The Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Henderson Investment Funds Limited, with co-management by Henderson Global Investors Limited. It invests in UK public equity markets, primarily in growth stocks of small-cap companies across diversified sectors. The fund uses fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock-picking approach, focusing on management quality, financial structure, balance sheet, cash flow, and earnings. It benchmarks performance against the NUMIS Smaller Companies (ex Investment Companies) Index and was formed on December 16, 1887, domiciled in the United Kingdom.