StatPro Group PLC Director?s interests (7482L)

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RNS Number : 7482L

StatPro Group PLC

23 April 2018

23 April 2018

StatPro Group PLC

Director's interests

StatPro Group plc, (AIM:SOG, "StatPro", "the Company"), the AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analysis and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, announces that Justin Wheatley, CEO increased his beneficial interests on 20 April by acquiring 17,050 shares in his SIPP at 157.5p per share. As a result, Justin Wheatley's beneficial interests in StatPro has increased to 7,480,722 shares representing 11.39% of the Company's share capital. In addition to the above interests, Justin Wheatley has an interest in 264,000 ordinary shares in family trusts, being a trustee and potential beneficiary of the trusts.

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 
 a)   Name                    Justin Wheatley 
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 2    Reason for the notification 
       Purchase of shares in SIPP 
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 a)   Position/status          Justin Wheatley   Director 
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 b)   Initial notification   Initial 
       /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                   StatPro Group PLC 
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 b)   LEI                    213800IQAQ19RDQT9I51 
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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            Ordinary shares of 1p each 
       of the financial 
       instrument, 
       type of instrument     GB0006300213 
 
       Identification 
       code 
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 b)   Nature of the           Purchase of 
       transaction              shares in                         Shares 
                                SIPP Director                  purchased 
                               Justin Wheatley    Director        17,050 
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 c)   Price(s) and             Price(s)   Volume(s) 
       volume(s)                157.5p     17,050 
                                          ---------- 
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 d)   Aggregated 
       information              Price(s)   Volume(s) 
                                157.5p     17,050 
                                          ---------- 
       - Aggregated 
       volume 
 
 
       - Price 
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 e)   Date of the            20 April 2018 
       transaction 
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The above notifications are made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR).

Enquiries:

 
 StatPro Group plc 
 Justin Wheatley, Chief Executive        [phone] 
 Andrew Fabian, Finance Director 
 
 Panmure Gordon - Nomad and Broker 
 Corporate Finance - Freddy Crossley 
  / Fabien Holler                        [phone] 
 Corporate Broking - Tom Salvesen 
  / James Stearns 
 
 Instinctif Partners 
 Adrian Duffield / Chris Birt            [phone] 
 

About StatPro

StatPro is a global provider of award winning portfolio analytics solutions for the investment community. The Group's cloud-based platform provides vital analysis of portfolio performance, attribution, risk and compliance. This multi-asset class analytics platform helps StatPro's clients increase assets under management, improve client service, meet tough regulations and reduce costs.

The Group's integrated and global data coverage includes over 3.2 million securities such as equities, bonds, mutual funds, FX rates, futures, options, OTCs, sector classifications and much else besides. StatPro also covers most families of benchmarks including MSCI, FTSE, Russell, NASDAQ and the open source Freedom Index.

The Group has operations in Europe, North America, South Africa, and Australia, with hundreds of clients in 39 countries around the world.

StatPro has grown its Annualised Recurring Revenue from less than GBP1 million in 1999 to around GBP53 million at the end of December 2017. Over 80% of recurring revenues are generated outside the UK. StatPro Group plc shares are listed on AIM.

This information is provided by RNS

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