DGAP-News: ARAGON AG: ARAGON subsidiary Jung, DMS & Cie. takes on support role for up to 200 tied agents of IMB Vermögensverwaltung GmbH in Germany

ARAGON AG / Alliance

10.06.2009 

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  - ARAGON subsidiary Jung, DMS & Cie. takes on support role for up to 200
    tied agents of IMB Vermögensverwaltung GmbH in Germany

  - Market leadership of the non-bank liability umbrella expanded

  - Further milestone achieved in the company's successful buy-and-build
    strategy

With immediate effect, Jung, DMS & Cie. AG, Grünwald, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Aragon AG, will provide support to up to 200 tied agents of
IMB Vermögensverwaltung AG (IMB), St. Wendel. Taking on IMB's activities in
Germany will increase the administrate assets by Jung, DMS & Cie by up to
EUR 100 million. The transaction is expected to generate positive profit
contributions whiten the first year of the cooperation. Moreover, the
addition of the IMB tied agents who primarily sell investment products will
lead to a further expansion of Jung, DMS & Cie.'s already leading market
position as a non-bank liability umbrella.

Dr. Sebastian Grabmaier, CEO of Aragon and of Jung, DMS & Cie., explained
the transaction: 'Servicing and supporting the 'IMB tied agents' further
strengthens our expertise especially in terms of investment product sales.
The expansion of our activities relating to the liability umbrella as a key
element of our growth strategy and will be boosted by the IMB cooperation.
We are delighted to make the award-winning services, leading advisory
technology and comprehensive range of products of Jung, DMS & Cie.
available to IMB tied agents with immediate effect. By taking on the German
based staff of IMB, we have secured the consistently high level of advisory
expertise for IMB tied agents and ensured that all IMB tied agents can
instantly feel part of the Jung, DMS & Cie. family.'

Wulf Schütz, the Aragon Management Board member responsible for Business
Development highlighted: 'Our second acquisition of this year confirms the
consistent implementation of our buy-and-build-strategy. As a driving force
of market consolidation, we are one of the few leading financial sales
companies to achieve growth while simultaneously exploiting synergies in
this unprecedented difficult market environment. We intend to put our
proven expertise in the integration of sales groups to further use for
additional strategic acquisitions in 2009.'

About Aragon AG 

Aragon is a broadly diversified financial services company, with the
divisions: Broker Pools, Financial Consulting, Institutional Sales and
Holding. Aragon is active in the marketplace with multiple independent
subsidiaries. The company's aim is to integrate various distribution models
under one roof, without disturbing the individual identity of each sales
company. The result is a wide diversification across various asset classes
and distribution types, which generates a high stability in corporate
earnings. Further information about the company and its subsidiaries can be
viewed on the website: www.aragon.ag.

About Jung, DMS & Cie. 

The Jung, DMS & Cie. Group is a network of more than 13,000 independent
financial services providers in Germany and Austria. The advisers focus on
consultancy and support for their customers. The Jung, DMS & Cie. Group has
a team of over 90 people based in Wiesbaden, Grünwald near Munich and
Vienna, who process all administrative aspects relating to investment,
equity investment and insurance products as well as organising specialist
training and continued professional development for its partners.

Partners of the Jung, DMS & Cie. Group pool are in a position to offer
their customers in excess of 12,000 products from more than 300 companies
in the investment, equity investment and insurance sectors. Via the
liability umbrella of the Austrian subsidiary, Jung, DMS & Cie. GmbH, they
also have access to structured bank products, especially certificates,
hedge fund units and real estate shares. Today, the group of companies is
one of Europe's biggest purchasing pools of independent financial advisers
with a volume brokered of more than EUR 3.6 bn in investment fund business
alone.

Detailed information about the company and information for the press can be
downloaded from the website at www.jungdms.de/presse.

About IMB 

Financial services provider IMB Vermögensverwaltung AG is a franchise in
accordance with Section 32 Sub-section 1 of the German Banking Act (KWG)
and holds a licence for investment brokerage (Section 1 Sub-section 1a
Clause 2 No. 1 KWG), acquisition brokerage (Section 1 Sub-section 1a Clause
2 No. 2 KWG) as well as investment portfolio management (Section 1
Sub-section 1a Clause 2 No. 3 KWG). We have an in-house team comprising 15
staff. At local level, our clients have access to more than 200 tied agents
and the total number of 34c partners exceeds 150. Cooperation with
contractually tied agents under the INDEPENDENT LIABILITY UMBRELLA
constitutes our core competence.  We are in a position to offer unique
financial products and services to our sales partners and their customers.



Contact:
Aragon Aktiengesellschaft

Ralf Funke
Investor Relations
Tel.: +49(0)611 890 575-0
Fax:  +49(0)611 890 575-99
E-Mail: ir@aragon.ag


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