AMANDA CAPITAL PLC IS PLANNING TO INVEST EUR 20 MILLION TO A NEW FUND OF FUNDS


AMANDA CAPITAL PLC		STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE                                      

19.6.2006                                                                  

AMANDA CAPITAL PLC IS PLANNING TO INVEST EUR 20 MILLION TO A NEW FUND OF FUNDS  

The Amanda Group is establishing a limited partnership fund, Amanda IV West,    
which invests in unquoted companies in Western Europe through local private     
equity funds.                                                                   

Amanda Capital Plc is going to make a EUR 20 million commitment from its own    
balance sheet to this fund.                                                     


AMANDA CAPITAL PLC                                                              

Petteri Änkilä                                                                  
CEO                                                                             


Further information: Mr Petteri Änkilä, CEO, tel. +358 9 6829 6011              
                                                                                

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Helsinki Stock Exchange                                                         
www.amandacapital.fi                                                            

The Amanda Group is a private equity investment company. Its parent company     
(Amanda Capital Plc) is the first publicly listed private equity fund-of-funds  
in Scandinavia. The parent company has investments in 24 different private      
equity funds and in three funds of funds managed by Amanda.                     

Amanda Group is one of Finland's largest private equity fund investment         
management companies. The Group manages several private equity fund portfolios  
under consultancy agreements. It manages also five private equity funds of      
funds, which have several domestic and international investors. Amanda Group    
currently has more than EUR 1.3 billion of assets under management (original    
investment commitments) and has made investments in more than 100 private equity
funds in Europe, the United States, Asia and Russia.