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19.12.2008

•Participation in Absolute Plus Group to be sold •Revaluation of
retail brokerage interests •Cash flow in 2008 climbs to new record
•Markus Ullmer and Roland Starha newly appointed to Management Board
of C-QUADRAT Investment AG; co-founder Thomas Rieß moves to
Management Board of C-QUADRAT Kapitalanlage AG •Eric Samuiloff and
Peter Reisenhofer retire from Board positions

Vienna/Frankfurt, 19.12.2008. C-QUADRAT Investment AG plans to
discontinue its hedge fund activities. The rationale behind this
strategic decision is management´s anticipation of persistent
deterioration in the market environment, accompanied by a significant
increase in risks.

As a consequence of focusing on its core asset management business,
C-QUADRAT Investment AG will sell its 50 percent plus one share in
the Absolute Plus Group for around one million Euros as per
31.12.2008. Said Group is specialised in marketing alternative
investments. Streamlining the portfolio will also involve revaluing
the participations in Ariconsult Holding AG (25.1%) and in C-QUADRAT
Private Investments AG (98.39%). Both the latter are financial
services companies in the retail brokerage field and do not belong to
the core business of the C-QUADRAT Group, namely asset management.

This package of measures will result in extraordinary depreciation,
after minority interest, of around EUR 11.5 million in fiscal 2008.
This extraordinary depreciation will have no impact on the cash flow
or liquidity of the company. Any net loss for C-QUADRAT Investment AG
as a result of the extraordinary depreciation will be offset by the
appropriated capital reserves generated by the IPO in 2006 (amounting
to EUR 26.5 million as at 30.09.2008). The ability of the company to
pay a dividend in the 2009 business year and thereafter will not be
affected.

Beginning in 2009, the steps now being taken will have positive
impacts on the earning power of C-QUADRAT Investment AG, in that
around EUR 1.8 million in annual ordinary depreciation for the client
base will no longer be incurred.

A good operating profit for 2008 is nevertheless expected. Despite
the extremely difficult environment currently facing investment
companies, an EBITDA well into positive territory is expected, while
cash flow will prospectively reach the highest level since C-QUADRAT
Investment AG was founded in 1991.

Parallel to restructuring of the investment portfolio, there will
also be some changes in the executive bodies of the C-QUADRAT Group.
Markus Ullmer, Chief Legal Counsel of C-QUADRAT Investment AG for
many years, and Roland Starha, the long-serving Head of Finance, will
be appointed to the Management Board of C-QUADRAT Investment AG in
the course of January 2009, following approval by the Austrian
Financial Market Authority (FMA). Peter Reisenhofer will be leaving
the Management Board and will be self-employed within the framework
of an existing consulting firm.

The management team at C-QUADRAT KAG will be reinforced when company
co-founder Thomas Rieß moves from the Management Board of C-QUADRAT
Investment AG to that of the Kapitalanlage AG, where he will take
over from Eric Samuiloff, who will be accepting a new challenge in
the financial services field.

From 2009 onwards, the Management Board of C-QUADRAT Investment AG
will therefore comprise Alexander Schütz, Andreas Wimmer, Roland
Starha and Markus Ullmer. At C-QUADRAT Kapitalanlage AG, the
Management Board members will be Thomas Rieß, Christian Jost and Dr.
Heinrich Wohlfahrt.

C-QUADRAT- the fund company - is an independent asset manager
operating across Europe. Founded in 1991, the company has had is own
asset management company with a bank licence since 2003 and has been
listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since
November 2006 and in the Prime Standard of the Vienna Stock Exchange
since May 2008. The C-QUADRAT team has made a name for itself across
Europe with its asset management, analysis and investment fund
management activities and by devising structured products. Innovative
investment strategies for institutional investors round off the
product offering. Many banks, insurance companies and financial
service providers operating internationally rely on the expertise of
C-QUADRAT.

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