Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7775A

Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Tst

04 February 2022

 

ABERDEEN STANDARD EQUITY INCOME TRUST PLC

4 February 2022

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Trust plc (the "Company") held on Friday 4 February 2022, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2021, available on the Company's website www.aberdeenstandardequityincometrust.co.uk*, were duly passed on a show of hands.

The total number of proxy votes lodged 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. Approve Directors' Report and Financial Statements	6,749,625	99.56	29,955	0.44	73,841	6,779,580
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	6,566,040	97.75	151,322	2.25	136,059	6,717,362
3. Approve Dividend Policy	6,746,477	99.57	29,045	0.43	77,899	6,775,522
4. Re-elect Ms C.M. Hitch	6,723,746	99.49	34,394	0.51	95,281	6,758,140
5. Re-elect Ms S. Patel	6,669,231	98.70	88,179	1.30	96,011	6,757,410
6. Re-elect Mr J. J. Tigue	6,661,416	98.67	89,779	1.33	102,226	6,751,195
7. Re-elect Mr M.B.E White	6,696,504	99.14	58,269	0.86	98,648	6,754,773
8. Re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor	6,612,423	98.36	110,028	1.64	130,970	6,722,451
9. Remuneration of the Auditor	6,708,224	99.26	49,966	0.74	93,182	6,758,190
10. Approve Company continuing as an Investment Trust Company	6,765,435	99.47	36,095	0.53	51,891	6,801,530
11. Allotment of shares	6,683,931	99.23	52,199	0.77	75,286	6,736,130
12. Disapply  pre-emption rights	6,545,235	97.99	134,366	2.01	125,834	6,679,601
13. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	6,655,720	98.78	82,210	1.22	73,486	6,737,930
14. Notice of General Meetings	6,508,601	96.49	236,510	3.51	66,305	6,745,111

Copies of the resolutions passed under special business will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism *.

* 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.

4 February 2022

 

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