Purchase of own shares

RNS Number : 3290J

Ashmore Group PLC

02 December 2008

Ashmore Group plc

0700 - 02 December 2008

Purchase of own shares

Ashmore Group plc ('Ashmore') announces that on 1 December 2008 it purchased 354,520 ordinary shares of 0.01p each at an average price of 113.0239 pence per ordinary share. These shares will be held as treasury shares.

The highest price paid was 117 pence per share and the lowest price paid was 108.3 pence per share.

Following these purchases, Ashmore holds 4,263,659 ordinary shares as treasury shares and has 704,661,341 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). Ashmore shareholders should use 704,661,341 as the denominator to determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in Ashmore under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.