Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9852E

Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust PLC

09 July 2019

 

ABERDEEN JAPAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting held at 11.00 am today, Tuesday 9 July 2019, at Bow Bells House, 1 Bread Street, London, EC4M 9HH, the Ordinary Resolutions numbered 1 to 10 and 12 and the Special Resolutions numbered 10 and 11, as set out in the Notice of Meeting within the 2019 Annual Report, were passed.

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 2,163,680 million Ordinary shares as at today's date.

The total number of proxy votes cast in relation to each Resolution was as follows:

	For and Discretionary		Against		Abstained
Resolution	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
1	7,031,150	99.95%	2,115	0.03%	1,294	0.02%
2	7,000,838	99.52%	25,011	0.36%	8,710	0.12%
3	7,034,346	100.00%	117	0.00%	96	0.00%
4	7,012,020	99.68%	14,183	0.20%	8,356	0.12%
5	7,017,820	99.76%	12,467	0.18%	4,272	0.06%
6	7,013,166	99.70%	13,287	0.19%	8,107	0.12%
7	7,012,187	99.68%	14,266	0.20%	8,107	0.12%
8	6,994,204	99.43%	23,933	0.34%	16,423	0.23%
9	7,025,199	99.87%	4,237	0.06%	5,123	0.07%
10	7,017,990	99.76%	11,399	0.16%	5,171	0.07%
11	7,029,579	99.93%	1,510	0.02%	3,471	0.05%
12	6,991,856	99.39%	33,036	0.47%	9,667	0.14%

Passing of Resolutions under Special Business

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.aberdeenjapan.co.uk*.

Copies of the special resolutions have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM *.

Enquiries:

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretary

Tel. [phone]

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

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