Doc re. Compliance with Market Abuse Regulation

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

HENDERSON ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES TRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY INDENTIFIER: 213800J6LLOCA3CUDF69

8 November 2017

Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust plc ("the Company")

Compliance with Market Abuse Regulation

The Company announces that it is satisfied that all inside information which the Directors and the Company may have, in the period leading up to the announcement of the annual results in respect of the financial year ended 30 September 2017, has previously been published or notified via a regulatory information service. Therefore the Company is not prohibited from dealing in its own securities.

If, in the period leading up to the announcement of the annual results, the Directors of the Company come into possession of any inside information, this will be notified to an RIS before any such transactions are undertaken.

For further information please contact:

Ian Barrass James de Sausmarez

Fund Manager Director and Head of Investment Trusts

Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust plc Henderson Investment Funds Limited

Telephone: 020 7818 2964 Telephone: 020 7818 3349