Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7456D

Aberdeen Smaller Co's Inc Tst PLC

28 April 2017

 

Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 28 April 2017

At today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed by shareholders.

The proxy votes received in respect of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the following table:

	For (including discretionary)	Against	Withheld
1     Approve the annual report	5,851,470	0	8,285
2     Approval of Directors' remuneration report	5,698,340	115,696	45,718
3     Approval of Directors' remuneration policy	5,793,240	51,622	14,893
4     Re-election of R Lister	5,813,999	8,064	37,692
5     Re-election of B Rose	5,802,764	19,022	37,968
6     Election of D Fletcher	5,802,832	19,230	37,692
7     Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP  and authority for Directors to determine their remuneration	5,827,987	4,322	27,446
8     Section 551 allotment	5,796,886	49,469	13,400
9     Disapplication of pre-emption rights	5,785,141	57,723	16,891
10    Share buyback authority	5,799,939	44,595	15,221

The total vote was 5.86 million shares including those withheld votes as identified above. 

Resolutions 1 - 8 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 9 and 10 were special resolutions.

A copy of the above proxy results has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*.  The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.aberdeensmallercompanies.co.uk

As previously announced Carolan Dobson retired from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM.

For Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Secretary

28 April 2017

*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.

 

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