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Sunlight Real Estate Investment Trust

(a Hong Kong collective investment scheme authorized under section 104 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance

(Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong))

(Stock Code : 435)

Managed by

Henderson Sunlight Asset Management Limited 恒基陽光資產管理有限公司

POLL RESULTS OF THE 2018 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

HELD ON 31 OCTOBER 2018

AND

CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF BOARD COMMITTEES

At the AGM held on 31 October 2018, each of the Resolutions approving the grant of a general mandate to buy back units in Sunlight REIT and the re-appointments of two INEDs of the Manager was duly passed by way of poll.

The Board of the Manager also announces that Mr. KWOK Tun Ho, Chester has been appointed as a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee, while Mr. KWAN Kai Cheong and Dr. TSE Kwok Sang have been appointed as members of the Disclosures Committee. Each of the appointment will become effective from 1 November 2018.

Poll results of the 2018 annual general meeting held on 31 October 2018

Reference is made to the notice of annual general meeting dated 20 September 2018 issued to unitholders in respect of the 2018 annual general meeting of Sunlight Real Estate Investment Trust ("Sunlight REIT") held on 31 October 2018 at 10:00 a.m. (the "AGM").

At the AGM, each of the proposed ordinary resolutions (the "Resolutions") in relation to the grant of a general mandate to buy back units in Sunlight REIT and the re-appointments of two independent non-executive directors ("INEDs") of Henderson Sunlight Asset Management Limited, the manager of Sunlight REIT (the "Manager"), was decided on a poll.

At the date of the AGM, the total number of units entitling unitholders to attend and vote for or against the Resolutions was 1,647,795,077 (representing all units in issue at the date of the AGM). There was no restriction on unitholders in exercising their votes on any of the Resolutions at the AGM.

The poll at the AGM was scrutinized by the unit registrar of Sunlight REIT, Tricor Investor Services Limited. The poll results in respect of the Resolutions are as follows:

Description of the Resolutions

Number of votes (%)

For

Against

1.

To approve the grant of a general mandate in relation to the buy-back of units in Sunlight REIT.

1,068,715,232 (approximately 99.999%)

14,100 (approximately 0.001%)

2.

To re-appoint the following INEDs of the Manager:

(a)Mr. KWAN Kai Cheong

731,979,758 (approximately 68.476%)

336,978,574 (approximately 31.524%)

(b)Dr. TSE Kwok Sang

1,067,016,959 (approximately 99.818%)

1,941,373 (approximately 0.182%)

As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of each of the Resolutions, all the Resolutions were duly passed as ordinary resolutions.

Changes in the composition of board committees

In anticipation of the retirement of Mr. MA Kwong Wing from his position as INED of the Manager and member of certain board committees of the Manager upon the expiration of his term on 20 December 2018, the board of directors (the "Board") of the Manager announces the following changes in the composition of board committees which will become effective from 1 November 2018:

  • (a) Mr. KWOK Tun Ho, Chester, an INED of the Manager, has been appointed as a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee of the Manager (the "Remuneration and Nomination Committee"); and

  • (b) Mr. KWAN Kai Cheong and Dr. TSE Kwok Sang, both of them being INEDs of the Manager, have been appointed as members of the Disclosures Committee of the Manager (the "Disclosures Committee").

Following the above appointments, the composition of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee and the Disclosures Committee will be as follows:

Remuneration and Nomination Committee

Mr. AU Siu Kee, Alexander (Chairman) Mr. KWAN Kai Cheong

Mr. MA Kwong Wing

Mr. KWOK Tun Ho, Chester

Disclosures Committee

Mr. WU Shiu Kee, Keith (Chairman) Mr. MA Kwong Wing

Mr. KWAN Kai Cheong Dr. TSE Kwok Sang

The Board of the Manager confirms that the composition of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee and the Disclosures Committee continues to comply with the Manager's corporate governance policy as set out in the compliance manual.

The composition of the Investment Committee and the Audit Committee of the Manager remains unchanged.

By order of the Board

HENDERSON SUNLIGHT ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED 恒基陽光資產管理有限公司

(as manager of Sunlight Real Estate Investment Trust)

CHUNG Siu Wah

Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 31 October 2018

At the date of this announcement, the Board of the Manager comprises : (1) Chairman and Non-executive Director : Mr. AU Siu Kee, Alexander; (2) Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director : Mr. WU Shiu Kee, Keith; (3) Non-executive Director : Mr. KWOK Ping Ho; and (4) Independent Non-executive Directors: Mr. KWAN Kai Cheong, Mr. MA Kwong Wing, Dr. TSE Kwok Sang and Mr. KWOK Tun Ho, Chester.

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