Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus PLC (the "Company")

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 5493000FBZP1J92OQY70

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

1 December 2020

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 1 December 2020, all resolutions proposed to the Meeting were passed on a show of hands.

In relation to Resolution 14 (authority to disapply pre-emption rights), 10.0 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 3,173,471 Ordinary shares as at today's date. In relation to Resolution 15 (authority to purchase shares for cancellation or treasury), 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 4,757,033 Ordinary shares as at today's date.

The total number of proxy votes lodged was as follows:

	Resolution	For	% For	Against	% Against	Discre- tionary	Votes For and Discretionary	Total Votes	Withheld
01	Report & Financial statements	17,504,975	99.99%	1,358	0.01%	1,088	17,506,063	17,507,421	3,134
02	Remuneration Report	17,440,574	99.85%	25,912	0.15%	1,088	17,441,662	17,467,574	42,981
03	Remuneration Policy	17,427,031	99.78%	37,646	0.22%	1,088	17,428,119	17,465,765	44,790
04	Final Dividend	17,508,268	99.99%	80	0.00%	1,088	17,509,356	17,509,436	1,120
05	Special Dividend	17,505,376	99.98%	2,972	0.02%	1,088	17,506,464	17,509,436	1,120
06	Mr N.K. Cayzer	9,858,904	94.64%	557,300	5.35%	1,088	9,859,992	10,417,292	7,093,262
08	Viscount Dunluce	17,439,814	99.77%	39,481	0.23%	1,088	17,440,902	17,480,383	30,172
09	Ms C. Black	17,456,322	99.86%	22,871	0.13%	1,088	17,457,410	17,480,281	30,274
10	Ms D. Guthrie	17,471,738	99.94%	9,693	0.06%	1,088	17,472,826	17,482,519	28,036
11	Mr K. Shanmuganathan	17,459,440	99.89%	17,300	0.10%	1,088	17,460,528	17,477,828	32,727
12	Appoint Auditors	17,461,366	99.83%	28,167	0.16%	1,088	17,462,454	17,490,621	19,233
13	Allot Shares	17,443,974	99.71%	50,388	0.29%	1,088	17,445,062	17,495,450	14,537
14	Pre-emption Rights	17,458,312	99.80%	34,321	0.20%	1,088	17,459,400	17,493,721	13,402
15	Purchase Own Shares	17,491,832	99.92%	13,064	0.07%	1,088	17,492,920	17,505,984	4,003
16	Short Notice GM's	17,460,172	99.83%	29,331	0.17%	1,088	17,461,260	17,490,591	19,964

Note: *Resolution 7 was withdrawn further to the announcement on 27 November 2020.

PASSING OF RESOLUTIONS UNDER SPECIAL BUSINESS

A copy of the resolutions passed under special business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism*.

*Neither the NSM website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the NSM website (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

For Aberdeen Asset Management PLC - Secretaries

1 December 2020