Results of AGM - 30th March 2020
Smithson Investment Trust plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put forward at its First Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed.
The text of all the resolutions is contained in the notice of meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.
As contemplated in the letter to shareholders on 26 March 2020, the votes were conducted on a show of hands with the chairperson of the meeting casting their vote in accordance with the proxy votes held by them as set out below.
The proxy votes received were as follows:-
|
Resolution |
In Favour / Discretionary Total votes Percentage |
Against Total votes Percentage |
Withheld
|
||
|
1 |
32,669,170 |
100 |
0 |
0 |
2,305 |
|
2 |
32,640,708 |
99.94 |
18,618 |
0.06 |
12,159 |
|
3 |
32,641,629 |
99.95 |
17,697 |
0.05 |
12,159 |
|
4 |
32,132,830 |
98.39 |
524,977 |
1.61 |
13,678 |
|
5 |
32,654,321 |
99.99 |
3,686 |
0.01 |
13,478 |
|
6 |
32,645,681 |
99.97 |
9,976 |
0.03 |
15,828 |
|
7 |
32,655,878 |
99.97 |
8,452 |
0.03 |
7,155 |
|
8 |
32,661,915 |
99.98 |
5,865 |
0.02 |
3,705 |
|
9 |
32,663,265 |
99.98 |
5,715 |
0.02 |
2,505 |
|
10 |
32,073,291 |
98.18 |
594,795 |
1.82 |
3,399 |
|
11 |
32,652,530 |
99.97 |
10,556 |
0.03 |
8,399 |
|
12 |
32,648,230 |
99.94 |
19,856 |
0.06 |
3,399 |
|
13 |
32,072,381 |
98.18 |
595,795 |
1.82 |
3,399 |
|
14 |
32,651,590 |
99.95 |
16,496 |
0.05 |
3,399 |
|
15 |
26,553,280 |
81.29 |
6,111,505 |
18.71 |
6,699 |
|
16 |
32,658,466 |
99.98 |
7,770 |
0.02 |
5,249 |
|
17 |
32,087,636 |
98.22 |
581,544 |
1.78 |
2,305 |
On the record date for voting at the meeting, the Company's issued ordinary share capital comprised 118,515,958 ordinary shares and this was the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in the Company.
Copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm
The Company's LEI is: 52990070BDK2OKX5TH79.
30 March 2020
Enquiries
PraxisIFM Fund Services (UK) Limited
Company Secretary
Contact Guy Dixon or Martin Darragh
020 7653 9690
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