Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3029C

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

18 January 2018

 

STANDARD LIFE EQUITY INCOME TRUST PLC

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, Thursday 18 January 2018, 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.standardlifeequityinvestmenttrust.co.uk* were duly passed.

The total number of proxy votes at the Annual General Meeting was as follows:

	For and Discretionary		Against		Votes	Total Votes
Resolution	No. of	% of	No. of	% of	Withheld	(excluding Votes Withheld)
Number	Votes	Votes Cast	Votes	Votes Cast
1. Receive Report & Accounts	8,762,648	99.99	1,260	0.01	0	8,763,908
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	8,676,748	99.11	77,952	0.89	9,208	8,754,700
3. Approve Final Dividend	8,762,648	99.99	1,260	0.01	0	8,763,908
4. Re-elect R.R.J. Burns	8,735,007	99.81	17,040	0.19	11,861	8,752,047
5. Re-elect J. Dixon	8,738,966	99.86	12,020	0.14	12,921	8,750,986
6. Re-elect J. J. Tigue	8,733,734	99.81	16,753	0.19	13,421	8,750,487
7. Re- elect M.B.E White	8,742,939	99.89	9,218	0.11	11,750	8,752,157
8. Elect C.M. Hitch	8,746,897	99.94	5,150	0.06	11,861	8,752,047
9. Re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as Auditors	8,723,559	99.72	24,150	0.28	16,197	8,747,709
10. Remuneration of Auditors	8,758,324	99.94	5,583	0.06	0	8,763,907
11. Allotment of new equity	8,732,552	99.79	18,330	0.21	13,026	8,750,882
12. Disapply  pre-emption rights	8,709,827	99.56	38,311	0.44	15,770	8,748,138
13. Authorise market purchases of  ordinary shares	8,717,190	99.55	39,514	0.45	7,204	8,756,704

A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with the UKLA have been 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 Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (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

Maven Capital Partners UK LLP

Company Secretary

18 January 2018

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