Keystone Investment Trust plc
Annual General Meeting Results
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 21 January 2016, shareholders approved the following resolutions:
1. to receive the Annual Financial Report for the year ended 30 September 2015;
2. to approve the Annual Statement and Report on Remuneration;
3. to re-elect Mrs Beatrice Hollond a Director of the Company;
4. to re-elect Mr Ian Armfield a Director of the Company;
5. to re-elect Mr William Kendall a Director of the Company;
6. to re-elect Mr Peter Readman a Director of the Company;
7. to re-elect Mr John Wood a Director of the Company;
8. to reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditor to the Company and authorise the Audit Committee to determine their remuneration;
9. to renew the Directors’ authority to allot securities;
10. to renew the Directors’ authority to allot securities for cash while disapplying pre-emption rights within parameters specified;
11. to renew the Directors’ authority to purchase up to 14.99% of the Company’s shares in the market within the parameters specified; and
12. that the period of notice required for general meetings of the Company (other than AGMs) shall be no less than 14 clear days.
All Resolutions were passed on a show of hands.
A breakdown of the proxy votes registered is shown below.
Resolution | Votes For | Votes Against | Votes Withheld |
(including votes at the discretion of the Chairman) |
Ordinary resolutions:
1. | 1,809,717 | 3,124 | 498 |
2. | 1,810,608 | 2,348 | 383 |
3. | 1,099,964 | 63,297 | 650,078 |
4. | 1,809,242 | 3,597 | 499 |
5. | 1,770,344 | 42,496 | 499 |
6. | 1,447,475 | 365,059 | 805 |
7. | 1,810,734 | 650 | 1,955 |
8. | 1,810,399 | 2,442 | 498 |
9. | 1,810,651 | 2,014 | 674 |
Special resolutions:
10. | 1,803,980 | 7,260 | 2,099 |
11. | 1,807,851 | 2,878 | 2,610 |
12. | 1,760,829 | 50,605 | 1,905 |
The Company has 13,518,799 ordinary shares of 50p each in issue. On a poll these carry one vote per £1 of nominal capital, accordingly Total Voting Rights were 6,759,399. The above table represents the number of votes registered. The number of shares represented are twice the above numbers.
Invesco Asset Management Limited
Corporate Company Secretary
21 January 2016