Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2996L

Aberdeen Smaller Co's High Inc Tst

24 April 2015

 

Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income Trust PLC

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 23 April 2015

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	6,237,468	102	4,560
2     Approval of remuneration report	6,028,123	177,673	36,333
3     Re-election of C Dobson	6,186,331	16,879	38,920
4     Re-election of R Lister	6,182,837	18,493	40,799
5     Re-election of B Rose	6,121,467	79,863	40,799
6     Re-election of J West	6,182,515	18,815	40,799
7     Appointment of KPMG LLP  and authority for Directors to determine their remuneration	6,156,222	54,484	31,424
8     Continuation vote	6,172,246	10,028	59,855
9     Section 551 allotment	6,107,174	115,613	19,343
10    Disapplication of pre-emption rights	6,102,513	118,208	21,409
11    Share buyback authority	6,140,056	97,047	5,027

 

The total vote was 6.242 million shares including those withheld votes as identified above. 

Resolutions 1 - 9 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 10 and 11 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 2014, 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

24 April 2015

 

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