The Bankers Investment Trust PLC

AGM Information • Feb 25, 2025

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Bankers Investment Trust PLC

25 February 2025

JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

THE BANKERS INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800B9YWXL3X1VMZ69

25 February 2025

THE BANKERS INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Annual General Meeting of the Company

held on Tuesday, 25 February 2025

The Bankers Investment Trust PLC announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today that resolutions 1 to 14 were duly passed on a poll. This included the following resolutions:

As an Ordinary Resolution:

-        Resolution 11: to authorise the Directors to allot ordinary shares up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital;

As Special Resolutions:

-        Resolution 12: to authorise the Directors to allot or to sell from treasury up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures;

-        Resolution 13: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares up to 14.99% of its issued ordinary share capital excluding treasury shares; and

-        Resolution 14: to authorise that a General Meeting other than an Annual General Meeting may be held on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the circular to shareholders dated 15 January 2025 which can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.bankersinvestmenttrust.com

The poll results were as follows:

Resolutions	Number of Votes FOR (including at Chair's discretion)	% of votes FOR	Number of Votes AGAINST	% of votes AGAINST	Total votes cast	Votes cast (excluding votes withheld) as a percentage of total voting rights	Number of votes withheld
1 To receive the annual report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31 October 2024	287,338,542	99.98	57,519	0.02	287,396,061	26.12%	358,012
2 To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 October 2024	283,933,042	99.16	2,401,471	0.84	286,334,513	26.02%	1,419,560
3 To approve the final dividend of 0.672p per share	287,416,344	99.97	96,467	0.03	287,512,811	26.13%	241,262
4 To re-appoint Mr Simon Miller as a Director	271,563,743	94.68	15,269,282	5.32	286,833,025	26.07%	921,048
5 To re-appoint Ms Hannah Philp as a Director	279,783,865	97.53	7,073,160	2.47	286,857,025	26.07%	897,048
6 To re-appoint Ms Charlotte Valeur	279,990,650	97.60	6,876,464	2.40	286,867,114	26.07%	886,959
7 To re-appoint Mr Richard West as a Director	279,956,387	97.59	6,925,478	2.41	286,881,865	26.07%	872,208
8 To re-appoint Mr Ankush Nandra as a Director	279,988,908	97.61	6,864,864	2.39	286,853,772	26.07%	900,301
9 To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as a statutory Auditor to the Company	285,867,978	99.60	1,136,850	0.40	287,004,828	26.08%	749,245
10 To authorise the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee to determine the Auditor's remuneration	286,653,906	99.87	382,007	0.13	287,035,913	26.09%	718,160
11 To give Directors authority to allot ordinary shares	285,794,551	99.63	1,060,798	0.37	286,855,349	26.07%	898,724
12 To give Directors authority to disapply pre-emption rights on allotment or sale of ordinary shares*	284,946,186	99.40	1,716,753	0.60	286,662,939	26.05%	1,091,134
13 To give the Company authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company*	275,957,263	96.11	11,167,626	3.89	287,124,889	26.10%	629,184
14 To approve that a general meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days notice*	284,584,749	99.22	2,235,944	0.78	286,820,693	26.07%	933,380

*Special resolution

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as at the close of business on 21 February 2025, being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the Annual General Meeting. A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.

The number of ordinary shares in issue in the Company at the date of this announcement is 1,315,102,830.

A copy of the poll results will shortly be available on the Company's website at:

www.bankersinvestmenttrust.com

A copy of the special business resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM's website at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

For further information please contact:

Alex Crooke

Fund Manager

The Bankers Investment Trust PLC

Telephone: 020 7818 4447

Harriet Hall

Investment Trust PR Director

Janus Henderson Investors

Telephone: 020 7818 2919

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