Result of AGM

Henderson Eurotrust PLC

15 November 2023

 

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER:  213800DAFFNXRBWOEF12

15 November 2023

HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC

Annual General Meeting held on

Wednesday 15 November 2023

Henderson EuroTrust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a show of hands, three of which were special resolutions authorising:

·    the Directors to allot or to sell from treasury up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures;

·    the Company to make market purchases of up to 14.99% of the Company's ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares); and

·    the Company to hold general meetings other than an Annual General Meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting, copies of which are available for viewing at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

The proxy votes received in relation to each resolution were as follows:

Resolutions	Votes for (including at Chairman's discretion)	%	Votes against	%	Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld)	Votes withheld
1.    Annual Report and audited financial statements	110,104,828	95.89	4,720,161	4.11	114,824,989	58,184
2.    Increase in aggregate Director Fees	114,546,807	99.80	233,885	0.20	114,780,692	102,481
3.    Directors' Remuneration Policy	114,671,809	99.88	141,987	0.12	114,813,796	69,377
4.    Directors' Remuneration Report	114,674,809	99.88	139,340	0.12	114,814,149	69,024
5.    Approve a final dividend of 3.0p per share	114,780,241	100.00	4,443	0.00	114,784,684	98,489
6.    Elect Stephen White as a Director	114,697,240	99.96	42,316	0.04	114,739,556	143,617
7.    Re-elect Nicola Ralston as a Director	113,224,023	98.73	1,461,491	1.27	114,685,514	197,659
8.    Re-elect Stephen King as a Director	113,554,902	98.91	1,250,612	1.09	114,805,514	77,659
9.    Re-elect Rutger Koopmans as a Director	113,546,492	98.90	1,259,022	1.10	114,805,514	77,659
10.  Re-elect Ekaterina Thomson as a Director	113,490,614	98.92	1,242,859	1.08	114,733,473	149,700
11.  Re-appoint BDO LLP as statutory auditor	114,694,052	99.97	30,823	0.03	114,724,875	158,298
12.  Authorise Directors to determine the remuneration of the statutory auditor	114,739,336	99.99	6,745	0.01	114,746,081	137,092
13.  Authority to allot relevant securities	114,785,191	99.98	19,688	0.02	114,804,879	78,294
14.  Authority to disapply pre-emption rights *	114,574,558	99.86	161,893	0.14	114,736,451	146,722
15.  Authority to repurchase ordinary shares *	109,808,982	95.70	4,939,168	4.30	114,748,150	135,023
16.  14 days' notice for a General Meeting *	114,537,265	99.76	274,214	0.24	114,811,479	54,194

* special resolution

The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 212,055,410, of which 200,000 shares are held in treasury. As at the date of this announcement the Company's total voting rights therefore comprises 211,855,410 shares with one vote each.

A copy of the special business resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM's website at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

For further information please contact:

Melanie Stoner

For and on behalf of Janus Henderson Secretarial Services UK Limited

Corporate Secretary to Henderson EuroTrust plc

Tel: [phone]

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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