Result of AGM

Schroder Asian Total Retn InvCo PLC

24 April 2024

 

24 April 2024

Annual General Meeting

Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company plc (the "Company") announces that at the Annual General Meeting held today, all 12 resolutions were passed on a poll.

The full text of the resolutions is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2023 available on the Company's webpages at Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company - ATR.

As set out in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2023, Ms Hitch retired from the Board immediately following the Annual General Meeting, also relinquishing her role as Senior Independent Director.  The Board expects to nominate a replacement Senior Independent Director in due course.

The proxy votes received in respect of the resolutions are set out below:

Resolution		For	%	Against	%	Withheld	% of issued share capital
Ordinary business
1	To receive the Annual Report & Accounts	43,838,269	100.00	2,163	0.00	7,769	45.69
2	To approve the final dividend	43,840,035	100.00	2,163	0.00	6,003	45.69
3	To approve the Remuneration Report	43,783,146	99.89	46,832	0.11	18,223	45.67
4	To re-elect Mrs Sarah MacAulay	43,129,531	98.39	707,715	1.61	10,955	45.68
5	To re-elect Mr Andrew Cainey	43,195,752	98.57	625,964	1.43	26,485	45.67
6	To re-elect Mr Jasper Judd	43,277,480	98.76	544,236	1.24	26,485	45.67
7	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor	43,809,445	99.97	11,935	0.03	26,821	45.67
8	To approve the auditor's remuneration	43,820,558	99.99	3,958	0.01	23,685	45.67
Special business
9	To renew the authority to allot shares	43,827,424	99.97	14,774	0.03	6,003	45.69
10*	To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights	43,784,698	99.88	50,890	0.12	12,613	45.68
11*	To renew the authority to purchase own shares	42,239,895	96.35	1,602,303	3.65	6,003	45.69
12*	To allow the Company to hold general meetings  on a minimum notice period of 14 clear days	43,713,316	99.72	123,105	0.28	11,780	45.68

*Resolutions 10, 11 and 12 were passed as special resolutions.  

A copy of the resolutions passed as special business will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism, and available for inspection at National Storage Mechanism | FCA.

The proxy votes lodged with the Registrar will shortly be available via the Company's webpages at Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company - ATR.

The total number of ordinary shares of 5p each in issue, at the time of the meeting was 109,114,651 of which 13,152,568 were held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights was 95,962,083. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not a vote in law and are therefore not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column.

   

Enquiries:

Kerry Higgins

Schroder Investment Management Limited                                        

0207 6586189

 

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