29 June 2012
Directorate Change
Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Rosemary Morgan as a non-executive Director of the Company, effective from 1 July 2012.
Ms Morgan, aged 58, studied Japanese at university in Australia, Japan and the US and worked as a Japanese equity fund manager for 16 years at John Govett before joining the Institutional Client team at Fidelity. She was at RBS from mid 2007 where she managed long only and alternative funds of funds specialising in Japan, the Pacific Basin and Emerging Markets. The team moved to Aberdeen Asset Management in February 2010 and she retired in March 2012. She is a Trustee of the London Library Pension Fund and a Director of the Landau Forte Charitable Trust.
It is confirmed that there are no other details to be disclosed concerning Ms Morgan under Listing Rule 9.6.13 R.
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John Spedding
Schroder Investment Management Limited
Tel: 020 7658 3206