AMANDA CAPITAL TO REPURCHASE ITS OWN SHARES

AMANDA CAPITAL PLC		STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE                                     
	                                                                             
August 13, 2008 

AMANDA CAPITAL TO REPURCHASE ITS OWN SHARES                                    


Amanda Capital Plc's Board of Directors has today decided, on basis of the      
authorisation granted by the Annual General Meeting, to repurchase Amanda's     
shares. According to the authorisation the company may acquire shares for the   
purposes of developing the structure of the company's equity, annulling them,   
using the shares according the personnel incentive plans or for financing the   
acquisition of business assets, or in any other case where the Board of
Directors considers that this would be a beneficial way to use liquid assets.
The authorisation also covers the transfer of shares acquired by the company
and their use for the purposes specified above, the manner and price subject to
separate decision by the Board of Directors. 

The share repurchases will start at the earliest on August 20, 2008. The shares 
will be acquired through public trading on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki at  
the market price prevailing at the time of repurchase. According to the decision
by the Annual General Meeting the company may acquire maximum of 2 200 000 own  
shares.                                                                         



AMANDA CAPITAL PLC                                                              

BOARD OF DIRECTORS                                                              


Additional Information: CEO Petteri Änkilä, tel. +358 9 6829 6011               

Distribution: OMX Nordic Exchange in Helsinki, www.amandacapital.fi             

The Amanda Group is a private equity management company. Its parent company is  
the first publicly listed private equity fund of funds in Scandinavia. Amanda   
has investments in 24 private equity funds and in four funds of funds under     
Amanda's own management. Amanda Group is one of Finland's largest management    
companies of private equity fund investments. It manages several private equity 
fund portfolios under consultancy agreements and six private equity funds of    
funds with several domestic and international institutions as investors. Amanda 
Group currently has EUR 2.4 billion of assets under management (original        
investment commitments) with which it has made investments in more than 100     
private equity funds in Europe, the US, Asia, and Russia.