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HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUND LIMITED

HENDERSON ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES TRUST PLC

25 January 2017

HENDERSON ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES TRUST PLC

Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday 25 January 2017

Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust plc announces that, at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands. This included four Special Resolutions authorising:

- the allotment of ordinary shares for cash on a non pre-emptive basis up to a nominal value of £537,203 (equivalent to 5% of the issued ordinary share capital at today's date);

- market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares up to a maximum of 14.99% of the issued ordinary share capital (equivalent to 6,442,142 ordinary shares as at today's date) at the maximum price per share (exclusive of expenses) not exceeding the higher of: i) 105% of the average middle market quotations for the five business days preceding the date of purchase; and ii) the higher of the last independent bid and the highest current independent bid on the London Stock Exchange;

- Pursuant to the terms of the Tender Offer, make market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares up to a maximum of 10% of the issued ordinary share capital as at close of business on 27 January 2017 (equivalent to 4,297,626 ordinary shares as at today's date) at the Tender price which shall be both the minimum price and the maximum price; and

- That a General Meeting other than an Annual General Meeting may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice.

The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting, which is available for viewing at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

For further information please contact:

Ian Barrass James de Sausmarez

Fund Manager Director and Head of Investment Trusts

Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust plc Henderson Global Investors

Telephone: 020 7818 2964 Telephone: 020 7818 3349

James de Bunsen

Fund Manager

Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust plc

Telephone: 020 7818 3869