Facts and Figures

Company Profile

• Valartis Group is an internationally active banking and finance group with private banks in Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein.
• The Group’s holding company, Valartis Group AG, is domiciled in Baar, canton of Zug, Switzerland, and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
• The mission behind Valartis Group’s “Private Banking Plus” strategy is to offer wealth management to high-net-worth private clients and asset management to institutional clients, combining traditional private banking with individually tailored solutions and special in-house product combinations.
• In addition to traditional wealth management and investment advisory, Valartis Group develops, manages and markets innovative niche investment products and provides specialised advisory and banking services in corporate finance/M&A and structured finance.
• Valartis Group’s operations are divided into the three business segments of “Private Clients”, “Institutional Clients” and “Corporate Center”.
• With a team of 300 highly qualified staff, the Group manages about CHF 6.8 billion in assets at its offices in Zurich, Geneva, Vienna, Liechtenstein, Moscow, St Petersburg, Luxembourg and Singapore.
• The Group’s core markets are Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and selected countries in North and South America as well as Asia.
• As a Swiss financial group, Valartis Group is subject to consolidated supervision by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA).

Key Figures

	Assets under Management, in CHF million	6,835
	Total balance sheet assets, in CHF million	2,631
	Shareholders' equity, in CHF million	309.3
	Net profit, in CHF million	-17.2
	Earnings per share, in CHF	-3.72
	Dividend per share, in CHF	0.00
	Employees, as full-time equivalents	297

     (All numbers as of 31.12.2011)

History

• The Valartis Group as it exists today was formed at the end of 2005 from the merger between the OZ Group and the operating MC Trustco companies of MCG Holding AG.
• The OZ Group originated from OZ Zürich Optionen und Futures AG, founded in 1988 and floated on the stock exchange in 1991.
• Since 2007, the Group has traded under the name “Valartis” – a combination of the words valere and artis, meaning “The art of creating value”.
• In order to expand its private banking and asset management activities, in September 2008 Valartis Group first acquired Valartis Bank (Austria) AG, which is headquartered in Vienna and has a rich history dating back to 1890.
• This was followed in September 2009 by the acquisition of Valartis Bank (Liechtenstein) AG.
• At the same time, the private banking activities of Valartis Bank AG in Zurich and Geneva were expanded.
• At the end of 2010, Valartis Bank (Austria) AG opened an office in Singapore, marking Valartis’s entry into the Asian market.

Board of Directors and Group Executive Management

	Prof. Dr. Erwin W. Heri	Chairman of the Board of Directors
	Gustav Stenbolt	Group CEO
	George Isliker	Group CFO / Chief Risk Officer
	Ernst Traun	CEO Valartis Bank (Austria) AG
	Dr. Andreas Insam	CEO Valartis Bank (Liechtenstein) AG

Valartis market information

Bearer shares listed on SIX Swiss Exchange
Symbol on SIX: VLRT
Reuters: VLRT.S
Bloomberg: VLRT SW
ISIN: CH0001840450

Group Headquarter

Valartis Group AG
Blegistrasse 11a
6340 Baar ZG
Switzerland
Phone +41 41 760 70 20
Fax       +41 41 760 70 19
www.valartisgroup.ch

Investor & Media Relations

Valartis Group
Corporate Communication
Sihlstrasse 24, P.O. Box
8021 Zurich
Switzerland

Björn Scheiwiller
Phone +41 43 336 81 11
Fax       +41 43 336 81 00
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