Purchase of own shares

RNS Number : 0310J

Ashmore Group PLC

27 November 2008

Ashmore Group plc

0700 - 27 November 2008

Purchase of own shares

Ashmore Group plc (“Ashmore”) announces that on 26 November 2008 it purchased 186,611 ordinary shares of 0.01p each at an average price of 115.5421 pence per ordinary share. These shares will be held as treasury shares.

The highest price paid was 114 pence per share and the lowest price paid was 117 pence per share.

Following these purchases, Ashmore holds 3,675, 436 ordinary shares as treasury shares and has 705,249,564 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares). Ashmore shareholders should use 705,249,564 as the denominator to determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in Ashmore under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.