BlackRock North American Income Trust
plc (LEI: 549300WWOCXSC241W468)
29 July 2021
Results of General Meeting
Following the General Meeting which was held today, the Board of
BlackRock North American Income Trust plc is pleased to announce
that the ordinary resolution set out below put to shareholders was
passed on a poll.
Further to the passing of this resolution at the General
Meeting, the Company will also be changing its name to BlackRock
Sustainable American Income Trust plc and its ticker to “BRSA”.
These changes to the Company name and ticker are expected to become
effective on or around 30 July 2021
and a further announcement confirming the effective date of these
changes will be released.
ORDINARY RESOLUTION
Resolution 1 - THAT, the Company adopts the proposed changes to
its investment objective and investment policy, as set out in the
Circular to Shareholders dated 29 June
2021.
The proxy voting result in relation to Resolution 1 was as
follows:
|
Votes
For |
% |
Votes
Against |
% |
% of Available Voting
Rights* |
Votes
Withheld |
Resolution 1 |
18,000,265 |
99.4 |
108,859 |
0.6 |
22.57 |
9,684 |
*Available voting rights equals 80,229,044
A vote withheld is not a vote in law and were not counted in the
calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against the
resolutions.
Under Listing Rule 9.6.2 a copy of the resolution has been
submitted to the National Storage Mechanism, and will shortly be
made available for inspection at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Enquiries:
BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited: C Driscoll - 020
7743 2427