Aurora Investment Trust plc has received the following notification
of a major interest in its shares.
TR-1(i): NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares
to which voting rights are attached (ii):
Aurora Investment 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: ( )
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights: (YES )
Other (please specify) : ()
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation
(iii):
Brewin Dolphin Securities Limited
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.) (iv):
.......
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is
crossed or reached if different) (v):
29th November 2007
6. Date on which issuer notified:
30th November 2007
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
11%
8. Notified details:
.......
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares if possible Situation previous to the Triggering
using the ISIN CODE transaction (vi)
Number of shares Number of voting
Ordinary 1,750,068 Rights (viii)
GB0000633262 1,750,068
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (vii)
Class/type of shares if Number of Number of voting % of voting rights
possible using the ISIN shares rights (ix)
CODE
Ordinary Direct Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
GB0000633262 (x) (xi)
N/a N/a 10.9068%
N/a 1,562,096
B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (xii)
Type of Expiration Exercise/Conversion Number of voting % of
financial Date (xiii) Period/ Date (xiv) rights that may be voting
instrument acquired if the rights
instrument is
exercised/
converted.
Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights % of voting rights
1,562,096 10.9068%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights
and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable
(xv):
Indirect - Brewin Nominees (Channel Islands) Limited 40,000 shares
0.2793%
Indirect - Brewin Nominees Limited 17,580 Shares 0.1228%
Indirect - Giltspur Nominees Limited 1,135,586 shares 7.9288%
Indirect - BDS Nominees Limited 368,930 shares 2.5759%
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
.......
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
.......
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:
.......
13. Additional information:
Figures based on shares in Issue of 14.322,250
The indirect voting rights under (9) relate to shares held in client
portfolios, managed by those firms, under discretionary investment
management agreements.
14. Contact name:
Lee Jemmerson ASI
15. Contact telephone number:
0191 279 7334
C: Additional information :
Name of person making this announcement on behalf of Aurora
Investment Trust plc.
Mr John Luetchford
Tel: 020 7490 4355
.......
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