Result of AGM

AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC

02 May 2023

 

AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC

Results of Annual General Meeting

LEI: 894500IJ5QQD7FPT3J73

2 May 2023

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, 2 May 2023 were duly passed. Voting on all resolutions was conducted by a show of hands.

The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 15 March 2023, 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	45,298,317	100%	0	0%	0	5,711
Resolution 2 To approve a final ordinary dividend of 0.80p per Ordinary Share	45,304,028	100%	0	0%	0	0
Resolution 3 To re-elect Mr Norman Crighton as a Director of the Company	45,256,916	99.91%	41,401	0.09%	0	5,711
Resolution 4 To re-elect Mr Yoshi Nishio as a Director of the Company	45,196,297	99.77%	102,020	0.23%	0	5,711
Resolution 5 To re-elect Ms Margaret Stephens as a Director of the Company	45,296,485	99.99%	1,832	0.01%	0	5,711
Resolution 6 To re-elect Ms Ekaterina Thomson as a Director of the Company	45,296,485	99.99%	1,832	0.01%	0	5,711
Resolution 7 To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor of the Company	45,233,716	99.86%	64,601	0.14%	0	5,711
Resolution 8 To authorise the Directors to determine the Auditor's remuneration	45,296,548	99.99%	1,769	0.01%	0	5,711
Resolution 9 To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	45,178,017	99.73%	122,511	0.27%	0	3,500
Resolution 10 To authorise the Directors to allot securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £280,723	45,272,071	99.94%	26,246	0.06%	0	5,711
Resolution 11 To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to an aggregate nominal value of £140,361	45,151,954	99.68%	146,363	0.32%	0	5,711
Resolution 12 To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to a further aggregate nominal value of £140,361	45,118,869	99.60%	179,448	0.40%	0	5,711
Resolution 13 To authorise the Directors to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company up to an aggregate number of 21,040,219 shares	45,304,028	100%	0	0%	0	0
Resolution 14 To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice	45,235,411	99.86%	64,117	0.14%	0	4,500

Enquiries:

Joe Bauernfreund Asset Value Investors Investment Manager	020 7659 4800
Nezia Morgan Link Company Matters Limited Company Secretary	0333 300 1950

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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