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AFH Financial Group Plc

19 November 2019

19 November 2019

AFH FINANCIAL GROUP PLC

("AFH" or the "Company")

Grant of Options

The Board of AFH, a leading financial planning led investment management firm, announces that it has granted 270,000 options to the Company's Executive Directors and a further 210,000 options to other members of management, exercisable at 301 pence per Ordinary Share, under the Company's growth share and CSOP schemes. These are exercisable after three years subject to the satisfaction of performance criteria.

 
 Name                            Number of   Type of grant      Total number       Per cent. 
                           Options granted                        of Options      of current 
                                                              held following    issued share 
                                                                       grant         capital 
 Alan Hudson 
  (Chief Executive                           Growth Share 
  Officer)                         150,000    Scheme                 775,000           1.81% 
                         -----------------  --------------  ----------------  -------------- 
 Paul Wright 
  (Chief Financial                           Growth Share 
  Officer)                          50,000    Scheme                 482,000           1.13% 
                         -----------------  --------------  ----------------  -------------- 
 Alexis Larvin                               Growth Share 
  (Executive Director)              35,000    Scheme                 272,420           0.64% 
                         -----------------  --------------  ----------------  -------------- 
 Austin Broad                                Growth Share 
  (Executive Director)              35,000    Scheme                 252,420           0.59% 
                         -----------------  --------------  ----------------  -------------- 
 

Following the grant of options, the total number of options outstanding to subscribe for Ordinary Shares in the Company, will be 3,980,626, representing 9.3 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital, of which 1,885,425, representing 4.41 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital, are held by existing directors of AFH.

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person 
       closely associated 
 a)   Name                                1. Alan Hudson 
                                           2. Paul Wright 
                                           3. Alexis Larvin 
                                           4. Austin Broad 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 2    Reason for the notification 
     ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Position/status                     1. Chief Executive Officer 
                                           2. Chief Financial Officer 
                                           3. Executive Director 
                                           4. Executive Director 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 b)   Initial notification/          Initial notification 
       Amendment 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                           AFH Financial Group plc 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 b)   LEI                            213800MVLNB5CWDY8X63 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 4    Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for 
       (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; 
       (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
       have been conducted 
     ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Description of                 Ordinary shares of 10 pence 
       the financial                  GB00B4W5WQ08 
       instrument, type 
       of instrument 
       Identification 
       code 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 b)   Nature of the                             1. Grant of Options 
       transaction                               2. Grant of Options 
                                                 3. Grant of Options 
                                                 4. Grant of Options 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)           Exercise Price(s)   Volume(s) 
                                        301                 150,000 
                                                           ---------- 
                                        301                 50,000 
                                                           ---------- 
                                        301                 35,000 
                                                           ---------- 
                                        301                 35,000 
                                                           ---------- 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 d)   Aggregated information         N/A 
 
        *    Aggregated volume 
 
 
 
        *    Price 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 e)   Date of the transaction        19 November 2019 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 f)   Place of the transaction       Outside trading venue - off market 
     -----------------------------  ---------------------------------------- 
 
 
 Enquiries: 
 AFH Financial Group PLC 
  Alan Hudson, Chief Executive Officer 
  Paul Wright, Chief Financial Officer             +44 (0)1527 577 
  www.afhfinancialgroup.com                         775 
 Liberum (Nominated Adviser and Broker) 
  John Fishley/Richard Bootle/Euan Brown           +44 (0)20 3100 2000 
 Shore Capital (Joint Broker) 
  Hugh Morgan / Edward Mansfield / Daniel Bush     +44 (0)20 7408 4090 
 Yellow Jersey PR (Financial PR)                   +44 (0) 20 3004 
  Joe Burgess / Georgia Colkin / Annabel Atkins     9512 
 

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