Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5077B

Aberdeen Smaller Co's High Inc Tst

18 April 2012

 



Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income Trust PLC

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 18 April 2012

At today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed by shareholders.

The proxy votes received in respect of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the following table:

	For (including discretionary)	Against	Withheld
1  Approve the annual report	7,193,930	7,091	43,888
2  Approval of remuneration report	7,101,600	130,998	12,311
3  Re-election of J G West	7,140,829	23,930	80,150
4  Election of R Lister	7,150,071	12,738	82,100
5  Reappointment of KPMG Audit plc	7,177,521	11,932	55,456
6  Section 551 allotment	7,159,345	13,255	72,309
7  Disapplication of pre-emption rights	7,111,743	62,799	70,367
8  Share buyback authority	7,131,085	61,943	51,881

 

The total vote was 7,244,909 including those withheld votes as identified above.  Resolutions 1 - 6 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 7 and 8 were special resolutions.

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 December 2011, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.aberdeensmallercompanies.co.uk *. Copies of the special resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and shall shortly be available for inspection at: www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do*

*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

For Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income Trust PLC

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Secretary

18 April 2012

 

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