Issue of ordinary shares

01 February 2019

AJ Bell plc ("AJ Bell" or "Company")

Issue of ordinary shares

On 25 January 2019, the Company issued 200,024 new ordinary shares of £0.000125 each from its block listing authority of 24 December 2018 for the purposes of its Company Share Option Plan. Those shares rank equally in all respects with the existing issued ordinary shares in the Company.

Following this issue, the Company has the ability to issue a further 2,799,976 ordinary shares under the 24 December 2018 block listing authority.

As a result of this issue, the total number of ordinary shares in issue now stands at 407,256,018 and the total number of voting rights in the Company is 407,256,018.

There are no shares held in Treasury.

The above figure of 407,256, 018 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they may determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 For further information, please contact:

AJ Bell plc

Shaun Yates, Head of Investor Relations +44 (0) 752 223 5898

Bruce Robinson, Company Secretary +44 (0) 780 234 4859