Annual Financial Report and Notice of Meeting

The Company today announces that its Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 ("Annual Report"), Notice of the 2025 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") and Form of Proxy for the 2025 AGM have been sent to shareholders.

The Annual Report and AGM Notice are available to view on the Company's website at:

In compliance with UKLR 6.4.1R of the UK Financial Conduct Authority, the Company has today submitted electronic copies of the following documents to the Financial Conduct Authority via the National Storage Mechanism, and these will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

• 2024 Annual Report and Accounts
• Notice of the 2025 AGM
• Form of Proxy.

How to ask Questions

Shareholders, their appointed proxies, or corporate representatives who attend the AGM, whether at the physical venue or online, can ask questions on the business of the meeting on the day.

All shareholders can also submit questions in advance of the AGM by sending them to CompanySecretariat@rathbones.com. To ensure that a response is received before the proxy appointment deadline, shareholders should submit their questions by 6:30pm on Wednesday 30 April 2025. We will publish the questions and our response on our website.

Enquires:

Ali Johnson

Group Company Secretary

The Appendix below, together with the information included in the Company's announcement of its preliminary results on Wednesday 26 February 2025, constitutes the information required to comply with DTR 6.3.5

Appendix

Statement of directors' responsibilities in respect of the report and accounts

The Directors are responsible for preparing the Report and Accounts 2024, and the Group and parent company financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Under Company law, the Directors are required to prepare Group and parent company financial statements for each financial year. They are required to prepare the Group financial statements in accordance with UK-adopted International Accounting Standards (International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)) and applicable law and have elected to prepare the parent company financial statements on the same basis.

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
• make judgements and estimates that are reasonable, relevant and reliable
• state whether they have been prepared in accordance with UK-adopted International Accounting Standards (IFRS)

The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the parent company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the parent company and enable them to ensure that its financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006.

They are responsible for such internal controls as they determine are necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and have general responsibility for taking such steps as are reasonably open to them to safeguard the assets of the Group and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.

By order of the Board

PAUL STOCKTON

GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER