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Decisions of the Sampo plc Annual General Meeting

SAMPO PLC       STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE    12 April 2012 at 4.40 pm



DECISIONS OF THE SAMPO PLC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of Sampo plc, held today, decided to distribute a
dividend of EUR 1.20 per share for 2011. The record date for dividend payment is
17 April 2012. The dividend will be paid on 24 April 2012. The Annual General
Meeting adopted the financial accounts for 2011 and discharged the Board of
Directors and the Group CEO and President from liability for the financial year.

The number of members of the Board was increased with one to nine members. The
following members were re-elected to the Board of Directors: Anne Brunila, Adine
Grate-Axén, Veli-Matti Mattila, Eira Palin-Lehtinen, Jukka Pekkarinen,
Christoffer Taxell, Matti Vuoria and Björn Wahlroos. Per Arthur Sørlie was
elected as a new Board member.

At its organizational meeting, the Board elected Björn Wahlroos as Chairman and
Matti Vuoria as Vice Chairman. The following members were elected to the
Nomination and Compensation Committee: Veli-Matti Mattila, Eira Palin-Lehtinen,
Christoffer Taxell, Matti Vuoria, and Björn Wahlroos (Chairman). Anne Brunila
(Chairman), Adine Grate Axén, Jukka Pekkarinen and Per Sørlie were elected to
the Audit Committee.

The Board of Directors assessed the independence of its members and concluded
that all the Board members are independent of the major shareholders and all but
Björn Wahlroos and Matti Vuoria are independent of the company. The Committees
fulfil the Finnish Corporate Governance Code's requirement for independence.

The Annual General Meeting decided to pay the following fees to the members of
the Board of Directors until the close of the 2013 Annual General Meeting: the
Chairman of the Board will be paid EUR 160,000 per year, the Vice Chairman EUR
100,000 per year and the other members EUR 80,000 per year. After deduction of
taxes and similar payments, approximately 50 per cent of the Board members'
annual compensation will be paid in Sampo A shares and the rest in cash.

Ernst & Young Oy was elected as Auditor. The Auditor will be paid a fee
determined by a reasonable invoice. Heikki Ilkka, APA, was re-elected as the
principally responsible auditor.

The Annual General Meeting authorized the Board to acquire in one or several
lots a maximum of 50,000,000 Sampo A shares. Shares can be repurchased in other
proportion than the shareholders' proportional shareholdings (private
repurchase). The share price will be no higher than the highest price paid for
Sampo shares in public trading at the time of purchase. The authorization will
be valid until the close of the next Annual General Meeting, nevertheless not
more than 18 months after AGM's decision.

There were 2,183 shareholders represented at the meeting representing altogether
346,619,490 shares and 351,419,490 votes in the company. All decisions were made
without voting.

The proposals of the Board of Directors and its Nomination and Compensation
Committee and Audit Committee approved by the Annual General Meeting were
published in stock exchange releases on 9 February 2012. The Board proposals are
available in their entirety at www.sampo.com/agm.


SAMPO PLC

Jarmo Salonen
Head of Investor Relations and Group Communications

For additional information, please contact:

Jarmo Salonen
Head of Investor Relations and Group Communications
Tel. +358 10 516 0030

Maria Silander
Press Officer
Tel. +358 10 516 0031



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