Prudential PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2015

Apr 14, 2015

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RNS Number : 1877K

Prudential PLC

14 April 2015

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1.   Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:

Prudential plc

2.   Reason for the notification:

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

3.   Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:

The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

4.   Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):         

See answer to Question 9

5.   Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:

10 April 2015

6.   Date on which issuer notified:

13 April 2015

7.   Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:  

Below 9%

8.   Details notified:

8A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type of shares	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights
Direct	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
Ordinary 5p (GB0007099541)	231,504,333	231,504,333			231,216,827		8.955%
ADRs (US74435K2042)	307,885	615,770			616,524		0.024%

8B: Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction:

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

8C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments 

Type of financial instrument	Expiration date	Exercise/ Conversion Period/ Date	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the Instrument is exercised/ converted	% of voting rights
Nominal	Delta
n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Total (A+B+C):

Number of voting rights	% of voting rights
230,833,351	8.979%

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

The Capital Group Companies, Inc. (CG) holdings	Number of Shares	Percent of Outstanding
Holdings by CG Management Companies and Funds:	230,833,351	8.979%
Capital Guardian Trust Company	15,435,688	0.600%
Capital International Limited	773,400	0.030%
Capital International  Sarl	647,600	0.025%
Capital International, Inc.	366,049	0.014%
Capital Research and Management Company             EuroPacific Growth Fund	213,610,614	8.309%

Proxy Voting:

10.  Name of the proxy holder:    

n/a

11.  Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:          

n/a

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

n/a

13.  Additional information:         

n/a

Prudential plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc. a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America.

Contact name for enquiries    

Matthew Buckland, Group Secretariat, 020 7548 3320

Company official responsible for making notification

Alan F. Porter, Group Company Secretary

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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