PHILADELPHIA, March 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Aberdeen
Emerging Markets Smaller Company Opportunities Fund, Inc. (the
"Fund") (NYSE MKT: ABE) held its Annual Meeting of
Shareholders (the "Meeting") on March
24, 2016. At the Meeting, shareholders of the Fund
voted to re-elect two Class III Directors to the Board of
Directors.
As of the record date, February 5,
2016, there were 9,706,478 outstanding shares of the
Fund. 86.7% of the outstanding shares were voted at the
Meeting representing a quorum.
The description of the proposal and number of shares voted at
the Meeting are as follows:
To elect two Class III Directors to the Board of Directors:
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Votes For
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Votes
Against
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Abstain
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Enrique R.
Arzac
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7,284,858
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1,069,446
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56,523
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James J.
Cattano
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7,428,079
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926,553
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56,195
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Directors whose term of office continued beyond the Meeting are
as follows: Martin M. Torino,
Steven N. Rappaport and Alexander Zagoreos.
Closed-end funds are traded on the secondary market through one
of the stock exchanges. The Fund's investment return and principal
value will fluctuate so that an investor's shares may be worth more
or less than the original cost. Shares of closed-end funds may
trade above (a premium) or below (a discount) the net asset value
(NAV) of the fund's portfolio. There is no assurance that the Fund
will achieve its investment objective.
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