Unitholders endorse Board’s strategy - support resolutions to remove hedge funds Unitholders in the LinQ Resources Fund (ASX:LRF), Australia’s leading specialist managed resources fund, today approved the two resolutions providing an exit mechanism for two hedge funds from the Fund’s register. Even excluding any votes cast by the two hedge funds on resolutions 1 and 2, these resolutions would have been passed. The Managing Director of LinQ Capital Limited as the Responsible Entity for the LinQ Resources Fund, Mr Clive Donner, thanked unitholders for their support. “We are pleased to have once again received the continued support from unitholders. The Board firmly believes that providing the mechanism to exit the hedge funds from the register is in the best interests of all unitholders.” “The Fund has been performing exceptionally well, illustrated by the recently announced 142 per cent increase in unaudited net profit to $116.89 million for the half year to 31 December 2007. The Board is focused on continuing to deliver medium to longer term value creation for unitholders and we appreciate their ongoing support.” The details of the voting were as follows:
Resolution 1: Resolution 1 – Approval of acquisition by LinQ Resources Fund No 2 of Weiss Units 59,951,089 - For 57,683,464 - Against
Resolution 2 – Approval of acquisition by LinQ Resources Fund No 2 of Remaining Carrousel Units 92,161,527 - For 59,145,621 - Against
Resolution 3 – Facility Permitting Redemption of LinQ Resources Fund No 2’s Units 128,766,707 - For 58,850,395 - Against
On the basis of the above votes, resolutions 1 and 2 were passed. Special resolution 3 was not passed as a majority of 75% was required. This does not affect resolutions 1 and 2.
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