Results of General Meeting

Schroder Asian Total Retn InvCo PLC

08 September 2026

 

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Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company plc
(the "Company")

Results of General Meeting

   8 September 2026     

In connection with the proposals to rollover certain of the assets and undertaking of Pacific Assets Trust plc ("PAC") into the Company by way of a scheme of reconstruction and the cancellation of the Company's share premium account, the Board of directors of the Company is pleased to announce that both Resolutions proposed at the General Meeting of the Company held earlier today were approved by the Company's Shareholders.

The results of the Resolutions proposed at the General Meeting, each of which was held by poll, are as follows: 

Ordinary Resolution	In favour*	% shares voted in favour	Against	% shares voted against	% shares in issue voted	Votes withheld**
To approve the allotment of new Shares in the Company for the purposes of the Scheme	46,147,024	99.80	93,196	0.20	49.97	26,905
Special Resolution	In favour*	% shares voted in favour	Against	% shares voted against	% shares in issue voted	Votes withheld**
To approve, subject to confirmation of the Court, the  cancellation of the amount standing to the credit of the share premium account of the Company immediately following the issue of the new Shares the Company under the Scheme	46,200,583	99.95	25,180	0.05	49.95	41,362

*  Votes for include discretionary votes

** A vote withheld is a not a vote in law and is not counted in the votes for or against a resolution

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Company's circular to Shareholders dated 11 August 2026 (the "Circular"). The Circular is available for inspection at the National Storage.Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and also on the Company's website www.schroders.com/ATR.

The Scheme remains conditional upon, amongst other things, the necessary approvals by PAC and the PAC Shareholders being obtained, and upon any conditions of such approvals being fulfilled. 

The Company had a total of 109,114,651 ordinary shares of 5p each in issue at the voting record time for the General Meeting, which included 16,571,248 ordinary shares held in treasury. Treasury shares do not carry voting rights, therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company was 92,543,403.

In accordance with UK Listing Rule 6.4.2R, a copy of the resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for viewing at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

Terms used and not otherwise defined in this announcement shall have the meanings given to them in the Circular.

For further information, please contact:              

Schroder Investment Management Limited
Katherine Fyfe (Company Secretary)	0207 658 3136
Charlotte Banks (Press)	0207 658 9063
John Spedding (Head of Investment Trusts)	0207 658 3206
Winterflood trading as a division of Marex	020 3100 0000
Neil Morgan / Rose Ramsden (Corporate Finance)
Darren Willis / Innes Urquhart (Corporate Sales)

 

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