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RNS Number : 4141U  Bankers Investment Trust PLC  25 February 2026

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

 

THE BANKERS INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

 

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800B9YWXL3X1VMZ69

 

25 February 2026

 

THE BANKERS INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

 

Annual General Meeting of the Company

held on Wednesday, 25 February 2026

 

The Bankers Investment Trust PLC announces that at the Annual General Meeting
held earlier today resolutions 1 to 15 were duly passed on a poll. This
included the following special business resolutions:

 

As an Ordinary Resolution:

 

-        Resolution 12: to authorise the Directors to allot ordinary
shares up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital excluding treasury
shares;

 

As Special Resolutions:

 

-        Resolution 13: to authorise the Directors to allot or to sell
from treasury up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital excluding
treasury shares without first offering them to existing shareholders in
accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures;

 

-        Resolution 14: to authorise the Company to make market
purchases of the Company's ordinary shares up to 14.99% of its issued ordinary
share capital excluding treasury shares; and

 

-        Resolution 15: to authorise that a General Meeting other than
an Annual General Meeting may be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General
Meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 October 2025
which can be viewed on the Company's website at:
www.bankersinvestmenttrust.com (http://www.bankersinvestmenttrust.com)

 

The poll results were as follows:

 

 Resolutions                                                                    Number of Votes FOR (including at Chair's discretion)  % of votes FOR  Number of Votes AGAINST  % of votes AGAINST  Total votes cast  Votes cast (excluding votes withheld) as a percentage of total voting rights  Number of votes withheld
 1 To receive the annual report and the audited financial statements for the    239,826,019                                            99.80%          486,393                  0.20%               240,312,412       24.81%                                                                        668,459
 year ended

 31 October 2025
 2 To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy                                237,951,121                                            99.38%          1,494,595                0.62%               239,445,716       24.72%                                                                        1,535,155
 3 To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended             238,034,972                                            99.41%          1,411,949                0.59%               239,446,921       24.72%                                                                        1,533,950

 31 October 2025
 4 To approve the final dividend of 0.686p per share                            240,282,506                                            99.90%          252,040                  0.10%               240,534,546       24.83%                                                                        446,325
 5 To re-appoint Mr Simon Miller as a Director                                  221,501,598                                            92.37%          18,291,688               7.63%               239,793,286       24.76%                                                                        1,187,585
 6 To re-appoint Ms Hannah Philp as a Director                                  234,210,874                                            97.68%          5,551,412                2.32%               239,762,286       24.75%                                                                        1,208,585
 7 To re-appoint Ms Charlotte Valeur as a Director                              234,164,743                                            97.69%          5,542,509                2.31%               239,707,252       24.75%                                                                        1,273,619
 8 To re-appoint Mr Richard West as a Director                                  234,440,005                                            97.78%          5,321,590                2.22%               239,761,595       24.75%                                                                        1,219,276
 9 To re-appoint                                                                234,291,890                                            97.71%          5,483,361                2.29%               239,775,251       24.75%                                                                        1,195,620

 Mr Ankush Nandra as a Director
 10 To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as statutory Auditor to the Company         238,521,174                                            99.50%          1,203,113                0.50%               239,724,287       24.75%                                                                        1,256,584
 11 To authorise the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee to determine the        239,633,126                                            99.80%          471,012                  0.20%               240,104,138       24.79%                                                                        876,733
 Auditor's remuneration
 12 To give Directors authority to allot ordinary shares                        239,393,487                                            99.69%          733,229                  0.31%               240,126,716       24.79%                                                                        854,155
 13 To give Directors authority to disapply pre-emption rights on allotment or  238,281,041                                            99.37%          1,520,290                0.63%               239,801,331       24.76%                                                                        1,179,540
 sale of ordinary shares*
 14 To give the Company authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares   234,566,773                                            97.76%          5,383,998                2.24%               239,950,771       24.77%                                                                        1,030,100
 in the capital of the Company*
 15 To approve that a general meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear   238,374,726                                            99.31%          1,652,167                0.69%               240,026,893       24.78%                                                                        953,978
 days notice*

 

*Special resolution

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly
cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total
voting rights as at the close of business on 23 February 2026, being the time
at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in
order to vote at the Annual General Meeting. A vote "withheld" is not a vote
in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.

 

The number of ordinary shares in issue in the Company at the date of this
announcement, including Treasury shares, is 1,315,102,830.

 

A copy of the poll results will shortly be available on the Company's website
at:

www.bankersinvestmenttrust.com (http://www.bankersinvestmenttrust.com)

 

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

 

 

For further information please contact:

 

Harriet Hall

PR Director, Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson Investors

Telephone: 020 7818 2919

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