Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6213K

Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust PLC

10 July 2017

 

ABERDEEN JAPAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting held at 11.00 am today, Monday 10 July 2017, at Bow Bells House, 1 Bread Street, London, EC4M 9HH, the Ordinary Resolutions numbered 1 to 10 and the Special Resolutions numbered 11 and 12, as set out in the Notice of Meeting within the 2017 Annual Report, were passed.

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 2.247 million Ordinary shares as at today's date.

The total number of proxy votes cast in relation to each Resolution was as follows:

	In Favour		Discretionary		Against		Abstained
Resolution	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes
1	5,799,936	99.22	40,091	0.69	5,021	0.09	0
2	5,770,532	98.98	40,091	0.69	19,470	0.33	14,954
3	5,776,238	99.02	40,091	0.69	16,833	0.29	11,885
4	5,804,793	99.3	40,091	0.69	164	0.01	0
5	5,789,292	99.11	40,585	0.69	11,896	0.2	3,274
6	5,788,175	99.09	40,585	0.69	13,013	0.22	3,274
7	5,784,786	99.02	44,774	0.77	12,213	0.21	3,274
8	5,753,534	98.94	44,774	0.77	16,964	0.29	29,776
9	5,792,431	99.12	44,774	0.77	6,452	0.11	1,389
10	5,795,825	99.18	44,280	0.76	3,501	0.06	1,441
11	5,780,206	99.01	44,280	0.76	13,234	0.23	7,327
12	5,794,967	99.16	45,491	0.78	3,555	0.06	1,034

Passing of Resolutions under Special Business

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2017, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.aberdeenjapan.co.uk*.

Copies of the special resolutions have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM *.

Enquiries:

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretary

Tel. [phone]

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

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