Changes to the board of directors ALEXANDER FORBES GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa (Registration number: 2006/025226/06) JSE Share Code: AFH ISIN: ZAE000191516 ("Alexander Forbes" or "the Company") Changes to the board of directors In compliance with 3.59 of the JSE Listings Requirements, Alexander Forbes is pleased to announce that Mr Simon O'Regan, President of Mercer’s Europac Region with responsibility for all of Mercer's business across Europe and the Pacific, has been appointed as non-executive director of the Company with effect from 31 July 2014. Mr O'Regan first joined Mercer in the UK in 1988 and transferred to Australia in 1989 to head up the Melbourne office. Following a break of three years from 1996 to 1999, when Mr O'Regan was employed by Vanguard to establish their fund management business, he returned to Mercer to enable the company to establish a market leading position in pensions provision. From 2005 to 2008 Mr O'Regan was Mercer’s Europe Region Head and from 2009 to August 2012 he was responsible for Mercer’s Global Retirement, Risk and Finance business, whereafter he was appointed to his current position. Mr O'Regan holds an honours degree in Business Science, is a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries (UK) and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. 31 July 2014 Sandton Sponsor RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited) Date: 31/07/2014 01:34:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.