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Castle Alternative Invest AG announces that the ordinary general meeting today approved all agenda items proposed by the board of directors.

Please be informed that Castle Alternative Invest AG will hold its ordinary general meeting (AGM) on 15 May 2019 at 14:00h CET (doors open at 13:30h CET).

The Board of Directors of Castle Alternative Invest AG informs about the receipt of an additional request by BKS Global PCC Limited, domiciled in Guernsey, to include items on the agenda of the 2019 annual general meeting. With reference to the Swiss Code of Obligations, article 699, para 3, BKS Global PCC Limited requests to have one additional agenda item be dealt with at the ordinary shareholders’ meeting on May, 15th 2019 next to the agenda items which have been announced on March, 20th 2019. Payment of an extraordinary tax-free dividend of at least CHF 38 million The shareholder BKS Global PCC Limited holds 328,479 shares, equalling to 4.18 per cent of the total share capital and voting rights in Castle Alternative Invest AG. The Board of Directors of Castle Alternative Invest AG will examine the requests of BKS Global PCC Limited and will communicate its position in due course.

Castle Alternative Invest’s 2018 annual report is now available on the Castle Alternative Invest website at www.castleai.com.

The Board of Directors of Castle Alternative Invest AG informs about the receipt of a request by BKS Global PCC Limited, domiciled in Guernsey, to include items on the agenda of the 2019 annual general meeting. With reference to the Swiss Code of Obligations, article 699, para 3, BKS Global PCC Limited requests to have the following agenda items be dealt with at the ordinary shareholders’ meeting on May, 15th 2019.

On 12 November 2018 Castle Alternative Invest Ltd. announced a share buyback programme by issuing put options tradable on SIX Swiss Exchange. The put options have been traded from 15 to and including 29 November 2018. Every 20 put options entitled shareholders to tender one registered share at the exercise price of CHF 18.00. In total, 348,109 registered shares were tendered which correspond to 4.43% of the share capital and voting rights registered in the commercial register. The net purchase price (exercise price minus 35% withholding tax calculated on the difference between the exercise price and the nominal value) will be paid on 4 December 2018. It is intended that approval for the cancellation of all registered shares repurchased will be sought at the next Annual General Meeting. Furthermore, following the termination of the buyback via issuance of tradable put options, the Board of Directors of Castle Alternative Invest Ltd. decided to launch a new share buyback programme on a second trading line at SIX Swiss Exchange. It will start on 5 December 2018 (first trading day) and a maximum of 438,133 registered shares (maximum 5.57% of the share capital and voting rights registered in the commercial register) will be purchased for cancellation purposes.

Today the Board of Directors of Castle Alternative Invest Ltd. has decided to terminate on 12 November 2018 the current share buyback programme on a second trading line on SIX Swiss Exchange, which started on 19 July 2018. With the end of the programme, 400,100 shares were bought back. Together with the completed buyback programme through the issuance of put options in July 2018, the maximum number of registered shares approved by shareholders at the AGM held on 15 May 2018 is reached. The buybacks mentioned before were done for cancellation purposes.

The Board of Directors of Castle Alternative Invest Ltd. has resolved to buy back up to 10% of its share capital as recorded in the Commercial Register on further share buyback programmes fol-lowing the ongoing share buyback programme. The ongoing share buyback programme is ex-pected to end mid November 2018.

Castle Alternative Invest AG announces that the company's semi-annual report 2018 is now available under CastleAI's website

On 1 June 2018, the share buyback programme on a second trading line at SIX Swiss Exchange was terminated. Overall, a total of 594,551 registered shares or 6.82% of the current share capital and voting rights were bought back.