M&G Equity Investment Trust P.L.C.
Nick Evans
Fund manager: Nick Evans
Products available: ISA
The company's principle investment objectives are to provide its Package unitholders with an above average rate of capital appreciation and income growth with increasing dividends each year.
Nick joined M&G in May 2006 and is a UK equity income fund manager.
In 1982, Nick joined British Steel Pension Fund as an investment analyst. He moved to Morgan Grenfell Investment Management in 1985 and assumed responsibility for the management of the UK pension funds in 1998. The following year, Deutsche Asset Management acquired Morgan Grenfell and Nick was appointed managing director of equities at Deutsche Asset Management in 2002. In this position, Nick managed the equity component of the UK pension funds, as well as the CAF Charity Fund and the DWS Blue Chip Fund.
Nick graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, with a BA Honours in modern history.
Results of Separate General Meetings and Annual General Meeting held on 9 October 2008
M&G Equity Investment Trust P.L.C. announces that at its Separate General Meetings and Annual General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed and the results of the voting are as follows:
Separate General Meeting of the holders of Zero Dividend Preference Shares:
| Special Resolution | Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | |
| Renewal of authority for purchase of own shares | 18,679,943 | 268,478 | 615,264 |
Separate General Meeting of the holders of Income Shares:
| Special Resolution | Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | |
| Renewal of authority for purchase of own shares | 8,443,495 | 265,427 | 556,373 |
Separate General Meeting of the holders of Capital Shares:
| Special Resolution | Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | |
| Renewal of authority for purchase of own shares | 14,307,456 | 264,382 | 621,892 |
Annual General Meeting:
| Ordinary Business | Votes For | Votes Against | Abstentions | |
| 1. | To receive the Directors’ Report and the Financial Statements | 34,381,574 | 136,886 | 414,994 |
| 2. | To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report | 32,050,525 | 1,732,080 | 1,150,849 |
| 3. | To re-elect Mr J C Barclay as a director | 33,585,198 | 630,130 | 718,126 |
| 4. | To re-elect Mr A Kaye as a director | 33,282,744 | 1,010,444 | 640,266 |
| 5. | To elect Mr A Robson as a director | 33,707,758 | 506,364 | 719,332 |
| 6. | To re-elect Mr E L Rosengarten as a director | 33,489,584 | 775,320 | 668,550 |
| 7. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor and to authorise Directors to determine their remuneration | 34,033,532 | 457,590 | 442,332 |
| Special Buisness | ||||
| 8. | Renewal of authority to allot relevant securities | 33,309,352 | 900,158 | 723,944 |
| 9. | Renewal of authority for purchase of own shares | 33,943,728 | 426,658 | 563,068 |
| 10. | Amendments to Articles of Association | 32,651,742 | 970,208 | 1,311,504 |
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