Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9057Q

Polar Capital Technology Trust PLC

04 September 2014

 



Polar Capital Technology Trust plc ("the Company")

Results of the 18th Annual General Meeting held at 12.00pm on 4 September 2014

AGM Presentation

A presentation on the investment performance of the Company was given by Mr. Ben Rogoff, covering the portfolio and markets and including information on the portfolio. A copy of this presentation will be available shortly from the Company's website: www.polarcapitaltechnologytrust.co.uk along with a video of Mr Rogoff's talk.

AGM Results

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 ordinary shares in issue at the date of the AGM was 132,336,159.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions 13 and 14, having been passed as special resolutions will be submitted to Companies House, as well as the National Storage Mechanism, and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do 

All of the resolutions proposed at the annual general meeting are set out in the AGM Notice of Meeting which is available on the Company's website at: www.polarcapitaltechnologytrust.co.uk

Resolution		In favour	Discretionary	Against	Withheld
No		Number of shares	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 2014	45,327,963	77,395	225	63,072
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy report	44,936,266	73,544	289,171	169,674
3	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Implementation  report for the year ended 30 April  2014	44,935,652	76,881	304,474	151,648
4	To re-elect  Mr. D  Gamble as a Director	45,089,554	82,643	276,151	20,307
5	To re-elect  Mr. M  Moule as a  Director	45,174,826	80,284	193,238	20,307
6	To re-elect  Mr. B Ashford-Russell as a  Director	44,789,672	84,729	567,793	26,461
7	To re-elect Mr. R Montagu as a Director	45,180,896	80,284	181,272	26,203
8	To re-elect Mrs. S Bates as a Director	45,223,922	85,218	141,495	18,020
9	To re-elect  Mr. P Hames as a Director	45,158,383	85,407	198,662	26,203
10	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers  LLP as auditors	45,135,399	74,895	220,071	38,290
11	To authorise the directors to agree the auditors' remuneration	45,118,430	80,129	112,986	157,110
12	To authorise the allotment of unissued shares	45,029,006	81,887	338,534	19,228
13	To authorise the allotment of shares on a non pre-emptive basis	44,822,554	143,002	458,054	45,045
14	To grant the company authority to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares	44,987,938	142,554	315,276	22,887

Enquiries:

N P Taylor

Polar Capital Technology Trust PLC

020 7227 2700

4 September 2014

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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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