Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0715D

Standard Life plc

10 May 2012

Standard Life plc

("the Company")

Notification of Interests of an Executive Director and another Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility

The Company granted options ("awards") to Norman Keith Skeoch and Nathan Richard Parnaby under the Standard Life Long Term Incentive Plan (2009). These awards vested on 20 April 2012. No consideration was payable on the vesting of these awards. During the vesting period the awards carried a right to receive dividend equivalents, to the extent that the awards vested. The dividend equivalents were delivered as additional shares. Norman Keith Skeoch and Nathan Richard Parnaby have exercised their vested awards as below:

	Norman Keith Skeoch	Nathan Richard Parnaby
Date of Exercise	09/05/12	09/05/12
Date of Notification	09/05/12	09/05/12
Shares Vested (including dividend equivalents)	260,130	144,037
Shares Sold to Cover Tax Liability	0	75,087
Sale Price	n/a	£2.0536
Shares Acquired	260,130	68,950
Percentage of Issued Shares Acquired	0.0110%	0.0029%
Total Holding Following Exercise, including Connected Persons	949,012	246,481
Percentage of Issued Shares after Acquisition	0.0403%	0.0105%