Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7454Z

Henderson Opportunities Trust PLC

16 March 2017

 

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

HENDERSON OPPORTUNITIES TRUST PLC

16 March 2017

Legal Entity Identifier: 2138005D884NPGHFQS77

HENDERSON OPPORTUNITIES TRUST PLC

Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 16 March 2017

Henderson Opportunities Trust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a show of hands, three of which were special resolutions authorising:

-           up to 10% of the share capital to be issued or sold out of treasury without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures;

-           the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares up to a maximum of 14.99% of the share capital (equivalent to 1,199,328 ordinary shares as at today's date) at the maximum price per share (exclusive of expenses) not exceeding the higher of:         

i)          105% of the average middle market quotations for the five business days preceding the date of purchase; and

ii)         the higher of the last independent bid and the highest current independent bid on the London Stock Exchange. Shares repurchased will either be held in treasury or cancelled; 

-           a general meeting to be called on not fewer than 14 clear days' notice.

The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting, copies of which are available for viewing at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

For further information please contact:

James Henderson                                       

Henderson Opportunities Trust plc                        

Telephone: [phone]

or

James de Sausmarez

Director and Head of Investment Trusts

Henderson Global Investors

Telephone: [phone]                                                

 

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