Director/PDMR Shareholding

AssetCo PLC

06 November 2023

 

6 November 2023

LEI: 213800LFMHKVNTZ7GV45

For Immediate Release

AssetCo plc

("AssetCo" or the "Company")

Adoption of Restricted Share Plan

The Board of AssetCo (AIM: ASTO), the agile asset and wealth management company, is pleased to confirm that it has put in place a Restricted Share Plan for a limited number of executives, partners and staff in the Group's listed equities business. The Company's previous Annual Bonus and Long-Term Incentive Plan was discontinued as announced on 5 July 2022. 

The Company has awarded rights over up to 5,013,000 ordinary shares of 1p each ("Shares") in the Company (which would represent approximately 3.4 per cent of the voting share capital of the Company on issue) which it expects to satisfy out of Shares currently held in Treasury. Vesting of Shares under the Scheme is due on 1 October 2026 and is subject to usual provisions for malus, clawback and for apportionment or forfeiture in respect of good and bad leavers prior to that date at the discretion of the Board's Remuneration Committee.

500,000 of such Shares have been awarded to Gary Marshall the Group's Chief Finance and Operating Officer and 720,000 of such Shares have been awarded to Alex Hoctor-Duncan, Chief Executive Officer of the Group's listed equities business.  Formal notifications in respect of these two awards, both individuals being PDMRs, are set out below in accordance with the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Company confirms, in accordance with DTR 5.6.1 that, as at 6 November 2023, the Company's issued share capital consists of 149,292,970 Shares of which 6,818,899 are held in Treasury (prior to the issue of any Shares in respect of the Plan detailed above). The total number of voting rights attaching to the Ordinary Shares remains at 142,474,071.

The above figure (142,474,071) can continue to be used by shareholders as the denominator for any calculation pursuant to which they determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company's Shares under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

For further information, please contact:

AssetCo plc Gary Marshall, CFOO Peter McKellar, Deputy Chairman Tel: [phone]	Deutsche Numis Nominated adviser and joint broker Giles Rolls / Charles Farquhar Tel: [phone]
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited Joint broker Atholl Tweedie Tel: [phone]	H/Advisors Maitland Neil Bennett Rachel Cohen Tel: [phone]

For further details, visit the website, www.assetco.com

Ticker: AIM: ASTO.L

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
a)	Names	(1)  Gary Marshall (2)  Alex Hoctor-Duncan
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	PDMR
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	AssetCo plc
b)	LEI	213800LFMHKVNTZ7GV45
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument	Ordinary shares of £0.01 each
	Identification code	GB00BQ2K3557
b)	Nature of the transaction	Awards under a Restricted Share Plan vesting, subject to conditions, on 1 October 2026
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)
			Price(s)	Volume(s)
			Nil	(1)  500,000 (2)  720,000
d)	Aggregated information
	- Aggregated volume	(1) 500,000 (2) 720,000
	- Price	£Nil
e)	Date of the transaction	3 November 2023
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

 

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