M&G High Income Investment Trust P.L.C.
Nick Evans
Fund manager: Nick Evans
Products available: ISA
The investment objective of M&G High Income Investment Trust P.L.C. is to achieve an above average and increasing income over the 20 year life of the Company while at the same time seeking to achieve growth.
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.
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Results of Extraordinary General Meeting held on 21 October 2008
M&G High Income Investment Trust P.L.C. announces that at its Extraordinary General Meeting held earlier today, both resolutions were duly passed and the results of the voting are as follows:
| . | Special Business | For | Against | Withheld |
| 1. | To approve the Proposals and to authorise the Directors to allot securities and disapply pre-emption rights pursuant to the Proposals. | 29,304,102 | 560,920 | 248,768 |
| 2. | To authorise the Directors to allot shares other than for the purposes of the Proposals under Section 80 of the Companies Act 1985 and to disapply pre-emption rights under Section 89(1) of the Companies Act 1985. | 28,916,442 | 862,652 | 334,696 |
Results of Separate General Meetings and Annual General Meeting held on 5 September 2008
M&G High Income 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:
Seperate General meeting of the holders of Zero Dividend Preference Shares
| Special Resolution | For | Against | Abstentions |
| Renewal of authority for purchase of own shares | 2,275,943 | 12,000 | 60,691 |
Seperate General meeting of the holders of Income Shares
| Special Resolution | For | Against | Abstentions |
| Renewal of authority for purchase of own shares | 6,238,261 | 42,843 | 22,678 |
Seperate General meeting of the holders of Capital Shares
| Special Resolution | For | Against | Abstentions |
| Renewal of authority for purchase of own shares | 2,487,838 | 48,742 | 18,029 |
Annual General Meeting
| Ordinary Business | For | Against | Abstentions | |
| 1. | To receive the Directors' Report and the Financial Statements | 11,207,669 | 0 | 222,882 |
| 2. | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 10,793,527 | 364,418 | 272,606 |
| 3. | To re-elect Mr F C Carr as a Director | 11,155,233 | 76,250 | 199,068 |
| 4. | To re-elect Mr D P Jane as a Director | 10,986,105 | 229,930 | 214,516 |
| 5. | To re-elect Mr A E Martin Smith as a Director | 11,175,795 | 58,250 | 196,506 |
| 6. | To re-elect Mr G A J Murray as a Director | 11,059,417 | 155,750 | 215,384 |
| 7. | To re-appoint PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor and to authorise the Directors to determine their remuneration | 11,163,297 | 113,750 | 153,504 |
| Special Business | . | . | . | |
| 8. | Renewal of authority to allot relevant securities | 10,799,497 | 424,056 | 206,998 |
| 9. | Renewal of authority for purchase of own shares | 11,140,271 | 142,654 | 147,626 |
| 10. | Amendments to Articles of Association | 10,940,441 | 310,122 | 179,988 |