Amanda Capital - Company Announcement

THE COMPANY NAME CHANGE TO eQ PLC HAS BEEN REGISTERED ON OCTOBER 10, 2011

eQ PLC                                            STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE



                                                  10 October 2011 at 10:55 am





THE COMPANY NAME CHANGE TO eQ PLC HAS BEEN REGISTERED ON OCTOBER 10, 2011



The decision of the Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting of Amanda Capital Plc,
held on September 22, 2011, to change the company name to eQ Plc has been
registered in the Trade Register today. 



The new trading code is “EQV1V” from October 11, 2011.





Helsinki, October 10, 2011



eQ Plc



Janne Larma

CEO



Distribution: OMX Nordic Exchange in Helsinki, www.amandacapital.fi

Additional information: CEO Janne Larma, tel. +358 40 500 4366





eQ gathers Asset Management operations under one brand



Amanda Capital Plc decided to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting to
decide on the change of the parent company name to eQ Plc. The aim is to
combine Asset Management operations under one brand. eQ is a wide known brand
in Finland and the combine supports the groups target to grow fast in the Asset
Management operations. eQ Asset Management offers wide range of asset
management products including mutual funds, tailored asset management services
and private equity funds. eQ has total of 22 mutual funds and 7 private equity
fund of funds. 

The assets under management at June 30th 2011 was EUR 3 829 million. The assets
managed under equity and bond investments totalled EUR 1 069 million and within
private equity investments, the commitments under management were EUR 2 760
million (original investment commitments). 

The asset management business, which covers more than 75% of the Group
personnel, will concentrate its operations to one location during the autumn of
2011. This will enable seamless co-operation between persons working with
different asset management products and create good preconditions for selling
all asset management products in a centralised manner. 

More information on Amanda Group is available on the following websites:

www.amandacapital.fi, www.eqvarainhoito.fi and www.advium.fi.