Result of AGM

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Henderson Diversified Income TstPLC
15 September 2020
 

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

HENDERSON DIVERSIFIED INCOME TRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER 213800RV2228EO1JEN02

15 September 2020

HENDERSON DIVERSIFIED INCOME TRUST PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting

 

The Company announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll and the results are as follows:

 

Resolution

Description

Votes for (including discretionary)

%

Votes against

%

Total votes cast

Votes cast (excluding votes withheld) as a percentage of total voting rights

Votes withheld

1

Annual Report and Financial Statements

21,239,806

100.00

235

0.00

21,240,041

11.10%

4,536

2

Directors' Remuneration Report

21,070,194

99.65

74,056

0.35

21,144,250

11.05%

100,327

3

Remuneration Policy

20,758,580

99.58

87,896

0.42

20,846,476

10.90%

398,101

4

Re-election of Angus Macpherson

21,147,458

99.92

17,852

0.08

21,165,310

11.06%

79,267

5

Re-election of Denise Hadgill

21,157,092

99.96

8,218

0.04

21,165,310

11.06%

79,267

6

Re-election of Win Robbins

21,154,458

99.95

10,852

0.05

21,165,310

11.06%

79,267

7

Re-election of Stewart Wood

21,144,458

99.90

20,852

0.10

21,165,310

11.06%

79,267

8

Re-election of Ian Wright

21,153,553

99.94

11,757

0.06

21,165,310

11.06%

79,267

9

Appointment of Mazars LLP as Auditor

21,163,320

99.94

13,418

0.06

21,176,738

11.07%

67,839

10

Authority for the Directors to Determine the Auditor's Remuneration

21,184,073

99.92

16,289

0.08

21,200,362

11.08%

44,215

11

Approval of the Dividend Policy

21,239,806

100.00

235

0.00

21,240,041

11.10%

4,536

12*

Authority to Allot Shares

21,225,641

99.96

8,069

0.04

21,233,710

11.10%

10,867

13*

Authority to Dis-Apply Pre-Emption Rights

21,054,183

99.27

154,049

0.73

21,208,232

11.09%

36,345



 

14*

Authority to Repurchase the Company's Shares

21,164,033

99.64

76,007

0.36

21,240,040

11.10%

4,536

15*

Authority to Call a General Meeting on 14 Days' Notice

20,302,703

95.67

918,327

4.33

21,221,030

11.09%

23,547

 

* Special resolution.

 

The Board are pleased that all resolutions were duly passed and would like to thank shareholders for their continued support.

 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting to shareholders dated 22 July 2020 which can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.hendersondiversifiedincome.com .

 

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as at 11.30am on 11 September 2020 (191,318,240), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the General Meeting.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.

 

The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 191,318,240. There are no shares held in treasury. Therefore, as at the date of this announcement the number of voting rights in the Company are 191,318,240.

 

A copy of the poll results will be available on the Company's website shortly at: www.hendersondiversifiedincome.com .

 

A copy of the resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM's website at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Hannah Gibson

Company Secretary for and on behalf of Henderson Secretarial Services Limited

Tel: 020 7818 2345

 

Laura Thomas

Investment Trust PR Manager

Janus Henderson Investors

Tel: 020 7818 2636

James de Sausmarez

Director & Head of Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson Investors

Tel: 020 7818 3349

 

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