Holding(s) in Company

21 February 2019

CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT GROUP PLC

("City of London", "the Company")

Holding(s) in Company

City of London (LSE: CLIG), a leading specialist asset management group offering a range of institutional products investing in closed-end funds, announces that on 20 February 2019 the Company's Employee Benefit Trust purchased 25,000 ordinary shares of 1p each at a price of 400 pence per share. Following this purchase the Trust holds 1,463,709 ordinary shares in the Company representing 5.4% of the Company's issued capital, of which 624,200 (2.3% of the Company's issued capital) is held in custody for employees under the terms of the Employee Incentive Plan (EIP).

For further information, please contact:

Barry Olliff, CEO

City of London Investment Group PLC

Tel: 001 215 313 3774

Martin Green

Zeus Capital Limited

Financial Adviser & Broker

Tel: +44 (0)20 3829 5000