Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 6715B

Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC

22 February 2011

 



TR-1i: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARESⁱ

1.         Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:ⁱⁱ

Standard Life Equity Income Trust plc

2.         Reason for the notification (please state Yes/No):

An acquisition or disposal of voting rights: Yes

An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached: No

An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments: No

An event changing the breakdown of voting rights: No

Other: No

3.         Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: ⁱⁱⁱ

Legal & General Group Plc (L&G)

4.         Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.): ^iv

Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management) Limited (PMC)

5.         Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or  reached: ^v

21 February 2011

6.         Date on which issuer notified:

22 February 2011

7.         Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: ^{vi, vii}

L&G (From 4% to 3%)

8.         Notified details:

A: Voting rights attached to shares ^{viii, ix}

Situation previous to the Triggering transaction
Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Number of shares	Number of voting rights
Ordinary 25p	1,564,907 (As on 22/12/2010)	1,281,191

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (vii)

Class/type of shares if possible using the ISIN CODE	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rightsx
		Direct	Indirect xi	Direct	Indirect
		1,281,191		3.37%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Expiration Date xiii	Exercise/Conversion Period/ Date xiv	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights
Subscription Shares GBP0.0001	31 December 2016	30 June, 31 December between 31 December 2010 and 31 December 2016	193,728	0.51%

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments ^{xv, xvi}

Resulting situation after the triggering transaction

Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration Date xvii	Exercise/Conversion Period xviii	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights xix, xx
n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Nominal n/a	Delta n/a

Total (A+B+C)

Number of voting rights 1,474,919

% of voting rights 3.88%

9.         Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable ^(xv):

Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect) (Group)
Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (LGIMH) (Direct and Indirect)
Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) (LGIM)
Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) ( 1,474,919 - 3.88%= LGAS, LGPL & PMC)
Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (Direct) (LGIMHD) (1,372,194 - 3.61%= PMC)	Legal & General Insurance Holdings Limited (Direct) (LGIH)
Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management) Limited  (PMC) (1,372,194 - 3.61%= PMC)	Legal & General Assurance Society Limited  (LGAS & LGPL)
	Legal & General Pensions Limited (Direct)  (LGPL)

Proxy Voting:

10.       Name of the proxy holder:

n/a

11.       Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:

n/a

12.       Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

n/a

13.       Additional information:

Notification using the total voting rights figure of 37,930,579

14.       Contact name:

Amanda Valentine, Aberdeen Asset Managers Ltd

15.       Contact telephone number:

            0131 528 4154

 

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