Perpetual Limited — Major Shareholding Notification 2017

Jan 8, 2017

HENDERSON GROUP PLC

06 January 2017

Attached is a notification which was required to be announced under London Stock Exchange Listing Rules

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached:	1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached:	Henderson Group PLC	Henderson Group PLC
2 Reason for the notification(please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights			X
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in theacquisitionofshares alreadyissued towhich votingrights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifyingfinancial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (pleasespecify):
3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation:	Perpetual Limited and Subsidiaries
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached:	04 January 2017
6. Date on which issuer notified:	06 January 2017
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached:	From 13.63% to 14.63%

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of	Situation previous	Situation previous	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction	Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
shares	to the triggering
	transaction
if possible using	Number	Number	Number	Number of voting		% of voting rights
the ISIN CODE	of	of	of shares	rights
	Shares	VotingRights	Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
AU000000HGG2	154,242,263	154,242,263	165,604,501	165,604,501		14.63%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial	Expiration	Exercise/	Number of voting	% of voting
instrument	date	Conversion Period	rights that may be	rights
			acquired if the
			instrument is
			exercised/ converted.

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial	Exercise	Expiration	Exercise/	Number of voting rights	% of voting	rights
instrument	price	date	Conversion	instrument refers to
			period
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
165,604,501	14.63%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Perpetual Investments: Voting Rights: 165,604,501; percentage held: 14.63%

Proxy Voting: 10. Name of the proxy holder: 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information: Angel Place, 123 Pitt Street GPO BOX 4171 Sydney NSW 2001 AUSTRALIA 14. Contact name: Glenda Charles – Deputy Company Secretary 15. Contact telephone number: +61 2 9229 9134