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Acta Holding ASA Reference is made to the conference call in English today at 12:00 CET (11:00 GMT) in order to give a market update before the summer. The conference call will be followed by a Q&A session.

Please find below information on share issues in 2Q, continued quality improvement and satisfied customers as a basis for the call.

How to join the conference call:

Dial in phone number: +44 20 7138 0825 Code: 7325429

Participants will be asked for their name and company before entering the call and are therefore advised to dial in at least 5 minutes early to avoid delays.

A replay will be available the following seven days by calling +44 (0)20 7806 1970 with code 7325429#.

Share issues in 2Q

US Real estate mandate - US Opportunities

- more than NOK 1 billion

- largest ever first issue for a new asset class or product initiative

- US Opportunities AS - NOK 560,192,690

- 56,019,269 shares @ 10 NOK/share

- US Opportunities AB - SEK 554,870,910

- 55,487,091 shares @ 10 SEK/share

Global Real Estate Mandate

- Global Eiendom Utbetaling AS - NOK 108,751,718.25

- 10,714,455 shares @ 10.15 NOK/share

- Global Fastighet Utbetaling AB - SEK 107,989,047.25

- 10,639,315 shares @ 10.15 SEK/share

Global Shipping Mandate

- Global Shipsholding 2 AB - SEK 39,170,040

- 1,920,100 A shares @ 11 SEK/share

- 1,804,894 B shares @ 10 SEK/share

- Global Shipping 2 AS - Opened June 2nd, to be closed during 3rd quarter

Global Infrastructure

- Global Infrastructure 1 AS - NOK 128,412,997.59

- 12,577,179 shares @ 10.21 NOK/share

- Global Infrastructure 1 AB - SEK 202,837,359.12

- 19,964,307 shares @ 10.16 SEK/share

Global Private Equity

- Global Private Equity 2 AB - SEK 136,572,626.96

- 13,182,686 shares @ 10.36 SEK/shares

- Global Private Equity 2 AS

- Private placing, closes today - 27.06.2008

Continued Quality Improvement

- Based on critique in the press, Acta will this summer:

- Improve the way we inform about product fees

- Make it easier for the clients to understand the cost of the products

- The ambition is to create a new industry standard on information of costs and return on investments

- Change the fee structure

- A shift to more managment based fees

- Lower fees at time of purchase

- Introduce a more restrictive attitude to gearing of investments

- Will no longer offer loans with collateral in securities

- Lower the limit for customers maximum debt ratio

- Limit risk in the customers' portfolios

- Avoid to present investment solutions on controversial arenas

- We have held investment seminars at some senior citizens' community centres in co-operation with some pensioner associations

- Clarification:

- Acta has NOT arranged investment seminars at retirement homes

- Acta has NOT sold any investment products at seminars

- Acta understands that arenas like this demands carefulness

- Still, Acta believes that it is wrong to discriminate on age itself

Satisfied customers

- Good financial return over time

- Massive support from customers in spite of negative media coverage

- Many customers have been in contact with the company and expressed support

- Some customers have written reader's letters to the newspapers

- Customers say that they do not share the opinion portrayed in the media

- Acta will prove that the company deserves the customers' support

- Build on high customer satisfaction in Norway and Sweden

- Establish customer councils in order to improve the advisory process and product information

- Establish a customer hot line to compliance as a low barrier service for complaints

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Stavanger, 27th June 2008 Acta Holding ASA

Christian Tunge Chief Financial Officer

Acta Holding ASA

http://www.acta.no

ISIN: NO0003108102

Stock Identifier: XOSL.ACTA

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