Short Selling Disclosure - Close Brothers

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:

Insight Investment Management (Global) Ltd: on behalf of the following clients:

Absolute Insight UK Equity Market Neutral Fund (Sub-Fund of Absolute Insight Funds plc)

BNY Mellon Absolute Return Equity Fund (Sub-Fund of BNY Mellon Global Funds, plc

2: Name of the issuer of the relevant securities

CLOSE BROTHERS GROUP PLC

3: Disclosable short position

0.00%

4. Date that disclosable short position was held

30 October 2012