Henderson Group - Holding(s) in Company - CBA

TR-1: Notification of Major Interests 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

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, Acadian Asset Management (Australia) 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:

2nd March 2015

6. Date on which issuer notified:

3rd March 2015

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

>5%

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

57,201,717

57,201,717

57,201,717

57,201,717

5.01%

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

57,201,717

5.01

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 - 53,263,603 Shares - 4.67%

CBA Equities Limited - 3,496,838 Shares - 0.31%

Acadian Asset Management (Australia) Limited - 382,876 Shares - 0.03%

Avanteos Investments Limited - 58,400 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 1,140,854,910 was used as the denominator

14. Contact name:

Matthew Doyle

15. Contact telephone number:

M: +61 420 946 683 / [email protected]