Director/PDMR Shareholding

ABERDEEN ASSET MANAGEMENT PLC

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC ("the Company") announces the following information in relation to Andrew Laing's shareholdings in the Company.

1. Andrew Laing sold 569,750 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 455 pence per ordinary shares on 16 December 2013. The shares were registered in the name of BDS Nominees Ltd Designation GPEP (291,000) and BDS Nominees Ltd Designation GROSS (278,750). The Company was notified on 18 December 2013.

2. Andrew Laing also sold 604,211 ordinary shares in the Company awarded under the Company's Deferred Share Award Plan. These awards represented an element of Mr Laing's annual bonus earned under the annual bonus scheme for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Mr Laing sold the 604,211 shares, held in the name of Greenwood Nominees Limited Designation 112360, at 456.9 pence per share on 16 December 2013. The Company was notified on 18 December 2013.

Following these transactions, Mr Laing holds 42,680 ordinary shares in the Company, representing 0.003% of the Company's issued share capital. He also has an unconditional entitlement to a further 273,301 ordinary shares in respect of awards made as part of the Company's deferred bonus arrangements in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 which have reached their earliest vesting dates. Mr Laing's aggregate unconditional interest in the Company's shares is therefore 315,981 shares (0.03%).

He also has a conditional entitlement to a further 358,831 (0.03%) ordinary shares in respect of awards made as part of the Company's deferred bonus arrangements in 2011, 2012 and 2013, which will vest over the period to December 2017.

Mr Laing's aggregate conditional and unconditional shares total 674,812 ordinary shares.

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