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abrdn Diversified Income and Growth plc

AGM Information Feb 29, 2024

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ABRDN DIVERSIFIED INCOME AND GROWTH PLC

(LEI: 2138003QINEGCHYGW702)

27 February 2024

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of abrdn Diversified Income and Growth plc ("the Company") held on 27 February 2024, all resolutions, as set out in the Notice of AGM included in the Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2023 ("the 2023 Annual Report"), were passed on a poll. A copy of the Notice of AGM is available at www.abrdndiversified.co.uk.

In relation to Resolution 11 (Authority to Allot Shares) and Resolution 12 (Authority to Allot Shares without Pre-emption), the relevant figure is 30,126,592 Ordinary shares, being 10% of the Ordinary shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, at the date of passing of these Resolutions at the AGM.

In relation to Resolution 13 (Authority to Buy Back Ordinary shares), the relevant figure is 45,159,766 Ordinary shares, being 14.99% of the Ordinary shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, at the date of passing of this Resolution at the AGM.

The total number of proxy votes lodged in favour of the Chairman was as follows:

Resolution All Ordinary
resolutions unless
For Against Votes Total Votes
Number marked otherwise No. of % of No. of % of Withheld (excluding
Votes
Votes Votes
Cast
Votes Votes Cast Withheld)
1 Receive and adopt the
Directors' Report and
audited financial
statements for the year
ended 30 September
2023
101,602,335 99.6 452,642 0.4 248,581 102,054,977
2 Receive and adopt the
Directors' Remuneration
Report (other than the
Directors' Remuneration
Policy) for the year
ended 30 September
2023
98,941,099 97.4 2,651,567 2.6 710,892 101,592,666
3 Approve the Company's
dividend policy to
continue to pay four
quarterly interim
dividends per year
101,584,578 99.6 395,976 0.4 323,004 101,980,554
4 Re-elect Alistair
Mackintosh
97,813,166 96.1 3,980,681 3.9 509,711 101,793,847
5 Re-elect Trevor Bradley
as a Director
97,857,349 96.1 3,946,624 3.9 499,585 101,803,973
6 Re-elect Tom Challenor
as a Director
97,727,542 96.0 4,090,709 4.0 485,307 101,818,251
7 Re-elect Davina Walter
as a Director
97,314,633 95.6 4,427,988 4.4 560,937 101,742,621
8 Re-appoint
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as auditor of the
Company
101,242,478 99.3 714,657 0.7 346,423 101,957,135
9 Authority to fix the
auditor's remuneration
101,421,251 99.4 581,316 0.6 300,991 102,002,567
10 Approve the
continuation of the
Company as an
investment trust
101,182,491 99.2 843,717 0.8 277,350 102,026,208
11 Authority to allot shares 99,299,728 97.5 2,571,532 2.5 432,298 101,871,260
12 Authority to allot shares
without pre-emption
(Special resolution)
90,004,411 88.4 11,842,747 11.6 451,624 101,847,158
13 Approve share buybacks
(Special resolution)
101,470,904 99.4 642,460 0.6 190,194 102,113,364
14 Approve holding
meetings on less than 14
clear days' notice
(Special resolution)
99,511,491 97.6 2,437,168 2.4 354,899 101,948,659
15 Cancel the share
premium account
99,742,463 98.0 2,016,453 2.0 544,642 101,758,916

As set out in the Chairman's Statement in the Annual Report, Anna Troup retired as a Director at the conclusion of the AGM.

Resolutions

Copies of Resolutions 10 to 15, inclusive, as approved by shareholders at the AGM, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and available for inspection thereafter at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

*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.

Enquiries:

Stuart Reid abrdn Holdings Limited Secretaries

Email: [email protected]

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