Result of AGM

AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC
01 May 2024
 

AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC

 

Results of Annual General Meeting

 

LEI: 894500IJ5QQD7FPT3J73

1 May 2024

 

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 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 1 May 2024 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 13 March 2024, 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/ajot-agm/.

 

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 audited accounts of the Company

50,104,967

100.00%

0

0.00%

0

 

0

Resolution 2

To approve a final ordinary dividend of 0.85p per Ordinary Share

50,104,767

100.00%

0

0.00%

0

200

Resolution 3

To re-elect Mr Norman Crighton as a Director of the Company

50,021,311

99.83%

83,234

0.17%

0

422

Resolution 4

To re-elect Mr Yoshi Nishio as a Director of the Company

50,097,229

99.99%

7,316

0.01%

0

422

Resolution 5

To re-elect Ms Margaret Stephens as a Director of the Company

50,064,211

99.92%

40,334

0.08%

0

422

Resolution 6

To re-elect Ms Ekaterina Thomson as a Director of the Company

50,097,429

99.99%

7,116

0.01%

0

422

Resolution 7

To reappoint BDO LLP as Auditor to the Company

50,036,451

99.86%

68,316

0.14%

0

200

Resolution 8

To authorise the Directors to determine the Auditor's remuneration

50,062,835

100.00%

2,132

0.00%

0

0

Resolution 9

To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

49,994,647

99.78%

110,120

0.22%

0

200

 

Resolution 10

To authorise the Directors to allot securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £281,673

50,100,254

99.99%

4,713

0.01%

0

0

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 £140,836

50,042,849

99.88%

62,118

0.12%

0

0

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 £140,836

50,039,981

99.87%

64,986

0.13%

0

 

0

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 21,111,421 shares

50,104,967

100.00%

0

0.00%

0

0

Resolution 14

To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice

49,941,076

99.67%

162,891

0.33%

0

1,000

 

 

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 14 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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