Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1472K

AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC

03 May 2022

 

AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC

Results of Annual General Meeting

LEI: 894500IJ5QQD7FPT3J73

3 May 2022

The Board of AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all Resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 11.30am on Tuesday, 3 May 2022 were duly passed. Voting on all resolutions was conducted by poll.

The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 16 March 2022, which has previously been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and is available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism . The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.ajot.co.uk .

For completeness, proxy votes received in respect of the Resolutions were as follows:

Resolutions	Votes For		Votes Against		Votes at Chairman's Discretion	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1 To receive the directors' report and audited accounts of the Company	42,354,037	99.92%	35,816	0.08%	0	5,711
Resolution 2 To approve a final ordinary dividend of 0. 70 p per Ordinary Share	42,359,748	99.92%	35,816	0.08%	0	0
Resolution 3 To re- elect Norman Crighton as a Director of the Company	42,314,205	99.82%	75,648	0.18%	0	5,711
Resolution 4 To re-elect Mr Yoshi Nishio as a Director of the Company	42,298,205	99.82%	75,648	0.18%	0	21,711
Resolution 5 To re-elect Ms Margaret Stephens as a Director of the Company	42,352,205	99.91%	37,648	0.09%	0	5,711
Resolution 6 To re-elect Ms Ekaterina Thomson as a Director of the Company	42,352,205	99.91%	37,648	0.09%	0	5,711
Resolution 7 To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor of the Company	42,298,205	99.78%	91,648	0.22%	0	5,711
Resolution 8 To authorise the Directors to determine the Auditor's remuneration	42,352,105	99.91%	37,748	0.09%	0	5,711
Resolution 9 To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	42,261,853	99.7%	129,211	0.30%	0	4,500
Resolution 10 To receive and adopt the amended Directors' Remuneration Policy	42,292,385	99.77%	98,679	0.23%	0	4,500
Resolution 11 To authorise the Directors to allot securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £ 274,423	42,345,105	99.91%	37,748	0.09%	0	12,711
Resolution 12 To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to an aggregate nominal value of £13 7,211	42,321,072	99.85%	61,581	0.15%	0	12,911
Resolution 13 To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to a further aggregate nominal value of £13 7,211	41,878,977	98.81%	503,876	1.19%	0	12,711
Resolution 14 To authorise the Directors to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company up to an aggregate number of 20,568,034 shares	42,359,748	99.92%	35,816	0.08%	0	0
Resolution 15 To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice	42,141,495	99.4%	254,069	0.60%	0	0
Resolution 16 To adopt the new articles of association	42,328,284	99.85%	61,569	0.15%	0	5,711

Enquiries:

Joe Bauernfreund Asset Value Investors Investment Manager	020 7659 4800
Nezia Morgan Link Company Matters Limited Company Secretary	01392 477 500

Notes:

A copy of this announcement will be available on the Company's website and, in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions 10 to 16 have been submitted to and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

Terms used and not defined in this announcement bear the meaning given to them in the Notice of Meeting.

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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