Result of AGM / Final Dividend

Genesis Emerging Markets Fund Limited (the 'Company')

Result of Annual General Meeting

Following the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') of the Company, which was held earlier today, the Board is pleased to announce that all ordinary and special resolutions set out in the Notice of the Meeting were duly passed.

Resolution 5 proposed the payment of a final dividend of 19.0 US cents per Participating Preference Share in respect of the financial year ended 30^th June 2018.  The dividend will be paid on 21^st December 2018 to those shareholders on the register at close of business on 23^rd November 2018.  The XD date is 22^nd November 2018.

While declared in US dollars, the dividend will be paid in sterling; a further announcement in respect of the sterling equivalent of the declared dividend rate will be made in due course.

Details of the number of proxy votes cast for, against and withheld on the resolutions will be published on the Company's website at www.genesisemf.com

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special resolution passed at the AGM has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

For the avoidance of doubt, it should be noted that the power to purchase shares in the market as proposed in Resolution 12 will last until the AGM in 2019.

For further information, please contact:

J.P. Morgan Administration Services (Guernsey) Limited

Company Secretary

01481 758 620

13^th November 2018