Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
26 October 2005



                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities


3i Group plc announces that on 25 October 2005 it purchased for cancellation
500,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 739.509 pence per
share.



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