Buyback and Total Voting Rights

CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT GROUP PLC

("City of London", "the Company")

Share Buyback and Total Voting Rights

City of London (LSE: CLIG), a leading emerging markets asset management group, announces that the Company's Employee Share Option Plan has today purchased 202,043 ordinary shares of 1p each ("Ordinary Shares") in the Company at a price of 255 pence per Ordinary Share.

In addition, the Company has today purchased for cancellation 202,043 Ordinary Shares at a price of 255 pence per Ordinary Share. Following the cancellation of these Ordinary Shares, the Company's issued Ordinary Share capital with voting rights will be 26,832,707 Ordinary Shares. There are no Ordinary Shares held in treasury.

The above figure of 26,832,707 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, the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

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