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NINETY ONE LIMITED - Notification of transactions by relevant Directors, Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities and persons closely associated with them, prescribed officers, company secretaries and associates.

Ninety One Group
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What this filing means

Forty Two Point Two — a trust entity beneficially owned by the Marathon Trust, whose beneficiaries include Ninety One directors Hendrik du Toit, Kim McFarland, Johan Schreuder, Adam Fletcher and Malcolm Gray — acquired a total of 161,513 Ninety One plc ordinary shares across four transactions on 28–30 September 2026 at prices ranging from GBP 2.0889 to GBP 2.0984. The transactions are disclosed as routine PDMR-associate filings under UK MAR and the JSE Listings Requirements; no new economic information about the business is contained in the notice.

One of Ninety One's internal trust vehicles bought a block of company shares over several days in late September. That is a routine regulatory disclosure requirement — it tells you what was bought and at what price, but it says nothing about the health of the business. The filing does not disclose Ninety One's market capitalisation, so the transaction's scale relative to the firm cannot be assessed from the information provided.

Bear case

  • The filing does not disclose the investment rationale, timing strategy or portfolio purpose of the transactions; director-dealing motive cannot be inferred.
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SENS-AI conclusion

The Marathon Trust is an existing long-standing trust structure; this is the fifth director-dealings disclosure from Ninety One in September and early October 2026, consistent with a routine periodic filing cadence rather than a single event. The filing records the acquisitions only and does not disclose the investment rationale, timing strategy or portfolio purpose — motive cannot be inferred. No new economic information about Ninety One's business, earnings or outlook is disclosed. So what: this is a regulatory filing that records completed transactions, not a commentary on the business — the next meaningful signal will come from results or a formal capital-markets event.

The next material disclosure will be Ninety One's results or a formal strategy update; this filing does not move the investment case.

Evidence from the filing

  • Associate entity Forty Two Point Two acquired shares as an associate of named directors.

    “Forty Two Point Two is wholly owned by the Marathon Trust and the undermentioned persons (who are directors of Ninety One plc, Ninety One Limited and/or major subsidiaries of Ninety One) are beneficiaries of the Marathon Trust.”
  • Transactions on 28–30 September 2026 at stated prices and volumes.

    “Price GBP 2.0967 | Volume 24,688 | Date of the transaction 28 September 2026”
  • Transactions on 29 September 2026.

    “Price GBP 2.095401045 | Volume 42,888 | Date of the transaction 29 September 2026”
  • Transactions on 29 September 2026.

    “Price GBP 2.0889 | Volume 60,776 | Date of the transaction 29 September 2026”
  • Transactions on 30 September 2026.

    “Price GBP 2.0984 | Volume 33,161 | Date of the transaction 30 September 2026”
Category
Director Dealings
Event posture
No Edge
Published
Oct 2, 2026

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