Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc. Announces Results Of Annual Meeting Of Shareholders

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") (NYSE American: AEF) held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") on February 21, 2019. At the Meeting, shareholders of the Fund voted to re-elect two Class II Directors to the Board of Directors.

As of the record date, December 31, 2018, there were 59,782,149 outstanding shares of the Fund.  88.92% 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 re-elect two Class II Directors to the Board of Directors:

Directors whose term of office continued beyond the Meeting are as follows: James Cattano, Nancy Yao Maasbach, Rahn Porter and Steven Rappaport.

Aberdeen Standard Investments is a brand of the investment businesses of Standard Life Aberdeen plc, its affiliates and subsidiaries. In the United States, Aberdeen Standard Investments is the marketing name for the following affiliated, registered investment advisers:  Aberdeen Standard Investments Inc., Aberdeen Asset Managers Ltd., Aberdeen Standard Investments Australia Ltd., Aberdeen Standard Investments (Asia) Ltd., Aberdeen Capital Management, LLC, Aberdeen Standard Investments ETFs Advisors LLC and Standard Life Investments (Corporate Funds) Ltd.

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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