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- HCI Awarded the Golden Bull by the Axel Springer Finanzen Verlag
- Financial experts and investors alike certify HCI's innovative strength
and quality of service
Hamburg, January 28, 2008 – The Hamburg issuing house HCI Capital AG was
awarded the GOLDEN BULL for Fund Initiator of the Year 2008 in a ceremony
which took place last Friday at the Finanz-Nacht, an annual event sponsored
by Axel Springer Finanzen Verlag. An estimated 800 guests from the
business, political, media and cultural community were present when Andreas
Arndt, executive manager of HCI Capital AG, accepted the award in Munich.
The Golden Bull is awarded by the Axel Springer Finanzen Verlag in several
financial categories every year. This year, a total of 11 awards were
conferred. A multi-level process preceded the selection of Fund Initiator
of the Year 2008. After financial experts compiled a shortlist based on
performance report results and equity placement an independent jury of
approximately 200 financial advisors and readers of the magazine Fonds &
Co. chose the final award-winner. 'We are delighted to have been honored
with this award and it encourages us to continue increasing our focus on
sales and service orientation,' Andreas Arndt, Head of the Sales and
Marketing Division, commented on receiving the award.
With the Golden Bull Award HCI Capital AG has received a total of three
awards this past year, all of them significant in the financial sector. At
the funds & finance trade fair in Cologne in late September 2007, the HCI
Group won the Audience Award for Best Issuing House Of The Year. Also in
September 2007 and for the second time, HCI received Cash Magazine's
Financial Advisors Award for the best closed-end international real estate
funds. Wolfgang Essing, Chairman of the Management Board of HCI Capital AG,
was very pleased: 'This hattrick is proof that the HCI Group is well
received by sales partners and customers as well as by the financial
community.'
About HCI (as per September 30, 2007):
The HCI Group was founded in 1985 and creates closed-end funds and
structured products in shipping, real estate, private equity fund of funds
and the secondary life insurance market, as well as asset creation plans.
Since 1985, over 97,500 clients have invested EUR 5.00 billion in 457
issues, with an investment volume totalling more than EUR 12.77 billion,
making HCI one of the leading financial-services system houses in Germany.
HCI Capital AG has been listed on the stock exchange since October 2005. It
has been listed on the SDAX since December 19, 2005 and on the Hamburg
Regional Index HASPAX since September 1, 2006.
Ingo Pfeil
HCI Capital AG
Corporate Communication
Tel. + 49 (0) 40 88 88 1 236
ingo.pfeil@hci-capital.de
Christina Hoke
NewMark Finanzkommunikation GmbH
Corporate Communication
Tel. + 49 (0) 69 94 41 80 53
christina.hoke@newmark.de
28.01.2008 Financial News transmitted by DGAP
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Language: English
Issuer: HCI Capital AG
Bleichenbrücke 10
20354 Hamburg
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)40 88881-0
Fax: +49 (0)40 88881-109
E-mail: ir@hci.de
Internet: www.hci.de
ISIN: DE000A0D9Y97
WKN: A0D9Y9
Indices: SDAX
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard), Hamburg;
Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart
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