Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7137V

Genesis Emerging Markets Fund Ld

06 November 2017

 

Genesis Emerging Markets Fund Limited (the 'Company')

Result of Annual General Meeting

Following the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') of the Company, the Board is pleased to announce that all ordinary and special resolutions set out in the Notice of the Meeting were duly passed.

Resolution 5 proposed the payment of 14.0 US cents per Participating Preference Share in respect of the year ended 30 June 2017.  The dividend will be paid on 1 December 2017 to those shareholders on the register at close of business on 10 November 2017.  The XD date is 9 November 2017.

While declared in US dollars, the dividend will be paid in sterling; shareholders should note that the distribution amounts were not hedged between the time of the initial announcement on 28 September 2017 and the payment date of 1 December 2017.

Details of the number of proxy votes cast for, against and withheld on the resolutions will be published on the Company's website at www.genesisemf.com

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special resolution passed at the AGM has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

For the avoidance of doubt, it should be noted that the power to purchase shares in the market in Resolution 12 lasts until the AGM in 2018.

For further information, please contact:

J.P. Morgan Administration Services (Guernsey) Limited

Company Secretary

01481 758 620

6 November 2017

 

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