Transaction in Own Shares

3i Group PLC
14 October 2005


                                  3i Group plc

                           Purchase of Own Securities

3i Group plc announces that on 13 October 2005 it purchased for cancellation
650,000 of its ordinary 53 1/8 pence shares at a price of 748.576923 pence per
share.

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