Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2770X

Aberdeen Smaller Co's Inc Tst PLC

04 May 2016

 

Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income Trust PLC

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 21 April 2016

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	6,259,458	1,185	26,573
2     Approval of remuneration report	6,102,076	150,767	34,373
3     Re-election of C Dobson	6,224,850	16,118	46,247
4     Re-election of R Lister	6,175,780	53,379	58,056
5     Re-election of B Rose	6,171,013	63,189	53,013
6     Re-election of J West	6,217,107	19,324	50,785
7     Appointment of KPMG LLP  and authority for Directors to determine their remuneration	6,190,054	49,152	48,008
8     Section 551 allotment	6,161,402	89,679	36,134
9     Disapplication of pre-emption rights	6,127,529	114,742	44,944
10    Share buyback authority	6,172,320	94,750	20,146

 

The total vote was 6.28 million shares including those withheld votes as identified above. 

Resolutions 1 - 8 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 9 and 10 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 2015, 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

21 April 2016

 

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