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FWU Group to receive 'Best Takaful Provider' Award at Euromoney Islamic Finance Awards 2011 in London

Monday 14^th February 2011, Dubai, UAE - FWU Group today announced that it is to be the recipient of the "Best Takaful Provider" Award from the Euromoney Islamic Finance Awards 2011 in London to be held on the 22^nd February 2011. The event, to be hosted at the prestigious Landmark Hotel, will recognise the most successful Islamic institutions worldwide.

It is the second time that FWU Group will receive an accolade from the Euromoney Islamic Finance Awards. In 2007 FWU Group was awarded as the "Best Life Takaful Provider". This award recognised the group's growing footprint, reputation for innovation, creative product design, IT systems and quality of white labelled unit-linked savings plans. FWU Group has replicated this successful model to its international Family Takaful business, bringing in the knowledge and expertise. Indeed, FWU Group is the uncontested leader in the fast expanding Takaful industry, and is the largest global producer of Bancatakaful in five markets: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Malaysia and Pakistan.

"Our position as leaders can be attributed to the successful long term strategic partnerships we have developed with local Takaful partners and the distribution agreements with major banks in each market. FWU Group has developed a very unique business model" says Dr Manfred Dirrheimer, Chairman and CEO.

FWU Group offers its bank distribution partners a customised innovative Takaful product family, which includes savings, education, and marriage plans. FWU Group also introduced in 2010 a second generation of Family Takaful Investment Linked Plans (both Regular and Single Premium). The investment value proposition takes into account the various risk profiles specific to each customer segment and provides an open-investment architecture where banks can incorporate their own Shari'ah-compliant funds into the investments universe as well as a proprietary quantitative investment model for the monthly fund selection and allocation. FWU Group's Takaful partners offer two distinct investment strategies: equities and cash. The Participant in the Takaful Fund is able to choose which strategy is best suited to his/her risk appetite.

FWU Group has recently introduced a unique investment programme in conjunction with an international bank: the dynamic principal-protected equity strategy. This Dynamic Protection Plan (DPP) is an additional tool, which will be added to the actively managed underlying equity portfolio of the FWU Group Family Takaful Programmes. It has been designed to allow for participation in the upward trends of the equity markets whilst offering protection against bearish markets.

Thanks to this mechanism, the level of protected unit price can only increase, but never decrease during the entire contribution payment period of the Takaful contract. The concept offers not only capital protection for the total invested contribution component at the end of the contribution payment period, but also a continuous and innovative fixing of protected unit prices at maturity within the Family Takaful Program. As a result, the Participant can profit continuously from the opportunities of the international stock markets while being protected against losses by the end of the investment term.

Besides product and process innovation, FWU Group also prides itself in giving advice and support regarding regulatory matters, full after-sales service including training and customer risk profiling.

"FWU Group has ambitious plans for the Takaful industry and is planning to further extend its outreach to countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco, Brunei and South Africa. FWU Group's aim is to create a Family Takaful business not only for Muslim communities but also for the worldwide non-Muslim consumers" says Sohail Jaffer, Partner and Head of International Business Development.

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About FWU Group
FWU Group was founded in 1989 by Dr Manfred Dirrheimer, an international entrepreneur, and counts over 160 qualified professionals encompassing 26 different nationalities and speaking 40 different languages. FWU AG, the parent company, is headquartered in Munich and has a majority-owned European life insurance subsidiary as well as an asset management unit, both located in Luxembourg. Atlanticlux SA, active since 1987 and FWU Group's life insurance subsidiary, has been awarded an investment grade rating by Fitch and total premiums exceed € 1.1 billion.

The Group has regrouped all its international Takaful business in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and is now trading under the name of FWU Global Takaful Services.

FWU Group has its own Shari'ah Board and an independent international advisory board for its international Takaful business. FWU Group is an observer member of IFSB and an active member of their Takaful working group.

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