Public Mutual Offers 1% Free Units Under The Awards Celebration Campaign 2006

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KUALA LUMPUR, 25 May 2006 – To commemorate Public Mutual’s success for winning 30 fund awards at The Edge-Lipper Malaysia Fund Awards 2006 and The Star/Standard & Poor’s Investment Fund Awards Malaysia 2006, Public Mutual announces that as a way of saying a big “Thank You” to all their investors for their invaluable support, the company is giving away 1% Free Units from 25 May 2006 to 23 June 2006 for new investments made in any of its equity and/or balanced funds.

Chief Executive Officer Lam Kam Yin said, “Under the Awards Celebration Campaign 2006, all new investments into equity and/or balanced funds within the campaign period of 25 May 2006 to 23 June 2006, and processed by 15 July 2006 will be eligible for the 1% FREE UNITS. Investment into low-load units of bond fund(s) and/or money market fund is excluded.”

He also said that the campaign is open to all “new money”, i.e. initial investment and additional investments with either EPF monies or Cash or a combination of both EPF monies and Cash investments into equity and/or balanced funds within the campaign period. “To be eligible for the free units, the investment amount is subject to the minimum amount of initial investment and additional investment for the fund invested. Terms and conditions apply,” he said.

While the Awards Celebration Campaign 2006 rewards the general investors, Lam said they also launched Mutual Gold Celebration 2006 exclusively for its Mutual Gold priority customers. Under the promotion, Mutual Gold Members with minimum RM30,000 of cumulative new investment in EPF monies and/or cash or a combination of both into the equity/balanced funds during the promotion period of 25 May 2006 till 30 September 2006 and processed by 31 October 2006 are entitled to receive a gift. Gifts to be given away include O2 XDA IIi PDA phone, Nokia 7360 handphone, Sony MP3 player and Tonino Lamborghini watches. Terms and conditions apply.

Mutual Gold is a priority service for high net worth unitholders. The minimum requirement for Mutual Gold is 100,000 Mutual Gold Qualifying Points (MGQP) in an account or a combination of accounts at any one time, based on the first registered holder. RM1 worth of investment in equity and balanced funds is allotted 1 MGQP.

Interested public can call any Public Mutual unit trust consultant or Customer Service Hotline at 03-6279 5252 to find out more about the Awards Celebration Campaign 2006 and Mutual Gold Celebration 2006.

Public Mutual, a subsidiary of Public Bank, is the largest private unit trust company in Malaysia. It manages 29 unit trust funds for more than 800,000 accountholders. As at end April 2006, the company’s total funds under management was over RM13.4 billion.