Result of AGM

Henderson High Income Trust PLC

12 May 2026

 

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

HENDERSON HIGH INCOME TRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER 213800OEXAGFSF7Y6G11

12 May 2026

HENDERSON HIGH INCOME TRUST PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting

The Company announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today resolutions 1 to 15 were duly passed on a poll. This included the following special business resolutions: As an Ordinary Resolution: -     Resolution 12: that up to 10% of the share capital may be issued or sold out of treasury without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures; and As Special Resolutions: -     Resolution 13: to authorise the Directors to allot or to sell from treasury up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital excluding treasury shares without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures; -         -     Resolution 14: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares up to 14.99% of its issued ordinary share capital excluding treasury shares; and -     Resolution 15: to authorise that a General Meeting other than an Annual General Meeting may be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice. The Board is 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 Annual General Meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2025 which can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.hendersonhighincome.com The poll results were as follows:
Resolutions	Number of Votes FOR (including at Chair's discretion)	% of votes FOR	Number of Votes AGAINST	% of votes AGAINST	Total votes cast	Votes cast (excluding votes withheld) as a percentage of total voting rights	Number of votes withheld
1 To receive the Annual Report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025	20,937,128	99.81%	40,395	0.19%	20,977,523	12.37%	44,927
2 To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	20,067,737	97.64%	484,974	2.36%	20,552,711	12.12%	469,739
3 To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2025	20,147,775	97.95%	421,649	2.05%	20,569,424	12.13%	453,026
4 To re-appoint Jeremy Rigg as a Director	20,694,718	99.54%	94,761	0.46%	20,789,479	12.26%	232,971
5 To re-appoint Richard Cranfield as a Director	20,695,294	99.55%	94,185	0.45%	20,789,479	12.26%	232,971
6 To re-appoint Francesca Ecsery as a Director	20,648,554	99.54%	94,970	0.46%	20,743,524	12.24%	278,926
7 To re-appoint Jonathan Silver as a Director	20,762,997	99.60%	82,503	0.40%	20,845,500	12.30%	176,950
8 To re-appoint Preeti Rathi as a Director	20,672,728	99.62%	78,296	0.38%	20,751,024	12.24%	271,426
9 To appoint Forvis Mazars LLP as statutory Auditor	20,469,380	98.54%	303,707	1.46%	20,773,087	12.25%	249,363
10 To authorise the Directors to determine the Auditor's remuneration	20,693,469	99.10%	188,442	0.90%	20,881,911	12.32%	140,539
11 To approve the Company's dividend policy	20,952,720	99.73%	57,196	0.27%	21,009,916	12.39%	12,534
12 To give Directors authority to allot ordinary shares	20,563,527	98.37%	340,454	1.63%	20,903,981	12.33%	118,469
13 To give Directors authority to disapply pre-emption rights on allotment or sale of ordinary shares	20,288,641	97.65%	487,239	2.35%	20,775,880	12.26%	246,570
14 To give the Company authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company	20,785,080	99.30%	147,058	0.70%	20,932,138	12.35%	90,312
15 To approve that a general meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	20,868,293	99.48%	109,127	0.52%	20,977,420	12.37%	45,030

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 8 May 2026, being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the Annual 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 in the Company at the date of this announcement, including Treasury shares, is 172,141,700.    

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

www.hendersonhighincome.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:

Harriet Hall Investment Trust PR Manager Janus Henderson Investors Tel: [phone]

David Smith Fund Manager Henderson High Income Trust plc Telephone: [phone]

 

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