.23%	317	13,705,065	99.77%	13,737,148	40,449
10	13,690,368	99.78%	30,160	0.22%	317	13,690,685	99.78%	13,720,845	56,752
11	13,677,743	99.42%	79,955	0.58%	317	13,678,060	99.42%	13,758,015	19,582
12	13,295,975	96.85%	431,622	3.14%	317	13,296,292	96.86%	13,727,914	49,681

 

PASSING OF RESOLUTIONS UNDER SPECIAL BUSINESS

A copy of the resolutions passed under special business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*.

*Neither the NSM website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the NSM website (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

For Aberdeen Asset Management PLC - Secretaries

1 December 2015

 

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