Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:

 ASHMORE 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 the notification obligation:

CAREY PENSIONS AND BENEFITS LIMITED ( as trustee of the Ashmore 2004 Employee Benefit Trust)

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

AS ABOVE

5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached:

3rd March 2014

6. Date on which issuer notified:

3rd March 2014

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

Increase above 5 per cent

8: Notified Details

A: Voting rights attached to shares

Class/

type of shares

If possible use ISIN code

Situation previous to the triggering transaction

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Number of shares

Number of voting rights

Number of shares

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

Direct

Indirect

Direct

Indirect

ISIN code

GB00B132NW22

34,607,090

34,607,090

35,824,935

35,824,935

35,824,935

5.064

5.064

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financialinstrument

Expirationdate

Exercise/ConversionPeriod

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

Exerciseprice

Expirationdate

Exercise/Conversionperiod

Number of votingrights instrumentrefers to

% of voting rights

Nominal

Delta

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights

Percentage of voting rights

35,824,935

5.064%

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

Proxy Voting:

10. Name of the proxy holder:

11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

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

13. Additional information:

Disclosure based upon 707,372,473 shares in issue

14. Contact name:

 Michael Perman

15. Contact telephone number:

 0203 077 6000