Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4169N

Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Tst

17 January 2019

 

ABERDEEN STANDARD EQUITY INCOME TRUST PLC

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Trust plc (the "Company") hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, Thursday 17 January 2019, 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.aberdeenstandardequityincometrust.co.uk * were duly passed.

The total number of proxy votes received in favour of the Chairman for the Annual General Meeting were 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	16,506,458	99.99	1,260	0.01	0	16,507,718
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	16,430,328	99.60	66,371	0.40	11,019	16,496,699
3. Approve Final Dividend	16,506,458	99.99	1,260	0.01	0	16,507,718
4. Re-elect Mr R.R.J. Burns	15,398,900	93.35	1,097,144	6.65	11,674	16,496,044
5. Re-elect Ms J. Dixon	15,476,674	93.83	1,018,310	6.17	12,734	16,494,984
6. Re-elect Ms C.M. Hitch	16,490,514	99.97	5,530	0.03	11,674	16,496,044
7. Re-elect Mr J. J. Tigue	15,458,824	93.73	1,034,720	6.27	14,174	16,493,544
8. Re-elect Mr M.B.E White	16,480,073	99.94	9,100	0.06	18,545	16,489,173
9. Appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor	16,443,688	99.79	34,661	0.21	29,369	16,478,349
10. Remuneration of the Auditor	16,477,059	99.99	1,772	0.01	28,887	16,478,831
11. Allotment of new equity	16,476,350	99.97	4,634	0.03	26,734	16,480,984
12. Disapply  pre-emption rights	16,433,352	99.76	39,550	0.24	34,816	16,472,902
13. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	16,457,551	99.73	44,596	0.27	5,571	16,502,147

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 Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Trust plc

Maven Capital Partners UK LLP

Company Secretary

17 January 2019

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