Result of AGM

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

HENDERSON ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES TRUST PLC

LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800J6LLOCA3CUDF69

25 July 2019

HENDERSON ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES TRUST PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 25 July 2019

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 three Special Resolutions authorising:

- the allotment of ordinary shares for cash on a non-pre-emptive basis up to a nominal value of £483,480 (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 5,797,927 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

- 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:

Laura Thomas James de Sausmarez

Investment Trust PR Manager Director and Head of Investment Trusts

Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust plc Janus Henderson Investors

Telephone: 020 7818 2636 Telephone: 020 7818 3349