Result of General Meeting

RNS Number : 2303M

Acorn Income Fund Ld

21 August 2013

 



ACORN INCOME FUND LIMITED (THE "COMPANY")

RESULT OF GENERAL MEETING

In accordance with the provisions of E.2.2 of the UK Corporate Governance Code the Company advises that for the ordinary resolutions put to members at the General Meeting held on 21 August 2013 valid proxy appointments were made in respect of 1,848,966 voting shares and voting was as follows:

IT WAS RESOLVED to receive the Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31 December 2012.  (1,848,966 votes cast, all in favour, none against and none withheld.)

IT WAS RESOLVED to reappoint KPMG Channel Islands Limited as auditor to the Company, to hold office from the conclusion of this meeting until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting to be held in 2014 under section 199 of the Companies Law, and to authorise the directors to determine their remuneration. (1,848,966votes cast, all in favour, none against and none withheld.)

IT WAS RESOLVED to re-elect Helen Foster Green as a director. (1,848,966 votes cast, all in favour, none against and none withheld.)

IT WAS RESOLVED to re-elect David John Warr as a director. (1,848,966 votes cast, all in favour, none against and none withheld.)

IT WAS RESOLVED that the Company be authorised to issue or sell Ordinary Shares from treasury at a discount to the prevailing Net Asset Value in certain specified circumstances. (1,848,966 votes cast, 1,844,566 in favour, none against and 4,400 withheld.)

The Company advises that for the special resolutions put to members at the General Meeting held on 21 August 2013 valid proxy appointments were made in respect of 1,848,966 voting shares and voting was as follows:

IT WAS RESOLVED that the Company be authorised to make market acquisitions of Ordinary Shares on the terms set out in the Notice of Meeting. (1,848,966 votes cast, all in favour, none against and none withheld.)

IT WAS RESOLVED thatthe Company be authorised to make market acquisitions of its Zero Dividend Preference Shares on the terms set out in the Notice of Meeting. (1,848,966 votes cast, 1,834,566 in favour, none against and 14,400 withheld.)

IT WAS RESOLVED that the Company be authorised to disapply pre-emption rights on the sale of Ordinary Shares from treasury. (1,848,966 votes cast, 1,844,566 in favour, 4,400 against and none withheld.)

For further information contact:

Anson Fund Managers Limited

Secretary                     

Tel: [phone]

21 August 2013

E&OE - in transmission

 

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