Henderson Group - Holding(s) in Company - CBA

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuerof existing shares to which voting rights areattached:

Henderson Group PLC

2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights

X

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached

1

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):

3. Full name of person(s) subject to thenotification obligation:

Commonwealth Bank of Australia on behalf of the controlled undertaking;

Colonial First State Asset Management (Australia) Limited, CBA Equities Limited, Colonial First State Investments Limited & Avanteos Investments Limited.

4. Full name of shareholder(s)  (if different from 3.):

5. Date of the transaction and date onwhich the threshold is crossed orreached:

27th June 2016

6. Date on which issuer notified:

1st July 2016

7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed orreached:

8. Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/type ofshares

if possible usingthe ISIN CODE

Situation previousto the triggeringtransaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

NumberofShares

NumberofVotingRights

Numberof shares

Number of votingrights

% of voting rights

Direct

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

AU000000HGG2

58,941,668

58,941,668

56,052,098

56,052,098

4.95%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate

Exercise/Conversion Period

Number of votingrights that may beacquired if theinstrument isexercised/ converted.

% of votingrights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Exercise price

Expiration date

Exercise/Conversion period

Number of voting rights instrument refers to

% of voting rights

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

56,052,098

4.95

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:

Colonial First State Asset Management (Australia) Limited - 54,868,657 Shares - 4.85%

CBA Equities Limited - 791,943 Shares - 0.07%

Colonial First State Investments Limited - 330,870 Shares - 0.03%

Avanteos Investments Limited - 60,628 Shares - 0.00%

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will ceaseto hold:

12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to holdvoting rights:

13. Additional information:

Please be advised 1,131,842,109 was used as the denominator

14. Contact name:

Renato Stupar

15. Contact telephone number:

M: +61 47 594 5221 / [email protected]