Ad hoc Announcements 25.10.2005

Third quarter 2005: Consolidated pretax profit of €3.80 million / 16,191 new securities account custom-ers / Customer assets under management increase €2.07 billion to reach €23.21 billion.

Munich, 25.10.2005. The DAB bank Group (Munich), which operates in Germany and Austria, generated a pretax profit of €3.80 million in the third quarter of 2005 (Q3/2004: €2.70 million). This figure includes a negative profit contribution of €0.50 million from FSB FondsServiceBank GmbH. For the first nine months of 2005, the Group's pretax profit rose 30 % over the comparable prior-year period (first nine months of 2004: €12.14 million) to reach €15.83 million.

The total income for the third quarter of 2005 improved 55 % over the prior-year quarter (Q3/2004: €31.94 million) to reach €49.55 million; of this amount, €7.11 million was contributed by FSB. Net financial income for the third quarter of 2005 amounted to €8.67 million, 5.8 % higher than the cor-responding figure for the preceding quarter, which was €8.19 million

(Q3/2004: €15.83 million). One third of this increase, in the amount of €3.05 million, was contributed by FSB. Total expenses were €45.75 million (Q3/2004: €28.88 million), of which amount €7.61 million derived from FSB. The administrative expenses rose slightly from €29.82 million in the second quarter to €30.90 million in the third quarter of 2005 (thereof FSB: €4.37 million; Q3/2004: €22.01 million).

The DAB bank Group added 16,191 net new securities accounts in the third quarter of 2005, bringing the total to 941,208 (Q3/2004: 464,415). DAB bank AG now has 453,176 securities accounts (Q3/2004: 435,769), FSB 455,086 and direktanlage.at AG 32,946 (Q3/2004: 28,646). Customer as-sets under management reached a new record level of €23.21 billion in the third quarter of 2005, after posting a renewed increase of €2.07 billion (Q3/2004: €12.85 billion). Of this amount, nearly 60 % or €13.48 billion were invested in investment funds.

DAB bank executed 2,355,056 trades in the third quarter, up from the preceding quarter (2,015,516). Of this number, 1,270,576 trades were executed by FSB. DAB bank AG and direktanlage.at together executed 1,084,480 trades (Q3/2004: 648,294). For the DAB bank Group, this figure translates to 10.10 trades per securities account and year (Q3/2004: 5.61).

DAB bank is confirming its profit goal for the full year 2005, which is to generate a consolidated pre-tax profit of €21 million, representing a 30% increase over the consolidated pretax profit for 2004.

Due to the merger of FSB FondsServiceBank GmbH with DAB bank AG effective September 30, 2005, the complete report for the third quarter will be published on Thursday, November 3, 2005.