Gräfelfing/Munich, May 2, 2001. The shareholders of securities house MWB will participate in the respectable results of business year 2000 despite the ongoing bad market conditions. The company"s managing and supervisory boards will therefore recommend to the shareholders" meeting, which takes place in Munich on June 25, 2001, an unchanged dividend of EUR1.11 per entitled share.

MWB AG is thus continuing its shareholder-friendly policy for the business year 2000. In addition to the company"s value approach this policy includes a dividend strategy. "We want to tie our shareholders to our company over the long term and have them participate in our success," says Thomas Posovatz, Speaker of the board. "This fits the original idea of shareholding, which was considered an investment in a company and not a form of speculation."

MWB AG (www.mwb.de) has been listed in the SMAX since April 1999. It is a leading specialist and market maker for now 2,100 foreign securities in Germany. MWB has seats on the Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart stock exchanges. It is also active in the IPO business and asset management with its wholly owned subsidiary MWB Wertpapierhandelsbank.