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RESOLUTIONS OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF FIM GROUP CORPORATION

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FIM GROUP CORPORATION STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE ON MARCH 15, 2007 AT 18.00 (Finnish time)

RESOLUTIONS OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF FIM GROUP CORPORATION

The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of FIM Group Corporation
held today on March 15, 2007, adopted the 2006 financial statements and discharged the members of the Board of Directors and the President and CEO from liability. The Annual General Meeting resolved on the payment of dividends, the composition of the Board of Directors and the election of the auditor.

Dividend payout

It was resolved that a dividend of EUR 0.14 per share (a total of EUR 5.97 million)will be paid as proposed by the Board of Directors. The right to dividend rests with a shareholder who by the record date of March 20, 2007, has been entered as a shareholder in the company’s shareholder register which is kept by the Finnish Central Securities Depository Ltd. It was resolved that the dividend will be paid on March 27, 2007.

Composition of the Board of Directors and remuneration

The Annual General Meeting confirmed that the number of Board members shall be five (5).

The following persons were elected as the members of the company's Board of Directors: Niklas Geust, Vesa Honkanen, Antti Kivimaa, Risto Perttunen and Jukka Ylitalo. However, the term of service of these members of the Board of Directors ends in the event that the shareholders Seppo Sairanen, Markku Kaloniemi, Pekka Mölsä, Niklas Geust, Karri Toivonen, Jussi Seppälä, Jukka Ylitalo, Jan Forsbom, Antti Pohjola, Jussi Hyöty and Janne Holtari (altogether representing 68.11 % of the share capital and 53,4 % of the voting rights) sell their shares to Glitnir banki hf. Therefore, the Annual General Meeting elected Bjarni Ármannsson, Frank Ove Reite, Sverrir Örn Thorvaldsson, Niklas Geust and Vesa Honkanen as members of the company’s Board of Directors starting from the transfer of the ownership and the end of the term of service of the Board of Directors elected first.

After the change in the ownership referred to above, the majority of the members of the company’s Board of Directors do not meet the criteria of independency according to the Corporate Governance recommendation of Helsinki Stock Exchange, the Central Chamber of Commerce of Finland and the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK.

In its organizational meeting on March 15, 2007, the Board of Directors elected Antti Kivimaa as the Chairman of the Board. The Board of Directors decided also that a combined nomination and compensation committee will be terminated and therefore no members were elected to the committee. The Board of Directors valid after the change in the ownership referred to above will hold its organisational meeting when the term of service of that Board of Directors has commenced.

The Annual General Meeting confirmed a monthly remuneration of EUR 3,000 for the Chairman of the Board and EUR 2,000 for the Board Members. Those members of the Board of Directors who receive salary payments from FIM or Glitnir groups will receive no remuneration based on the membership in the Board of Directors.


Auditors

The Authorised Public Accountants, Mr. Kim Karhu and Ms. Kaija Leppinen, were re-elected as the company's auditors. PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy, Authorized Public Accountants with Jarmo Álen, Authorized Public Accountant, as chief auditor was elected as the deputy auditor.

The minutes of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be
available to the Company’s shareholders at the Company’s head office as of March 29, 2007.


FIM Group Corporation


For additional information, contact:
Risto Perttunen, CEO
+358 (0)9 613 46 303
risto.perttunen@fim.com

Timo T. Laitinen, CFO
+358 (0)9 613 46 525
timo.laitinen @fim.com



Distribution:
Helsinki Stock Exchange
Principal media
www.fim.com.


Established in 1987, FIM is a Finnish investment services group that offers asset management, brokerage and investment banking services for private individuals and organizations. In addition to the head office in Helsinki, FIM has regional offices in Espoo, Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Lahti, Oulu, Riihimäki, Tampere, Turku and Vaasa. FIM also operates in Stockholm and Moscow. The company had net sales in 2006 of EUR 82.0 million, and it posted operating profit of EUR 19.1 million. FIM had a payroll of 284 employees at the end of 2006.