Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 4505D

Ashmore Group PLC

28 March 2014

 

Ashmore Group plc ("Ashmore" or the "Company")

London. 28^th March 2014

Notifications  Pursuant to DTR 3 and DTR 5

Ashmore Group plc ("Ashmore", the "Company") has received notification on 28th March 2014 from its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Mark Coombs, that on 28th  March 2014 he gifted 3,000,000 ordinary shares (0.42%) of 0.01p each in the capital of the Company to charity for nil consideration. 

As a result of this gift, Mr Coombs' interest in the share capital of Ashmore is reduced to 289,630,540 shares (40.94 per cent of the issued capital¹) and the number of shares to which voting rights attach are 288,574,200 (40.79%)².

For further information please contact:

Ashmore Group plc

Paul Measday

Investor Relations [phone]

FTI Consulting - PR to Ashmore Group plc

Andrew Walton      [phone]

Paul Marriott          [phone]

[1] Based upon 707,372,473 shares in issue at the date of this notification.    

[2] . Mr Coombs interest in shares prior to the event triggering this notification was 292,630,540 shares (41.37%). The share interests described include an indirect holding of 1,056,340 shares constituting share awards under the Ashmore Executive Omnibus Incentive Plan (subject to the satisfaction of relevant performance conditions for vesting) which have no voting rights attaching to them until such point that they vest.  

 

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