Issue of ordinary shares

1 April 2019

AJ Bell plc ("AJ Bell" or "Company")

Issue of ordinary shares

On:

a) 7 March 2019, the Company issued 54,154 new ordinary shares of £0.000125 each; and

b) 26 March 2019 the Company issued 26,481 new ordinary shares of £0.000125 each,

from its block listing authority of 24 December 2018 for the purposes of its Company Share Option Plan. Those shares rank equally in all respects with the existing issued ordinary shares in the Company.

Following these issues, the Company has the ability to issue a further 2,719,341 ordinary shares under the 24 December 2018 block listing authority.

As a result of these issues, the total number of ordinary shares in issue now stands at 407,336,653 and the total number of voting rights in the Company is 407,336,653.

There are no shares held in Treasury.

The above figure of 407,336,653 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they may determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

 For further information, please contact:

AJ Bell plc

Bruce Robinson, Company Secretary +44 (0) 780 234 4859

Shaun Yates, Head of Investor Relations +44 (0) 752 223 5898