Result of AGM

RNS Number : 1841W

Polar Cap Gbl Healthcare Growth&IT

25 January 2012

 



Polar Capital Global Healthcare Growth and Income Trust plc

Results of Annual General Meeting held on 25 January 2012

AGM Results

Polar Capital Global Healthcare Growth and Income Trust plc (the "Company") announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today that all the resolutions were passed on a show of hands.

The following table indicates the number of proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting for each of the resolutions. It should be noted that votes withheld do not constitute votes in law.

The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of the AGM was 97,899,999.

Resolution		In favour (including votes at the chairman's discretion)	Against	Withheld
No		Number of shares	Number of shares	Number of shares
1	To receive the Report of the Directors and the Financial Statements for the period ended 30 September 2011	25,920,681	76,442	0
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration report for the period ended 30 September 2011	25,997,123	0	0
3	To elect  Mr. Robinson as a Director	25,997,123	0	0
4	To elect Mr. Aston as a  Director	25,997,123	0	0
5	To elect Mr. Brampton as a Director	25,920,681	0	76,442
6	To elect  Mr. Milford as a Director	25,997,123	0	0
7	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers  LLP as auditors	25,920,681	0	76,442
8	To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	25,997,123	0	0
9	To authorise the allotment of ordinary shares	25,997,123	0	0
10	To disapply pre-emption rights	25,997,123	0	0
11	To grant the company authority to buy back its own ordinary shares	25,997,123	0	0
12	To grant the company authority to buy back its own subscription shares	25,997,123	0	0

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions 10, 11 and 12, being the resolutions passed at the annual general meeting other than those concerning ordinary business, have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do

All of the resolutions proposed at the annual general meeting are set out in the AGM circular available on the Company's website at www.polarcapitalhealthcaretrust.co.uk

Enquiries:

N P Taylor

Polar Capital Global Healthcare Growth and Income Trust PLC

020 7227 2700

25 January 2012

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Neither the contents of the company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.

 

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