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Group interim report for the first nine months of 2017: A growing number of clients in Europe trust OVB

• Customer base grows to 3.33 million
• Forecast for the entire year confirmed

OVB achieves largely stable business performance and growth in client numbers in H1 2017

• Growth in client numbers highlights demand for consulting services
• Total sales commission almost at the level of the previous year
• Increase in earnings in Central/Eastern Europe and Germany

OVB strengthens future sustainability

• Dividend growth of 15.4% to 75 cents per share
• OVB strategy “Evolution 2022” combines proven success factors with the potential of digitalisation

OVB starts the 2017 financial year with a rise in sales and income

• Total sales commission up 2.3% to €58.4 million in the first quarter of 2017
• Net operating income increases by 11.6% to €3.3 million
• Consolidated net income rises even more strongly - by 21.2%

OVB Group achieves sales increase and significant earnings growth in 2016

• Solid growth in total sales commission to €231.8 million
• Operating income rises significantly by 17.7% to €16.5 million
• Dividend increase of 15.4% to 75 euro cents

Continuity at the helm of the company

• Group: contracts of CEO Mario Freis and COO Thomas Hücker extended
• Germany: new management for OVB Vermögensberatung AG as of April 2017

OVB continues to grow in the first nine months of 2016

• Total sales commission up 3.2 percent year on year
• Operating income up 20.4 percent
• Affirmation of mid-year increase in forecast for 2016

OVB enjoys successful first half of 2016

• Sales growth of 4.4%
• Operating income up 32.8%
• Annual forecast raised 

“Personal advisory is still valuable in the digital world”

• 2015 was the strongest year since the financial crisis
• Further increase in dividend to 65 cents per share

OVB continues on profitable growth path

• Total sales commission increases by 4.8% to €57.1 million
• EBIT rises by 31.6% to €3.0 million
• First quarter exceeds expectations