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78 / OTHER INFORMATION FOR SHAREHOLDERS / THE EDINBURGH INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.
If you are in any doubt as to what action to take, you should
consult your stockbroker, solicitor, accountant or other
appropriate independent professional advisor authorised
under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. If
you have sold or otherwise transferred all your shares in
The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc, please forward this
document and the accompanying Form of Proxy to the
person through whom the sale or transfer was effected, for
transmission to the purchaser or transferee.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Notice is hereby given that the one hundred and thirty fourth
Annual General Meeting of The Edinburgh Investment Trust
plc will be held at The Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh, EH2 2EQ,
at 11am on 17 July 2024.
The 2024 AGM will be held in person and voting will be
on a show of hands. In addition, shareholders may follow
the proceedings virtually using a smartphone, tablet or
computer. Shareholders will be able to view and listen to
a webcast of the 2024 AGM and submit questions to the
Directors in writing. Those following proceedings virtually
will not be able to vote on-line and are encouraged to vote
ahead of the meeting. To join the 2024 AGM virtually, please
visit www.edinburgh-investment-trust.co.uk from your
device. The recording of the 2024 AGM will be available
on the Company’s website as soon as practicable after the
conclusion of the AGM.
Virtual access to the Annual General Meeting will be available
from 10.30 a.m. on 17 July 2024 although you will not be able to
submit questions until the Annual General Meeting is declared
open. If you wish to appoint a proxy and for them to attend
the Annual General Meeting on your behalf, please contact
Link Group on telephone number +44 (0) 371 277 1020*.
*Lines are open from 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Monday to Friday,
calls are charged at the standard geographic rate and will
vary by provider. Calls outside the UK will be charged at the
applicable international rate.
AGM VOTING
Shareholders are encouraged to vote by proxy and to appoint
the “Chair of the Meeting” as their proxy. Details of how to vote,
either electronically, by proxy form or through CREST, can be
found in the Notes to the Notice of AGM on pages 80 and 81.
The results of the AGM will be announced to the London Stock
Exchange and placed on the Company’s website, as soon as
practicable after the conclusion of the AGM.
ORDINARY BUSINESS
To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolutions
all of which will be proposed as Ordinary Resolutions.
1.
To receive and consider the Annual Financial Report for
the year ended 31 March 2024;
2. To approve the Annual Statement and Report on
Remuneration for the year ended 31 March 2024;
3. To declare a final dividend on the ordinary shares;
4. To re-elect Steven Baldwin as a Director of the Company;
5. To re-elect Elisabeth Stheeman as a Director of the
Company;
6. To re-elect Patrick Edwardson as a Director of the
Company;
7.
To re-elect Aidan Lisser as a Director of the Company;
8. To re-elect Annabel Tagoe-Bannerman as a Director of
the Company
9. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors
of the Company; and
10. To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the
remuneration of the auditors.
SPECIAL BUSINESS
To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following
resolutions of which resolution 11 will be proposed as an
Ordinary Resolution and resolutions 12 to 15 as Special
Resolutions:
11. That:
in substitution for any existing authority under section 551
of the Companies Act 2006 (the ‘Act’) but without prejudice
to the exercise of any such authority prior to the date of this
resolution the Directors of the Company be generally and
unconditionally authorised in accordance with section 551 of
the Act as amended from time to time prior to the date of
the passing of this resolution, to exercise all powers of the
Company to allot shares and grant rights to subscribe for, or
convert any securities into, shares up to an aggregate nominal
amount within the meaning of sections 551(3) and (6) of the
Act) of £4,891,668 this being 10% of the Company’s issued
ordinary share capital as at 22 May 2024, such authority to
expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting
of the Company or the date fifteen months after the passing
of this resolution, whichever is the earlier unless the authority
is renewed or revoked at any other general meeting prior to
such time, but so that this authority shall allow the Company
to make offers or agreements before the expiry of this
authority which would or might require shares to be allotted,
or rights to be granted, after such expiry as if the authority
conferred by this resolution had not expired.
