EANS-News: C-QUADRAT Investment AG / Consolidated Net Profit 1-3/2013 of C-QUADRAT Investment AG

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3-month report

Vienna/Frankfurt (euro adhoc) - .) Strong improvement in earnings in
Q1 2013 .) Net profit for the period of EUR 1.9 million (+185 %) .)
Operating income increase to EUR 15.3 million (+40 %) .) Strong
growth in assets under management .) C-QUADRAT takes majority stake
in QC Partners

In the interim period 1-3/2013 C-QUADRAT Investment AG (ISIN
AT0000613005) realized strong growth in its earnings and a net profit
of EUR 1.9 million (previous year: EUR 0.7 million, +185 %).
Operating income for the first quarter of 2013 amounted to EUR 15.3
million (previous year: EUR 10.9 million, +40 %). These quarterly
figures include for the first time the earnings contributed by the
Company's acquisitions in the previous year, the asset managers BCM
(London/Geneva) and APM (Vienna).

With growth of 47 % in the space of 12 months, the Group has achieved
a strong increase in the total volume of assets under its management.
At the end of March 2013 this amounted to EUR 4.47 billion.

In late April, QC Partners GmbH - in which the C-QUADRAT Group now
holds a majority stake (50.01 %) - closed its acquisition of the
asset management business of the German-French investment bank Kepler
Cheuvreux. QC Partners GmbH is an asset manager seated in Frankfurt
which specializes in alternative investment strategies. QC Partners
GmbH's assets under management currently total EUR 160 million. Its
partners are the investment boutique Q-Advisers as well as its
management.

C-QUADRAT founder and management board member Alexander Schütz
comments: "2013 has got off to a good start. C-QUADRAT is very well
placed, with a broadly diversified product range, while the earnings
generated by our two new asset management subsidiaries - BCM and APM
- have exceeded our expectations."

With immediate effect, the interim report 1-3/2013 of C-QUADRAT
Investment AG may be downloaded from the Investor Relations section
of its website www.c-quadrat.at.

Further inquiry note:
Andreas Wimmer
Stubenring 2
A-1010 Vienna
Tel.: +43 1 515 66 316
Mail: a.wimmer@investmentfonds.at
www.c-quadrat.com

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company: C-QUADRAT Investment AG
Stubenring 2
A-1010 Wien
phone: +43 1 515 66-0
FAX: +43 1 515 66-159
mail: c-quadrat@investmentfonds.at
WWW: www.c-quadrat.at
sector: Financial & Business Services
ISIN: AT0000613005
indexes: Standard Market Auction
stockmarkets: official market: Frankfurt, Wien
language: English