Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4330Q

Aurora Investment Trust PLC

18 June 2020

 

Aurora Investment Trust plc  

LEI: 2138007OUWIZFMAGO575

Result of AGM

Aurora Investment Trust plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed.

As announced on 14 May, in response to the COVID-19 crisis and UK Government stay at home measures and restrictions on public gatherings, the Annual General Meeting was a closed meeting with shareholders voting in advance by proxy.

Details of the number of proxy votes cast for, against and withheld will shortly be published on the Company's website at  www.aurorainvestmenttrust.com

The text of all the resolutions is contained in the notice of meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.The proxy votes received were as follows;-

Resolution		In favour/ Discretionary		Against		Withheld
1	To receive and adopt the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019, with the reports of the Directors and auditors thereon.	18,063,600	100%	0	0%	4,481
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	18,058,233	99.97 %	5,127	0.03%	4,721
3	To approve the Directors Remuneration Implementation Report.	18,046,699	99.92 %	15,127	0.08%	6,255
4	To re-elect Lord Flight as a Director of the Company	18,062,202	99.99 %	724	0.01%	5,155
5	To re-elect The Honourable James Nelson as a Director of the Company.	18,062,442	99.99%	724	0.01%	4,915
6	To re-elect Mr David Stevenson as a Director of the Company.	18,062,442	99.99%	724	0.01%	4,915
7	To elect Lucy Walker as a Director of the Company	18,062,442	99.99%	724	0.01%	4,915
8	To elect Lady Rachael Robathan as a Director of the Company.	18,062,442	99.99%	724	0.01%	4,915
9	To re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors to the Company.	17,460,690	96.64 %	606,291	3.36 %	1,100
10	To authorise the Directors to fix the auditor's remuneration.	17,457,309	96.64 %	606,291	3.36 %	4,481
11	To authorise the Directors in accordance with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006, to allot Ordinary Shares up to a maximum of 20% of the issued share capital in the Company as at the date of passing this resolution.	18,063,278	99.99%	1,422	0.01%	3,381
12	To empower the Directors pursuant to section 570 of the Companies Act 2006, to allot equity securities for cash either pursuant to the authority conferred by resolution 11 or by way of a sale of treasury shares. as if section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 did not apply to any such allotment or sale	18,018,779	99.75 %	45,921	0.25%	3,381
13	To authorise the Company  to make market purchases  of its Ordinary Shares of 25p each up to 14.99% of the issued share capital of the Company at the date of passing this resolution;	18,049,486	99.91%	17,061	0.09%	1,534

On the record date for voting at the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital was 73,418,743 Ordinary Shares, therefore the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in the Company was 73,418,743.  A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the % of shares voted "For" or "Against" a resolution.

As previously stated in the Company's Annual Report, Richard Martin retired as a member of the Board at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting held today. 

In accordance with LR 9.6.2, copies of all special resolutions passed and the ordinary resolution passed concerning the share capital of the Company will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available shortly for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

Guy Dixon/John Luetchford	020 7653 9690
PraxisIFM Fund Services (UK) Limited Company Secretary

  18 June 2020

 

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