With regard to the Ordinary Meeting of the General Assembly of Shareholders of Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana S.A. (Grupo SURA Group) held on March 28, 2025, once all votes cast were counted[1], the percentages by which each of the decisions were approved and adopted at said meeting are hereby reported:
- The Management Report from the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer corresponding to 2024 was approved by 95.13% of the ordinary shares present at this meeting.
- The Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements at year-end 2024 were approved by 95.13% of the ordinary shares present at this meeting.
- The distribution of dividends, setting up of reserves and the funds to be allocated for social outreach programs were approved by 99.99% of the ordinary shares present at this meeting.
- The Proposed Partial Spin-Off by Absorption between Grupo SURA, Grupo Argos S.A. and Cementos Argos S.A. Together with all its annexes, as well as all the activities and effects arising therefrom for Grupo SURA, were approved by 99.99% of the ordinary shares present at this meeting
- The termination by mutual agreement of the statutory auditing services contracted from Ernst & Young Audit S.A.S. in March 2025 and the appointment of the firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to provide its services as the statutory auditing firm from April 2025 to March 2026, was approved by 99.94% of the ordinary shares present at this meeting.
- 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 attending each meeting of the Board of Directors and for each meeting of the Board´s Support Committees, from April 2025 through to March 2026. was approved by 99.71% of the ordinary shares present at this meeting.
- The fees for the Statutory Auditor PwC corresponding to the amount of five hundred and forty-six million pesos (COP 546,000,000) from April 2025 to March 2026 as well as additional fees 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. were approved by 99.94% of the ordinary shares present at this meeting.
The Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting obtained a quorum of 77.75% of the number of outstanding ordinary voting shares.
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)
[1] The votes cast corresponded to the communications sent to the Company Secretary from international funds and Company shareholders, when the meeting´s pre-registration process was carried out.