Result of Meeting

RNS Number : 4461C

City of London Investment Trust PLC

18 June 2021

 

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

THE CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800F3NOTF47H6AO55

18 June 2021

THE CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

("the Company")

General Meeting held on Friday, 18 June 2021

The Company announces that at the General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll and the results are as follows:

Resolution	Description	Votes for (including at Chairman's discretion)	%	Votes against	%	Total votes cast	Votes cast (excluding votes withheld) as a percentage of total voting rights	Votes withheld
1	Authority to allot ordinary shares	6,620,655	99.36	42,382	0.64	6,663,037	22.38	27,743
2*	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights on allotment or sale of ordinary shares	6,451,204	96.96	202,520	3.04	6,653,724	22.35	36,990

* Special resolution.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the circular to shareholders dated 24 May 2021 which can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.cityinvestmenttrust.com .

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as at the close of business on 16 June 2021 (29,768,006), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the General Meeting.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.

The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 445,624,868. There are no shares held in treasury. As at the date of this announcement the number of voting rights in the Company is:

a)  29,708,324 in respect of the ordinary shares (one vote for every 15 shares held);

b)  30,198 in respect of the First Preference Stock (one vote for every £10 of stock held); and

c)  29,484 in respect of the Preferred Ordinary Stock (one vote for every £20 of stock held).

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 29,768,006.

A copy of the poll results will be available on the Company's website at: www.cityinvestmenttrust.com

A copy of the resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM's website at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

For further information, please contact:

Job Curtis Fund Manager Henderson Opportunities Trust plc Telephone: [phone]

James de Sausmarez Director and Head of Investment Trusts Janus Henderson Investors Telephone: [phone]

Laura Thomas Investment Trust PR Manager Janus Henderson Investors Tel: [phone]

 

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