AGM Results

RNS Number : 2955N

Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus PLC

16 January 2019

 

Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus PLC (the "Company")

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI):  5493000FBZP1J92OQY70

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

16 January 2019

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held today (16 January 2019), all resolutions in the Notice of Meeting were passed on a show of hands. 

In relation to Resolution 11 (authority to disapply pre-emption rights), 10.0 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 3,455,862 Ordinary shares as at today's date.

In relation to Resolution 12 (authority to purchase shares for cancellation or treasury), 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 5,180,337 Ordinary shares as at today's date.

The total number of proxy votes lodged was as follows:

Resolution Number	Votes For	% of Votes For	Votes Against	% of Votes Against	Votes Discretion-ary	% of Votes Discretion-ary	Total Votes Cast (Excluding Withheld)	Number of Votes  Withheld
01	15,932,977	99.98%	1,870	0.01%	1,706	0.01%	15,936,553	13,975
02	15,881,101	99.75%	38,557	0.24%	1,706	0.01%	15,921,364	29,164
03	15,939,592	99.98%	1,062	0.01%	1,706	0.01%	15,942,360	8,168
04	15,933,295	99.95%	6,124	0.04%	1,706	0.01%	15,941,125	9,403
05	15,628,301	98.19%	286,633	1.80%	1,706	0.01%	15,916,640	33,887
06	11,540,053	72.51%	4,374,289	27.48%	1,706	0.01%	15,916,048	34,480
07	15,619,581	98.23%	280,149	1.76%	1,706	0.01%	15,901,436	49,092
08	14,937,526	93.86%	975,724	6.13%	1,706	0.01%	15,914,956	35,571
09	14,688,906	92.24%	1,234,602	7.75%	1,706	0.01%	15,925,214	25,313
10	15,929,653	99.93%	9,633	0.06%	1,706	0.01%	15,940,992	9,536
11	15,903,102	99.84%	23,689	0.15%	1,706	0.01%	15,928,497	22,031
12	15,930,403	99.95%	6,291	0.04%	1,706	0.01%	15,938,400	12,128
13	15,690,048	98.69%	207,273	1.30%	1,706	0.01%	15,899,027	51,501

The Board notes the voting on Resolution 6. The Board strongly supports the resolution for reasons as set out on page 34 of the Annual Report for the year to 31 July 2018.

PASSING OF RESOLUTIONS UNDER SPECIAL BUSINESS

A copy of the resolutions passed under special business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*.

*Neither the NSM website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the NSM website (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

For Aberdeen Asset Management PLC - Secretaries

16 January 2019

 

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