Result of AGM

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

THE CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

1 November 2018

THE CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Annual General Meeting held on 1 November 2018

The City of London 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 £8,971,496 (equivalent to 10% 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 53,793,094 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;

- market purchases of the preferred stock of the Company; 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, copies of which are available for viewing at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

For further information please contact:

Rachel Peat

For and on behalf of Henderson Secretarial Services Limited

The City of London Investment Trust plc

Tel: 020 7818 6125

Laura Thomas

Investment Trust PR Manager

Janus Henderson Investors

Tel: 020 7818 2636