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RNS Number : 0977S  Edinburgh Investment Trust PLC  22 July 2025

22 July 2025

 

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 2025. The 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     38,503,762   99.99%   4,774       0.01%       39,640
 March 2025
 2. To approve the Remuneration Policy for the year ended 31 March 2025;          38,167,672   99.41%   225,381     0.59%       155,123
 3. To approve the Annual Statement and Report on                                 38,189,345   99.54%   176,595     0.46%       182,236

Remuneration for the year ended 31 March 2025
 4. To declare a final dividend on the ordinary shares                            38,511,387   99.99%   4,126       0.01%       32,663
 5. To re-elect Steven Baldwin as a Director of the Company                       38,328,796   99.76%   92,268      0.24%       127,112
 6. To re-elect Elisabeth Stheeman as a Director of the Company                   38,405,926   99.92%   31,856      0.08%       110,394
 7. To re-elect Patrick Edwardson as a Director of the Company                    38,370,714   99.89%   40,951      0.11%       136,511
 8. To re-elect Aidan Lisser as a Director of the Company                         38,367,276   99.88%   44,474      0.12%       136,426

 9. To re-elect Annabel Tagoe-Bannerman as a Director of the Company              38,366,803   99.76%   93,583      0.24%       87,790
 10. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company          38,390,991   99.77%   89,528      0.23%       67,657
 11. To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the                            38,465,210   99.94%   21,810      0.06%       61,156

remuneration of the auditors
 12.To approve and adopt the proposed investment objective and policy             38,400,430   99.81%   72,754      0.19%       74,992
 13. To authorise the Directors to allot shares up to 10% of the issued share     38,425,646   99.81%   73,102      0.19%       49,428
 capital.
 14. Special resolution. To approve disapplication of pre-emption rights,         38,328,200   99.61%   149,905     0.39%       70,071
 subject to passing resolution 13.
 15. Special resolution. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of     35,828,352   93.03%   2,683,082   6.97%       36,742
 its own ordinary shares.
 16. Special resolution. To authorise that the general meetings of the Company,   38,268,138   99.39%   234,984     0.61%       45,054
 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 52,385,709 shares in
treasury.  Therefore, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights
was 143,281,025. 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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