Appointment of Non-Executive Director

Lighthouse Group plc

('Lighthouse' or 'the Group' or 'the Company')

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Appointment of Non-Executive Director

Lighthouse, (AIM: LGT) the largest listed UK IFA advisory business, is pleased to announce the appointment of Fay Goddard as a non-executive director of the Company. Fay will take up the position on 1 April 2013.

Fay has over 25 years' experience in the UK financial services sector. She is shortly to retire from her current role as Chief Executive of the Personal Finance Society, the UK's leading professional body for financial planners and part of the Chartered Insurance Institute, the world's largest professional body for insurance and financial services. Fay was previously Deputy Director General and Policy Director at the Association of Independent Financial Advisers.

Save as set out in this announcement there are no further matters to be disclosed under Rule 17 or paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules for Companies.

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Fay Goddard, 61, is currently a director of the following companies:

Williams Goddard Consulting Limited; and

The Personal Finance Society.

In the last five years, she has also been a director of the following companies:

European Financial Planning Association (EFPA); and

The Life Trust Foundation Limited.