Total Voting Rights

Lazard World Trust Fund (the 'Company')

Total Voting Rights

Further to the redemption of 20,213,690 Ordinary Shares on 1 February 2019, as at 4 February 2019 the Company had 26,422,080 Ordinary Shares in issue, of which 11,879,803 Ordinary Shares have voting rights and 14,542,277 Ordinary Shares are held in Treasury without voting rights. 

The Company has been advised that, under the Luxembourg Transparency Law of 11 January 2008, shares held in treasury are required to be included in the denominator to be used by shareholders in their shareholding announcements.

Accordingly, the above figure 26,422,080 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 a change to their interests in, the Company in accordance with the Luxembourg Transparency Law of 11 January 2008 on transparency requirements for issuers of securities.

With effect from today the Shares will trade under the new ISIN number LU1938383087.

Payments of redemption proceeds are expected to be effected either through CREST (in the case of Shares held in uncertificated form) or by bank transfer (in the case of Shares held in certificated form) within 14 Business Days of the Redemption Date. Shareholders will be paid their redemption proceeds in Sterling.

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