Indices Benchmark Correction

RNS Number : 2074Z

Impax Asset Management Group plc

10 January 2011

 



IMPAX ASSET MANAGEMENT GROUP PLC

MSCI/Morningstar benchmark correction

London, 10 January 2011 - Impax Asset Management Group plc, ("Impax" or the "Company"), the AIM listed investment manager focused on the environmental sector, would like to provide a revision to the comparable index data for 2008, which corrects a formatting error within today's results announcement. 

The benchmark returns in relation MSCI and Morningstar indices for 2008 should have read as follows:

·     MSCI World                                                                                               -17.9%

·     MSCI Small Cap                                                                                        -19.5%

·     Morningstar equity ecology sector average                                -30.0%

·     Morningstar alternative energy sector average                        -40.7%

The corrections do not relate to the performance of Impax's strategies.

Enquiries:

Impax Asset Management Group plc

Charlie Ridge, Chief Financial Officer                             020 7434 1122

Execution Noble & Co

John Riddell, Director                                                            0203 429 1426

MHP Communications

Gay Collins                                                                                  0203 128 8582    [e-mail]

                 07798 626 282

 

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