Decisions Adopted at the Ordinary Shareholders´ Meeting

Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana S.A. ("Grupo SURA" or the "Company") hereby announces the decisions made today at an Ordinary Meeting of its General Assembly of Shareholders. This Meeting obtained a quorum of 77.72% of the Company’s outstanding ordinary voting shares, and the decisions adopted were approved by the majority of the shares present at this meeting.

The items approved by the Shareholders are as follows:

  1. The Management Report from the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer.
  2. The Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements at year-end 2024.
  3. The proposed distribution of dividends, the setting up of the Company’s reserves and the funds to be allocated for social outreach programs., details of which can be consulted at this link.

    It should be noted that the dividend declared at this meeting came to one thousand five hundred (COP $1,500) per share, which represented an increase of 7.14% compared to the dividend declared by the Shareholders for the previous year.
  4. The Proposed Partial Spin-Off by Absorption between Grupo SURA, Grupo Argos S.A. and Cementos Argos S.A. as published on the Company's  website along with all its annexes since as well as all the activities and effects arising therefrom for Grupo SURA.
  5. The termination by mutual agreement of the auditing services contracted with Ernst & Young Audit S.A.S. (EY) in March 2025, and the appointment of the firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers ("PwC") to provide its statutory auditing services  between April 2025 through to March 2026.
  6. The fixing of the fees for the Board of Directors corresponding to eleven million eight hundred and forty-three thousand seven hundred pesos (COP 11,843,700) for each meeting of the Board of Directors and for each meeting attended by the support committees, for the period April 2025 through to March 2026.
  7. The fixing of the fees for the Statutory Auditing Firm PwC in the amount of five hundred forty-six million pesos ( COP 546,000,000) for the period April 2025 to March 2026.

Additional fees were also approved in favor of EY, in the amount of two hundred and thirty thousand dollars (USD 230,000) plus VAT, corresponding to the early issuing of the separate financial statements required for the purposes of the Proposed Spin-Off between Grupo SURA, Grupo Argos and Cementos Argos.

Finally, we would like to announce that all those processes and authorizations required for holding this Ordinary Meeting of the General Assembly of Shareholders were complied with, and that this governing body has the authority to decide on all matters brought before it.

 

 

About Grupo SURA
Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana -Grupo SURA- is creating sustainable profitability based on a portfolio focusing on the financial service sector in Latin America. We are also the holding company of the SURA-Bancolombia Financial Conglomerate, present in Latin America where it provides its financial services, namely insurance, pensions, savings, investment, asset management and banking, through its subsidiaries Suramericana and SURA Asset Management, as well as in its role as the main (non-controlling) shareholder of Bancolombia. The Company is listed on the Colombian Stock Exchange (BVC) and is also registered with the ADR- Level 1 program in the United States. We are also the only Latin American company from the Diversified Financial Services sector to be admitted to the Dow Jones World 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´s portfolio is complemented with industrial investments through Grupo Argos (cement, energy as well as road and airport concessions)