Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9813W

Smithson Investment Trust PLC

28 April 2021

 

Smithson Investment Trust plc

Legal Entity Identified: 52990070BDK2OKX5TH79

Results of AGM - 28 April 2021

Smithson Investment Trust plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed. 

The text of all the resolutions is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting published on the Company's website (www.smithson.co.uk).

The proxy votes received were as follows:-

Resolution	In Favour / Discretionary   Total votes  Percentage		Against Total votes  Percentage		Withheld
1. To receive and accept the Annual Report.	44,738,354	99.98	8,211	0.02	19,171
2. To approve the Directors Remuneration Report included in the Annual Report.	44,705,153	99.93	33,180	0.07	27,403
3. To re-elect Mark Pacitti as a Director of the Company.	44,115,212	98.68	588,803	1.32	61,721
4. To re-elect Diana Dyer Bartlett as a Director of the Company.	44,732,953	99.97	12,809	0.03	19,974
5. To re-elect Lord St John of Bletso as a Director of the Company.	44,723,382	99.95	20,755	0.05	21,599
6. To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditor to the Company.	44,716,378	99.93	29,153	0.07	20,205
7. To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditor until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company.	44,736,192	99.97	11,370	0.03	18,174
8. To authorise the Directors to allot securities in the Company up to an amount representing 10% of the issued share capital.	44,734,919	99.96	17,599	0.04	13,218
9. To authorise the Directors to allot securities in the Company up to an additional amount representing 10% of the issued share capital.	44,730,386	99.95	20,681	0.05	14,669
10. To disapply the pre-emption rights in relation to the allotment of shares up to an amount representing 10% of the issued share capital. *	44,706,800	99.90	43,267	0.10	15,669
11. To disapply the pre-emption rights in relation to the allotment of shares up to an additional amount representing 10% of the issued share capital. *	41,340,145	92.38	3,409,922	7.62	15,669
12. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of ordinary shares in the  Company. *	44,720,351	99.93	30,973	0.07	14,412
13. That the Directors be authorised to call general meetings (other than annual general meetings) on not less than 14 clear days' notice. *	44,471,885	99.38	278,005	0.62	15,846
14. That the amended articles of association giving authority to the Directors to convene a general meeting as a hybrid meeting be approved and adopted. *	44,730,043	99.97	14,850	0.03	20,843

*Special resolution

On the record date for voting at the meeting, the Company's issued ordinary share capital comprised 155,817,958 ordinary shares and this was the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in the Company.

Copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

28 April 2021

Enquiries

PraxisIFM Fund Services (UK) Limited

Company Secretary

Contact David Rice

020 4513 9260

 

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