31 January 2024
Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc
Results of Annual General Meeting
Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc ("the Company") announces that at the Annual General Meeting held today, all 15 resolutions were duly passed on a poll.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 September 2023, available on the Company's website at http://www.schroders.co.uk/asiapacific
As set out in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2023, Mr Craig retired from the Board immediately following the Annual General Meeting.
The proxy votes received in respect of the resolutions are set out below:
| | Resolution | Votes For (including discretionary) |
% | Votes Against |
% | Votes total | % of Voting Rights | Votes Withheld |
| 1 | To receive the Annual Report and Accounts | 90,882,285 | 99.99% | 8,914 | 0.01% | 90,891,199 | 59.40 | 15,734 |
| 2 | To approve the final dividend | 90,877,641 | 99.99% | 11,314 | 0.01% | 90,888,955 | 59.40 | 17,978 |
| 3 | To approve the Remuneration Report | 90,742,593 | 99.88% | 113,286 | 0.12% | 90,855,879 | 59.38 | 51,054 |
| 4 | To approve the Remuneration Policy | 90,711,614 | 99.85% | 140,003 | 0.15% | 90,851,617 | 59.37 | 55,316 |
| 5 | To elect Rupert Hogg | 90,800,550 | 99.93% | 60,615 | 0.07% | 90,861,165 | 59.38 | 45,768 |
| 6 | To re-elect Julia Goh | 90,787,163 | 99.92% | 69,722 | 0.08% | 90,856,885 | 59.38 | 50,048 |
| 7 | To re-elect Vivien Gould | 87,960,974 | 96.81% | 2,895,911 | 3.19% | 90,856,885 | 59.38 | 50,048 |
| 8 | To re-elect Martin Porter | 90,806,542 | 99.94% | 57,143 | 0.06% | 90,863,685 | 59.38 | 43,248 |
| 9 | To re-elect James Williams | 90,764,685 | 99.92% | 74,630 | 0.08% | 90,839,315 | 59.37 | 67,618 |
| 10 | To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor | 90,745,054 | 99.88% | 106,279 | 0.12% | 90,851,333 | 59.37 | 55,600 |
| 11 | To approve the auditor's remuneration | 90,830,196 | 99.97% | 27,982 | 0.03% | 90,858,178 | 59.38 | 48,755 |
| 12 | To renew the authority to allot shares | 90,786,106 | 99.91% | 83,942 | 0.09% | 90,870,048 | 59.39 | 36,885 |
| 13* | To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights | 90,659,037 | 99.80% | 183,516 | 0.20% | 90,842,553 | 59.37 | 64,380 |
| 14* | To renew the authority to purchase own shares | 90,816,005 | 99.92% | 70,022 | 0.08% | 90,886,027 | 59.40 | 20,906 |
| 15* | To approve a general meeting, other than an Annual General Meeting, may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice* | 90,643,880 | 99.75% | 222,897 | 0.25% | 90,866,777 | 59.38 | 40,156 |
*Resolutions 13,14 and 15 were passed as special resolutions. Copies of resolutions 12, 13, 14 and 15 will be filed at Companies House.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed as special business will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism, and available for inspection at National Storage Mechanism | FCA.
The proxy votes lodged with the Registrar will shortly be available via the Company's website at: http://www.schroders.co.uk/asiapacific
The total number of ordinary shares of 10 pence each in issue at the date of this announcement is 152,838,216. The total number of ordinary shares with voting rights, at the date of this announcement, is 152,838,216.
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.
Enquiries:
Kerry Higgins
Schroder Investment Management Limited
0207 6586189
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