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Smithson Inv.Trust - Result of AGM

Monday, 30 March 2020, 15:53 By Fundsmith

RNS Number : 1013I

Smithson Investment Trust PLC

30 March 2020

Results of AGM - 30^thMarch 2020

Smithson Investment Trust plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put forward at its First Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed.

The text of all the resolutions is contained in the notice of meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.

As contemplated in the letter to shareholders on 26 March 2020, the votes were conducted on a show of hands with the chairperson of the meeting casting their vote in accordance with the proxy votes held by them as set out below.

The proxy votes received were as follows:-

Resolution	In Favour / Discretionary Total votes Percentage		Against Total votes Percentage		Withheld
1	32,669,170	100	0	0	2,305
2	32,640,708	99.94	18,618	0.06	12,159
3	32,641,629	99.95	17,697	0.05	12,159
4	32,132,830	98.39	524,977	1.61	13,678
5	32,654,321	99.99	3,686	0.01	13,478
6	32,645,681	99.97	9,976	0.03	15,828
7	32,655,878	99.97	8,452	0.03	7,155
8	32,661,915	99.98	5,865	0.02	3,705
9	32,663,265	99.98	5,715	0.02	2,505
10	32,073,291	98.18	594,795	1.82	3,399
11	32,652,530	99.97	10,556	0.03	8,399
12	32,648,230	99.94	19,856	0.06	3,399
13	32,072,381	98.18	595,795	1.82	3,399
14	32,651,590	99.95	16,496	0.05	3,399
15	26,553,280	81.29	6,111,505	18.71	6,699
16	32,658,466	99.98	7,770	0.02	5,249
17	32,087,636	98.22	581,544	1.78	2,305

On the record date for voting at the meeting, the Company's issued ordinary share capital comprised 118,515,958 ordinary shares and this was the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in the Company.

Copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

The Company's LEI is: 52990070BDK2OKX5TH79.

30 March 2020

Enquiries

PraxisIFM Fund Services (UK) Limited

Company Secretary

Contact Guy Dixon or Martin Darragh

020 7653 9690

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