Link Real Estate Investment Trust : Poll Results of the 2017 AGM held on 26 July 2017

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POLL RESULTS OF THE 2017 AGM HELD ON 26 JULY 2017

The Board of the Manager announces that all the Ordinary Resolutions proposed at the 2017 AGM held today (26 July 2017) were duly passed by way of poll.

Reference is made to the circular dated 27 June 2017 of Link Real Estate Investment Trust (the Circular). Unless otherwise defined, terms used in this announcement have the same meanings as ascribed to them in the Circular.

The Board of the Manager announces that, except for agenda items no. 1 and no. 2 set out in the 2017 AGM Notice dated 27 June 2017 which do not require voting by the Unitholders, the poll results of the Ordinary Resolutions proposed at the 2017 AGM held on 26 July 2017 are as follows:

Ordinary Resolutions		Number of votes (%)#
		For	Against
3.1	To re-elect Ms May Siew Boi TAN (Ms May TAN) as an independent non-executive Director.	1,429,512,098 (99.549918)	6,463,070 (0.450082)
3.2	To re-elect Ms Nancy TSE Sau Ling (Ms Nancy TSE) as an independent non-executive Director.	1,431,181,368 (99.664412)	4,819,050 (0.335588)
3.3	To re-elect Ms Elaine Carole YOUNG (Ms Elaine YOUNG) as an independent non-executive Director.	1,435,032,010 (99.927705)	1,038,200 (0.072295)
4.	To grant to the Manager the Buy-back Mandate.	1,433,819,754 (99.953372)	668,879 (0.046628)

# All percentages are rounded to 6 decimal places

Based on the above poll results, as more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of each of the proposed Ordinary Resolutions no. 3.1, no. 3.2, no. 3.3 and no. 4 set out in the 2017 AGM Notice, all of them were duly passed as Ordinary Resolutions by the Unitholders.

Ms May TAN, Ms Nancy TSE and Ms Elaine YOUNG (all being Unitholders) had each abstained from voting on the proposed Ordinary Resolution regarding her own re-election as an independent non-executive Director. Save as disclosed, no other Unitholders were required to abstain from voting nor were they subject to any voting restrictions at the 2017 AGM.

As at the date of the 2017 AGM, 2,214,563,472 Units were in issue entitling holders to vote for or against each of the proposed Ordinary Resolutions.

Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the unit registrar of Link, was appointed as the scrutineer and scrutinised the poll at the 2017 AGM.

Based on the poll results, the Trustee (being HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Asia) Limited), in its capacity as the sole member of the Manager, re-elected each of Ms May TAN, Ms Nancy TSE and Ms Elaine YOUNG as a Director on 26 July 2017 upon the conclusion of the 2017 AGM.

By order of the board of directors of

Link Asset Management Limited (as manager of Link Real Estate Investment Trust) Ricky CHAN Ming Tak

Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 26 July 2017

As at the date of this announcement, the Board of the Manager comprises: Chairman (also an Independent Non-Executive Director)

Nicholas Charles ALLEN

Executive Directors

George Kwok Lung HONGCHOY (Chief Executive Officer)

Andy CHEUNG Lee Ming (Chief Financial Officer)

Non-Executive Director

Ian Keith GRIFFITHS

Independent Non-Executive Directors

William CHAN Chak Cheung Ed CHAN Yiu Cheong

Blair Chilton PICKERELL Poh Lee TAN

May Siew Boi TAN Peter TSE Pak Wing Nancy TSE Sau Ling David Charles WATT Elaine Carole YOUNG