Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1903Y

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

17 December 2010

 



RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC (the "Company") hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier  today, Friday 17 December 2010, all the resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Annual Report and available on the Company's website, www.standardlifeinvestments.com/its* were duly passed.

 

The total number of proxy votes lodged were as follows:

		FOR		AGAINST		DISCRETION		WITHHELD	TOTAL
		Votes	% Votes  Cast	Votes	% Votes  Cast	Votes	% Votes  Cast	Votes	(excluding Votes Withheld)
	Ordinary Business:
	Ordinary resolutions -
1	Adopt report & accounts	12,540,630	99.36	911	0.01	79,282	0.63	40,296	12,620,823
2	Approve Directors Remuneration Report	12,335,485	98.78	73,130	0.59	79,580	0.63	176,402	12,488,195
3	Approve Final Dividend	12,587,295	99.39	0	0.00	77,302	0.61	0	12,664,597
4	Re-elect Christopher Rowlands	12,378,016	99.22	17,470	0.14	80,452	0.64	172,270	12,475,938
5	Re-elect Keith Percy	12,375,152	99.19	21,114	0.17	79,672	0.64	172,270	12,475,938
6	Re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors	12,546,462	99.27	8,690	0.07	83,082	0.66	14,634	12,638,234
7	Allotment of new equity	12,398,411	98.16	146,911	1.16	85,017	0.68	22,529	12,630,339
	Special resolutions -
8	Disapply pre-emption rights	12,360,476	97.91	178,846	1.42	85,017	0.67	22,529	12,624,339
9	Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	12,512,478	98.93	50,669	0.40	85,017	0.67	4,704	12,648,164
	Special Business (Ordinary resolution):
10	Company Continues as an Investment Trust	11,495,398	98.20	124,363	1.06	86,115	0.74	12,500	11,705,876

A copy of the above proxy results has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do. 

* Neither the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's 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 Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretary

 

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