Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC
Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 26 June 2020
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800J6D2TVHRGKBG24
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 |
4,921,281 |
353 |
17,658 |
2 Approval of Directors' Remuneration Policy |
4,701,702 |
173,166 |
64,423 |
3 Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report |
4,726,504 |
123,805 |
88,983 |
4 Re-election of R Lister |
4,883,916 |
16,402 |
38,973 |
5 Re-election of D Fletcher |
4,900,839 |
2,893 |
35,559 |
6 Re-election of D Kershaw |
4,898,516 |
4,049 |
36,726 |
7 Re-election of B Rose |
4,841,856 |
60,709 |
36,726 |
8 Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Company |
4,858,076 |
42,557 |
38,658 |
9 Authority for Directors to determine auditors' remuneration |
4,888,344 |
25,094 |
25,853 |
10 Approve the continuation of the Company as an investment trust |
4,926,029 |
988 |
12,274 |
11 Section 551 allotment |
4,904,503 |
17,855 |
16,934 |
12 Disapplication of pre-emption rights |
4,861,227 |
47,159 |
30,905 |
13 Share buyback authority |
4,895,408 |
21,016 |
22,867 |
The total vote was 4.9 million shares including those withheld votes as identified above.
Resolutions 1 - 11 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 12 and 13 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: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism * . The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.aberdeensmallercompanies.co.uk
For Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Secretary
26 June 2020
*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.