Holding of own shares and receipt of proxies and Share capital and voting rights of Topdanmark

31 March 2008
Announcement No. 08/2008


Holding of own shares and receipt of proxies 
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Topdanmark now holds own shares representing 7.37% of the share capital as
opposed to the 7.53% previously reported in announcement No. 04/2008 published
on 17 March 2008. This is a reduction in the holding of own shares to 1,245,489
shares from the 1,270,889 previously reported. 

Topdanmark's Board of Directors has received blank proxies to be used at the
Company's AGM on 15 April 2008 representing 2.91% of the share capital or
491,627 shares. 

Therefore Topdanmark now holds own shares and voting rights representing in
total 10.28% of the share capital. 

The proxies will expire after the AGM and subsequently Topdanmark will hold
zero percent of the voting rights. 

Topdanmark has at present bought back own shares for DKK 309m of the programme
of DKK 1,050m for 2008 previously announced. 

This announcement is being published with reference to Sections 28 and 29 of
the Danish Securities Trading Act and Section 4 of Appendix 1225/2007 to the
same Act. 

Share capital and voting rights of Topdanmark
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With reference to Section 6 of Order No. 226 of 15 March 2007 on issuers'
disclosure requirements it is hereby announced that the share capital of
Topdanmark totals DKK 168,963,500 divided into 16,896,350 shares of DKK 10
each, corresponding to 16,896,350 voting rights. 


Please direct any queries to:
Lars Thykier, Managing Director, Topdanmark Kapitalforvaltning
Direct tel: +45 4474 3714