AGM Information • Jul 8, 2021
AGM Information
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8 July 2021
Result of Annual General Meeting
The Board of Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC (the "Company") announces that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 8 July 2021, all of the following resolutions were passed by the requisite majority.
Resolutions 1 – 12 were passed on a poll. A breakdown of results is shown below.
| Resolution | Votes for (including votes at the discretion of the Chairman) |
% | Votes Against |
% | Total Votes Cast |
% of Issued Share Capital Voted |
Votes Withheld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary Resolutions | |||||||
| 1. To receive and adopt the Directors' and Auditor's Reports and financial statements for the year ended 31 March |
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| 2021. | 137,491,542 | 99.97% | 41,521 | 0.03% | 137,533,063 | 58.22 | 17,484 |
| 2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 March 2021. |
137,304,281 | 99.88% | 164,585 | 0.12% | 137,468,866 | 58.19 | 81,681 |
| 3. To declare a final dividend of 14.00 pence per share for the year ended 31 March 2021. |
137,494,266 | 99.97% | 35,649 | 0.03% | 137,529,915 | 58.21 | 20,632 |
| 4.1 To re-elect Paul Manduca as a Director. |
137,388,114 | 99.91% | 117,053 | 0.09% | 137,505,167 | 58.20 | 45,380 |
| 4.2 To re-elect Beatrice Hollond as a Director. |
137,464,889 | 99.97% | 48,040 | 0.03% | 137,512,929 | 58.21 | 37,618 |
| 4.3 To re-elect Charlie Ricketts as a Director. |
137,419,057 | 99.93% | 93,449 | 0.07% | 137,512,506 | 58.21 | 38,041 |
| 4.4 To re-elect David Graham as a Director. |
137,074,056 | 99.69% | 432,148 | 0.31% | 137,506,204 | 58.20 | 44,343 |
| Resolution | Votes for (including votes at the discretion of the Chairman) |
% | Votes Against |
% | Total Votes Cast |
% of Issued Share Capital Voted |
Votes Withheld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5 To re-elect Simon | |||||||
| Jeffreys as a Director. | 136,698,716 | 99.42% | 797,537 | 0.58% | 137,496,253 | 58.20 | 54,294 |
| 4.6 To elect Magdalene Miller as a Director |
137,454,782 | 99.96% | 50,247 | 0.04% | 137,505,029 | 58.20 | 45,518 |
| 5. To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor of the Company, to act until the conclusion of the next general meeting of the Company at which audited accounts are laid |
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| before the members. | 137,217,519 | 99.79% | 294,826 | 0.21% | 137,512,345 | 58.21 | 38,202 |
| 6. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's |
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| remuneration. | 137,333,346 | 99.95% | 70,395 | 0.05% | 137,403,741 | 58.16 | 23,118 |
| Special Business | |||||||
| Ordinary Resolution | |||||||
| 7. To authorise the Directors to allot shares. |
137,319,673 | 99.94% | 81,961 | 0.06% | 137,401,634 | 58.16 | 25,225 |
| Special Resolution 8. To disapply pre emption rights in relation to the allotment of shares |
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| by the Directors. | 137,301,099 | 99.84% | 215,547 | 0.16% | 137,516,646 | 58.21 | 33,901 |
| Special Resolution | |||||||
| 9. That the Investment Policy produced to the Meeting and initialled by the Chairman of the Meeting for the purpose of identification be |
137,414,555 | 99.93% | 99,188 | 0.07% | 137,513,743 | 58.21 | 36,804 |
| Resolution | Votes for (including votes at the discretion of the Chairman) |
% | Votes Against |
% | Total Votes Cast |
% of Issued Share Capital Voted |
Votes Withheld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adopted as the new | |||||||
| Investment Policy of the | |||||||
| Company in substitution | |||||||
| for, and to the exclusion | |||||||
| of, the existing | |||||||
| Investment Policy. | |||||||
| Ordinary Resolution | |||||||
| 10. To sub-divide each | |||||||
| of the issued ordinary | |||||||
| shares of 25 pence each | |||||||
| into five ordinary shares | |||||||
| of 5 pence each. | 137,430,525 | 99.94% | 75,742 | 0.06% | 137,506,267 | 58.20 | 44,280 |
| Special Resolution | |||||||
| 11. To authorise the | |||||||
| Company to purchase its | |||||||
| own shares. | 137,385,499 | 99.89% | 150,297 | 0.11% | 137,535,796 | 58.22 | 14,751 |
| Special Resolution | |||||||
| 12. That a general | |||||||
| meeting, other than an | |||||||
| annual general meeting, | |||||||
| may be called on not less | |||||||
| than 14 clear days' | |||||||
| notice. | 136,979,594 | 99.60% | 545,185 | 0.40% | 137,524,779 | 58.21 | 25,768 |
The total number of voting rights at the proxy deadline was 236,245,731.
For further information please e-mail [email protected] or contact Client Dealer Services at Franklin Templeton on free phone 0800 305 306, +44 (0) 20 7073 8690 for overseas investors, or email [email protected].
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