JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK
LIMITED
HENDERSON OPPORTUNITIES TRUST
PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER:
2138005D884NPGHFQS77
7 March 2024
HENDERSON OPPORTUNITIES TRUST
PLC
Annual General Meeting held
on Thursday 7 March 2024
Henderson Opportunities Trust plc
announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all
resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll.
The poll results received in
relation to each resolution were as follows:
|
Resolution
|
Votes for
(including at Chairman's discretion)
|
%
|
Votes
Against
|
%
|
Total
Votes Cast (excluding votes withheld)
|
Total
Votes Cast (excluding votes withheld) as a percentage of total
voting rights
|
Votes
Withheld
|
1
|
Annual Report and audited financial
statements
|
1,814,246
|
99.73
|
4,901
|
0.27
|
1,819,147
|
23.03
|
1,612
|
2
|
Approve a final dividend of 13.0p
per share
|
1,807,901
|
99.74
|
4,739
|
0.26
|
1,812,640
|
22.95
|
8,119
|
3
|
Directors' Remuneration
Report
|
1,788,874
|
98.90
|
19,838
|
1.10
|
1,808,712
|
22.90
|
12,047
|
4
|
To re-appoint Wendy Colquhoun as a
Director
|
1,721,647
|
95.05
|
89,749
|
4.95
|
1,811,396
|
22.93
|
9,363
|
5
|
To re-appoint Davina Curling as a
Director
|
1,719,257
|
94.91
|
92,139
|
5.09
|
1,811,396
|
22.93
|
9,363
|
6
|
To re-appoint Frances Daley as a
Director
|
1,722,417
|
95.09
|
88,979
|
4.91
|
1,811,396
|
22.93
|
9,363
|
7
|
To re-appoint Harry Morgan as a
Director
|
1,726,147
|
95.29
|
85,249
|
4.71
|
1,811,396
|
22.93
|
9,363
|
8
|
Re-appoint BDO LLP as statutory
auditors
|
1,804,562
|
99.67
|
6,057
|
0.33
|
1,810,619
|
22.92
|
10,140
|
9
|
Authorise Directors to determine the
remuneration of the statutory auditor
|
1,800,323
|
99.52
|
8,723
|
0.48
|
1,809,046
|
22.90
|
11,713
|
10
|
Increase the maximum aggregate
annual remuneration payable to Directors to £165,000 per
annum
|
1,694,537
|
93.70
|
114,022
|
6.30
|
1,808,046
|
22.90
|
12,200
|
11
|
Ordinary shares of 25 pence each to
be sub-divided into five ordinary shares of 5 pence each
|
1,730,178
|
95.19
|
87,346
|
4.81
|
1,817,524
|
23.01
|
3,235
|
12
|
Authority to allot relevant
securities
|
1,726,618
|
95.11
|
88,787
|
4.89
|
1,815,405
|
22.98
|
5,354
|
13
|
*Authority to disapply pre-emption
rights
|
1,710,886
|
94.63
|
96,993
|
5.37
|
1,807,879
|
22.89
|
12,880
|
14
|
*Authority to repurchase ordinary
shares
|
1,803,803
|
99.21
|
14,340
|
0.79
|
1,818,143
|
23.02
|
2,616
|
15
|
*14 days' notice for a General
Meeting
|
1,809,711
|
99.58
|
7,577
|
0.42
|
1,817,288
|
23.01
|
3,471
|
* Special resolution
The full text of all the resolutions
can be found in the Notice of Meeting which is available on the
National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") website. A copy of the
special business resolutions will be submitted to the NSM and will
shortly be available for inspection on the NSM website
at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
The number of ordinary shares in
issue at the date of this announcement is 8,000,858, of which
102,483 ordinary shares are held in treasury. As at the date
of this announcement the Company's total voting rights therefore
comprises 7,898,375 shares with one vote each.
For the purposes of section 341 of
the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the
table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as
at the close of business on 7 March 2024 (7,898,375), being the
time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of
members in order to attend and vote at the AGM. A vote
"withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote
"for" or "against" a resolution.
The Company instructs J.P. Morgan
Securities plc to act as its broker in respect of its market purchase transactions. The Company may
utilise the authority to purchase shares by either a single
purchase or a series of purchases when market conditions allow when
they are trading at a discount to the underlying net asset value
per share, with the aim of maximising the benefit to shareholders.
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 arrangement is in accordance with
Chapter 12 of the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rules and
the Company's general authority to repurchase shares.
A copy of the poll results will
shortly be available on the Company's website at:
www.hendersonopportunitiestrust.com
For further information, please
contact:
James Henderson
Fund Manager
Henderson Opportunities Trust
plc
Telephone: 020 7818 4370
|
|
Laura Foll
Fund Manager
Henderson Opportunities Trust
plc
Telephone: 020 7818
6364
|
Dan Howe
Head of Investment Trusts
Janus Henderson Investors
Telephone: 020 7818 4458
|
|
Harriet Hall
PR Director, Investment
Trusts
Janus Henderson Investors
Telephone: 020 7818
2919
|
Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents
of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website
(or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this
announcement.