17th Sep 2014 07:00
17 September 2014
Aberdeen Private Equity Fund Limited
Results of Annual General Meeting
The Board of Aberdeen Private Equity Fund Limited announces that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held yesterday, 16 September 2014, all resolutions put to the meeting were approved by shareholders on a show of hands.
Details of the proxy votes lodged are set out below:
Ordinary Resolutions | For* | Against | Withheld** |
1. To receive and adopt the Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2014 | 71,181,588 | 18,695,076 | - |
2. To receive and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Report | 89,848,649 | 28,015 | - |
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy | 89,847,649 | 28,015 | 1,000 |
4. To approve the payment of a dividend of 2.0 pence per share | 89,839,983 | 36,681 | - |
5. To re-elect Mr D Copperwaite as a Director | 89,875,664 | 1,000 | - |
6. To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers CI LLP as Auditors to the Company | 71,171,060 | 18,705,604 | - |
Special Resolutions | - | ||
7. To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company | 89,834,983 | 41,681 | - |
8. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares | 89,839,983 | 36,681 | - |
The Board of Aberdeen Private Equity Fund Limited confirms the retirement of Jonathan Carr at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting held yesterday and the appointment of Howard Myles from thereon, as previously announced on 25 November 2013.
The full text of the resolutions may be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting contained in the Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2014, copies of which are available on both the Company's website www.aberdeenprivateequity.co.uk and on the National Storage Mechanism www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM***
A copy of the Special Resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM***
* Includes discretionary votes received
** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the proportion of votes 'for' or 'against' a resolution
*** 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:
Company Secretary and Administrator
Ipes (Guernsey) Limited
Nicholas Robilliard
01481 713843
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