St. James's Place PLC — Major Shareholding Notification 2015

Dec 1, 2015

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TR-1: Notifications of Major Interests in Shares
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:
2. Reason for notification (yes/no)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify): Voluntary baseline disclosure in line with the UK implementation of the Amended Transparency Directive
3. Full name of person(s) subject to notification obligation:		Ameriprise Financial, Inc. and its group
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):		Bank Lombard Odier & Co Ltd BNP Paribas Nominees Pty Limited BNY (OCS) Nominees Limited Chase Nominees Limited Harewood Nominees Limited HSBC Global Custody Nominees (UK) Ltd Nortrust Niminees Ltd Royal Trust Corp of Canada Securities Services Nominees Limited State Street Bank & Trust Boston The Bank of New York (Nominees) Limited Vidacos Nominees Ltd
5. Date of transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:		N/A - Voluntary baseline disclosure in line with the UK implementation of the Amended Transparency Directive
6. Date on which issuer notified:		30th November 2015
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:		Voluntary baseline disclosure in line with the UK implementation of the Amended Transparency Directive

8: Notified Details
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares If possible use ISIN code		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				Percentage of voting rights
			Direct		Direct		Indirect		Direct		Indirect
GB0007669376		27,806,089		27,806,089		308,025		308,025		27,876,481		0.059%		5.321%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument		Expiration date		Exercise/ conversion period		No. of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/converted.		Percentage of voting rights
		523,882,883

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument		Exercise Price		Expiration date		Exercise / conversion period		No. of voting rights instrument refers to		Percentage of voting rights
										Nominal		Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights		Percentage of voting rights
28,184,506		5.380%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and /or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
Threadneedle Asset Management Limited (5.219%) Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (0.161%) Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC is wholly owned by Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Threadneedle Asset Management Limited is wholly owned by TC Financing Limited, which is itself wholly owned by Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Limited, which is itself wholly owned by TAM UK Holdings Limited, which is itself wholly owned by Threadneedle Holdings Limited, which is itself wholly owned by Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings SARL, which is itself wholly owned by Ameriprise International Holdings GmbH, which is itself wholly owned by Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of 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:		The Shares referred to in section 9 of this form are held in portfolios and funds managed on a discretionary basis by the entities set out in section 9. Please note that the Shares are held through certain nominee companies.
14 Contact name:		Mark Powney, Threadneedle Group Kay Fraser, St. James’s Place plc
15. Contact telephone name:		+44 (0) 1793 363 135 +44 (0) 1285 87 87 62

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