Result of AGM

Schroder AsiaPacific Fund PLC
31 January 2024
 

31 January 2024

Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

 

Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc ("the Company") announces that at the Annual General Meeting held today, all 15 resolutions were duly passed on a poll.

 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 September 2023, available on the Company's website at  http://www.schroders.co.uk/asiapacific

As set out in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2023, Mr Craig retired from the Board immediately following the Annual General Meeting.

 

The proxy votes received in respect of the resolutions are set out below:

 


Resolution

Votes For (including discretionary)

 

 

%

Votes Against

 

 

%

Votes total

% of Voting Rights

Votes Withheld

1

To receive the Annual Report and Accounts

90,882,285

99.99%

8,914

0.01%

90,891,199

59.40

15,734

2

To approve the final dividend

90,877,641

99.99%

11,314

0.01%

90,888,955

59.40

17,978

3

To approve the Remuneration Report

90,742,593

99.88%

113,286

0.12%

90,855,879

59.38

51,054

4

To approve the Remuneration

Policy

90,711,614

99.85%

140,003

0.15%

90,851,617

59.37

55,316

5

To elect Rupert Hogg

90,800,550

99.93%

60,615

0.07%

90,861,165

59.38

45,768

6

To re-elect Julia Goh

90,787,163

99.92%

69,722

0.08%

90,856,885

59.38

50,048

7

To re-elect Vivien Gould

87,960,974

96.81%

2,895,911

3.19%

90,856,885

59.38

50,048

8

To re-elect Martin Porter

90,806,542

99.94%

57,143

0.06%

90,863,685

59.38

43,248

9

To re-elect James Williams

90,764,685

99.92%

74,630

0.08%

90,839,315

59.37

67,618

10

To re-appoint Ernst & Young  LLP as auditor

90,745,054

99.88%

106,279

0.12%

90,851,333

59.37

55,600

11

To approve the auditor's remuneration

90,830,196

99.97%

27,982

0.03%

90,858,178

59.38

48,755

12

To renew the authority to allot shares

90,786,106

99.91%

83,942

0.09%

90,870,048

59.39

36,885

13*

To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights

90,659,037

99.80%

183,516

0.20%

90,842,553

59.37

64,380

14*

To renew the authority to purchase own shares

90,816,005

99.92%

70,022

0.08%

90,886,027

59.40

20,906

15*

To approve a general

meeting, other than an Annual General Meeting, may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice*

90,643,880

99.75%

222,897

0.25%

90,866,777

59.38

40,156

 

*Resolutions 13,14 and 15 were passed as special resolutions. Copies of resolutions 12, 13, 14 and 15 will be filed at Companies House.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism, and available for inspection at National Storage Mechanism | FCA.

The proxy votes lodged with the Registrar will shortly be available via the Company's website at: http://www.schroders.co.uk/asiapacific

The total number of ordinary shares of 10 pence each in issue at the date of this announcement is 152,838,216.  The total number of ordinary shares with voting rights, at the date of this announcement, is 152,838,216.

 

Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not a vote in law and are therefore not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column.

 

   

 

Enquiries:

 

Kerry Higgins

Schroder Investment Management Limited                                        

0207 6586189

 

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