Result of AGM

AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC
02 May 2023
 

AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC

 

Results of Annual General Meeting

 

LEI: 894500IJ5QQD7FPT3J73

2 May 2023

 

The Board of AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all Resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 11.30am on Tuesday, 2 May 2023 were duly passed. Voting on all resolutions was conducted by a show of hands.

 

The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 15 March 2023, which has previously been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and is available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.ajot.co.uk.

 

For completeness, proxy votes received in respect of the Resolutions were as follows:

 

Resolutions

Votes For

Votes Against

Votes at Chairman's Discretion

Votes Withheld

Resolution 1

To receive the directors' report and audited accounts of the Company

45,298,317  

100%

0

0%

0

5,711

Resolution 2

To approve a final ordinary dividend of 0.80p per Ordinary Share

45,304,028    

100%

0

0%

0

0

Resolution 3

To re-elect Mr Norman Crighton as a Director of the Company

45,256,916  

99.91%

41,401

0.09%

0

5,711

Resolution 4

To re-elect Mr Yoshi Nishio as a Director of the Company

45,196,297  

99.77%

102,020

0.23%

0

5,711

Resolution 5

To re-elect Ms Margaret Stephens as a Director of the Company

45,296,485  

99.99%

1,832

0.01%

0

5,711

Resolution 6

To re-elect Ms Ekaterina Thomson as a Director of the Company

45,296,485  

99.99%

1,832

0.01%

0

5,711

Resolution 7

To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor of the Company

45,233,716  

99.86%

64,601

0.14%

0

5,711

Resolution 8

To authorise the Directors to determine the Auditor's remuneration

45,296,548

99.99%

1,769

0.01%

0

5,711

Resolution 9

To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

45,178,017

99.73%

122,511

0.27%

0

3,500

Resolution 10

To authorise the Directors to allot securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £280,723

45,272,071  

99.94%

26,246

0.06%

0

5,711

Resolution 11

To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to an aggregate nominal value of £140,361

45,151,954

99.68%

146,363

0.32%

0

5,711

Resolution 12

To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to a further aggregate nominal value of £140,361

45,118,869

99.60%

179,448

0.40%

0

5,711

Resolution 13

To authorise the Directors to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company up to an aggregate number of 21,040,219 shares

45,304,028

100%

0

0%

0

0

Resolution 14

To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice

45,235,411

99.86%

64,117

0.14%

0

4,500

 

 

Enquiries:

Joe Bauernfreund
Asset Value Investors
Investment Manager

020 7659 4800

Nezia Morgan
Link Company Matters Limited
Company Secretary

0333 300 1950

 

Notes:

A copy of this announcement will be available on the Company's website and, in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions 10 to 16 have been submitted to and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

Terms used and not defined in this announcement bear the meaning given to them in the Notice of Meeting.

 

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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