Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 4365Y

Aberdeen Smaller Co's High Inc Tst

08 September 2015

 

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES (i)

1.      Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:  (ii)

Aberdeen Smaller Companies High Income Trust plc

2.      Reason for the notification (please state Yes/No):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights: Yes

An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached: No

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments: No

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights: No

Other (please specify): No

3.      Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: (iii)

Rathbone Brothers Plc

4.      Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3): (iv)

Rathbone Brothers Plc

Rathbone Investment Management Ltd

Rathbones Unit Trust Management Ltd

5.      Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: (v)

3 September 2015

6.      Date on which issuer notified:

7 September 2015

7.      Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: (vi, vii)

5%

8.      Notified details:

A:     Voting rights attached to shares (viii, ix)

Situation previous to the Triggering transaction:
Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Number of shares	Number of voting rights
GB0008063728	n/a	n/a

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (vii)

Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights (x)
GB0008063728	Direct n/a	Direct n/a	Indirect (xi) 1,134,034	Direct n/a	Indirect 5.13%

B:     Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Expiration Date (xiii)	Exercise/ Conversion Period/ Date (xiv)	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights
n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

C:     Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments (xv, xvi)

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion period	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights (xix, xx)
n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Nominal	Delta
					n/a	n/a

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights 1,134,034

% of voting rights 5.13%

9.      Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Rathbone Brothers Plc*

Rathbone Investment Management Ltd                    3.23%

Rathbones Unit Trust Management Ltd                    1.90%

*  Rathbone Brothers Plc is the holding company of the following.

Proxy Voting:

10.    Name of the proxy holder:

N/A

11.    Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

N/A

12.    Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

         N/A

13.    Additional information:

Total Voting Rights used as demominator: 22,109,765

14.    Contact name:

Valerie MacKenzie, Aberdeen Asset Management Ltd

15.    Contact telephone number:

0131 528 4136

 

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