The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Board of The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed on a show of hands. 

The text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting contained in the Company’s Annual Report for the year to 31 March 2020. The proxy votes lodged with the Registrar will shortly be available via the Company’s website at: ww.edinburghinvestmenttrust.com

The proxy votes received were as follows: -

Resolution In favour/Discretion Percentage
In favour		 Against Percentage
Against		 Withheld
1 57,261,999 99.98 11,471 0.02 6,964
2 56,924,042 99.55 256,532 0.45 99,860
3 57,255,286 99.98 12,382 0.02 12,766
4 57,022,440 99.76 134,634 0.24 123,360
5 57,037,104 99.80 112,855 0.20 130,475
6 57,081,122 99.82 105,629 0.18 93,683
7 56,787,729 99.35 372,154 0.65 120,550
8 57,030,273 99.77 128,781 0.23 121,380
9 57,114,562 99.87 74,588 0.13 91,284
10 57,058,013 99.66 193,318 0.34 29,103
11 57,163,696 99.90 57,533 0.10 59,205
12 57,120,390 99.76 138,047 0.24 21,997
13 56,947,774 99.54 262,514 0.46 70,146
14 56,864,007 99.61 225,684 0.39 14,981
15 56,313,340 98.34 949,031 1.66 18,063
16 49,672,983 93.54 3,430,516 6.46 4,176,934

At the time of the above meeting, the Company’s issued share capital consisted of 195,666,734 Ordinary Shares. The Company held 21,498,805 shares in treasury.  Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights was 174,167,929. Each Ordinary Share held entitles the holder to one vote and there are no restrictions on those voting rights. A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the % of shares voted "For" or "Against" a resolution.

In accordance with LR 9.6.2 and LR 9.6.3, copies of the resolutions passed as special business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism website and will be available for inspection at the https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism shortly.

23 July 2020

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