Exercise of Options

31 July 2018

AFH Financial Group plc

("AFH" or the "Company")

(AIM: AFHP)

Exercise of Options

The Board of AFH, a leading financial planning led investment management firm, announces that application has been made for 101,994 new ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company (the "New Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to trading on AIM. 43,826 New Ordinary Shares have been issued and allotted pursuant to the exercise of share options under the AFH EMI Option Plan whilst 58,168 New Ordinary Shares have been issued and allotted pursuant to the exercise of share options under the AFH Contractors Share Option Plan. The New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company.

1,330 of the share options have an exercise price of £1.505; 6,896 of the share options have an exercise price of £1.45; 35,000 of the share options have an exercise price of £1.20; 38,694 of the share options have an exercise price of £1.00; and 20,074 of the share options have an exercise price of £0.37. The New Ordinary Shares are expected to be admitted to trading on AIM on 6 August 2018.

Following the issue of the New Ordinary Shares, the issued share capital of the Company will comprise 37,924,148 ordinary shares of 10 pence, each with one voting right.

The total number of Ordinary Shares carrying voting rights in AFH is therefore 37,924,148. This figure will represent the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information please contact:

AFH Financial Group PLC 01527 577 775

Alan Hudson, Chief Executive Officer

Paul Wright, Chief Financial Officer

Liberum (Nominated Adviser and Broker) 020 3100 2000

John Fishley

Richard Bootle

This announcement is released by AFH Financial Group plc and contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR), and is disclosed in accordance with the Company's obligations under Article 17 of MAR.

For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is being made on behalf of the Company by Paul Wright, Chief Financial Officer.