Profile

I. Trade data
total number of shares: 7.233.316 Euro
share capital: 7.233.316 Euro

shareholders:
Angermayer, Brumm, Lange Unternehmensgruppe GmbH 38%
AXA 27%
Citigroup Financial Products Inc. 10%
Credit Suisse 8%
Freefloat 17%

applicant: biw Bank für Investments und Wertpapiere AG
Deutsche Börse Listing Partner: Silvia Quandt & Cie. AG
lead broker: ICF KURSMAKLER AG
designated sponsor: biw Bank für Investments und Wertpapiere AG

II. Company information
year of foundation: 2004
end of business year: 31. Dezember
accounting methods: IFRS

board: Dr. Sebastian Grabmaier (CEO), Ralph Konrad (COO), Wulf U. Schütz (CFO)
supervisory board: Harald Petersen (chairman), Peter Brumm, Christian Angermayer, Dr. Patrick Dahmen, Stefan Schütze, Jörg Keimer

III. Business concept and structure
Aragon AG is a leading financial services company, which is successfully operating via its subsidiaries on advisory in and brokerage of financial products. Those subsidiaries operate each with own strategy and brands in Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe. They service 22,000 independent financial brokers including 4,500 tied agents and more than 1,030,000 end clients.

As part of a profitable growth strategy, Aragon AG is accelerating its organic growth through consistent implementation of a buy-and-build strategy through acquisitions and strategic partnerships. Since the founding of Aragon AG, various sales models have consistently been successfully integrated in the Group. This unique corporate strategy, combined with many years of expertise in the financial services market, makes Aragon AG the key driver of consolidation in the segment of financial sales arising from the market conditions and the regulation.

With its integrated distribution platform, Aragon AG offers financial brokers and their end clients a widely diversified product range through asset-class investment and closed-end funds, structured products, insurance policies and (construction) financing. More than 12,000 products from over 500 product companies can be brokered or marketed through Aragon AG. During 2011 Aragon AG managed to post record product sales of close to EUR 2.4 billion. Assets under administration at year end 2010 amounted to around EUR 4.2 billion.

Aragon AG’s activities are segmented by target groups and services into two operating segments “Broker Pools”, “Financial Consulting” and the segment “operative Holding”.

The individual subsidiaries of Aragon AG operate by applying a multiple brand strategy, i. e. the individual subsidiaries each operate in their target markets with their own identity and address their target groups using an appropriate marketing and sales strategy.

The holding companies also perform central management functions such as product purchasing, financing, capital market communications, information technology and administration. Centralizing these functions and activities allows Aragon AG to increase cost synergies.

Aragon AG generally holds a majority interest in its individual subsidiaries. To ensure the business continuity of a success critical corporate management in financial sales, as a rule, the loyalty of the management teams of subsidiaries is safeguarded on a long-term basis through shareholdings in their respective companies. This ensures that all business divisions have common interests and promotes commitment to our profitable growth strategy.