IFG Asia Company Background

IFG Asia is part of the IFG Group PLC (www.ifggroup.com) founded in Ireland in the 1980's, a global financial services organization listed on the London and Dublin Stock Exchanges with 23 offices and over 500 employees worldwide. IFG Group's market capitalization as of February 2009 is €74 Million.

IFG Asia offers financial planning and wealth management solutions to Expatriate individuals and Foreign Companies in Japan. The company is registered as a financial instruments firm with the Ministry of Finance (Kantoh Finance Bureau) to offer investment advice to residents of Japan (Registration Number 487).

IFG Asia Limited, as an independent Investment Advisor and uses the broad resources of different product providers and Fund houses, to ensure that its advice is impartial and tailored to your personal circumstances and future objectives. We are not limited to giving advice on any one product range and can therefore offer our clients a wide choice of options.

IFG Asia can provide a one-stop solution for all the financial needs of its clients in Japan and believes that the key to successful financial planning is in the provision of bespoke solutions, ongoing service and maintaining a close relationship with our clients, to ensure that their objectives are on track.

Financial Highlights for IFG Group plc (2008 Preliminary Results)

Date: 26-03-2009
Source: IFG Group

 Key highlights include:

• Revenue of €109.3 million (2007: €128.8m)

• Adjusted operating profit of €20.1 million (2007: €22.0m)

• Operating profit of €15.0 million (2007: €17.3m)

• Adjusted EPS in cent per share of 22.77 (2007: 24.17)

• EPS in cents per share of 15.69 (2007: 17.42)

• Adjusted dividend in cent per share of 3.63 (2007: 3.63)

• Total assets under administration and advice of circa €53 billion

• Three acquisitions in the year under review successfully integrated into the business

 Commenting on the results, Mark Bourke, CEO of IFG Group plc said,

"2008 was a year of excellent performance given particularly difficult markets and sterling’s weakness. The Group has continued to strengthen its core administration, advisory services and growing the assets under our administration and advice.

Our strategy of building diversified and geographically spread income streams is proving resilient in adverse economic conditions and will leave us well positioned for any economic recovery. 2009 will be a very challenging year, but one in which IFG expect to deliver solid results."

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