Mexico D.F. June 5, 2014. SURA Asset Management, a Latin American company, with more than 16 million clients in its pension, savings and investment business, today announced that it has appointed a new CEO for SURA Mexico, where the Organization has a firm strategic objective aimed at building up its pension, annuity, life insurance and institutional fund business.

As of July 1, Pablo Sprenger shall be taking over as CEO of SURA in Mexico, a position he has held on a provisional basis since December of last year. He shall also form part of SURA Asset Management's Executive Committee, made up of all those Chief Executive Officers who lead the Company's subsidiaries in a total of six Latin American countries.

In Mexico, SURA has 6.1 million clients, USD 26.8 billion in Assets Under Management (AUM), a 14,3% share in the pension market along with 3.186 employees.

Through its multiple lines of voluntary and mandatory savings products for both private individuals and institutions, SURA is now an important player in the Mexican financial sector. In 2013, SURA México reopened its annuity line of business and acquired a life insurance company, thereby extending its range of Wealth Management options with new products and services.

"SURA Asset Management's strategic focus within the region is to drill  down on our share of the market in key countries such as Mexico, providing an integrated range of comprehensive products focusing on the needs of millions of our Mexican clients in terms of  savings, investment and wealth protection " stated Andrés Castro, the Company's Chief Executive Officer

Pablo Sprenger holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile as well as an MBA from the Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He has extensive experience within the financial service, having held various posts in Falabella Servicios Financieros, AFP Bansander and ING Chile. In June 2012, after ING was taken over by Grupo SURA, Mr. Sprenger became SURA Asset Management´s Vice-president of Business Development.

SURA México's main achievements last year included the acquisition of Primero Seguros, as well as the signing of an agreement with four global asset management firms: Pioneer Investments, BlackRock, Investec Asset Management and Morgan Stanley.

Also during the first quarter of this year, the Company received the Morningstar award for the best Multi-Fund Management firm in Mexico for 2013.

About SURA México

SURA México's portfolio of companies includes Afore SURA, Pensiones SURA, SURA Investment Management and Seguros de Vida SURA. At March 2014, it managed more than MXN 346 thousand million in assets, with a headcount of 3,000 and more than 6 million clients.

About SURA Asset Management

SURA Asset Management is a Latin American Company operating in the Pension, Savings and Investment sectors in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay and El Salvador. Besides being a subsidiary of Grupo SURA, the Company has six minority shareholders, namely, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, Grupo Bolívar, Bancolombia, the International Equity Firm, General Atlantic, JP Morgan and the Wiese Group. At March 2014, SURA Asset Management held a total of USD 115.4 billion in assets under management belonging to 16.6 million clients.

About Grupo SURA

Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana -GRUPO SURA- is a Latin American company listed on the Colombian Stock Exchange and registered with the ADR- Level 1 program in the United States. . It is also the only Latin American company from the Diversified Financial Service Sector to be admitted to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), which tracks companies who have become global benchmarks thanks to the best practices they have adopted from the economic, environmental and social standpoints. GRUPO SURA has two fields of investment: its core strategic interests in the financial service, insurance, pension, savings and investment sectors; and its portfolio interests in the processed food, cement and energy sectors.

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