Sales

allied to

entrepreneurial passion

The stock-market listed Aragon AG is a broadly diversified

financial services company with more than 18.000 active

independent financial advisors in Germany, Czech Republic

Hungary and Austria, with more than 5,8 Bn.€ of Assets under

Administration and an annual new business volume

of about 1 Bn.€

Aragon AG is a leading financial services company, which is successfully operating via ist subsidiaries on advisory in and brokerage of financial products. Those subsidiaries operate each with own strategy and brands in Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe. This subsidiaries attend to 20,500 independent financial brokers including 4,000 tied agents and more than 900,000 end clients, which are engaged in consulting and brokering of financial products.

As part of a profitable growth strategy, Aragon AG is accelerating its organic growth through consistent implementation of a buy-and-build strategy through acquisitions and strategic partnerships. Since the founding of Aragon AG, various sales models have consistently been successfully integrated in the Group. This unique corporate strategy, combined with many years of expertise in the financial services market, makes Aragon AG the key driver of consolidation in the segment of financial sales arising from the market conditions and the regulation.

With its integrated distribution platform, Aragon AG offers financial brokers and their end clients a widely diversified product range through asset-class investment and closed-end funds, structured products, insurance policies and (construction) financing. More than 12,000 products from over 500 product companies can be brokered or marketed through Aragon AG. During 2010 Aragon AG managed to post record product sales of close to EUR 1.9 billion. Assets under management at year end 2010 amounted to around EUR 4.0 billion.

Aragon AG’s activities are segmented by target groups and services into two operating segments “Broker Pools”, “Financial Consulting” and the segment “Holding”. In the divisions, the individual subsidiaries of Aragon AG operate by applying a multiple brand strategy, i. e. the individual subsidiaries each operate in their target markets with their own identity and address their target groups using an appropriate marketing and sales strategy.

Aragon AG and holding companies also perform central management functions such as product purchasing, financing, capital market communications, information technology and administration. Centralizing these functions and activities allows Aragon AG to increase cost synergies.

Aragon AG generally holds a majority interest in its individual subsidiaries. To ensure the business continuity of a success critical corporate management in financial sales, as a rule, the loyalty of the management teams of subsidiaries is safeguarded on a long-term basis through shareholdings in their respective companies. This ensures that all business divisions have common interests and promotes commitment to our profitable growth strategy.