Result of AGM

Henderson Opportunities Trust PLC
07 March 2024
 

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

 

HENDERSON OPPORTUNITIES TRUST PLC

 

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 2138005D884NPGHFQS77

 

7 March 2024

 

 

HENDERSON OPPORTUNITIES TRUST PLC

 

Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 7 March 2024

 

Henderson Opportunities Trust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll.

 

The poll results received in relation to each resolution were as follows:

 


Resolution

Votes for (including at Chairman's discretion)

%

Votes Against

%

Total Votes Cast (excluding votes withheld)

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

Votes Withheld

1

Annual Report and audited financial statements

1,814,246

99.73

4,901

0.27

1,819,147

23.03

1,612

2

Approve a final dividend of 13.0p per share

1,807,901

99.74

4,739

0.26

1,812,640

22.95

8,119

3

Directors' Remuneration Report

1,788,874

98.90

19,838

1.10

1,808,712

22.90

12,047

4

To re-appoint Wendy Colquhoun as a Director

1,721,647

95.05

89,749

4.95

1,811,396

22.93

9,363

5

To re-appoint Davina Curling as a Director

1,719,257

94.91

92,139

5.09

1,811,396

22.93

9,363

6

To re-appoint Frances Daley as a Director

1,722,417

95.09

88,979

4.91

1,811,396

22.93

9,363

7

To re-appoint Harry Morgan as a Director

1,726,147

95.29

85,249

4.71

1,811,396

22.93

9,363

8

Re-appoint BDO LLP as statutory auditors

1,804,562

99.67

6,057

0.33

1,810,619

22.92

10,140

9

Authorise Directors to determine the remuneration of the statutory auditor

1,800,323

99.52

8,723

0.48

1,809,046

22.90

11,713

10

Increase the maximum aggregate annual remuneration payable to Directors to £165,000 per annum

1,694,537

93.70

114,022

6.30

1,808,046

22.90

12,200

11

Ordinary shares of 25 pence each to be sub-divided into five ordinary shares of 5 pence each

1,730,178

95.19

87,346

4.81

1,817,524

23.01

3,235

12

Authority to allot relevant securities

1,726,618

95.11

88,787

4.89

1,815,405

22.98

5,354



 

13

*Authority to disapply pre-emption rights

1,710,886

94.63

96,993

5.37

1,807,879

22.89

12,880

14

*Authority to repurchase ordinary shares

1,803,803

99.21

14,340

0.79

1,818,143

23.02

2,616

15

*14 days' notice for a General Meeting

1,809,711

99.58

7,577

0.42

1,817,288

23.01

3,471

 

* Special resolution

 

The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting which is available on the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") website.  A copy of the special business resolutions will be submitted to the NSM and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM website at:

 

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

 

The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 8,000,858, of which 102,483 ordinary shares are held in treasury.  As at the date of this announcement the Company's total voting rights therefore comprises 7,898,375 shares with one vote each.

 

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 the close of business on 7 March 2024 (7,898,375), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to attend and vote at the AGM.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.

 

The Company instructs J.P. Morgan Securities plc to act as its broker in respect of its market purchase transactions. The Company may utilise the authority to purchase shares by either a single purchase or a series of purchases when market conditions allow when they are trading at a discount to the underlying net asset value per share, with the aim of maximising the benefit to shareholders. This proposal does not indicate that the Company will purchase shares at any particular time or price, nor imply any opinion on the part of the Directors as to the market or other value of the Company's shares.  This arrangement is in accordance with Chapter 12 of the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rules and the Company's general authority to repurchase shares.

 

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

www.hendersonopportunitiestrust.com

 

 

For further information, please contact:

 

James Henderson

Fund Manager

Henderson Opportunities Trust plc

Telephone: 020 7818 4370

 


Laura Foll

Fund Manager

Henderson Opportunities Trust plc

Telephone: 020 7818 6364

 

Dan Howe

Head of Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson Investors

Telephone: 020 7818 4458


Harriet Hall

PR Director, Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson Investors

Telephone: 020 7818 2919 

 

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