Manchester & London Result of AGM

 
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MANCHESTER AND LONDON INVESTMENT TRUST PLC 
 
                                (the "Company") 
 
                       Results of Annual General Meeting 
 
2 November 2020 
 
The Company announces that at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company 
held today Resolutions 1 to 17 contained in the Notice of AGM were duly passed 
on a poll. 
 
M&M Investment Company, the controlling shareholder of the Company undertook 
not to vote on the resolutions dealing with the re-election and election of the 
independent Directors. The proxy votes below therefore reflect the votes 
submitted by independent shareholders as indicated. 
 
The proxy votes received in relation to the resolutions passed were as follows: 
 
Resolution                        Votes for Votes Against      Votes at Shares Marked 
                                                             Chairman's      As Votes 
                                                             Discretion    Withheld / 
                                                                          Abstentions 
 
1. To receive and accept the     21,668,507         3,029             0             0 
Annual Report 
 
2. To approve the Directors'     21,665,051         4,766             0         1,719 
Remuneration Report 
 
3. To approve the Directors'     21,664,463         5,354             0         1,719 
Remuneration Policy 
 
4. To declare a final ordinary   21,668,507         3,029             0             0 
dividend of 7.0p per Ordinary 
Share 
 
5. To re-elect David Harris as    1,497,539       274,279             0    19,899,715 
a Director (independent 
shareholders) 
 
6. To re-elect Brett Miller as    1,762,716         8,867             0    19,899,951 
a Director 
 
7. To elect James Waterlow as     1,767,386         3,029             0    19,901,119 
a Director (independent 
shareholders) 
 
8. To re-elect Daniel Wright      1,767,854         3,029             0    19,900,651 
as a Director (independent 
shareholders) 
 
9. To re-appoint Deloitte LLP    21,663,265         8,271             0             0 
as Auditor of the Company 
 
10. To authorise the Directors   21,666,817         3,683             0         1,036 
to determine the Auditor's 
Remuneration 
 
11. To authorise the Directors   21,668,271         3,029             0           236 
to offer holders the right to 
elect to receive newly issued 
Ordinary Shares 
 
12. To authorise the Directors   21,641,858        23,003             0         6,675 
to allot Ordinary Shares 
 
13. To disapply statutory        21,227,463       437,397             0         6,675 
pre-emption rights in relation 
to the issue of Ordinary 
Shares 
 
14. To authorise the Directors   21,375,066       295,952             0           517 
to sell, transfer and allot 
Ordinary Shares from Treasury 
at a discount to the net asset 
value 
 
15. To authorise the Company     21,668,507         3,029             0             0 
to make market purchases of 
Ordinary Shares 
 
16. To authorise the Company     21,661,809         9,727             0             0 
to hold general meetings on 14 
clear days' notice 
 
17. To cancel the amount         21,660,963         3,617             0         6,956 
outstanding to the share 
premium account and credit 
this to a distributable 
reserve 
 
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all resolutions passed as 
Special Business at the Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage 
Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https:// 
data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. 
 
LEI: 213800HMBZXULR2EEO10 
 
 
 
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