REG - Edinburgh Inv. Trust - Result of AGM

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RNS Number : 8062W  Edinburgh Investment Trust PLC  17 July 2024

17 July 2024

 

LEI number: 549300HV0VXCRONER808

 

The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc

(the "Company")

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Board of The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc (ticker: EDIN), is pleased to
announce that all the resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting
held earlier today were passed.

 

The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual
General Meeting contained in the Company's Annual Financial Report for the
year ended 31 March 2024. The proxy votes lodged with the Registrar will
shortly be available via the Company's website at:
www.edinburgh-investment-trust.co.uk
(http://www.edinburgh-investment-trust.co.uk)

 

The proxy votes received were as follows:

 

 

 Resolution                                                                      For         % For  Against    % Against  Withheld*
 1. To receive and consider the Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31    40,618,077  99.93  26,745     0.07       22,455
 March 2024
 2. To approve the Annual Statement and Report on                                40,371,342  99.65  142,691    0.35       153,244

Remuneration for the year ended 31 March 2024
 3. To declare a final dividend on the ordinary shares                           40,642,616  99.98  8,016      0.02       16,645

 4. To re-elect Steven Baldwin as a Director of the Company                      40,522,278  99.89  42,884     0.11       102,115
 5. To re-elect Elisabeth Stheeman as a Director of the Company                  40,503,080  99.84  65,436     0.16       98,761
 6. To re-elect Patrick Edwardson as a Director of the Company                   40,483,176  99.86  58,065     0.14       126,036
 7. To re-elect Aidan Lisser as a Director of the Company                        40,498,792  99.89  43,146     0.11       125,339

 8. To re-elect Annabel Tagoe-Bannerman as a Director of the Company             40,486,948  99.81  76,766     0.19       103,563
 9. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company          40,265,029  99.14  347,998    0.86       54,250
 10. To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the                           40,315,704  99.22  318,232    0.78       33,341

remuneration of the auditors
 11. To authorise the Directors to allot shares up to 10% of the issued share    41,819,754  99.81  80,727     0.19       71,605
 capital.
 12. Special resolution. To approve disapplication of pre-emption rights,        41,785,682  99.69  128,834    0.31       57,570
 subject to passing resolution 11.
 13. Special resolution. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of    39,570,349  94.34  2,375,068  5.66       26,669
 its own ordinary shares.
 14. Special resolution. To adopt new articles of association of the Company.    41,849,965  99.84  68,727     0.16       53,394
 15. Special resolution. To authorise that the general meetings of the Company,  41,741,739  99.53  197,396    0.47       32,951
 other than Annual General Meetings, may be called on 14 clear days' notice.

 

*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is therefore not counted towards the
proportion of votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.

 

At the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital consisted
of 195,666,734 ordinary shares. The Company held 45,955,209 shares in
treasury. Therefore, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights
was 149,711,525. Each ordinary share held entitles the holder to one vote and
there are no restrictions on those voting rights.

 

In accordance with LR9.6.2R, copies of all the resolutions passed other than
resolutions concerning ordinary business will be submitted to the National
Storage Mechanism website and will shortly be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)

 

Enquiries

 

NSM Funds (UK) Limited (Company Secretary)

 

020 3697 5770

 

 

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