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Prudential PLC Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2023

Apr 21, 2023

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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Annual General Meeting 2023

Before completing this form, please read the explanatory notes overleaf.

shares
as my/our proxy to exercise all or any of my/our rights to attend, speak and vote for me/us on my/our behalf at the Annual General Meeting
Voting ID Task ID Shareholderreference number
Before completing this form, please read the explanatory notes overleaf.
I/We, being a member of the Company, hereby appoint the Chair of the Meeting OR the following person (see notes 1 and 2 overleaf)
for more information.
shares
as my/our proxy to exercise all or any of my/our rights to attend, speak and vote for me/us on my/our behalf at the Annual General Meeting
of the Company to be held at 10.30am London time (5.30pm Hong Kong/Singapore time) on Thursday, 25 May 2023 at the QEII Centre,
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE, United Kingdom and simultaneously online, via the Lumi Platform and at any adjournment
thereof. I/We have indicated how I/we wish my/our proxy to vote on the following resolutions by marking the appropriate boxes like this
I/We further authorise my/our proxy to vote on any other resolutions that may properly be put to the Annual General Meeting as my/our proxy
thinks fit. If no indication is given, the proxy will vote or abstain at their discretion.
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General Meeting.
Directors' Report and the Auditor's Report;
2 To approve the 2022 Directors' Remuneration Report;
3 To approve the revised Directors' Remuneration Policy;
4 To elect Arijit Basu as a Director;
5 To elect Claudia Suessmuth Dyckerhoff as a Director;
6 To elect Anil Wadhwani as a Director;
1 To receive and consider the 2022 Accounts, Strategic Report, Directors' Remuneration Report, For Against Vote withheld Discretionary Tear along this line P L General Meeting.
7 To re-elect Shriti Vadera as a Director;
8 To re-elect Jeremy Anderson as a Director;
9 To re-elect Chua Sock Koong as a Director;
10 To re-elect David Law as a Director;
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11 To re-elect Ming Lu as a Director;
12 To re-elect George Sartorel as a Director;
13 To re-elect Jeanette Wong as a Director;
14 To re-elect Amy Yip as a Director;
2022 Second Interim Dividend
15 To appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's auditor;
17 To renew the authority to make political donations;
18 To approve the Prudential Sharesave Plan 2023;
19 To approve the Prudential Long Term Incentive Plan 2023;
for Non-Employees (ISSOSNE) and the amended rules;
21 To approve the ISSOSNE Service Provider Sublimit;
23 To approve the Agency LTIP Service Provider Sublimit;
24 To renew the authority to allot ordinary shares;
or specified capital investments;
28 To renew the authority for purchase of own shares;

29 To approve and adopt new Articles of Association; and
Special resolution
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16 To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the amount of the auditor's remuneration;
20 To approve the Prudential International Savings-Related Share Option Scheme
22 To approve the Prudential Agency Long Term Incentive Plan (Agency LTIP);
25 To renew the extension of authority to allot ordinary shares to include repurchased shares;
26 To renew the authority for disapplication of pre-emption rights;
27 To renew the authority for disapplication of pre-emption rights for purposes of acquisitions
30 To renew the authority in respect of notice for general meetings.
M The timetable for the 2022 second
interim dividend is as follows:
15 March 2023
Announcement of 2022 full year audited
results and second interim dividend
23 March 2023
Ordinary shares quoted ex dividend
in Hong Kong, the UK and Singapore
24 March 2023
Record date
15 May 2023
and the UK
22 May 2023 (on or about)
Prudential plc Form of Proxy Please tick here if the appointment being made by this Form of Proxy is one of multiple appointments
being made (for appointment of more than one proxy, please see note 2 overleaf).

Please refer to the notes overleaf for more information. Shareholders who decide not to attend the Annual General Meeting either in person or electronically, should appoint a proxy to cast their votes in respect of the business of the Annual General Meeting.

Signature Date

Prudential plc incorporated and registered in England and Wales with limited liability. Registered number 1397169. Registered office: 1 Angel Court, London EC2R 7AG. Prudential plc is a holding company, some of whose subsidiaries are authorised and regulated, as applicable, by the Hong Kong Insurance Authority and other regulatory authorities. The Group is subject to a group-wide supervisory framework which is regulated by the Hong Kong Insurance Authority.

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, nor with The Prudential Assurance Company Limited, a subsidiary of M&G plc, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom.

23 March 2023 Ordinary shares quoted ex dividend

15 May 2023 Dividend payment date in Hong Kong and the UK

22 May 2023 (on or about) Dividend payment date in Singapore

Annual General Meeting 2023

Voting ID Task ID Shareholderreference number

Shareholder Reference Number

If you wish to attend the Annual General Meeting in person, please bring this Attendance card with you. Please refer to the notes overleaf for more information.

Shareholders can attend the AGM in person or electronically via the Lumi Platform, by logging in at https://web.lumiagm.com/162408543 on the day of the AGM, using their Shareholder Reference Number (as shown above) and PIN, which is the first two and last two digits of their Shareholder Reference Number. For further instructions please see Notice of Annual General Meeting.

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Notes

SAMPLE1 If you wish to vote at the Annual General Meeting but are unable to join either in person or electronically, you may appoint a proxy to exercise all or part of your rights to attend, ask questions and vote on your behalf by completing the Form of Proxy overleaf. If you wish to appoint a proxy other than the Chair of the Meeting, you should delete the words 'the Chair of the Meeting' and enter the name of the proxy into the appropriate space on the Form of Proxy overleaf. If you sign and return the Form of Proxy with no name inserted in the box, the Chair of the Meeting will be deemed to be your proxy. Any alteration made to the Form of Proxy must be initialled by the person who signs it.

2 You may appoint more than one proxy provided that each proxy is appointed in respect of the rights attached to a different share or shares held by you. You may not appoint more than one proxy to exercise rights attached to any one share. To appoint more than one proxy, you may photocopy this Form of Proxy for use or contact our registrars, Equiniti, by calling +44 (0) 371 384 2035 or Computershare Hong Kong on +852 2862 8555 to request further Form(s) of Proxy. Lines for Equiniti are open from 8.30am to 5.30pm (London time), Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays in England and Wales. Please indicate in the box next to the proxy holder's name the number of share(s) in relation to which he/she is entitled to act as your proxy. Please also indicate by ticking the box at the end of the Form of Proxy if the proxy instruction is one of multiple instructions being given. All Forms of proxy must be signed and should be returned together in the same envelope.

3 A proxy need not be a member of the Company. Where you appoint as your proxy someone other than the Chair, you are responsible for ensuring that they attend the Annual General Meeting and are aware of your voting intentions. Appointment of a proxy does not preclude a member from attending the Annual General Meeting and voting in person.

Completion of Form of Proxy

  • 7 The attention of joint holders is directed to the following extract from the Articles of Association of the Company: 'In the case of joint holders of a share, the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders. For this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names of the holders stand in the register.'
  • 8 To appoint a proxy using the Form of Proxy overleaf, the form and any power of attorney or any other authority (or a copy of such authority certified notarially) under which it is signed must be:
  • completed and signed;
  • sent to Equiniti or Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited as appropriate, using the envelope provided; and
  • received by Equiniti, Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, West Sussex, BN99 6GJ no later than 10.30am London time on Tuesday 23 May 2023 or Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, 17M Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong no later than 5.30pm Hong Kong/Singapore time on Tuesday 23 May 2023.

4 If you want your proxy to vote in a certain way on the resolutions specified please place a mark in the relevant boxes. If you select 'Discretionary' or fail to select any of the given options, you will be deemed to have authorised your proxy to vote as they choose or may decide not to vote at all. The proxy can also do this on any additional or amended resolution that is put to the Meeting.

5 The 'Vote withheld' option is provided to and will not be counted in the calculation

  • enable you to abstain on any particular resolution. However it should be noted that a vote withheld is not a vote in law of the proportion of the votes 'For' and 'Against' a resolution.
  • relation to less than your full voting to the proxy holder's name the number of shares in relation to which they are authorised to act as your proxy. If left blank your proxy will be deemed to be authorised in respect of your full voting entitlement (or if this Form of Proxy has been issued in respect of a designated

6 If your proxy is being appointed in entitlement, please enter in the box next account for a shareholder, the full voting entitlement for that designated account).

A corporation is requested to complete the Form of Proxy overleaf either by sealing it or by signing under the hand ofits attorney or duly authorised officer.

9 The Company may process the personal data collected on this form in accordance with its privacy policy, which can be found at https://www.prudentialplc.com/~/ media/Files/P/Prudential-V13/contentpdf/prudential-share-register-privacynotice.pdf

Notice of availability

The Company communicates with UK shareholders by means of our website. The Annual Report and Notice of the Annual General Meeting can be accessed directly on the Company's website at https://www.prudentialplc.com/en/ investors/shareholder-information/ agm/2023

Using website communications will be of benefit to those shareholders who do not wish to be burdened with long documents, and to the Company, as it represents a considerable saving in printing and distribution costs. In addition, reducing unnecessary printing will benefit the environment. If you wish to change your instructions to receive future notifications by email rather than post, you can register at www.shareview.co.uk

Paper copies of shareholder communications can be requested by calling the Company's registrar, Equiniti, on +44 (0) 371 384 2035. Lines are open from 8.30am to 5.30pm (London time), Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays in England and Wales.

Electronic proxy appointment

In those countries where electronic voting is made available, a proxy may also be appointed electronically.

An electronic proxy appointment may be made by logging on to Equiniti's website www.sharevote.co.uk

To appoint a proxy electronically, Shareholders will need their Voting ID, Task ID and shareholder reference number, the three sets of numbers printed at the top of the Form of Proxy. Full details of the procedures are given on the website. Alternatively, if you have already registered with Equiniti's online portfolio service Shareview, you can submit your proxy by logging on to your portfolio at www. shareview.co.uk, using your user ID and password. Once logged in simply click 'View' on the 'My Investments' page, click on the link to vote then follow the on screen instructions

Electronic voting through CREST

If you are a CREST member, you may use the CREST electronic proxy appointment service. The CREST Proxy Instruction must be properly authenticated in accordance with CREST specifications and must contain the information required for such instructions as set out in the CREST manual. The message, regardless of whether it constitutes the appointment of a proxy or an amendment to the instruction given to a previously appointed proxy must, in order to be valid, be transmitted so as to be received by our agent (ID RA19) by the latest time(s) for receipt of proxy appointments.

Institutional Proxy Service

If you are an institutional investor you may be able to appoint a proxy electronically via the Proxymity platform, a process which has been agreed by the Company and approved by the Registrar.

For further information regarding Proxymity, please go to www.proxymity.io. Your proxy must be lodged by 10.30am London time on 23 May 2023 in order to be considered valid. Before you can appoint a proxy via this process you will need to have agreed to Proxymity's associated terms and conditions. It is important that you read these carefully as you will be bound by them and they will govern the electronic appointment of your proxy.

Voting deadline and meeting arrangements

Whichever method you choose, instructions or Form of Proxy must be received by the Company's registrar no later than 10.30am London time (5.30pm Hong Kong/Singapore time) on Tuesday 23 May 2023. Please note that any instruction sent in electronic form found to contain a computer virus will not be accepted.

If you submit more than one valid proxy appointment, the appointment received last before the latest time for the receipt of proxies will take precedence.

Further details are included in the Notice of Annual General Meeting 2023.

This form is for use by shareholders who hold Prudential shares listed on the London or Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.

Please watch the Company's website, regulatory news and other published notifications for any further updates in relation to the Annual General Meeting arrangements.

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