Ashoka WhiteOak Emerging Markets Trust Plc - Result of AGM

Ashoka WhiteOak Emerging Markets Trust Plc - Result of AGM

PR Newswire

LONDON, United Kingdom, September 08

8 September 2026

ASHOKA WHITEOAK EMERGING MARKETS TRUST PLC (the "Company")

Result of 2026 Annual General Meeting (the "AGM")

Ashoka WhiteOak Emerging Markets Trust plc announces that at the Company's 2026 AGM held today, all resolutions were passed by way of a poll and the results of the poll are set out below.

Resolutions 1 to 8 (inclusive) were proposed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 9 to 11 (inclusive) were proposed as special resolutions.

Resolution		Votes For*	%	Votes Against	%	Total votes validly cast	Total votes cast as % of issued share capital	Vote Withheld **
1	Receive and adopt the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the period ended 31 March 2026	26,509,162	100.00	0	0.00	26,509,162	62.95	0
2	Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	26,507,715	99.99	1,447	0.01	26,509,162	62.95	0
3	Appointment of external auditor	26,472,535	99.86	36,627	0.14	26,509,162	62.95	0
4	Authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration	26,505,229	99.99	3,933	0.01	26,509,162	62.95	0
5	Re-elect Martin Shenfield as a Director	26,509,162	100.00	0	0.00	26,509,162	62.95	0
6	Re-elect Howard Pearce as a Director	26,504,804	99.98	4,358	0.02	26,509,162	62.95	0
7	Re-elect Tanit Curry as a Director	26,509,162	100.00	0	0.00	26,509,162	62.95	0
8	To authorise the allotment of Ordinary shares	26,509,162	100.00	0	0.00	26,509,162	62.95	0
9	To authorise the disapplication of statutory pre-emption rights	26,095,366	99.95	13,046	0.05	26,108,412	62.00	400,750
10	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own Ordinary shares	26,509,162	100.00	0	0.00	26,509,162	62.95	0
11	That a general meeting (other than an Annual General Meeting) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	26,487,896	99.93	19,819	0.07	26,507,715	62.95	1,447

* Includes discretionary votes

** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.

For further information, please contact:

Company Secretary [e-mail]	[phone]
Ashoka WhiteOak Capital Pte. Ltd Prashant Khemka Hiren Dasani Fadrique Balmaseda Ben Hayward	Via Burson Buchanan
Marex Mark Thompson	[phone]
Burson Buchanan
Henry Harrison-Topham Henry Wilson	[phone] [e-mail]

LEI: 254900Z4X5Y7NTODRI75

Notes:

Every shareholder has one vote for every Ordinary Share held. As at 6.00 p.m. (UK time) on 4 September 2026, the share capital of the Company consisted of 42,110,751 Ordinary Shares with voting rights. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury.

In accordance with UKLR 6.4.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.

AboutAshoka WhiteOak Emerging Markets Trust plc

Ashoka WhiteOak Emerging Markets Trust plc (AWEMT) is a UK investment trust seeking to achieve long-term capital appreciation primarily through investing in a multi-cap portfolio of equities that provide exposure to global emerging markets. Advised by White Oak Capital Pte. Ltd, founded by Prashant Khemka with leading Emerging Markets investment experience. White Oak Capital Group has delivered an exceptional track record for its other strategies, and has £5.97 billion in assets under management or advisory 1 . Analytical approach integral to disciplined research process underpinned by proprietary frameworks OpcoFinco for valuation and ABLEx for ESG research. The team at WhiteOak believes that emerging markets present potential for higher alpha. EM markets remain under-researched and inefficient. AWEM leverages WhiteOak's investment approach to capture the higher alpha potential in these markets. No fixed management fee. Manager remuneration is aligned with alpha generation and hence shareholders' interest. The Investment Manager is remunerated as a function of outperformance of the benchmark.

1 Data as at 31 July 2026. AUM data refers to aggregate assets under management or investment advisory for WhiteOak Group.