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Henderson Diversified Income TrustAnnouncement

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RNS Number : 9919Y  Henderson Diversified Income TstPLC  08 January 2024

 

08 January 2024

 

Henderson Diversified Income Trust plc

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800RV2228EO1JEN02

Results of First General Meeting

 

In connection with the proposals for a combination of the assets of Henderson
Diversified Income Trust plc (the "Company") with Henderson High Income Trust
plc by means of a scheme of reconstruction and winding up of the Company under
section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the "Scheme"), the Board is pleased to
announce that the Resolutions which were put forward at the First General
Meeting held today and voted on a poll have been approved by Shareholders.

 

Details of the number of proxy votes cast for, against and withheld in respect
of the resolutions are set out below and will also be published on the
Company's website: www.hendersondiversifiedincome.com
(http://www.hendersondiversifiedincome.com) .

 

 Resolution                                                                      Votes for (incl. discretionary)  %      Votes against  %     Total votes cast  Votes cast (excl. votes withheld)(1)  Votes withheld
 1. To approve the reclassification of the shares in the capital of the Company  46,226,635                       97.76  1,057,891      2.24  47,284,526        25.97                                 434,168
 as shares with "A" rights and shares with "B" rights and to approve changes
 required to the Company's articles of association.
 2. To approve the Scheme;  further amend the Company's articles of              46,303,036                       97.77  1,057,891      2.23  47,360,927        26.01                                 357,767
 association in order to implement the Scheme; and to instruct the Liquidators
 to give effect to the Scheme.

(1) As a percentage of total voting rights

 

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 6.30 p.m. on 4 January 2024 (182,072,717), being the time
at which a shareholder had to be registered in the Register of Members in
order to vote at the First 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 Shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 187,434,303.
There are 5,361,586 Shares held in treasury. Therefore, as at the date of this
announcement the number of voting rights in the Company are 182,072,717.

 

The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the notice of First General
Meeting contained in the Company's circular to Shareholders dated 12 December
2023 (the "Circular"). The Circular is available for viewing at the National
Storage Mechanism which can be located at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) and on the Company's
website at www.hendersondiversifiedincome.com
(http://www.hendersondiversifiedincome.com) .

 

The Shares will be disabled for settlement in CREST from 6:00 p.m. on 8
January 2024 and trading will be suspended from 7.30 a.m. on 9 January 2024.
Following the reclassification of the Shares on 15 January 2024, the
Reclassified Shares will be suspended from listing at 7.30 a.m. on 16 January
2024.

 

Final interim dividend

 

On 8 December 2023 the Board announced that, subject to the passing of the
Resolutions at the First General Meeting, a final interim dividend of 0.55
pence per Share in respect of the year ending 30 April 2024 would be paid to
Shareholders (on the register as at close of business on 5 January 2024) on 15
January 2024. This condition has been satisfied.

 

Defined terms used in this announcement have the meanings given in the
Circular unless the context otherwise requires.

 

 For further information please contact:
 Henderson Diversified Income Trust plc   Contact via Janus Henderson
 Angus Macpherson
 Janus Henderson Investors UK Limited     +44 (0) 207 818 1818
  Dan Howe (Head of Investment Trusts)

 Oliver Packard (Sales)
  Harriet Hall (PR)
 J.P. Morgan Cazenove                     +44 (0) 203 493 8000
 William Simmonds

 Rupert Budge

 

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