Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9787H

Henderson Intl. Income Trust PLC

08 December 2020

 

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

HENDERSON INTERNATIONAL INCOME TRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 2138006N35XWGK2YUK38

8 December 2020

HENDERSON INTERNATIONAL INCOME TRUST PLC

Annual General Meeting of the Company

held on Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Henderson International Income Trust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll. This included the following resolutions:

-  Resolution 10: for the Company to continue as an investment trust for a further three-year period;

-  Resolution 11: to approve the dividend payment policy of paying four quarterly interim dividends in each year;

-  Resolution 12: to authorise the directors to allot ordinary shares up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital;

-  Resolution 13: to authorise the Directors to allot or to sell from treasury up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures;

-  Resolution 14: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares;

-  Resolution 15: to hold general meetings other than an annual general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice; and

-  Resolution 16: to approve and adopt new articles of association. 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the circular to shareholders dated 28 October 2020 which can be viewed on the Company's website at:  www.hendersoninternationalincometrust.com

The poll results were as follows:

Resolutions	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 Annual report and audited financial statements	64,463,887	99.99	6,078	0.01	64,469,965	32.90	30,865
2 Directors' remuneration report	64,062,471	99.58	273,393	0.42	64,335,864	32.83	164,965
3 Directors' remuneration policy	64,049,793	99.57	273,896	0.43	64,323,689	32.82	177,141
4 Re-appointment of Simon Jeffreys	59,876,579	93.16	4,396,672	6.84	64,273,251	32.80	227,578
5 Re-appointment of Richard Hills	64,172,970	99.84	100,463	0.16	64,273,433	32.80	227,397
6 Re-appointment of Aidan Lisser	64,206,413	99.87	82,307	0.13	64,288,720	32.80	212,110

7 Appointment of Lucy Walker	64,123,585	99.86	87,544	0.14	64,211,129	32.76	289,701
8 Appointment of BDO LLP as statutory auditors	64,322,009	99.89	70,493	0.11	64,392,502	32.86	108,328
9 Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	64,370,535	99.91	58,730	0.09	64,429,265	32.88	71,565
10 That the Company continue as an investment trust	64,443,493	99.96	26,472	0.04	64,469,965	32.90	30,865
11 Approval of the dividend payment policy	64,434,946	99.97	20,646	0.03	64,455,592	32.89	45,238
12 Authority to allot ordinary shares	64,333,376	99.93	47,067	0.07	64,380,443	32.85	120,387
13 Authority to disapply pre-emption rights on allotment or sale of ordinary shares*	63,940,308	99.58	267,320	0.42	64,207,628	32.76	293,202
14 Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares*	64,354,974	99.89	73,154	0.11	64,428,128	32.88	72,701
15 Authority to call a general meeting on 14 clear days' notice*	64,231,698	99.73	174,562	0.27	64,406,260	32.86	94,570
16 Adoption of new articles of association*	60,084,776	93.70	4,040,596	6.30	64,125,372	32.72	375,457

* Special resolution.

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 4 December 2020 (195,978,716), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the Annual 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 and the number of voting rights in the Company at the date of this announcement is 195,978,716 (one vote for every 1p ordinary share held).

A copy of the poll results will shortly be available on the Company's website at:

www.hendersoninternationalincometrust.com

A copy of the special business 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:

Ben Lofthouse

Fund Manager

Henderson International Income Trust plc

Telephone: [phone]

James de Sausmarez

Director and Head of Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson Investors

Telephone: [phone]

Laura Thomas

PR Manager, Investment Trusts

Henderson International Income Trust plc

Telephone: [phone]

 

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