Interim Report January-September 2012

Highlights during the third quarter

  · Net asset value amounted to SEK 163.4 bn. (SEK 215 per share) on September
30, 2012, an increase by SEK 8.5 bn., (SEK 11 per share) during the quarter.

  · Additional shares were acquired in ABB and Wärtsilä.

  · Net cash flow to Investor from EQT and Investor Growth Capital totaled SEK
0.9 bn. during the quarter.

Financial information

  · Net asset value amounted to SEK 163,376 m. (SEK 215 per share) on September
30, 2012, compared to SEK 156,070 m. (SEK 205 per share) at year-end 2011,
corresponding to a change, with dividend added back, of 8 percent (-13). The
Stockholm Stock Exchange’s Total Return Index (SIXRX) was 12 percent during the
same period (-20). Over the past 20 years, annual net asset value growth, with
dividend added back, has been 13 percent.

  · Consolidated net profit for the period, which includes unrealized change in
value, was SEK 13,339 m. (SEK 17.60 per share), compared to SEK -21,555 m. (SEK
-28.25 per share) for the same period 2011.

  · Core Investments contributed SEK 12,010 m. to net asset value for the period
(-28,687), of which Listed SEK 13,289 m. (-29,016).

  · Financial Investments contributed SEK 454 m. to net asset value for the
period (8,385).

  · Leverage (net debt/total assets) was 12.3 percent as of September 30, 2012
(9.8).

  · The total return on the Investor share was 18 percent during the period (
-12), of which 10 percent during the third quarter (-16). The total annual
return on the Investor share averaged 1 percent over the past 5-year period, 15
percent over the past 10-year period and 15 percent over the past 20-year
period.
For further information:

Oscar Stege Unger, Head of Corporate Communications, Phone 46 8 614 2059, 46 70
624 2059
Magnus Dalhammar, Investor Relations Manager, Phone 46 8 614 2130, 46 73 524
2130
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