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HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED
THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
Legal Entity Identifier: 213800NE2NCQ67M2M998
5 OCTOBER 2017
THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 5 October 2017
The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed 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 £1,867,544 (equivalent to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital at today's date);
- market purchases of the preference stock units of the Company;
- market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares up to a maximum of 14.99% of the issued ordinary share capital (equivalent to 11,197,799 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; and
- 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, copies of which are available for viewing at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.
For further information please contact:
Neil Hermon
Fund Manager
The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc
Telephone: 020 7818 4351
Sarah Gibbons-Cook
Investor Relations and PR Manager
Janus Henderson Investors
Telephone: 020 7818 3198