Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4686C

Aberdeen Diversified I&G Trust PLC

22 February 2022

 

ABERDEEN DIVERSIFIED INCOME AND GROWTH TRUST PLC

(LEI: 2138003QINEGCHYGW702)

22 February 2022

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of Aberdeen Diversified Income and Growth Trust plc ("the Company") held on 22 February 2022, all resolutions, as set out in the Notice of AGM included in the Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2021 ("the 2021 Annual Report") published on 18 January 2022, were passed.  A copy of the Notice of AGM is available at www.aberdeendiversified.co.uk .

In relation to Resolution 12 (Authority to Allot Shares) and Resolution 13 (Authority to Allot Shares without Pre-emption), the relevant figure is 30,917,732 Ordinary shares, being 10% of the Ordinary shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, at the date of passing of these two Resolutions at the AGM.

In relation to Resolution 14 (Authority to Buy Back Ordinary shares), the relevant figure is 46,345,686 Ordinary shares, being 14.99% of the Ordinary shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, at the date of passing of Resolution 14 at the AGM.

The total number of proxy votes lodged in favour of the Chairman was as follows:

Resolution Number	All Ordinary resolutions unless noted otherwise	For and Discretionary		Against		Votes Withheld	Total Votes (excluding Votes Withheld)
		No. of Votes	% of Votes Cast	No. of Votes	% of Votes Cast
1	Receive and adopt the Directors' Report and audited financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2021	102,727,282	99.9	105,589	0.1	394,513	102,832,871
2	Receive and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Report (other than the Directors' Remuneration Policy) for the year ended 30 September 2021	101,729,455	99.1	893,774	0.9	604,156	102,623,229
3	Approve the Company's dividend policy to continue to pay four quarterly interim dividends per year	102,984,814	100.0	45,238	0.0	197,333	103,030,052
4	Elect Alistair Mackintosh as a Director	101,259,959	98.5	1,577,696	1.5	389,729	102,837,655
5	Re-elect Trevor Bradley as a Director	101,205,908	98.4	1,615,817	1.6	405,659	102,821,725
6	Re-elect Tom Challenor as a Director	101,180,908	98.4	1,635,204	1.6	411,272	102,816,112
7	Re-elect Anna Troup as a Director	100,852,132	98.1	1,982,970	1.9	392,282	102,835,102
8	Re-elect Davina Walter as a Director	101,167,829	98.4	1,672,779	1.6	386,776	102,840,608
9	Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor of the Company	101,964,969	99.3	705,403	0.7	557,012	102,670,372
10	Authority to fix the auditor's remuneration	102,575,785	99.7	346,075	0.3	305,525	102,921,860
11	Approve the continuation of the Company as an investment trust	101,541,564	98.6	1,441,068	1.4	244,752	102,982,632
12	Authority to allot shares	102,203,316	99.3	716,462	0.7	307,606	102,919,778
13	Authority to allot shares without pre-emption (Special resolution)	101,923,290	99.1	904,656	0.9	399,439	102,827,946
14	Approve share buybacks (Special resolution)	102,545,790	99.6	390,323	0.4	291,271	102,936,113
15	Approve holding meetings on less than 14 days' notice (Special resolution)	101,800,225	99.0	1,056,239	1.0	370,920	102,856,464

Resolutions

Copies of Resolutions 11 to 15, inclusive, as approved by shareholders at the AGM, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and available for inspection thereafter at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism  

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

Enquiries:

Stuart Reid

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretaries

Tel. [phone]

 

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