Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8756O

Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Tst PLC

04 October 2019

 

HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED

THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800NE2NCQ67M2M998

4 October 2019

THE HENDERSON SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

Annual General Meeting held on Friday 4 October 2019

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 2019 Annual General 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: [phone]

Johana Woodruff

Henderson Secretarial Services Ltd

Secretary to The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc

Telephone: [phone]

Laura Thomas

Investment Trust PR Manager

Janus Henderson Investors

Tel: [phone]  

 

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