Result of AGM

Keystone Investment Trust plc

Annual General Meeting Results

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 21 January 2016, shareholders approved the following resolutions:

1.       to receive the Annual Financial Report for the year ended 30 September 2015;

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

3.       to re-elect Mrs Beatrice Hollond a Director of the Company;

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

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

6.       to re-elect Mr Peter Readman a Director of the Company;

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

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

9.       to renew the Directors’ authority to allot securities;

10.     to renew the Directors’ authority to allot securities for cash while disapplying pre-emption rights within parameters specified;

11.     to renew the Directors’ authority to purchase up to 14.99% of the Company’s shares in the market within the parameters specified; and

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

All Resolutions 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. 1,809,717 3,124 498
2. 1,810,608 2,348 383
3. 1,099,964 63,297 650,078
4. 1,809,242 3,597 499
5. 1,770,344 42,496 499
6. 1,447,475 365,059 805
7. 1,810,734 650 1,955
8. 1,810,399 2,442 498
9. 1,810,651 2,014 674

Special resolutions:

10. 1,803,980 7,260 2,099
11. 1,807,851 2,878 2,610
12. 1,760,829 50,605 1,905

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 table represents the number of votes registered.  The number of shares represented are twice the above numbers.

Invesco Asset Management Limited

Corporate Company Secretary

21 January 2016

UK 100

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