8 Feb 2018 14:23
DUNEDIN SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
LEI: 213800CI43OQT8KBKE03
RESULTS OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Company announces that all of the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting held on 8 February 2018 were passed. The total number of proxy votes lodged was as follows:
Resolution Number | No of Votes For (incl Discretionary) | No of Votes Against | No of Votes Withheld | Total Votes Cost |
1. Receive Annual Report and Accounts | 16,717,164 | 11,078 | 26,696 | 16,754,938 |
2. Receive and adopt Directors' Remuneration Report | 16,482,214 | 169,580 | 103,145 | 16,754,939 |
3. Approve Final Dividend | 16,721,831 | 6,412 | 26,696 | 16,754,939 |
4. Re-elect Ms Alexa Henderson as a Director | 15,334,604 | 1,350,146 | 70,188 | 16,754,938 |
5. Re-elect Mr Christopher Thomson as a Director | 16,661,524 | 22,059 | 71,356 | 16,754,939 |
6. Re-elect Mr James Barnes as a Director | 16,567,430 | 118,110 | 69,399 | 16,754,939 |
7. Re-elect Mr Norman Yarrow as a Director | 14,226,566 | 2,450,358 | 78,014 | 16,754,938 |
8. Re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor | 14,147,512 | 2,532,690 | 74,736 | 16,754,938 |
9. Authorise the Directors to Determine the Auditor's Remuneration | 16,670,756 | 36,926 | 47,256 | 16,754,938 |
10. Authorise the Directors to Allot Shares | 16,597,066 | 51,162 | 106,711 | 16,754,939 |
11. Authorise the Directors to Sell Shares out of Treasury | 16,557,435 | 118,959 | 78,545 | 16,754,939 |
12. Approve the Disapplication of Pre-emption Rights | 16,547,403 | 89,773 | 117,763 | 16,754,939 |
13. Authorise the Company to Purchase its own Ordinary Shares | 16,616,095 | 45,187 | 93,656 | 16,754,938 |
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2017, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.dunedinsmaller.co.uk*. The Annual Report has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and is available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*.
Note: Neither the Company's website nor the NSM website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
For Dunedin Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Secretary
8 February 2018
Tel. 0131 528 4000