Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7428D

Aurora Investment Trust PLC

30 June 2021

 

Aurora Investment Trust plc  

LEI: 2138007OUWIZFMAGO575

Castelnau Investment

The Board are pleased to announce that they have granted authority to the Investment Manager to proceed with an investment in Castelnau, subject to a detailed and thorough legal review and due diligence.

Result of AGM

Aurora Investment Trust plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed. All resolutions put forward passed in excess of 95% of votes being cast in favour.

As announced on 2 June 2021, in response to the COVID-19 crisis and UK Government stay at home measures and restrictions on public gatherings, physical attendance at the meeting was restricted with shareholders voting in advance by proxy.

Details of the number of proxy votes cast for, against and withheld will shortly be published on the Company's website at  www.aurorainvestmenttrust.com  

The text of all the resolutions is contained in the Notice of Meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2020.

The proxy votes received were as follows:

Resolution		In favour/ Discretionary		Against		Withheld
1	To receive and adopt the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020, with the reports of the Directors and auditors thereon.	28,396,844	99.99	3,111	0.01%	1,100
2	To approve the Directors Remuneration Implementation Report.	28,379,701	99.94	17,073	0.06%	4,281
3	To approve a final dividend of 0.55 pence per share in respect of the year to 31 December 2020.	28,400,250	99.99	805	0.01%	0
4	To re-elect Lord Flight as a Director of the Company.	28,374,872	99.93	20,935	0.07%	5,248
5	To re-elect The Honourable James Nelson as a Director of the Company.	28,374,872	99.93	20,935	0.07%	5,248
6	To re-elect Mr David Stevenson as a Director of the Company.	28,394,983	99.99	825	0.01%	5,247
7	To re-elect Lucy Walker as a Director of the Company.	28,397,924	99.99	825	0.01%	2,306
8	To re-elect Lady Rachael Robathan as a Director of the Company.	28,380,428	99.99	825	0.01%	19,802
9	To re-appoint Grant Thornton UK LLP as auditors to the Company.	27,059,822	95.29	1,337,827	4.71%	3,406
10	To authorise the Directors to fix the auditor's remuneration.	28,399,150	99.99	805	0.01%	1,100
11	To authorise the Directors in accordance with section 551 of the Companies Act 2006, to allot Ordinary Shares up to a maximum of 20% of the issued share capital in the Company as at the date of passing this resolution.	28,392,983	99.98	5,131	0.02%	2,941
12	To empower the Directors pursuant to section 570 of the Companies Act 2006, to allot equity securities for cash either pursuant to the authority conferred by resolution 11 or by way of a sale of treasury shares. as if section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 did not apply to any such allotment or sale.	27,031,834	95.19	1,366,280	4.81%	2,941
13	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its Ordinary Shares of 25p each up to 14.99% of the issued share capital of the Company at the date of passing this resolution.	28,383,668	99.94	17,386	0.06%	1

On the record date for voting at the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital was 76,519,675 Ordinary Shares, therefore the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in the Company was 76,519,675.  A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the % of shares voted "For" or "Against" a resolution. 

In accordance with LR 9.6.2, copies of all special resolutions passed and the ordinary resolution passed concerning the share capital of the Company will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available shortly for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

PraxisIFM Fund Services (UK) Limited

Company Secretary to Aurora Investment Trust plc

30 June 2021

 

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