Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4896L

Polar Capital Technology Trust PLC

04 September 2012

 



Polar Capital Technology Trust Plc

Results of Annual General Meeting held on 4 September 2012 and Adoption of Revised Investment Policy.

Polar Capital Technology Trust plc (the "Company") announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today that all the resolutions were passed on a show of hands.

The following table indicates the number of proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting for each of the resolutions. It should be noted that votes withheld do not constitute votes in law.

The number of shares in issue at the date of the AGM was 128,208,265

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions 13 (New Investment Policy) and 14 (New Articles of Association), being the resolutions passed at the annual general meeting other than those concerning ordinary business, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.Com/nsm.do

Copies of resolutions 14, 15, 16 and 17 having been passed as special resolutions have been submitted to Companies House.

All of the resolutions proposed at the annual general meeting are set out in the AGM circular available on Polar Capital Technology Trust's website at www.polarcapitaltechnologytrust.co.uk

Resolution		In favour (including votes at the chairman's discretion)	Against	Withheld
No		Number of shares	Number of shares	Number of shares
1	To receive and consider the Report of the Directors and the Audited Financial Statements for the year ended 30 April 2012	44,797,276	3,932	23,256
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration report for the year ended 30 April  2012	44,054,811	552,361	217,292
3	To re-elect  Mr. P  Dicks as a Director	43,952,715	736,596	135,153
4	To re-elect  Mr. D  Gamble as a Director	43,924,791	470,692	428,980
5	To re-elect  Mr. M  Moule as a  Director	44,559,729	147,113	117,622
6	To re-elect  Mr. B Ashford-Russell as a  Director	42,547,224	1,933,143	344,096
7	To re-elect Mr. R Montagu as a director	44,490,876	203,302	130,286
8	To re-elect Mrs. S Bates as a director	42,945,202	1,653,815	225,446
9	To re-elect  Mr. P Hames as a director	43,178,832	1,524,792	120,840
10	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers  LLP as auditors	44,526,014	187,298	111,152
11	To authorise the directors to agree the auditors' remuneration	44,468,470	133,360	222,634
12	To authorise the allotment of unissued shares	44,555,504	185,405	83,555
13	To adopt new investment policy	44,438,281	94,044	292,139
14	To adopt new Articles of Association	44,605,811	157,352	61,301
15	To authorise the allotment of shares on a non pre-emptive basis	44,565,601	202,662	56,201
16	To grant the company authority to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares	44,685,872	100,580	38,012
17	To grant the company authority to make market purchases of its own subscription shares	44,684,748	104,550	35,166

Neither the contents of the company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.

 

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