Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
24 August 2005

                                  3i Group plc

                            Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 24 August 2005 it purchased for cancellation
250,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 703.96 pence per
ordinary share.




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