· These dividends shall be paid out through the Colombian Centralized Securities Depository (Deceval) by means of direct deposits in the shareholders´ bank accounts or at Bancolombia´s branch offices.

Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana - GRUPO SURA - has commenced with the payment of the fourth and last dividend payment for 2011, as approved by the shareholders at their Annual Ordinary Meeting held on March 29, 2011, this corresponding to COP 72.5 per quarter per ordinary share.

More than COP 34,000 million shall be paid out to almost 8.000 shareholders as part of this last quarterly installment corresponding to the period January to March 2012.


On the other hand, GRUPO SURA would like to remind all those investors who purchased its recently issued preferred shares, that the dividend corresponding to the period between the date on which said shares were allotted and December 31, 2011, shall be calculated on a proportional basis and paid in conjunction with the preferred dividend corresponding to the first quarter of 2012 and on the same date as the first quarterly dividend installment becomes due and payable, this to be approved at this year´s Annual Shareholder Meeting.

This year dividends for all those shareholders with physical share certificates shall be paid out at Bancolombia´s branch offices. In the case of all the other shareholders, dividends shall be paid out as usual via any one of the following mechanisms: 

- Through the Colombian Centralized Securities Depository (Deceval) to the stock brokerage firm acting as the shareholder´s direct depositor, in the case of dematerialized shares.

- Electronic fund transfers for all those shareholders who do not have a director depositor (stock brokerage firms), providing such payment has been previously authorized.

For more information please contact our Shareholder Service Center: Tel: 404 2451 /404 2452 / 404 2371 / 404 2453 / 4355302, or visit our website .

Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana´s ordinary share is currently listed with the US Stock Exchanges by means of the ADR Level 1 program, with the European stock market through Latibex, hosted by the Madrid Stock Exchange and its preferred share is listed with the Colombian Stock Exchange.

ABOUT GRUPO DE INVERSIONES SURAMERICANA 

Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana is a multi-Latin company listed on the Colombian stock exchange and registered with the ADR- Level 1 program in the United States. It is also listed with the Latibex Market for Latin American Stocks in Euros hosted by the Madrid Stock Exchange. It is also the one of the three major Latin American financial institutions to be admitted to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), which monitors companies who have become global benchmarks thanks to the good practices they have adopted from the economic, environmental and social standpoints. The Company has two fields of investment: the first being its strategic investments in the financial service, insurance, social security as well as complementary service sectors;and the second corresponds to its portfolio investments in the food, cement and energy sectors. 

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