Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5130K
abrdn Smaller Companies Inc Tst plc
05 May 2022
 

abrdn Smaller Companies Income Trust plc

Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 5 May 2022

 

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800J6D2TVHRGKBG24

 

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

5,528,256

2,121

8,146

2  Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report

5,338,646

146,993

52,884

3  Re-election of D Fletcher

5,468,954

9,631

59,937

4  Re-election of D Kershaw

5,476,833

19,844

41,845

5  Election of C Metcalfe

5,480,199

26,383

31,941

6  Election of R Breedy

5,481,282

31,422

25,819

7  Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Company 

5,364,716

128,633

45,174

8  Authority for Directors to determine auditors' remuneration

5,490,462

23,769

24,292

9  Section 551 allotment

5,486,029

29,283

23,211

10  Disapplication of pre-emption rights

5,447,981

49,742

40,800

11  Share buyback authority

5,473,627

31,050

33,846

 

 

The total vote was 5.5 million shares including those withheld votes as identified above. 

 

Resolutions 1 - 9 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 10 to 11 were special resolutions.

 

A copy of the above proxy results has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at:   https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism * The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.abrdnsmallercompaniesincome.co.uk  

 

For abrdn Smaller Companies Income Trust plc

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Secretary

 

5 May 2022

 

*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.

 

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