PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asia
Tigers Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") (NYSE: GRR) held its Annual Meeting
of Stockholders (the "Meeting") on September
15, 2017. At the Meeting, stockholders of the Fund
voted to elect three Class I Directors to the Board of Directors,
each to hold office until the 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders,
respectively, or thereafter until his or her successor is elected
and qualified.
As of the record date, July 31,
2017, there were 3,466,783 outstanding shares of the
Fund. 85.90% of outstanding shares were voted at the meeting,
representing a quorum.
The description of the proposal and number of shares voted at
the Meeting are as follows:
To elect three Class I Directors to the Board of Directors:
|
Votes
For
|
Votes
Against
|
Abstain
|
|
Class
I
|
|
|
|
|
Leslie H.
Gelb
|
2,555,788
|
352,404
|
69,805
|
|
Nancy Yao
Maasbach
|
2,535,270
|
414,770
|
27,958
|
|
Luis F.
Rubio
|
2,563,960
|
386,080
|
27,958
|
Directors whose term of office continued beyond the Meeting are
as follows: Jeswald W. Salacuse,
Martin Gilbert and Nisha Kumar.
Closed-end funds are traded on the secondary market through one
of the stock exchanges. The Fund's investment return and principal
value will fluctuate so that an investor's shares may be worth more
or less than the original cost. Shares of closed-end funds may
trade above (a premium) or below (a discount) the net asset value
(NAV) of the fund's portfolio. There is no assurance that the Fund
will achieve its investment objective.
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