Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 8158W

Man Group plc

03 February 2012

 



The major interest holding disclosed in the TR-1 form below primarily relates to shares beneficially held by the Man Group plc Employee Benefit Trust, of which RBC are the Trustees.

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

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

Man Group plc

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		x
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	Royal Bank of Canada
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):	RBC Trust Company (Jersey) Limited RBC Trustees (CI) Limited RBC cees Trustee Limited The Regent Trust Company Limited
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:	13 December 2011
6. Date on which issuer notified:	03 February 2012
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	3%

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of  voting rights
			Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
ISIN GB00B28KQ186			55,870,187		55,870,187		3.07%
Ord USD0.03428571

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion Period	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
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
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
55,870,633	3.07%

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

RBC Trustees (Channel Islands) Limited, RBC Trust Company (Jersey) Limited, RBC cees Trustee Limited and The Regent Trust Company Limited are all wholly owned subsidiaries of the Royal Bank of Canada.

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:	Calculated on issued share capital of 1,820,489,840
14. Contact name:	Rachel Rowson
15. Contact telephone number:	020 7144 1732

 

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