Additional Listing and Total Voting Rights

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC ("The Company")

Additional Listing and Total Voting Rights

1 April 2014.

We are pleased to confirm that following close of business on 31 March 2014 we completed the acquisition of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Group Limited ("SWIP") and SWIP's related private equity fund management business.

Application has been made to The UK Listing Authority and The London Stock Exchange for a listing of 108,537,009 ordinary shares of 10 pence as consideration for this acquisition, to trade on The London Stock Exchange and to be admitted to the Official List.

These shares shall rank pari passu with the existing issued ordinary shares of the Company and it is expected that admission will commence at 8.00am today, Tuesday 1 April, 2014.

In accordance with rules 5.6.1 and 5.6.1A of the Financial Conduct Authority's ("FCA") Disclosure and Transparency Rules we would like to notify the market of the following:

Aberdeen's issued share capital, following admission of the new ordinary shares, will consist of 1,308,351,666 ordinary shares with voting rights. Aberdeen does not hold any ordinary shares in treasury.

The above figure of 1,308,351,666 ordinary shares may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Aberdeen under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Further details of the acquisition and a trading update will be issued following the admission of shares at 8.00am today.

For further information, please contact:

Maitland + 44 (0) 20 7379 5151

Neil Bennett

Tom Eckersley