Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7652V

Polar Capital Holdings PLC

01 February 2017

1 February 2017

Polar Capital Holdings plc ("Polar Capital" or the "Company")

Notification of Transactions of Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities

The Company was notified on 31 January 2017 that Mr Brian Ashford-Russell, a Non-executive Director of Polar Capital, sold 200,000 ordinary shares of 2.5p each ("Ordinary Shares") from his personal holding at 374.75p per share. Following this transaction Mr Ashford-Russell is interested in a total of 6,075,000 Ordinary Shares representing approximately 6.65% of the Company's issued share capital.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Brian Ashford-Russell
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Non-executive Director
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial Notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Polar Capital Holdings plc
b)	LEI	N/A
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument	Ordinary Shares of 2.5p each

	Identification code	GB00B1GCLT25

b)	Nature of the transaction	Sale of Ordinary Shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)
			Price(s)	Volume(s)
			374.75 pence	200,000

d)	Aggregated information	Single transaction as in 4 c) above

	- Aggregated volume	200,000

	- Price	374.75 pence Total Amount: £749,500

e)	Date of the transaction	31-01-2017
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM, XLON