Decisions of the Sampo plc Annual General Meeting

SAMPO PLC        STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE       13 April 2010 at 4.30 pm



DECISIONS OF THE SAMPO PLC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of Sampo plc, held today, decided to distribute a
dividend of EUR 1.00 per share for 2009. The record date for dividend payment is
16 April 2010. The dividend will be paid on 23 April 2010. The Annual General
Meeting adopted the financial accounts for 2009 and discharged the Board of
Directors and the Group CEO and President from liability for the financial year.

The following members were re-elected to the Board of Directors: Tom Berglund,
Anne Brunila, Veli-Matti Mattila, Eira Palin-Lehtinen, Jukka Pekkarinen,
Christoffer Taxell, Matti Vuoria and Björn Wahlroos.

At its organisational meeting, the Board elected Björn Wahlroos as Chairman and
Matti Vuoria as Vice Chairman. The following members were elected to the
Nomination and Compensation Committee: Veli-Matti Mattila, Eira Palin-Lehtinen,
Christoffer Taxell, Matti Vuoria, and Björn Wahlroos. Tom Berglund, Jukka
Pekkarinen and Christoffer Taxell were elected to the Audit Committee.

The Board of Directors has assessed the independence of its members and
concluded that Berglund, Mattila, Palin-Lehtinen, Pekkarinen and Taxell are
non-executive members independent of the company and its major shareholders.
Based on the Board's assessment, Wahlroos, Vuoria and Brunila are independent of
the Company's major shareholders but not independent of the company.

The Annual General Meeting decided to pay the following fees to the members of
the Board of Directors until the close of the 2011 Annual General Meeting: the
Chairman of the Board will be paid EUR 160,000 per year, the Vice Chairman EUR
100,000 per year and the other members EUR 80,000 per year. After deduction of
taxes and similar payments, approximately 50 per cent of the Board members'
annual compensation will be paid in Sampo A shares and the rest in cash.

Ernst & Young Oy was elected as Auditor. The Auditor will be paid a fee
determined by a reasonable invoice.

The Annual General Meeting authorised the Board to acquire in one or several
lots a maximum of 50,000,000 Sampo A shares. Shares can be repurchased in other
proportion than the shareholders' proportional shareholdings (private
repurchase). The share price will be no higher than the highest price paid for
Sampo shares in public trading at the time of purchase. The authorisation will
be valid until the close of the next Annual General Meeting, nevertheless not
more than 18 months after AGM's decision.

The Annual General Meeting resolved to amend section 12 of the Articles of
Association as a result of the amendments to section 19 of the Finnish Limited
Liability Companies Act that entered into force on 3 August 2009 and 31 December
2009.

The proposals of the Board of Directors and its Nomination and Compensation
Committee and Audit Committee approved by the Annual General Meeting were
published in stock exchange releases on 11 February 2010. The Board proposals
are available in their entirety at www.sampo.com/agm.


SAMPO PLC

Jarmo Salonen
Head of Investor Relations and Group Communications

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