REG - Aberdeen Smll Cos IT - Result of AGM

Abrdn Smaller Companies Income TrustAnnouncement

26/06/2020 10:35

RNS Number : 2303R
  
Aberdeen Smaller Co's Inc Tst PLC
  
26 June 2020
  
 

Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC
Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 26 June 2020
 
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800J6D2TVHRGKBG24
 
At today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed by shareholders.
 
The proxy votes received in respect of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the following table: 
 







For (including discretionary)


Against


Withheld




1     Approve the annual report


4,921,281


353


17,658




2     Approval of Directors' Remuneration Policy


4,701,702


173,166


64,423




3     Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report


4,726,504


123,805


88,983




4     Re-election of R Lister


4,883,916


16,402


38,973




5     Re-election of D Fletcher


4,900,839


2,893


35,559




6     Re-election of D Kershaw


4,898,516


4,049


36,726




7     Re-election of B Rose


4,841,856


60,709


36,726




8     Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Company  


4,858,076


42,557


38,658




9     Authority for Directors to determine auditors' remuneration


4,888,344


25,094


25,853




10    Approve the continuation of the Company as an investment trust


4,926,029


988


12,274




11    Section 551 allotment


4,904,503


17,855


16,934




12    Disapplication of pre-emption rights


4,861,227


47,159


30,905




13    Share buyback authority


4,895,408


21,016


22,867



 
 
The total vote was 4.9 million shares including those withheld votes as identified above.  
 
Resolutions 1 - 11 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 12 and 13 were special resolutions.
 
A copy of the above proxy results has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism *.  The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.aberdeensmallercompanies.co.uk  
 
For Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Secretary
 
26 June 2020
 
*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
 


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