Result of AGM

RNS Number : 0536R

abrdn Japan Investment Trust plc

01 July 2022

 

abrdn Japan Investment Trust plc

LEI: 5493007LN438OBLNLM64

1 July 2022

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting held at 10.00 am today, Friday 1 July 2022, at Bow Bells House, 1 Bread Street, London, EC4M 9HH, the Ordinary Resolutions numbered 1 to 9 and the Special Resolutions numbered 10 and 11, as set out in the Notice of Meeting within the 2022 Annual Report, were passed.

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

		For (inc discretionary)		Against		Abstained		Total
Resolution		Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
1	To receive and adopt the Directors' Report, Financial Statements and Independent Auditor's Report	6,474,707	99.97	1,900	0.03	0	-	6,476,607
2	To receive and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Report	6,439,409	99.43	25,323	0.39	11,875	0.18	6,476,607
3	To approve a final dividend of 9.0p	6,476,429	99.99	178	0.01	0	-	6,476,607
4	To re-elect Karen Brade	6,458,592	99.72	14,791	0.23	3,223	0.05	6,476,606
5	To re-elect Claire Boyle	6,455,813	99.68	20,525	0.32	268	0.00	6,476,606
6	To re-elect Sam Dean	6,447,561	99.55	20,525	0.32	8,521	0.13	6,476,607
7	To re-elect Sir David Warren	6,461,571	99.77	8,540	0.13	6,497	0.10	6,476,608
8	To re-appoint KPMG LLP as independent auditors	6,435,778	99.37	12,784	0.20	28,046	0.43	6,476,608
9	To authorise the Directors to allot shares	6,472,690	99.94	1,233	0.02	2,684	0.04	6,476,607
10	To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights	6,457,923	99.71	10,242	0.16	8,442	0.13	6,476,607
11	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	6,468,089	99.87	5,405	0.08	3,112	0.05	6,476,606

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 2022, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.abrdnjapan.co.uk*.

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

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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