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JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED

THE BANKERS INVESTMENT TRUST PLC


LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800B9YWXL3X1VMZ69


22 February 2024


THE BANKERS INVESTMENT TRUST PLC


Annual General Meeting of the Company

held on Thursday, 22 February 2024


The Bankers Investment Trust PLC announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all

resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll. This included the following resolutions:


As Ordinary Resolutions:


- Resolution 11: to authorise the Directors to allot ordinary shares up to 10% of the issued ordinary

share capital;


As Special Resolutions:


- Resolution 12: to authorise the Directors to allot or to sell from treasury up to 10% of the issued

ordinary share capital without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with

statutory pre-emption procedures;


- Resolution 13: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of the Company’s ordinary

shares up to 14.99% of its issued ordinary share capital excluding treasury shares; and


- Resolution 14: to authorise that a General Meeting other than an Annual General Meeting may be

held on not less than 14 clear days’ notice.


The full text of the resolutions can be found in the circular to shareholders dated 17 January 2024 which

can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.bankersinvestmenttrust.com


The poll results were as follows:


Resolutions

Number of

Votes FOR

(including at

Chair’s

discretion)

% of

votes

FOR

Number

of Votes

AGAINST

% of

votes

AGAINST

Total votes

cast

Votes cast

(excluding

votes

withheld)

as a

percentage

of total

voting

rights

Number

of votes

withheld

1 To receive the

annual report and

the audited

financial

statements for the

year ended

31 October 2023


322,048,609 99.99 47,517 0.01 322,096,126 26.55% 405,820

2 To approve the

Directors’

Remuneration

Report for the

year ended

31 October 2023

319,384,192 99.58 1,351,420 0.42 320,735,612 26.44% 1,766,334

3 To approve the
final dividend of

0.66p per share

322,005,281 99.98 63,084 0.02 322,068,365 26.55% 433,581

4 To re-appoint

Mr Simon Miller

as a Director

320,604,524 99.84 503,699 0.16 321,108,223 26.47% 1,393,723

5 To re-appoint

Ms Hannah Philp

as a Director

320,434,514 99.80 645,509 0.20 321,080,023 26.47% 1,421,923

6 To re-appoint

Ms Charlotte

Valeur

320,369,974 99.79 670,053 0.21 321,040,027 26.46% 1,461,919

7 To re-appoint

Me Richard West

as a Director

320,671,858 99.86 461,669 0.14 321,133,527 26.47% 1,368,419

8 To appoint

Mr Ankush

Nandra as a

Director

320,521,289 99.88 394,515 0.12 320,915,804 26.45% 1,586,142

9 To re-appoint

Ernst & Young

LLP as a statutory

Auditor to the

Company

320,639,367 99.76 778,499 0.24 321,417,866 26.49% 1,084,080

10 To authorise

the Audit and

Risk Assurance

Committee to

determine the

Auditor’s

remuneration

321,076,321 99.83 547,648 0.17 321,623,969 26.51% 877,977

11 To give

Directors

authority to allot

ordinary shares

320,742,332 99.79 677,143 0.21 321,419,475 26.49% 1,082,471

12 To give

Directors

authority to

disapply pre-

emption rights on

allotment or sale

of ordinary

shares*

319,280,524 99.42 1,859,887 0.58 321,140,411 26.47% 1,361,535

13 To give the

Company

authority to make

market purchases

of ordinary shares

in the capital of

the Company*

321,195,422 99.83 534,836 0.17 321,730,258 26.52% 771,688

14 To approve

that a general

meeting may be

called on not less

than 14 clear

days notice*

319,177,057 99.23 2,468,665 0.77 321,645,722 26.51% 856,224


*Special resolution


For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table

above as a percentage of the Company’s total voting rights as at the close of business on 20 February 2024,

being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the

Annual General Meeting. A vote “withheld” is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote “for” or

“against” a resolution.


The number of ordinary shares in issue in the Company at the date of this announcement is

1,315,102,830.


A copy of the poll results will shortly be available on the Company’s website at:

www.bankersinvestmenttrust.com


A copy of the special business resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM")

and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM's website at:

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



The Company also announces that from the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting, Mr Julian

Chillingworth, the Senior Independent Director, retired from the Board.


For further information please contact:


Alex Crooke

Fund Manager

The Bankers Investment Trust PLC

Telephone: 020 7818 4447


Dan Howe

Head of Investment Trusts

Janus Henderson Investors

Telephone: 020 7818 4458


Harriet Hall

Investment Trust PR Director

Janus Henderson Investors

Telephone: 020 7818 2919

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