AJ Bell PLC

Director's Dealing • Mar 16, 2020

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RNS Number : 3254G

AJ Bell PLC

16 March 2020

AJ Bell plc

("AJ Bell", the "Company")

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

The Company announces that it has been notified that the PDMRs who are named in column (1) of the below table exercised nominal cost options under the Company's Executive Incentive Plan (EIP) on 13 March 2020 to acquire the number of Ordinary Shares set alongside their respective names in column (2) of the below table.

(1)	(2)
PDMR	Number of Ordinary Shares acquired
Andy Bell	143,202
Michael Summersgill	54,450

Following completion of the exercise of the above EIP options, the PDMRs who are named in column (1) of the below table is interested in the number of Ordinary Shares in the Company and percentage of the Company's issued share capital set alongside their respective names in columns (2) and (3) of the below table.

(1)	(2)	(3)
PDMR	Number of shares in which interested	% of issued share capital
Andy Bell	98,481,297	24.01
Michael Summersgill	1,905,250	0.46

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide further details.

ENQUIRIES

AJ Bell                             

·    Bruce Robinson, Company Secretary                                         +44 (0) 780 234 4859

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

Andrew Bell

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Executive Officer/PDMR

b)

Initial notification /Amendment  

Initial notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

AJ Bell plc

b)

LEI  

213800VNKA7DPWXWJJ36

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 

Identification code

GB00BFZNLB60

b)

Nature of the transaction  

Exercise of EIP options

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
£0.000125	143,202

d)

Aggregated information  

Not applicable, single transaction

Aggregated volume  

Price  

e)

Date of the transaction

13 March 2020 

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

a)

Name

Michael Summersgill

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Financial Officer/PDMR

b)

Initial notification /Amendment  

Initial notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a)

Name

AJ Bell plc

b)

LEI  

213800VNKA7DPWXWJJ36

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 

Identification code

GB00BFZNLB60

b)

Nature of the transaction  

Exercise of EIP options

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)	Volume(s)
£0.000125	54,450

d)

Aggregated information  

Not applicable, single transaction

Aggregated volume  

Price  

e)

Date of the transaction

13 March 2020 

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

Name of officer of issuer responsible for making notification: Bruce Robinson (Company Secretary)

Date of notification: 16 March 2020 

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