Result of AGM
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AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC
03 May 2022
 

AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC

 

Results of Annual General Meeting

 

LEI: 894500IJ5QQD7FPT3J73

3 May 2022

 

The Board of AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all Resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 11.30am on Tuesday, 3 May 2022 were duly passed. Voting on all resolutions was conducted by poll.

 

The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 16 March 2022, which has previously been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and is available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.ajot.co.uk.

 

For completeness, proxy votes received in respect of the Resolutions were as follows:

 

Resolutions

Votes For

Votes Against

Votes at Chairman's Discretion

Votes Withheld

Resolution 1

To receive the directors' report and audited accounts of the Company

42,354,037

99.92%

35,816

0.08%

0

5,711

Resolution 2

To approve a final ordinary dividend of 0.70p per Ordinary Share

42,359,748

99.92%

35,816

0.08%

0

0

Resolution 3

To re-elect Norman Crighton as a Director of the Company

42,314,205

99.82%

75,648

0.18%

0

5,711

Resolution 4

To re-elect Mr Yoshi Nishio as a Director of the Company

42,298,205

99.82%

75,648

0.18%

0

21,711

Resolution 5

To re-elect Ms Margaret Stephens as a Director of the Company

42,352,205

99.91%

37,648

0.09%

0

5,711

Resolution 6

To re-elect Ms Ekaterina Thomson as a Director of the Company

42,352,205

99.91%

37,648

0.09%

0

5,711

Resolution 7

To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor of the Company

42,298,205

99.78%

91,648

0.22%

0

5,711

Resolution 8

To authorise the Directors to determine the Auditor's remuneration

42,352,105

99.91%

37,748

0.09%

0

5,711

Resolution 9

To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

42,261,853

99.7%

129,211

0.30%

0

4,500

Resolution 10

To receive and adopt the amended Directors' Remuneration Policy

42,292,385

99.77%

98,679

0.23%

0

4,500

Resolution 11

To authorise the Directors to allot securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £274,423

42,345,105

99.91%

37,748

0.09%

0

12,711

Resolution 12

To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to an aggregate nominal value of £137,211

42,321,072

99.85%

61,581

0.15%

0

12,911

Resolution 13

To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to a further aggregate nominal value of £137,211

41,878,977

98.81%

503,876

1.19%

0

12,711

Resolution 14

To authorise the Directors to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company up to an aggregate number of 20,568,034 shares

42,359,748

99.92%

35,816

0.08%

0

0

Resolution 15

To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice

42,141,495

99.4%

254,069

0.60%

0

0

Resolution 16

To adopt the new articles of association

42,328,284

99.85%

61,569

0.15%

0

5,711

 

 

Enquiries:

Joe Bauernfreund
Asset Value Investors
Investment Manager

020 7659 4800

Nezia Morgan
Link Company Matters Limited
Company Secretary

01392 477 500

 

Notes:

A copy of this announcement will be available on the Company's website and, in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions 10 to 16 have been submitted to and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

 

Terms used and not defined in this announcement bear the meaning given to them in the Notice of Meeting.

 

Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

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