Short Position Aberdeen Asset Management plc

TR-5:

Disclosure of Short Position relating to securities which are the subject of a rights issue or a UK Financial Sector Company

1. Full name of person(s) holding the disclosable short position:

BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.

2: Name of the issuer of the relevant securities

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

3: Disclosable short position

-0.45%

4. Date that disclosable short position was held

22/05/2012