Man Regulatory News (EMG)

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:

Man 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:

 Royal Bank of Canada

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

RBC Trust Company (Jersey) Limited

RBC Trustees (CI) Limited

RBC cees Trustee Limited

The Regent Trust Company Limited

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

20 March 2012

6. Date on which issuer notified:

23 March 2012

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

Below 3%

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

ISIN

GB00B28KQ186

Ord USD0.03428571

 55,870,187

 55,870,187

 52,564,230

 52,564,230

2.89%

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

 52,564,230

2.89%

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

RBC Trustees (Channel Islands) Limited, RBC Trust Company (Jersey) Limited, RBC cees Trustee Limited and The Regent Trust Company Limited are all wholly owned subsidiaries of the Royal Bank of Canada.

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:

 Calculated on issued share capital of 1,818,457,084

14. Contact name:

 Rachel Rowson

15. Contact telephone number:

020 7144 1732