Result of AGM

Henderson Eurotrust PLC
15 November 2023
 

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

 

HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC

 

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER:  213800DAFFNXRBWOEF12

 

15 November 2023

 

 

HENDERSON EUROTRUST PLC

 

Annual General Meeting held on

Wednesday 15 November 2023

 

 

Henderson EuroTrust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a show of hands, three of which were special resolutions authorising:

 

·    the Directors to allot or to sell from treasury up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures;

 

·    the Company to make market purchases of up to 14.99% of the Company's ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares); and

 

·    the Company to hold general meetings other than an Annual General Meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

 

The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting, copies of which are available for viewing at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

The proxy votes received in relation to each resolution were as follows:

 

Resolutions

Votes for (including at Chairman's discretion)

%

Votes against

%

Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld)

Votes withheld

1.    Annual Report and audited financial statements

110,104,828

95.89

4,720,161

4.11

114,824,989

58,184

2.    Increase in aggregate Director Fees

114,546,807

99.80

233,885

0.20

114,780,692

102,481

3.    Directors' Remuneration Policy

114,671,809

99.88

141,987

0.12

114,813,796

69,377

4.    Directors' Remuneration Report

114,674,809

99.88

139,340

0.12

114,814,149

69,024

5.    Approve a final dividend of 3.0p per share

114,780,241

100.00

4,443

0.00

114,784,684

98,489

6.    Elect Stephen White as a Director

114,697,240

99.96

42,316

0.04

114,739,556

143,617

7.    Re-elect Nicola Ralston as a Director

113,224,023

98.73

1,461,491

1.27

114,685,514

197,659

8.    Re-elect Stephen King as a Director

113,554,902

98.91

1,250,612

1.09

114,805,514

77,659

9.    Re-elect Rutger Koopmans as a Director

113,546,492

98.90

1,259,022

1.10

114,805,514

77,659

10.  Re-elect Ekaterina Thomson as a Director

113,490,614

98.92

1,242,859

1.08

114,733,473

149,700

11.  Re-appoint BDO LLP as statutory auditor

114,694,052

99.97

30,823

0.03

114,724,875

158,298

12.  Authorise Directors to determine the remuneration of the statutory auditor

114,739,336

99.99

6,745

0.01

114,746,081

137,092

13.  Authority to allot relevant securities

114,785,191

99.98

19,688

0.02

114,804,879

78,294

14.  Authority to disapply pre-emption rights *

114,574,558

99.86

161,893

0.14

114,736,451

146,722

15.  Authority to repurchase ordinary shares *

109,808,982

95.70

4,939,168

4.30

114,748,150

135,023

16.  14 days' notice for a General Meeting *

114,537,265

99.76

274,214

0.24

114,811,479

54,194

 

* special resolution

 

The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 212,055,410, of which 200,000 shares are held in treasury. As at the date of this announcement the Company's total voting rights therefore comprises 211,855,410 shares with one vote each.

 

A copy of the special business 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:

 

Melanie Stoner

For and on behalf of Janus Henderson Secretarial Services UK Limited

Corporate Secretary to Henderson EuroTrust plc

Tel: 020 7818 4082

 

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