AGM Statement

Keystone Investment Trust plc

 LEI: 5493002H3JXLXLIGC563

Annual General Meeting Results

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 22 January 2019, shareholders approved the following resolutions:

1.       to receive the Annual Financial Report for the year ended 30 September 2018;

2.       to approve the Annual Statement and Report on Remuneration;

3.       to approve the Company’s Dividend Payment Policy;

4.       to reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditor to the Company and authorise the Audit Committee to determine their remuneration;

5.       to re-elect Mr Ian Armfield a Director of the Company;

6.       to re-elect Mrs Karen Brade a Director of the Company;

7.       to re-elect Mrs Katrina Hart a Director of the Company;

8.       to re-elect Mr William Kendall a Director of the Company;

9.       to re-elect Mr John Wood a Director of the Company;

10.     to renew the Directors’ authority to allot securities (within the limits set out in the notice of the meeting);

11.     to renew the Directors’ authority to allot securities for cash while disapplying pre-emption rights within parameters specified (within the limits set out in the notice of the meeting);

12.     to renew the Directors’ authority to purchase up to 2,026,467 of the Company’s shares in the market (within the limits set out in the notice of the meeting); and

13.     that the period of notice required for general meetings of the Company (other than AGMs) shall be no less than 14 clear days.

Resolutions 1 to 13 were passed on a show of hands.
A breakdown of the proxy votes registered is shown below.

Resolution	Votes For	Votes Against	Votes Withheld
	(including votes at the discretion of the Chairman)

Ordinary resolutions:

1.	2,446,045	0	542
2.	2,441,981	4,227	379
3.	2,446,045	0	542
4.	2,445,274	529	784
5.	2,437,148	8,199	1,239
6.	2,297,282	147,321	1,984
7.	2,437,617	6,986	1,984
8.	2,276,062	165,413	5,112
9.	2,438,829	6,518	1,239
10.	2,435,962	6,732	3,892

Special resolutions:

11.	2,434,518	7,171	4,898
12.	2,440,427	4,208	1,952
13.	2,410,744	33,920	1,922

The Company has 13,518,799 ordinary shares of 50p each in issue.  On a poll these carry one vote per £1 of nominal capital, accordingly Total Voting Rights were 6,759,399. The above tables represent the number of votes registered.  The number of shares represented are twice the above numbers.

Invesco Asset Management Limited

Corporate Company Secretary

22 January 2019