Exercise of Options

3 August 2020

AFH Financial Group plc

("AFH" or the "Company")

(AIM: AFHP)

Exercise of Options

The Board of AFH, a leading financial planning led investment management firm, announces that application has been made for 32,102 new ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company (the "New Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to trading on AIM. 19,271 New Ordinary Shares have been issued and allotted pursuant to the exercise of share options under the AFH EMI Share Option Plan; 5,535 New Ordinary Shares have been issued and allotted pursuant to the exercise of share options under the AFH Financial Group Plc CSOP and; 7,296 New Ordinary Shares have been issued and allotted pursuant to the exercise of share options under the AFH Growth Share scheme. The New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company.

665 of the share options have an exercise price of £1.505; 1.845 of the share options have an exercise price of £1.625; 6,606 of the share options have an exercise price of £1.65; 12,000 of the share options have an exercise price of £1.69; 3,690 of the share options have an exercise price of £2.71 and 7,296 of the shares have an exercise price of £3.18. The New Ordinary Shares are expected to be admitted to trading on AIM on 6 August 2020.

Following the issue of the New Ordinary Shares, the issued share capital of the Company will comprise 42,981,495 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

The total number of ordinary shares carrying voting rights in AFH is therefore 42,981,495. This figure will represent the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information please contact:

AFH Financial Group PLC                                                               01527 577 775

Alan Hudson, Chief Executive Officer

Paul Wright, Chief Financial Officer

Liberum (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)                          020 3100 2000

John Fishley / Richard Bootle / Euan Brown

Shore Capital (Joint Broker)                                                           020 7408 4090

Hugh Morgan / Edward Mansfield / Daniel Bush

Yellow Jersey PR Limited (Financial PR)                                      0776 932 5254

Joseph Burgess / Georgia Colkin / Annabel Atkins

For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is being made on behalf of the Company by Paul Wright, Chief Financial Officer.