The Board of Directors of the company DIAS CLOSED-END FUND S.A.announces that during its session of 1 February 2006, decided to call its Shareholders' Extraordinary General Meeting on 23 February 2006 and to propose the Share Capital Increase of the company in the form of a Rights' issue, judging that the current conditions in the economies and in Stock Exchange markets, both locally and abroad and particularly in South-eastern Europe, favor the realisation of new investments.Consequently, the Board decided that 50% approximately of the amount that will be raised from the share capital increase, to be invested in markets of emerging countries of South-eastern and Central Europe, while the remaining 50% to be used for the purchase of shares of companies listed on the Athens Exchange, including and Greek companies that have been expanded or are about to be expanded in countries of Central and South-eastern Europe.

The exact amount and the individual terms of the share capital increase are to be decided at the Shareholders' Extraordinary General Meeting of the company according to the conditions that will prevail then in the market, even though the objective of the Board of Directors is to reach a share capital increase of at least EUR 30 million.

DIAS CLOSED-END FUND S.A.., the portfolio of which is managed by EFG EUROBANK ASSET MANAGEMENT S.A., during the fiscal year 2005 achieved net profits of EUR 8.6 million, as opposed to EUR 2.2 million in the fiscal year 2004, up by 286%. Also its is worth mentioning that the return of the company's portfolio (increase of intrinsic value) for 2005 reached 27.7%. In a similar fashion, the new year began with positive returns for the company's portfolio, as attention was immediately paid to shares of medium capitalization, which present particularly high returns. According to the official data of the Greek Union of Institutional Investors of 20 January 2006, the return of DIAS CLOSED-END FUND S.A. portfolio from the beginning of the year reaches 8.20% and is the highest in the investment companies' sector. The portfolio of the ompany is invested today by 94.9% in Greek shares, while the ten (10) larger placements are -as percentage of total portfolio-the following: EUROBANK ( 9.3%), Hellenic Telecommunications Org. S.A. (4.9%), FOYRLIS (4.8%), GENIKI BANK (4.2%), COCA COLA 3rd (4.0%), PUBLIC POWER CORPORATION (3.7%), ALPHA BANK (3.6%), ROKAS (3.2%), EMPORIKI BANK (3.1%), GEK (3.0%). The major shareholder of the company is EFG EUROBANK ERGASIAS HM with 42.04%.