Eurobank Ergasias SA (“Eurobank”) announces, pursuant to the provisions of article 7a (par. 6 case c) of L. 3864/2010, as in force, and based on the relevant notification received from the company “The Capital Group Companies, Inc.” (hereafter “CGC”), that the percentage of Eurobank’s voting rights held indirectly by CGC fell below on 29.01.2020 the threshold of 5% of the total number of Eurobank's voting rights, excluding those held by the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund, and CGC’s percentage of voting rights in Eurobank’s share capital amounted to 4.9831%, corresponding to 182,237,333 voting rights of Eurobank’s ordinary shares.
The full chain of the companies through which the aforementioned voting rights are effectively held is outlined below:
Name | % of voting rights if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold |
% of voting rights through financial instruments if it equals of is higher that the notifiable threshold | Total of both if it equals or is higher than the notifiable threshold |
The Capital Group Companies, lnc. | |||
Capital Research and Management Company* |
CGC is the parent company of Capital Research and Management Company (“CRMC”) and Capital Bank & Trust Company (“CB&T”). CRMC is a U.S.-based investment management company that serves as investment manager to the American Funds family of mutual funds, other pooled investment vehicles, as well as individual and institutional clients. CRMC and its investment manager affiliates manage equity assets for various investment companies through three divisions, Capital Research Global Investors, Capital International Investors and Capital World Investors. CRMC is the parent company of Capital Group International, lnc. (“CGII”), which in turn is the parent company of four investment management companies (“CGII management companies”): Capital International, lnc., Capital International Limited, Capital International Sàrl and Capital International Κ.Κ. CGII management companies and CB&T primarily serve as investment managers to institutional and high net worth clients. CB&Τ is a U.S.-based investment management company that is a registered investment adviser and an affiliated federally chartered bank.
Neither CGC nor any of its affiliates own shares of Eurobank for its own account. Rather, the shares mentioned above are owned by accounts under the discretionary investment management of one or more of the investment management companies described above.