Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1328E

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

16 December 2009

 



RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC (the "Company") hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, Wednesday 16 December 2009, all the resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Annual Report and available on the Company's website,  www.standardlifeinvestments.co.uk/its were duly passed. 

The total number of proxy votes lodged were as follows:

		FOR		AGAINST		DISCRETION		WITHHELD	TOTAL
		Votes	% Votes Cast	Votes	% Votes Cast	Votes	% Votes Cast	Votes	(excluding Votes Withheld)
	Ordinary Business:
	Ordinary resolutions -
1	Adopt report & accounts	7,004,752	99.1	10,891	0.2	50,260	0.7	0	7,065,903
2	Approve Directors Remuneration Report	6,915,818	98.7	38,770	0.6	50,260	0.7	72,831	7,004,848
3	Approve Final Dividend	7,015,798	99.3	0	0.0	51,040	0.7	0	7,066,838
4	Re-elect Charles Wood	6,976,027	99.0	13,687	0.2	56,749	0.8	13,902	7,046,463
5	Re-elect Keith Percy	6,946,920	98.6	47,903	0.7	51,640	0.7	13,902	7,046,463
6	Re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors	6,978,318	98.9	20,081	0.3	54,064	0.8	13,669	7,052,463
7	Allotment of new equity	6,953,446	98.5	37,003	0.5	65,990	0.9	20,300	7,056,439
	Special resolutions -
8	Disapply pre-emption rights	6,872,801	97.9	84,946	1.2	59,553	0.8	23,440	7,017,300
9	Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	6,951,176	98.5	42,777	0.6	63,882	0.9	12,594	7,057,835
	Special Business:
10	Approve changes to Articles of Association	6,896,893	98.6	37,149	0.5	57,862	0.8	84,006	6,991,904

A copy of the resolutions will be submitted shortly to the UK Listing Authority and will be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London E14 5HS

For Standard Life Equity Income Trust PLC

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretary

 

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