Strategy: Sciens International, selectively, invests in participations worldwide which offer attractive yields on risk adapted. It intends to take advantage of high leverage level investment opportunities, such as companies with financial difficulties, companies or sectors going through transitional phase, or technology companies serving major consumer or business needs. Furthermore, Sciens International, with respect to its future investments, aims to actively influence or control managerial decisions, in every participation it will make.

Existing Investments: Sciens owns a 16.4% stake in Club Hotel Loutraki (€119.8M Book Value as at September 30, 2009). Club Hotel Loutraki is the company, which runs the operation of Casino Loutraki, which is the biggest casino in Europe with approximately 1.1M visitors annualy and a c.35% share of the Greek market.

Strategy: The Company invests through certain Funds, following a wide range of different investment strategies, pursuing attractive yields, as these appear within the existing investing environment of the international capital markets.

Existing Investments: Sciens operates in the indirect private equity field, through its participation in Sciens Special Situation Master Fund (€96.1M Book Value as at September 30, 2009) with an 69% interest. Sciens Special Situations Master Fund Ltd invests following an important variety of different investment strategies. It seeks the achievement of attractive returns, based on the existing investment climate of international capital markets which creates higher expectations for returns as investors offer their funds in companies of intermediate size. Until September 30, 2009, Sciens Special Situations Master Fund Ltd possesses 23 investment holdings (while it aims to increase them to 30-50 during the next 18- 24 months by attracting new funds from international institutional investors). It invests, by acquiring minority stakes, in financial instruments, equities and bonds of non listed intermediate size firms. The underlying assets are mostly based in North America, the European Union and Greece.