BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust Plc - Result of AGM

PR Newswire

London, May 19

BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust plc
(LEI: UK9OG5Q0CYUDFGRX4151)

Results of AGM

BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust plc announces that, at the Annual General Meeting held today, all 14 resolutions were duly passed on a poll.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021, which has previously been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and is available for inspection at:

https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism


The results of the poll were as follows:


Votes
For & Discretionary



%


Votes
Against



%


Votes Total
% of Available voting rights*

Votes
Withheld
Resolution 1       16,177,772 99.92 12,883 0.08 16,190,655 41.24          13,439
Resolution 2       16,114,167 99.63 59,221 0.37 16,173,388 41.20           30,706
Resolution 3       16,166,542 99.99 2,121 0.01 16,168,663 41.18           35,431
Resolution 4       13,816,636 85.39 2,363,530 14.61 16,180,166 41.21           23,928
Resolution 5       12,732,813 79.37 3,309,708 20.63 16,042,521 40.86         161,573
Resolution 6       13,686,631 84.60 2,492,180 15.40 16,178,811 41.21           25,283
Resolution 7       15,986,329 98.93 172,165 1.07 16,158,494 41.16           45,600
Resolution 8       16,022,875 99.08 148,127 0.92 16,171,002 41.19           33,092
Resolution 9       16,133,501 99.86 21,989 0.14 16,155,490 41.15           48,604
Resolution 10       16,164,218 99.91 15,053 0.09 16,179,271 41.21           24,823
Resolution 11       16,188,113 99.97 4,210 0.03 16,192,323 41.24           11,771
Resolution 12       16,164,555 99.85 24,757 0.15 16,189,312 41.24           14,782
Resolution 13       16,140,762 99.76 39,386 0.24 16,180,148 41.21           23,946
Resolution 14       16,160,903 99.81 30,238 0.19 16,191,141 41.24           12,953

*Available Voting Rights (excl. Treasury) equals 39,259,620

The Board notes the support from shareholders for the majority of the resolutions but acknowledges the minority votes against resolution 5 (the re-election of Craig Cleland). The Board takes the views of its shareholders seriously and intends to engage with shareholders to better understand their concerns with a view to identifying how such concerns can be addressed. The Board will provide an update on the results of this engagement and actions taken in due course.

Date:  19 May 2022