Schroder Income Growth Fund PLC Result of AGM

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Schroder Income Growth Fund PLC

11 December 2024

 

11 December 2024

Annual General Meeting

Schroder Income Growth Fund plc announces that, at the Annual General Meeting, held on Wednesday, 11 December 2024, a poll was held on each of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of Meeting and each resolution was duly passed.

The full text of the resolutions is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 August 2024 available on the Company's web pages at www.schroders.com/incomegrowth 

The results of the poll were as follows:

 

	Resolution	Votes for (including discretionary)	%	Votes against	%	Votes total	% I.S.C.	Votes withheld
Ordinary business
1.	To receive the Report of the Directors and the audited accounts	9,141,262	99.94	5,247	0.06	9,146,509	13.18	7,977
2.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	8,944,651	98.21	163,342	1.79	9,107,993	13.12	46,493
3.	To re-elect Ewen Cameron Watt	9,054,351	99.37	57,310	0.63	9,111,661	13.13	42,825
4.	To re-elect June Aitken	9,055,623	99.30	64,022	0.70	9,119,645	13.14	34,841
5.	To re-elect Fraser McIntyre	9,035,353	99.25	68,629	0.75	9,103,982	13.11	50,504
6.	To re-elect Victoria Muir	9,030,288	99.22	70,772	0.78	9,101,060	13.11	53,426
7.	To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP	9,024,905	98.92	98,655	1.08	9,123,560	13.14	30,926
8.	To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of the Auditor to the Company	9,037,629	99.33	61,345	0.67	9,098,974	13.11	55,512
9.	To approve the Company's dividend policy	9,083,587	99.59	37,422	0.41	9,121,009	13.14	33,477
Special business
10.	To renew the authority to allot shares*	8,971,916	98.86	103,441	1.14	9,075,357	13.07	79,129
11.	To approve the disapplication of pre- emption rights*	9,010,590	99.09	82,306	0.91	9,092,896	13.10	61,590
12.	To renew the authority to purchase own shares*	9,087,063	99.79	19,043	0.21	9,106,106	13.12	48,380
13.	To approve a general meeting, other than an Annual General Meeting, may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice*	9,016,133	98.66	122,012	1.34	9,138,145	13.16	16,341

 

*Resolutions 11, 12 and 13 were passed as special resolutions. Copies of resolutions 10, 11, 12 and 13 will be filed at Companies House.

 

Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not a vote in law and are therefore not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column.

The total number of ordinary shares of 10p each in issue is 69,463,343. The total held in treasury is 46,000.  The total number of voting rights is 69,417,343.

In accordance with UKLR 6.4.2R, a copy of the resolutions passed, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, at today's AGM will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at National Storage Mechanism | FCA.
Enquiries:
Natalia de Sousa    020 7658 6000
Schroder Investment Management Limited

 

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