AGM Information • Nov 11, 2022
AGM Information
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I hope that you will be able to attend the Company's 16th Annual General Meeting (the 'Meeting' or 'AGM') to be held on Friday 27 January 2023 at 11.00am at 201 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 3AE, the oces of Janus Henderson Investors.
Our Fund Managers, Mike Kerley and Sat Duhra, will give a presentation at the Meeting and there will be opportunities to ask questions. Members are invited to join the Board and the Fund Managers for light refreshments after the ocial business of the Meeting has concluded.
For those unable to travel, the Meeting will be streamed live on the internet: www.janushenderson.com/trustslive. No live voting will be available via this medium so members not attending the physical AGM are encouraged to submit their votes via proxy, or through their share dealing platform, ahead of the respective deadlines.
The Notice of Meeting is set out on pages 1 and 2 of this document and a map showing the venue for the Meeting is provided on page 2. Further details of each of the resolutions to be proposed at the Meeting are set out in the explanatory notes on pages 3 and 4. I also refer you to the Company's annual report and audited nancial statements for the year ended 31 August 2022. These are available on the Company's website, www.hendersonfareastincome.com, and printed copies are being sent, with this document, to those members who have requested this and are available, on request, to those who have not. Any changes to the format of the Meeting will be notied to members via a Regulatory Information Service announcement.
The Board considers that the resolutions to be proposed at the Meeting are in the best interests of the Company's members and therefore recommends to members that they vote in favour of each of the resolutions, as the directors intend to do in respect of their own benecial holdings.
Yours faithfully
Chairman 9 November 2022
If you are in any doubt as to what action you should take, you should consult your stockbroker, solicitor, accountant or other independent nancial adviser authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 if you are resident in the UK, the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998 if you are resident in Jersey, or if you are resident elsewhere, from another appropriately independent nancial adviser in your own jurisdiction.
If you have sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of all your shares in Henderson Far East Income Limited (the 'Company'), please pass this circular and the accompanying Form of Proxy to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom you made the sale, transfer or disposal for transmission to the purchaser or transferee, except that such documents should not be sent to any jurisdiction under any circumstances where to do so might constitute a violation of local securities laws and regulations. If you have sold or transferred or otherwise disposed of only part of your holding of shares in the Company, you should retain this circular and the accompanying Form of Proxy and consult the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom you made the sale, transfer or disposal.
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(a closed end investment company registered with limited liability in Jersey under the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 with registered number 95064)
Notice is hereby given that the 16th Annual General Meeting of Henderson Far East Income Limited ('the Company') will be held at 201 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 3AE on Friday 27 January 2023 at 11.00am for the transaction of the following business:
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13 THAT, the directors are authorised to allot Equity Securities on a non-pre-emptive basis up to a number equivalent to 10% of the total number of shares in issue as at the date of this resolution, provided that such authority shall expire (unless and to the extent previously revoked, varied or renewed by the Company in general meetings by special resolution) at the earlier of the conclusion of the next annual general meeting or 15 months from the date of this resolution but so that this power shall enable the Company to make oers or agreements before such expiry which would or might require equity securities to be issued after such expiry and the directors of the Company may issue Equity Securities in pursuance of any such oer or agreement as if such expiry had not occurred.
By order of the Board Janus Henderson Secretarial Services UK Limited Corporate Secretary 9 November 2022
Registered Oce: IFC1 The Esplanade St. Helier Jersey JE1 4BP

The 16th Annual General Meeting will be held at Janus Henderson Investors' oces at 201 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3AE. It is a few minutes walk from Liverpool Street Station and from Moorgate Underground Station.
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The information set out below is an explanation of the business to be considered at the Meeting. Members are recommended to view the Company's website www.hendersonfareastincome.com on which they can nd the Company's annual report and nancial statements.
Resolutions 1 to 11 are proposed as ordinary resolutions. This means that, for each of those resolutions to be passed, more than half of the votes cast must be in favour of the resolution. Resolutions 12 and 13 are proposed as special resolutions which require at least two thirds of the votes cast to be in favour of the resolution.
The directors are required to present the annual report and audited nancial statements for the year ended 31 August 2022, along with the Directors' Report and the Independent Auditors' Report to the Meeting.
Members are requested to approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 August 2022. The report is set out on pages 34 and 35 of the annual report. The vote is advisory and does not aect the remuneration payable to any individual director.
In accordance with provisions of the Code of Corporate Governance issued by the Association of Investment Companies, all of the directors seek re-election on an annual basis. Provisions of the Jersey Financial Services Commission require that two Jersey resident directors be appointed to the Board.
Resolution 3 relates to the re-election of Mr Ronald Gould, who was appointed to the Board on 28 October 2021 and became Chairman on 21 June 2022. Ronald is an investor and strategic consultant in the nancial services sector in both Asia and Europe.
Resolution 4 relates to the re-election of Mrs Julia Chapman, who was appointed to the Board on 30 January 2015. Julia is a solicitor by profession with over 30 years' experience of the investment fund and capital markets sector. She is qualied in England and Wales, as well as Jersey. Julia is one of the two Jersey resident directors.
Resolution 5 relates to the re-election of Mr Timothy Clissold, who was appointed to the Board on 3 September 2018. Timothy is a qualied Chartered Accountant and has worked in Australia, Hong Kong and spent more than 20 years living and working in China, where he was co-founder of one of the rst private equity groups in the country.
Resolution 6 relates to the re-election of Mr Nicholas George, who was appointed to the Board on 20 April 2016. Nicholas has a strong background in investment banking, specialising in Asian markets. He spent much of his career in Hong Kong and London. Resolution 7 relates to the re-election of Mr David Mashiter, who was appointed to the Board on 6 November 2006. David has extensive investment management experience. He is the second of the Company's Jersey resident directors.
The Board has reviewed the performance and commitment of the directors standing for re-election and consider that each of them continue to bring wide-ranging, current and relevant business experience that allows them to contribute eectively to the leadership of the Company.
Furthermore, the Board is satised that, having considered each directors' experience and the nature of, and anticipated demands on his or her time by their other business commitments, that each director is able to commit the time required to full his or her responsibilities as a director of the Company.
All the directors are considered by the Board to be independent for the purposes of the Code of Corporate Governance issued by the Association of Investment Companies.
Directors' biographies can be found on pages 23 and 24 of the annual report.
Members are required to approve the appointment of the Company's auditors each year and to give authority to the directors to determine their remuneration. In accordance with the EU Audit Directive and Regulation which sets out that the Company should conduct an audit tender every ten years, the Audit Committee carried out an audit tender process in the rst half of 2022, more details of which can be found on page 32 of the Company's annual report. As a result of the tender, the Board are recommending the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ('PwC') as the statutory auditor for the year ending 31 August 2023. If agreed by members, their appointment will become eective from the date of the Meeting, replacing KPMG Channel Islands Limited who had served since 13 February 2023.
Resolutions 8 and 9 seek shareholder approval for the appointment of PwC as the Company's statutory auditor and for the directors to determine their remuneration.
(ordinary resolution)
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The directors seek members' approval of the Company's dividend policy, which is to pay four quarterly interim dividends. In the year ended 31 August 2022 these have totalled 23.80p per share. The vote is advisory as the directors have the ability under provisions of the articles to determine and approve the payment of interim dividends.
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Resolution 11: Treasury shares (ordinary resolution) The directors are seeking authority to hold up to 10% of the Company's own shares which may be repurchased subject to resolution 12, or otherwise, as treasury shares.
On 20 January 2022 the directors were granted authority to repurchase up to 14.99% of the issued share capital as at that date for cancellation or to be held in treasury. The directors have not bought back any shares as at the date of this Notice.
Resolution 12 seeks to renew the Company's authority to buy back shares. The authority under this resolution is limited to the purchase of a maximum of 14.99% of the ordinary shares in issue at the date of the passing of this resolution. The minimum price which may be paid for a share is one penny (exclusive of expenses). The maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for a share is an amount equal to 105% of the average middle market quotations for a share taken from the London Stock Exchange Daily Ocial List for the ve business days immediately preceding the day on which the share is purchased, or the higher of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bid as stipulated by Commission adopted Regulatory Technical Standards pursuant to Articles 5(6) of the Market Abuse Regulation. Both the minimum and maximum price are exclusive of any relevant tax and expenses payable by the Company. The Company may cancel or hold in treasury (up to 10% of the issued share capital at the date of the resolution) any shares bought back under this authority.
The directors believe that, from time to time and subject to market conditions, it will continue to be in the members' interests to buy back the Company's shares when they are trading at a discount to the underlying net asset value per share. Repurchases of the Company's shares provide a modest uplift in the NAV for existing members and often results in the share price more closely reecting the underlying value of the portfolio.
The Company may utilise the authority to purchase shares by either a single purchase or a series of purchases when market conditions allow, with the aim of maximising the benet to members. This proposal does not indicate that the Company will purchase shares at any particular time or price, nor imply any opinion on the part of the directors as to the market or other value of the Company's shares.
This authority will expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting or within 15 months from the date of the passing of this resolution (whichever is earlier) and it is the present intention of the directors to seek a similar authority annually.
Resolution 13 authorises directors to allot Equity Securities on a non-pre-emptive basis. The authority is in respect of 10% of the issued share capital as at the date this resolution, which will expire on the earlier of 15 months from the date of the resolution or at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting.
In accordance with the requirements of the UK Listing Authority this disapplication will be proposed for renewal annually.
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Pursuant to Article 40 of the Companies (Uncerticated Securities) (Jersey) Order 1999, the Company species that only those members entered on the Register of Members of the Company as at 11.00am on 25 January 2023 or, in the event that the Meeting is adjourned, on the Register of Members 48 hours before the time of any adjourned meeting, shall be entitled to attend and vote at the Meeting in respect of the number of shares registered in their name at that time. Changes to the entries on the Register of Members after 11.00am on 25 January 2023 or, in the event that the Meeting is adjourned, in the Register of Members 48 hours before the time of any adjourned meeting, shall be disregarded in determining the rights of any person to attend or vote at the Meeting, notwithstanding any provisions in any enactment, the articles of association of the Company or other instrument to the contrary.
A member entitled to attend and vote is entitled to appoint a proxy or proxies to attend and, on a poll, to vote instead of him. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. A Form of Proxy is enclosed.
Instruments of proxy and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which they are signed or a notarially certied copy of that power of attorney or authority should be sent to the Registrars, Computershare Investor Services (Jersey) Limited, c/o The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS99 6ZY so as to arrive not less than 48 hours before the time xed for the Meeting.
A Form of Proxy is enclosed and to be valid must be lodged with the Company's Registrars (Computershare Investor Services (Jersey) Limited, c/o The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS99 6ZY) before 11.00am on 25 January 2023. A member may terminate a proxy's authority at any time before the commencement of the Meeting. Termination must be provided in writing and submitted to the Company's Registrar at the above address.
Members may not use any electronic address provided either in the Notice or any related documents (including the Form of Proxy) to communicate with the Company for any purpose other than those expressly stated.
CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies by utilising the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so for the Meeting and any adjournment(s) thereof by utilising the procedures described in the CREST manual, which is available to download from the Euroclear website (www.euroclear.com/ CREST). CREST personal members or other CREST sponsored members, and those CREST members who have appointed a voting service provider(s), should refer to their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s), who will be able to take the appropriate action on their behalf.
In order for a proxy appointment made by means of CREST to be valid, the appropriate CREST message (a 'CREST Proxy Instruction') must be properly authenticated in accordance with Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited's specications and must contain the information required for such instructions, as described in the CREST manual. The message must be transmitted so as to be received by the Issuer's agent (ID 3RA50) by the latest time for receipt of proxy appointments specied in note (4) above.
For this purpose, the time of receipt will be taken to be the time (as determined by the timestamp applied to the message by the CREST applications host) from which the Issuer's agent is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed by CREST.
CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsors or voting service provider(s) should note that Euroclear UK & Ireland Limited does not make available special procedures in CREST for any particular messages. Normal system timings and limitations will therefore apply in relation to the input of CREST Proxy Instructions. It is the responsibility of the CREST member concerned to take (or, if the CREST member is a CREST personal member or sponsored member or has appointed a voting service provider(s), to procure that his CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) take(s)) such action as shall be necessary to ensure that a message is transmitted by means of the CREST system by any particular time. In this connection, CREST sponsors or voting service providers are referred, in particular, to those sections of the CREST manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST system and timings.
The Company may treat as invalid a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in Article 33 of the Companies (Uncerticated Securities) (Jersey) Order 1999.
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A copy of the Notice of the Meeting, is available from the Company's website, www.hendersonfareastincome.com
As at 3 November 2022 (being the last practicable date prior to the publication of this Notice) the Company's issued share capital comprised 155,323,564 ordinary shares of no par value. Each ordinary share carries the right to one vote at a general meeting of the Company and, therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company was 155,323,564.
The Company's ordinary shares are also listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange so that New Zealand members can trade their shares more easily and, in addition, receive dividends in New Zealand Dollars. A New Zealand shareholder may transfer shares to the Auckland register by contacting the Registrars in New Zealand, Computershare Investor Services Limited.
Members should be wary of unsolicited telephone calls or correspondence concerning the Company and oering investment advice, oers to buy shares at a discount or free company reports.
It is extremely unlikely that Henderson Far East Income Limited, its Manager (Janus Henderson) its Administrator (BNP Paribas Securities Services S.C.A. Jersey Branch) or its Registrar (Computershare Investor Services (Jersey) Limited) would make unsolicited telephone calls to members. In the event that the Company or its advisers did make unsolicited calls, members would never be asked to conrm their personal details and such calls would relate only to ocial documentation already circulated to members and never be in respect of oering investment advice, or unpublished investment or nancial information regarding the Company.
If you are in any doubt about the veracity of an unsolicited phone call, please call Janus Henderson Investors at the telephone number provided in the back of the annual report.
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