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Standard Life Aberdeen plc

('the Company')

Notification of Interests of Executive Directors

The notification set out below is provided in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

On 15 April 2019 the Company granted to each of the individuals noted below awards under the following plan:

2018 Standard Life Aberdeen plc Deferred Share Plan - Awards in the form of nil-cost options to acquire ordinary shares in the Company, subject to the rules of the Standard Life Aberdeen plc Deferred Share Plan ('the Deferred Share Plan') and performance underpins as defined in the grant documents and summarised in the Directors' Remuneration Report in the Annual Report and Accounts 2018.

The Awards will normally vest pro-rata on the third, fourth and fifth anniversaries of the grant date but only to the extent that the performance underpins have been met and in accordance with, and subject to, the rules of the Deferred Share Plan. Once vested, Awards are subject to a holding period to the end of the fifth anniversary of the grant date, after which they are released and may be exercised by holders. Awards may be exercised up to 10 years from grant.

No consideration is payable on the grant or vesting of any of the Awards. The number of shares to which each Award relates will be increased by an additional number of shares equal in value to any dividends that would have been paid on all the shares in respect of which the Award is released, over the period from the grant date to the release date. 

LEI: OTMBS544NMO7GLCE7H90

Classification: 3.1. Additional regulated information required to be disclosed under the laws of a Member State

18 April 2019

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