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| TIDM | AJOT |
| Share Price | GBX 161.500.00% |
| Market Cap | £400.32m |
AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC held its Annual General Meeting on 5 May 2026, where all 15 proposed resolutions were duly passed. Shareholders approved a final ordinary dividend of 0.60p per Ordinary Share and re-elected Mr Norman Crighton, Ms Margaret Stephens, Mr Andrew Rose, and Mr Tom Yoritaka as directors. The company also re-appointed BDO LLP as auditor and authorized directors to allot securities up to £442,146 and make market purchases of up to 33,138,901 shares.
| Date | 5 May 2026 |
| Time | 14:56:11 |
| Category | AGMs and other meetings |
| ID | 1060D |
AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting
LEI: 894500IJ5QQD7FPT3J73
5 May 2026
The Board of AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all Resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 11.30 a.m. on Tuesday, 5 May 2026, were duly passed. Voting on all resolutions was conducted by a poll.
The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 12 March 2026, which has previously been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and is available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.ajot.co.uk/ajot-agm/.
For completeness, results of the poll, including proxy votes for each Resolution, were as follows:
|
Resolutions |
Votes For |
Votes Against |
Total Votes |
Votes Withheld |
||
|
Resolution 1 To receive the strategic report, directors' report and audited accounts of the Company |
79,190,624 |
99.88% |
94,620 |
0.12% |
79,285,244 |
24,493 |
|
Resolution 2 To approve a final ordinary dividend of 0.60p per Ordinary Share |
79,260,768 |
99.97% |
26,479 |
0.03% |
79,287,247 |
22,490 |
|
Resolution 3 To re-elect Mr Norman Crighton as a Director of the Company |
77,547,149 |
97.87% |
1,685,842 |
2.13% |
79,232,991 |
76,746 |
|
Resolution 4 To re-elect Ms Margaret Stephens as a Director of the Company |
77,589,079 |
97.93% |
1,643,912 |
2.07% |
79,232,991 |
76,746 |
|
Resolution 5 To re-elect Mr Andrew Rose as a Director of the Company |
77,557,128 |
97.88% |
1,675,863 |
2.12% |
79,232,991 |
76,746 |
|
Resolution 6 To re-elect Mr Tom Yoritaka as a Director of the Company |
76,374,493 |
96.45% |
2,807,724 |
3.55% |
79,182,217 |
127,520 |
|
Resolution 7 To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor of the Company |
79,049,762 |
99.73% |
212,393 |
0.27% |
79,262,155 |
47,582 |
|
Resolution 8 To authorise the Directors to determine the Auditor's remuneration |
79,157,418 |
99.84% |
127,826 |
0.16% |
79,285,244 |
24,493 |
|
Resolution 9 To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report |
78,939,076 |
99.58% |
331,112 |
0.42% |
79,270,188 |
39,549 |
|
Resolution 10 To authorise the Directors to allot securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £442,146. |
79,138,796 |
99.84% |
123,021 |
0.16% |
79,261,817 |
47,920 |
|
Resolution 11* To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to an aggregate nominal value of £221,073. |
78,971,659 |
99.65% |
276,371 |
0.35% |
79,248,030 |
61,707 |
|
Resolution 12* To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to a further aggregate nominal value of £221,073. |
78,882,765 |
99.57% |
337,693 |
0.43% |
79,220,458 |
89,279 |
|
Resolution 13* To authorise the Directors to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company up to an aggregate number of 33,138,901 shares |
79,174,607 |
99.86% |
114,939 |
0.14% |
79,289,546 |
20,191 |
|
Resolution 14* To cancel share premium account of the Company |
79,151,736 |
99.93% |
55,185 |
0.07% |
79,206,921 |
102,816 |
|
Resolution 15* To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice |
79,021,979 |
99.67% |
260,469 |
0.33% |
79,282,448 |
27,289 |
*Special resolutions
Enquiries:
|
Joe Bauernfreund |
020 7659 4800 |
|
Sara Stebbing |
0333 300 1932 |
Notes:
1. Any proxy appointments giving discretion to the Chair of the meeting have been included in the "For" total.
2. A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.
3. The Company's total ordinary shares in issue (total voting rights) as at 30 April 2026 was 222,398,394 ordinary shares. Ordinary shareholders are entitled to one vote per ordinary share held.
4. A copy of this announcement will be available on the Company's website and, in accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.13, copies of resolutions 10 to 15 will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
5. Terms used and not defined in this announcement bear the meaning given to them in the Notice of Meeting.
6. Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.