Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5309Q

Aurora Investment Trust PLC

28 June 2022

 

Aurora Investment Trust plc  

LEI: 2138007OUWIZFMAGO575

Result of AGM

Aurora 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 full text of all the resolutions is contained in the Notice of 2022 Annual General Meeting, a copy of which can be found on the Company's website at www.aurorainvestmenttrusts.com.

The proxy votes received were as follows:

Resolution		In favour		Against		Withheld
1	To receive and adopt the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021, with the reports of the directors and auditors thereon.	30,779,459	100.00%	50	0.00%	2,825
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report included in the Annual Report for the year to 31 December 2021.	30,754,032	99.99%	3,992	0.01%	24,310
3	To approve a final dividend of 1.84 pence per share in respect of the year ended 31 December 2021.	30,779,509	100.00%	0	0.00%	2,825
4	To re-elect Lucy Walker as a Director of the Company.	30,564,456	99.30%	215,053	0.70%	2,825
5	To re-elect Lady Rachael Robathan as a Director of the Company .	30,555,667	99.27%	223,842	0.73%	2,825
6	To re-elect Mr David Stevenson as a Director of the Company.	30,200,903	99.25%	228,106	0.75%	353,325
7	To re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors to the Company.	30,766,406	99.96%	13,103	0.04%	2,825
8	To authorise the Directors to fix the auditor's remuneration.	30,779,459	100.00%	50	0.00%	2,825
9	To approve the continuation of the Company as an investment trust company for a further three year period.	30,779,509	100.00%	0	0.00%	2,825
10	To increase the maximum aggregate for the Director's remuneration from £200,000 to £250,000.	30,768,475	99.98%	4,716	0.02%	9,143
11	To authorise the Directors in accordance with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006, to allot Ordinary Shares up to a maximum of 20% of the issued share capital in the Company as at the date of passing this resolution.	30,738,867	99.99%	4,192	0.01%	39,275
12	To empower the Directors pursuant to section 570 of the Companies Act 2006, to allot equity securities for cash either pursuant to the authority conferred by resolution 11 or by way of a sale of treasury shares as if section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 did not apply to any such allotment or sale.	30,627,462	99.51%	152,047	0.49%	2,825
13	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares of 25p each up to 14.99% of the issued share capital of the Company at the date of passing this resolution.	30,779,509	100.00%	0	0.00%	2,825

On the record date for voting at the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital was 76,608,771 Ordinary Shares, therefore the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in the Company was 76,608,771 .  A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the % of shares voted "For" or "Against" a resolution.  

In accordance with LR 9.6.2, copies of all special resolutions passed and the ordinary resolution passed concerning the share capital of the Company will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available shortly for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

28 June 2022

Enquiries

Sanne Fund Services (UK) Limited

Brian Smith/ Jenny Thompson  020 3327 9720

Company Secretary

 

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