Company: HQL
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-034659
Chunk: 5

Company: abrdn Life Sciences Investors
Filing Date: 2025-04-14
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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 purposes, but will not be treated as votes cast. Abstentions and broker non-votes, therefore, will have no effect on the election of the Trustees. All properly executed proxies received prior to the Meetings will be voted, at the Meetings or at any adjournments or postponements thereof, in accordance with the instructions marked thereon. Proxies received prior to the Meetings on which no vote is indicated will be voted "FOR" the election of the Trustees.

Brokers holding shares of a Fund in "street name" for the benefit of their customers and clients will request the instructions of such customers and clients on how to vote their shares before the Meetings. Under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"), such brokers may, for certain "routine" matters, grant discretionary authority to the proxies designated by a Board to vote if no instructions have been received from their customers and clients prior to the date specified in the brokers' request for voting instructions. Each Proposal is a "routine" matter and accordingly beneficial owners who do not provide proxy instructions or who do not return a proxy card may have their shares voted by broker-dealer firms in favor of the Proposal.

The chair of a Meeting shall have the power to adjourn the Meeting without further notice other than announcement at that Meeting. Each Board of Trustees also has the power to postpone a Meeting to a later date and/or time or change the place of a Meeting (including by specifying that the Meeting will be held by remote communication) one or more times for any reason by giving, within a reasonable period of time prior to such Meeting, notice to each shareholder entitled to vote at such Meeting of the place (including that the Meeting will be held by remote communication), date and hour at which such Meeting will be held. Such notice shall be given not fewer than two (2) days before the date of such Meeting and otherwise in accordance with each Fund's By-Laws. No notice of adjournment of a Meeting to another time or place need be given to shareholders. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have the same effect at any adjourned or postponed meeting as noted above. Any business that might have been transacted at a Meeting may be transacted at any such adjourned or postponed session(s) at which a quorum is present.

We will admit to each Meeting (1) all shareholders of record on April 7, 2025 (the "Record Date"), (2) persons holding proof of beneficial ownership on the Record Date, such as a letter or