DGAP-News: Altira Group: AGM 2008: first dividend payment and renowned financial experts voted into Supervisory Board

Altira AG / AGM/EGM

27.08.2008 

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++ 2008 General Meeting: Altira Group pays dividend of EUR 0.50 per share
++ Axel-Günter Benkner, former CEO of DWS, and Peter E. Merian, former CEO
of the Swiss private bank Sarasin, newly elected to the Supervisory Board


The shareholders of the asset management company Altira AG ('Altira Group')
voted in yesterday's General Meeting in Frankfurt am Main to adopt the
proposal by the Management and Supervisory Boards to pay the Company's
first dividend since it’s listing in February 2007: EUR 0.50 per share for
the prior financial year.

In addition, two renowned financial experts were elected to the Supervisory
Board of the Altira Group:

Mr. Axel-Günter Benkner is Managing Director of Deutsche
Vermoegensbildungsgesellschaft mbH, a company of the DWS Group. Mr. Benkner
was Chief Executive Officer of DWS until 2006. He comments on his
appointment to the Altira Supervisory Board: 'Due to its corporate
structure promoting entrepreneurialism and its dynamic management, the
Altira Group has quickly become one of the market leaders for alternative
investments in Germany. Especially in inefficient markets such as climate
protection investments and development investments in Africa, the Company
has acquired an international reputation in recent years. I am pleased to
have been elected to the Supervisory Board and will assist the Company
along its future path.'

Mr. Peter E. Merian is a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss
private bank Sarasin & Cie AG, where he held the position of Chief
Executive Officer from 1994 to 2006. Mr. Merian remarks on his appointment
to the Altira Supervisory Board: 'Like the Bank Sarasin, the Altira Group
also focuses strongly on sustainability and has proven that investors can
profit considerably from investments in this area. For example, in the
slightly less than one and a half years since its foundation, the business
development company ecolutions that was initiated by the Altira Group has
already become an important medium-sized, decentralised supplier of
alternative energy in India and China. ecolutions’ projects thus contribute
to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in these countries; in addition
to that, its sales of the CO2 certificates generated by these projects
contribute to the achievement of the climate protection targets set within
the framework of the Kyoto Protocol. I am sure that we can expect still
more to come in the area of sustainability from the Altira Group and its
subsidiary boutiques and am pleased to lend my assistance in this area and
others as a member of the Supervisory Board.'


The two previous members of the Supervisory Board, Dr. Peter Schmidt and
Mr. Gerhard Lange, will resign from the Supervisory Board. Robert Depner
will continue as Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
Michael Rieder, Chairman of the Management Board of the Altira Group,
comments on the outcome of the General Meeting: '2007 was an extremely
successful year for the Altira Group, and the Company’s initial public
offering also made it an important year in its history. We are pleased to
be able to pay our shareholders the first dividend and intend to continue
distributing a significant portion of the Company’s earnings in the future.
We are also pleased that we were able to win two new renowned Supervisory
Board members from the financial industry, Mr. Benkner and Mr. Merian. In
the name of the Management Board, I would like to thank the two leaving
members of the Supervisory Board, Dr. Schmidt and Gerhard Lange, for their
assistance in building the Altira Group.'


++ About Altira Group

The Altira Group is an owner-managed company that is simultaneously an
exchange-listed asset management company. We manage money in the areas of
private markets, public markets and real estate on behalf of institutional
investors.

The investment approaches focus on inefficient markets. Altira Group
understands this to mean the promising newly forming markets and regions
with above-average growth opportunities as well as established markets
undergoing major structural changes. Due to their specialised knowledge and
years-long experience, the Altira teams are able to generate a sustainable
above-average risk/yield profile ('high alpha strategies') in these markets
by using an active investment approach.

The implementation into concrete investment products is then handled by the
focused, independent Altira subsidiaries. Whereas the investment decisions
are independently taken in the investment teams, all of the boutique
companies have centralised access to a common, institutional
infrastructure.

The Altira Group is, in this context, generally a founding majority
shareholder of these boutique subsidiaries, or it acquires shares in
existing asset management companies that want to tap into the Altira Group
platform.


Contact:
Altira Aktiengesellschaft
Juan Rodriguez
Head of Investor Relations
Tel: +49 69 719 12 80 145
E-Mail: juan.rodriguez@altira-group.de


DGAP 27.08.2008 
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Language:     English
Issuer:       Altira AG
              Grüneburgweg 18
              60322 Frankfurt / Main
              Deutschland
Phone:        +49 (0)69 719 12 80 - 00
Fax:          +49 (0)69 719 12 80 - 011
E-mail:       info@altira-group.de
Internet:     www.altira-group.de
ISIN:         DE0001218063
WKN:          121806
Listed:       Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart; Entry Standard
              in Frankfurt
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