Aberdeen Asset Management PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding (9798J)

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RNS Number : 9798J

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

15 September 2016

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial 
       responsibilities / person closely associated 
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 a)   Name 
                                   MARTIN GILBERT 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
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 a)   Position/status            CHIEF EXECUTIVE 
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 b)   Initial notification       INITIAL NOTIFICATION 
       /Amendment 
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 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance 
       market participant, auction platform, auctioneer 
       or auction monitor 
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 a)   Name                       ABERDEEN ASSET MANAGEMENT 
                                  PLC 
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 b)   LEI                        213800QH7HBN5INYL257 
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 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 
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 a)   Description of 
       the financial               ORDINARY SHARES GBP0.10 
       instrument, type 
       of instrument               GB0000031285 
 
       Identification 
       code 
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 b)   Nature of the              DEFERRED SHARE EXERCISE AND 
       transaction                SALE 
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 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)       Price(s)    Volume(s) 
                                   ----------  ----------- 
 
                                     GBP3.25     1,631,343 
                                   ----------  ----------- 
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 d)   Aggregated information 
 
       - Aggregated volume         N/A 
 
       - Price 
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 e)   Date of the transaction    2016-09-15 
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 f)   Place of the transaction   LONDON 
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Additional Information:

Mr Gilbert has sold awards made as part of the Company's variable pay awards in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Following this transaction, Mr Gilbert holds a total of 183,865 ordinary shares, representing 0.01% of the Company's issued share capital. He also has an unconditional entitlement to a further 542,222 ordinary shares in respect of awards made as part of the Company's variable pay awards in 2012, 2013 and 2014 which have reached their earliest vesting dates. Mr Gilbert's aggregate unconditional interest in the Company's shares is therefore 726,087 shares (0.05%).

Mr Gilbert also has a conditional interest in 1,996,442 (0.15%), ordinary shares which will vest over the period to December 2020.

Mr Gilbert's aggregate conditional and unconditional shares total 2,722,529 ordinary shares.

This information is provided by RNS

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