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VIPsight Shareholder ID: …….. Holdings in per cent
Companies Own-shares Notifiable shareholders Share Investment companies (KAGs) making disclosures*  
        Total Change Biggest KAG Share
               
MDAX              
               
Aareal Bank AG   Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder 6,5 St 35,32 -2,24 DeAWM Investment GmbH 3,24
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,43 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,8 St        
    Dr. August Oetker Finanzierungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH 4,7 St        
    FMR LLC 3,45 St        
    Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,04 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,97 St        
    Basler Leben AG 2,7 St        
    Deutscher Ring Krankenversicherungsverein a.G. 1,4 St        
    Condor Lebensversicherung-AG 1,1 St        
               
Airbus Group SE 0,06 (St) Société de Gestion de Participations Aéronautiques-Sogepa 10,9 St 17,17 -0,52 Capital Research and Management Company 3,42
    KfW - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau 10,9 St        
    Capital Group International Inc. 5,07 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,98 St        
    Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI) 4,1 St        
               
Aurubis AG   Salzgitter AG 25 St 23,24 -1,61 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 2,84
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,08 St        
    Delta Lloyd Asset Management N.V. 2,99 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,98 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,01 St        
    Vorstand 0,01 St        
               
Axel Springer SE   Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. 51,5 St 29,63 -2,67 Tweedy, Browne Fund Inc. 9,52
    Dr. Friede Springer 5,56 St        
    Dr. Mathias Döpfner 3,06 St        
    Vorstand 0,13 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,08 St        
               
Bilfinger SE 3,99 (St) Cevian Capital II GP Limited 25,62 St 25,56 -1,33 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,44
    Schroders plc 3,34 St        
    GVO Asset Management AG 3,04 St        
    DJE Investment S.A. 2,98 St        
    Delta Lloyd Asset Management N.V. 2,59 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,3 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 1,68 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,84 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,1 St        
               
Brenntag AG   Threadneedle Investment Funds ICVC 7,28 St 24,78 -0,47 Threadneedle Asset Management Limited 3,03
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,19 St        
    T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. 2,99 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 1,68 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,07 St        
    Newton Management Limited 1,05 St        
    Longview Partners LLP 1,03 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 1 St        
    UBS AG 1 St        
    Manning & Napier Advisors, LLC 0,96 St        
    William A. Fidler 0,02 St        
    Steven Edward Holland 0,02 St        
               
Celesio AG   Mc Kesson Corporation 76,06 St 3,64 -0,22 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 0,68
    Magnetar Financial LLC 2,73 St        
               
CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA 0,01 (St) Klaus-Peter Schulenberg 50,2 St 20,04 -0,09 Montanaro Asset Management Limited 2,34
    FMR LLC 2,97 St        
    Edmund Hug 0,02 St        
    Dr. Bernd Kundrun 0,02 St        
    Alexander Ruoff 0,01 St        
    Prof. Jobst W. Plog 0 St        
               
Deutsche Annington Immobilien SE   BlackRock, Inc. 8,77 St 8,58 -0,64 BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A. 1,53
    Lansdowne Partners Limited/Lansdowne Partners International Limited 5,61 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 4,56 St        
    The Wellcome Trust Ltd 3,43 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 3,1 St        
    Wellington Management Group LLP 2,41 St        
    Jeremy Coller 1,5 St        
    Guy Hands 1,41 St        
    Citigroup Inc. 1,14 St        
    Barclays PLC 0,96 St        
    Lion Residential Holdings S. à r.l. 0,66 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,61 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0,35 St        
    Abu Dhabi Investment Authority 0,31 St        
    Rolf Buch 0,08 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,03 St        
    Dr. Marion Helmes 0,01 St        
    Dr. A. Stefan Kirsten 0,01 St        
    Thomas Zinnöcker 0,01 St        
               
Deutsche EuroShop AG   Familie Otto 17,33 St 16,22 -0,83 BlackRock AM Ire Ltd 1,39
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,2 St        
    Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung 2,99 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,28 St        
    Klaus Striebich 0,04 St        
    Manfred Zaß 0,02 St        
    Vorstand 0,02 St        
    Dr. Bernd Thiemann 0,01 St        
    Reiner Strecker 0,01 St        
               
Deutsche Wohnen AG   Sun Life Financial Inc. 8,69 St 28,30 -1,06 MFS Massachusetts Financial Services Company 5,06
    BlackRock, Inc. 7,79 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 6,94 St        
    Capital Group International Inc. 2,59 St        
    APG Asset Management N.V. 2,58 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,55 St        
    Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe KdöR 1,96 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,67 St        
               
DMG MORI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT   Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. 52,54 St 26,75 -3,29 DeAWM Investment GmbH 6,34
    Paul E. Singer 15,16 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,89 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,82 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,01 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 0,26 St        
               
Dürr AG   Heinz Dürr GmbH 25,2 St 22,19 -0,27 MainFirst SICAV 2,28
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,93 St        
    Heinz und Heide Dürr Stiftung 3,47 St        
    ALECTA PENSIONSFÖRSÄKRING 3,15 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,97 St        
    Vorstand 0,6 St        
               
ElringKlinger AG   Familien Lechler 52 St 16,07 -4,22 New York Life Investment Management LLC 2,01
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,3 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 3,07 St        
    Black Creek Investment Management Inc. 3,05 St        
    MIPL Group Limited 3,01 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 2,96 St        
    Klinger B.V. 2,56 St        
               
Evonik Industries AG   RAG-Stiftung 67,91 St 1,82 0,20 Deka Investment GmbH 0,35
    CVC Capital Partners 6,13 St        
    Ellington Investments Pte. Ltd. 4,64 St        
               
Fielmann AG   KORVA SE 71,64 St 5,73 -0,73 Fidelity Managem.& Research Co. 0,56
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,41 St        
               
Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide 0,08 (St) Land Hessen 31,35 St 7,57 -0,34 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 1,09
    Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH 20,02 St        
    Deutsche Lufthansa AG 8,45 St        
    RARE Infrastructure Limited 4,87 St        
    Lazard Asset Management LLC 2,88 St        
               
FUCHS PETROLUB SE   Familie Fuchs 53,4 St 11,58 -5,20 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,74
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,2 St        
    Vorstand 0,02 Vz        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,01 Vz        
               
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft   Kuwait Investment Office 7,9 St 33,04 -2,18 Alecta pensionsförsäkring 4,86
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,29 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 3,01 St        
    FMR LLC 2,99 St        
    Schroders plc 2,94 St        
               
Gerresheimer AG   Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 7,14 St 38,39 -1,63 CI Investments Inc. 4,23
    APG Asset Management N.V. 5,1 St        
    Black Creek Investment Management Inc. 4,96 St        
    Eton Park Overseas Fund, Ltd. 4,92 St        
    Highclere International Investors LLP 3,13 St        
    WS Management LLLP 3,1 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,02 St        
    Old Mutual plc 3,01 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,96 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,93 St        
    Edinburgh Partners Limited 2,92 St        
    Morgan Stanley 2,58 St        
               
GERRY WEBER International AG   Gerhard Weber 29,54 St 17,92 -0,85 Montanaro Asset Management Limited 2,18
    Udo Hardieck 17,52 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 4,91 St        
    Ralf Weber 3,35 St        
    FMR LLC 2,9 St        
    Charlotte Weber-Dresselhaus 0,17 St        
               
Hannover Rück SE   Talanx AG 50,22 St 14,62 -0,80 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,98
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,75 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,06 St        
               
HOCHTIEF AG 3,54 (St) Acs, Actividades de Construccion y Servicios S.A. 60,7 St 6,06 -0,28 Sparinvest DK 0,71
    Qatar Holdings LLC 11,1 St        
    Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. 2,98 St        
               
HUGO BOSS AG 1,97 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 7,36 St 5,01 -4,16 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 0,77
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,15 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 5,02 St        
    Zignago Holding S.p.A. 4,19 St        
    Alecta pensionsförsäkring, ömsesidigt 3,26 St        
    PFC S.r.l. 2,91 St        
    Tamburi Investment Partners S.p.A. 0,85 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,04 St        
    UniCredit S.p.A. 0,02 St        
               
Jungheinrich AG   LJH-Holding GmbH 50 St 31,77 -0,10 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5,79
    WJH-Holding GmbH 50 St        
    Streubesitz 100 Vz        
               
Kabel Deutschland Holding AG   Vodafone Group Plc 76,7 St 4,80 -0,23 RBC Global Asset Management Inc. 0,72
    Paul E. Singer 13,48 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 2,75 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 1,25 St        
    Barclays PLC 0,02 St        
               
KION GROUP AG 0,17 (St) Weichai Power 38,25 St 14,63 -0,55 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,95
    Pelham Long Short Master Fund Ltd 5,33 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 3,13 St        
    FMR LLC 3 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,81 St        
    KION Management Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG 0,9 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,12 St        
               
Klöckner & Co SE   Swoctem GmbH 10,38 St 24,29 -1,65 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 3,40
    Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. 6,51 St        
    Federated Global Investment Management Corp. 5,06 St        
    Interfer Holding GmbH 4,98 St        
    UBS Group AG 3,71 St        
    Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,06 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,87 St        
    AMUNDI S.A. 2,77 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,98 St        
    Prof. Dr. Dieter Hans Vogel 0,05 St        
               
KRONES AG   Familie Kronseder 51,67 St 15,70 -0,90 Oddo Asset Management 2,51
    Petra Schadeberg-Herrmann 4,16 St        
    Schadeberg GbR 3,28 St        
    ODDO ET CIE 2,95 St        
    Tweedy, Browne Company LLC 2,88 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,71 St        
               
KUKA AG   J.M. Voith GmbH & Co. Beteiligungen KG 25,1 St 15,41 -0,54 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 2,96
    Swoctem GmbH 10,02 St        
    AXA S.A. 4,74 St        
    Schroders plc 3,02 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 3 St        
    York Capital Management Global Advisors, LLC. 2,67 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 2,6 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,8 St        
    Guy P. Wyser-Pratte 0,43 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,22 St        
               
LEG Immobilien AG   BlackRock, Inc. 15,58 St 38,39 -0,18 BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A. 6,36
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,14 St        
    CBRE Clarion Securities LLC 4,87 St        
    Perry Luxco RE S.à r.l. 2,94 St        
    Ruffer LLP 2,93 St        
    Invesco Ltd. 2,92 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 2,87 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,95 St        
    Lansdowne Developed Markets Master Fund Limited 0,46 St        
               
Leoni AG   T. Rowe Price International, Inc. 5,04 St 24,30 -2,36 T. Rowe Price Investment Services Inc. 3,89
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,02 St        
    State Street Corporation 2,98 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,96 St        
               
MAN SE   Volkswagen AG 75,28 St 4,97 -0,40 Old Mutual IM Ltd 2,49
    Truck & Bus GmbH 43,3 Vz        
    Volkswagen AG 26,46 Vz        
               
METRO AG   Haniel 25 St 11,21 -0,69 Franklin Templeton Investments 1,96
    Schmidt-Ruthenbeck 15,77 St        
    Otto Beisheim Holding GmbH 9,1 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 3,36 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 3,06 St        
    Templeton Global Advisors Limited 3,04 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,16 St        
               
MTU Aero Engines AG 1,91 (St) The Capital Group Companies Inc. 9,16 St 33,23 -2,57 Artisan Partners Funds, Inc. 3,69
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,77 St        
    Maverick Capital Ltd. 3,05 St        
    Oddo Asset Management 3,03 St        
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 2,99 St        
    Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC 2,98 St        
    Artisan Partners Limited Partnership 2,92 St        
    GIC Private Limited 2,77 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,83 St        
               
NORMA Group SE   Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 10,25 St 48,80 -3,26 Threadneedle Asset Management Limited 3,50
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 5,34 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,02 St        
    Select Equity Group, L.P. 3,27 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 3,17 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,05 St        
    SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc. 3,05 St        
    AXA S.A. 3,01 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Delta Lloyd N.V. 2,94 St        
    T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. 2,89 St        
    Vorstand 2,15 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,3 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,04 St        
               
OSRAM Licht AG   Siemens Beteiligungen Inland GmbH 17 St 13,47 -1,20 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 1,51
    FMR LLC 6,69 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 3,97 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,31 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,76 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,22 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,12 St        
               
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE 2,32 (St) Capital Research and Management Company 9,14 St 40,32 -2,15 Capital Research and Management Company 10,47
    BlackRock, Inc. 7,87 St        
    Invesco Ltd. 3 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,99 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 2,36 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,21 St        
               
Rheinmetall AG 2,86 (St) Prudential PLC 3,6 St 23,88 -0,49 Harris Associates L.P. 3,94
    LSV Asset Management 3,03 St        
    Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,01 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Wellington Management Group LLP 2,97 St        
    Harris Associates L.P. 2,8 St        
    Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC 2,71 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,06 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,83 St        
    Vorstand 0,14 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0,02 St        
               
Rhön-Klinikum AG 0,03 (St) B. Braun Melsungen Aktiengesellschaft 18,01 St 36,29 -2,07 Alecta pensionsförsäkring 17,18
    Asklepios Kliniken GmbH 15,25 St        
    Eugen Münch 6,32 St        
    Ingeborg Münch 4,95 St        
    Old Mutual plc 4,17 St        
    Jamie Zimmermann 3,24 St        
    UBS AG 2,96 St        
    Alecta pensionsförsäkring, ömsesidigt 2,89 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,99 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 1,08 St        
    Maven Trading Ltd. 0,36 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,05 St        
               
RTL Group S.A. 0,76 (St) Bertelsmann Capital Holding GmbH 75,1 St 8,71 -0,37 Capital Research and Management Company 1,28
               
Salzgitter AG 10,00 (St) Land Niedersachsen 26,5 St 13,25 -0,68 MainFirst SICAV 1,66
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,95 St        
               
STADA Arzneimittel AG 0,15 (St) Apotheker und Ärzte 11 St 17,76 -1,08 DeAWM Investment GmbH 3,74
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,04 St        
    LSV Asset Management 3,05 St        
    Empyrean Capital Partners, LP 2,95 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,94 St        
    Gryphon Investment Counsel Inc. 2,93 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,36 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 1,37 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,04 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,01 St        
               
Südzucker AG   Süddeutsche Zuckerrüben-Verwertungs-Genossenschaft eG 52 St 6,04 -0,45 Sparinvest DK 0,64
    Zucker Invest GmbH 10 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,14 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,03 St        
               
Symrise AG   Sun Life Financial Inc. 10,62 St 29,38 -2,57 MFS Massachusetts Financial Services Company 3,76
    Horst-Otto Gerberding 6,01 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,47 St        
    Bankhaus Lampe KG 3,29 St        
    Jahr Holding GmbH & Co KG 3,05 St        
    MFS International Value Fund 3 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 2,99 St        
    Prudential PLC 2,97 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,96 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,93 St        
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 2,56 St        
    Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Bertram 0,01 St        
    Bernd Hirsch 0,01 St        
               
TAG Immobilien AG 9,85 (St) Ruffer LLP 14,71 St 49,76 -0,99 Flossbach von Storch AG 11,48
    Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. 10,01 St        
    Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder 9,95 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 9,82 St        
    Helaba Invest Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH 5,9 St        
    Taube Hodson Stonex Partners LLP 5,22 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 5,18 St        
    MFS International Value Fund 4,99 St        
    Capital Guardian Trust Company 3,3 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,06 St        
    Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd. 2,94 St        
    BlackRock Group 2,64 St        
    Dr. Lutz R. Ristow 1,5 St        
    Rolf Elgeti 0,07 St        
    Prof. Dr. Roland Frohne 0,04 St        
    Dr. Harboe Vaagt 0,01 St        
               
Talanx AG   HDI Haftpflichtverband der Deutschen Industrie V.a.G. 79 St 4,18 -0,29 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,01
    Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company 4,94 St        
               
Wacker Chemie AG 4,75 (St) Dr. Alexander Wacker Familiengesellschaft mbH 60,39 St 9,88 -0,99 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 1,90
    Blue Elephant Holding GmbH 10,86 St        
    Capital Research and Management Company 3,07 St        
               
Wincor Nixdorf AG 9,99 (St) Kiltearn Limited 7,11 St 34,18 -0,24 DeAWM Investment GmbH 5,30
    Polaris Capital Management, LLC 5,02 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,58 St        
    Highclere International Investors LLP 3,11 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,92 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,91 St        
    William Blair & Company, LLC 2,8 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,23 St        
    Eckard Heidloff 0,02 St        
               
Zalando SE   Verdere S.à.r.l 31,8 St 1,50 0,00 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,34
    Global Founders GmbH 11,19 St        
    Anders Holch Povlsen 9,36 St        
    Tengelmann Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH 5 St        
    Yuri Milner 4,61 St        
    Gründer 3,71 St        
    HV Holtzbrinck Ventures Holding GmbH 2,57 St        
    Len Blavatnik 1,6 St        
    Rocket Internet AG 0,61 St        
               
SDAX              
               
ADLER Real Estate AG   Klaus R. Wecken 21,81 St 1,02 0,18 Julius Bär (Luxembourg) S.A. 0,33
    Mezzanine IX Investors S.A. 21,8 St        
    Uhlandstraße Investments GmbH 6,56 St        
               
alstria office REIT-AG   CNP ASSURANCES 4,66 St 25,11 -0,20 Prudential Investments LLC 1,69
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 4,65 St        
    Brookfield Investment Management, Inc. 4,58 St        
    FMR LLC 3 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,89 St        
    Morgan Stanley 2,71 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,7 St        
    Cohen & Steers, Inc. 2,61 St        
               
AMADEUS FIRE AG   MainFirst SICAV 9,99 St 46,60 -0,44 MainFirst SICAV 9,58
    FIL Limited 5,05 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5,01 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 5 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,98 St        
    Lazard Frères Gestion 4,97 St        
    Matthias Ruhland 4,95 St        
    Rhine Alpha Stars 4,62 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 4,55 St        
    Standard Life Investments Ltd. 2,99 St        
    JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,74 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,35 St        
    Dr. Axel Endriss 0,12 St        
    Christoph Groß 0,1 St        
    Ulrike Bert 0,01 St        
               
BayWa AG 0,06 (St) Bayerische Raiffeisen-Beteiligungs-AG 35,34 St 2,25 -0,18 UBS Global Asset Managment GmbH 0,45
    Raiffeisen Agrar Invest GmbH 25,18 St        
               
Bertrandt AG 0,70 (St) Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft 28,97 St 21,82 -2,02 Montanaro Asset Management Limited 3,94
    Friedrich Boysen Holding GmbH 14,9 St        
    Management und Mitarbeiter 8,74 St        
    MainFirst SICAV 3,87 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,99 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,94 St        
    William Blair & Company, LLC 2,62 St        
               
Biotest AG   OGEL GmbH 50,1 St 7,09 -2,35 Flossbach von Storch AG 2,31
    Kreissparkasse Biberach 17,33 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,95 St        
    Scherzer & Co. AG 0,81 St        
    Prof. Dr. Gregor Schulz 0,03 Vz        
    Dr. Michael Ramroth 0,03 Vz        
    Dr. Georg Floß 0,03 Vz        
    Dr. Bernhard Ehmer 0,03 Vz        
               
Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA   Evonik Industries AG 14,78 St 7,31 -0,22 Capita Financial Managers Limited 1,14
    Bernd Geske 8,8 St        
    Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund 5,53 St        
    SIGNAL IDUNA Allgemeine Versicherung Aktiengesellschaft 5,43 St        
    PUMA SE 5 St        
    Odey Asset Management LLP 3,47 St        
    BlueBay Asset Management plc. 3,34 St        
               
Braas Monier Building Group S.A.   Monier Holdings S.C.A. 48,4 St 0,62 0,00 DWS Investment S.A. 0,35
    Wellington Management Group LLP 5,13 St        
               
Capital Stage AG   AMCO Service GmbH 21,76 St 6,50 -2,31 PWM Vermögensfondsmandat - DWS SICAV 1,05
    Dr. Liedtke Vermögensverwaltung GmbH 10,15 St        
    Blue Elephant Venture GmbH 7,25 St        
    Albert Büll 6,48 St        
    ETHENEA Independent Investment S.A. 2,92 St        
    RTG Beteiligungs GmbH 1,74 St        
    Dr. Jörn Kreke 1,42 St        
    Felix Goedhart 0,65 St        
    Dr. Zoltan Bognar 0,14 St        
               
CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA 2,28 (St) Erbengemeinschaft nach Herrn Senator h.c. Heinz Neumüller 27,37 St 15,21 0,31 Sparinvest DK 2,40
    FIL Limited 2,98 St        
    Fidelity Funds SICAV 2,89 St        
    Sparinvest Holdings SE 2,74 St        
    CeWe Color Versorgungskasse e. V. 1,53 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,9 St        
               
comdirect bank AG   Commerzbank AG 81,27 St 2,94 -0,02 Shareholder Value Management AG 0,96
               
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG   Rossmann Beteiligungs GmbH 19,93 St 9,05 -0,06 JPMorgan Asset Management (Europe) S.a r.l. 1,50
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 5,23 St        
    Ricardo Portabella 5 St        
               
DEUTZ AG   AB Volvo 25 St 15,71 -0,37 Fidelity Investments Luxembourg S.A. (FIL) 3,81
    Old Mutual plc 3,1 St        
    FMR LLC 3,04 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,03 St        
    SKAGEN AS 2,99 St        
    FIL Limited 2,94 St        
    Artisan Partners Limited Partnership 2,91 St        
               
DIC Asset AG   Deutsche Immobilien Chancen-Gruppe 33,2 St 17,16 -0,29 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 1,98
    solvia Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH 5,1 St        
    RAG-Stiftung 4,76 St        
    Asset Value Investors Limited 3,1 St        
    British Empire Securities and General Trust plc 3,08 St        
    Ell Capital Management, Inc. 2,79 St        
    Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP 2,68 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,01 St        
               
DO Deutsche Office AG   Oaktree Capital Group Holdings GP, LLC 60,5 St        
    Ironsides Partners LLC 4,52 St        
    Carmignac Gestion S.A. 2,93 St        
    Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH 2,92 St        
    Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe KdöR 2,89 St        
    UBS AG 0,19 St        
               
DO Deutsche Office AG   Oaktree Capital Group Holdings GP, LLC 60,5 St 9,71 -0,05 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 2,09
    Ironsides Partners LLC 4,52 St        
    Carmignac Gestion S.A. 2,93 St        
    Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH 2,92 St        
    Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe KdöR 2,89 St        
    UBS AG 0,19 St        
               
Ferratum Oyj 0,67 (St) Jorma Jokela 57,43 St 0,00 0,00   0,00
    Carmignac Gestion S.A. 9,16 St        
    Mitarbeiter 4,93 St        
    AS Pontos Capital 0,92 St        
    OÜ Pontcap 1 0,81 St        
               
GESCO AG 0,01 (St) Stefan Heimöller 13,6 St 6,53 -0,41 Loys AG 1,29
    Investmentaktiengesellschaft für langfristige Investoren TGV 6,4 St        
    Vorstand 0,6 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,1 St        
               
GfK SE   GfK-Nürnberg e.V. 56,4 St 19,25 -0,79 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 4,10
    Parvus Asset Management Europe Ltd. 4,97 St        
    FIL Limited 3,06 St        
    FMR LLC 2,99 St        
    Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited 2,98 St        
    Highclere International Investors LLP 2,72 St        
    UBS AG 0,66 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,03 St        
               
GRAMMER AG 2,86 (St) Wynnefield Partners 5,17 St 22,15 -1,57 DeAWM Investment GmbH 6,83
    EQMC Europe Development Capital Fund plc 5,01 St        
    Dimensional Holdings Inc. 5,01 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 4,73 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 3,33 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,99 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 2,88 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,82 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,85 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,37 St        
               
GRENKELEASING AG   Grenke Beteiligung GmbH & Co. KG 42,64 St 25,41 -0,11 Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Limited 5,31
    Jupiter Asset Management Limited 7,2 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,98 St        
    Mark Kindermann 0,36 St        
    Prof. Dr. Ernst-Moritz Lipp 0,22 St        
    Jörg Eicker 0,04 St        
    Gilles Christ 0,03 St        
    Florian Kai Schulte 0,02 St        
    Antje Leminsky 0,02 St        
    Erwin Staudt 0,01 St        
    Prof. Dr. Thilo Wörn 0,01 St        
               
HAMBORNER REIT AG   RAG-Stiftung 7,34 St 6,77 -2,33 BlackRock AM Ire Ltd 1,04
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 5,03 St        
    Belfius Insurance NV/SA 4,07 St        
    Dr. Theo Siegert 3,71 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 3,05 St        
    Ruffer LLP 2,13 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 1,87 St        
               
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG   Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg 69,58 St 8,15 0,00 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 4,67
    First Eagle Investment Management, LLC 5,002 St        
               
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG 0,06 (St) Ferd. Rüesch AG 9,02 St 16,36 -0,57 Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 4,41
    Dimensional Holdings Inc. 3,01 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,94 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,94 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 0,87 St        
               
Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.   Gesellschafterfamilie 78,8 St 0,29 0,01 DeAWM Investment GmbH 0,26
    Citigroup Inc. 0,05 St        
               
Hornbach Holding AG   HORNBACH Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH 100 St 58,16 -3,31 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 38,66
               
Hornbach-Baumarkt-AG   HORNBACH HOLDING AG 76,4 St 3,88 0,05 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,57
    Aufsichtsrat 0,21 St        
    Vorstand 0,19 St        
               
INDUS Holding AG   Versicherungskammer Bayern 19,4 St 9,46 -0,18 MainFirst SICAV 1,27
    Hans Joachim Selzer 6,4 St        
               
KOENIG & BAUER AG   MKB Holding GmbH 10,2 St 12,94 0,07 Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 4,15
    Bestinver Gestion S.A., SGIIC 9,77 St        
    Claus Bolza-Schünemann 5,07 St        
    Rota Klaeger 3,57 St        
    ID Sparinvest A/S 2,99 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,68 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,1 St        
               
KWS SAAT SE   Familien Büchting/Arend Oetker/Giesecke 56,1 St 10,93 0,01 DWS Invest Sicav 2,62
    Tessner Beteiligungs GmbH 15,11 St        
    Vorstand 0,26 St        
               
MLP AG   Manfred Lautenschläger 23,53 St 13,85 -1,01 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 4,35
    Harris Associates L.P. 9,82 St        
    HDI Pensionskasse AG 9,48 St        
    FMR LLC 9,08 St        
    Barmenia Krankenversicherung a. G. 6,67 St        
    Allianz SE 6,27 St        
    Angelika Lautenschläger 6,03 St        
    Berenberg Bank, Joh. Berenberg Gossler & Co. KG 4,84 St        
    Schroders plc 3,07 St        
    AXA S.A. 2,99 St        
    Franklin Templeton Investment Funds 2,99 St        
    Dr. Peter Lütke-Bornefeld 0,14 St        
    Johannes Maret 0,09 St        
    Manfred Bauer 0,01 St        
    Reinhard Loose 0,01 St        
               
PATRIZIA Immobilien AG   Wolfgang Egger 51,62 St 15,64 -0,08 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,19
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,07 St        
    WA Holdings, Inc. 3,04 St        
    Klaus Schmitt 0,15 St        
               
PUMA SE 0,95 (St) SAPARDIS S.A. 73,97 St 2,94 -0,06 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 0,45
    J.P. Morgan Markets Limited 3,19 St        
               
RATIONAL AG   Siegfried Meister 62,99 St 11,86 -0,48 Allianz GI LUX 1,70
    Walter Kurtz 7,81 St        
    Allianz SE 3,01 St        
    Vorstand 0,03 St        
               
SAF-HOLLAND S.A.   Deutsche Bank AG 5,29 St 53,50 0,65 DeAWM Investment GmbH 9,60
    FMR LLC 4,99 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 4,99 St        
    Management & Directors 3,04 St        
               
Schaltbau Holding AG 2,66 (St) Familie Dr. Jürgen Cammann 11,62 St 18,97 -0,08 Shareholder Value Management AG 5,00
    Familie Zimmermann 11 St        
    Monolith Duitsland B.V. 6,83 St        
    BNY Mellon Service Kapitalanlage-Gesellschaft mbH 5,15 St        
    Kreissparkasse Biberach 5,02 St        
    Peter Jahrmarkt 0,08 St        
    Dirk Christian Löchner 0,02 St        
    Friedrich Smaxwil 0,02 St        
               
SGL Carbon SE 0,08 (St) SKion GmbH 27,35 St 1,89 0,00 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 0,42
    Bayerische Motoren Werke AG 18,37 St        
    Volkswagen AG 9,88 St        
    Voith AG 6,8 St        
    Dr. Michael Majerus 0,09 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,03 St        
               
SHW AG   Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited 7,17 St 34,98 -2,68 Capital Research and Management Company 3,57
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 5,31 St        
    F&C Asset Management plc 5,03 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 4,93 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,57 St        
    UBS Group AG 3,13 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,73 St        
    Schroders plc 2,72 St        
    Linz Textil Holding AG 2,65 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 2,55 St        
    FIL Limited 2,38 St        
    JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,32 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 1,75 St        
               
Sixt SE   ES Asset Management and Services GmbH & Co. KG 60,08 St 11,15 0,43 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,84
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,95 St        
               
Stabilus S.A.   JPMorgan Chase & Co. 6,25 St 7,12 -0,49 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,86
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 5,01 St        
    Schroders plc 4,95 St        
    Management 1 St        
               
Ströer SE   Dirk Ströer 29,95 St 12,65 -6,37 J O Hambro CM Ltd. (UK) 1,97
    Udo Müller 24,22 St        
    Sambara Stiftung 5,73 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,13 St        
    J O Hambro Capital Management Limited 2,91 St        
    HMI Capital, LLC 2,86 St        
    UBS AG 2,84 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,86 St        
    Christian Schmalzl 0,06 St        
               
TAKKT AG   Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH 50,28 St 29,37 -1,45 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 5,73
    Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited 4,99 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3,04 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,01 St        
               
Tele Columbus AG   York Capital Management Global Advisors, LLC. 20,86 St 0,05 0,00 DWS Investment S.A. 0,05
    Tele Columbus Management S.à r.l. 10,15 St        
    Capital Research and Management Company 8,7 St        
    Davidson Kempner 7,3 St        
    Ameriprise International Holdings GmbH 7,18 St        
    Silver Point Luxembourg Platform S.àr.l. 6,88 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 6,22 St        
    Cross Ocean European Special Situation Fund (GP) L.P. 3,8 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2,56 St        
               
TLG IMMOBILIEN AG   GIC Private Limited 13,33 St 1,20 0,00 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 1,17
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 5,61 St        
    Morgan Stanley 1,24 St        
    Lone Star Funds 0,11 St        
               
TOM TAILOR Holding AG   Guo Guangchang 23,16 St 29,48 -0,85 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 3,43
    Schroders plc 10,06 St        
    Morgan Finance S.A. 4,77 St        
    Wellington Management Group LLP 3,97 St        
    Vanguard Whitehall Funds 3,03 St        
    Litman Gregory Masters International Fund 3,01 St        
    Kempen Capital Management N.V. 2,99 St        
    Old Mutual plc 2,99 St        
    Henderson Group plc 2,98 St        
    T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. 2,72 St        
    Dieter Holzer 1,04 St        
    Thomas Schlytter-Henrichsen 0,19 St        
    Dr. Axel Rebien 0,08 St        
    Dr. Christoph Schug 0,07 St        
    Gerhard Wöhrl 0,06 St        
    Andreas W. Bauer 0,02 St        
               
Villeroy & Boch AG 11,98 (Vz) Luitwin Gisbert von Boch-Galhau 17,74 St 13,86 -0,29 M&G Investment Management Ltd. 5,16
    Wendelin von Boch-Galhau 7,41 St        
    Franziskus von Boch-Galhau 7,14 St        
    Dr. Alexander von Boch-Galhau 4,16 St        
    Caroline de Schorlemer-d'Huart 3,16 St        
    Gabrielle de Schorlemer-de Theux 3,16 St        
    Christophe de Schorlemer 3,16 St        
    Vorstand 0,2 St        
               
Vossloh AG   Heinz Hermann Thiele 30,21 St 17,59 -0,72 Lazard Freres Gestion 2,98
    Deutsche Bank AG 5,77 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 5,68 St        
    ETHENEA Independent Investment S.A. 4,88 St        
    Iskander Makhmudov 3,08 St        
    Lazard Frères Gestion S.A.S. 3,01 St        
    Annette Oesterlee 1,89 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 1,43 St        
    Christine Piekenbrock-Oesterlee 0,06 St        
    Philipp Oesterlee 0,04 St        
    Cornelius Oesterlee 0,04 St        
               
VTG AG   Compagnie Européenne de Wagons S.à r.l. 43,84 St 6,31 -0,88 La Banque Postale Asset Management (LBPAM) 0,93
    Andreas Goer 25,62 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,98 St        
    Samana Capital LP 2,22 St        
               
Wacker Neuson SE   Familie Wacker 33 St 5,55 -0,01 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 0,80
    Familie Neunteufel 30 St        
    Vorstand 0,5 St        
               
ZEAL Network SE   Oliver Jaster 10,22 St 24,85 -0,48 Ethna Capital Partners S.A. 8,62
    Schroders plc 7,43 St        
    Marc Peters 4,82 St        
    LRI Invest S.A. 4,41 St        
    Jens Schumann 4,17 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 4,02 St        
    Vanguard International Explorer Fund 3,16 St        
    Credit Suisse Fund Management S.A 2,98 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,91 St        
    Farringdon Capital Management SA (FCML) 2,81 St        
    Dr. Hans Cornehl 0,68 St        
               
zooplus AG   Prof. Dr. Hubert Burda 18,84 St 19,14 0,09 Capital Research and Management Company 7,24
    RAG-Stiftung 13,11 St        
    Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb Inc. 8,74 St        
    SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc. 7,55 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 5,12 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 3,85 St        
    Dr. Cornelius Patt 3,59 St        
    Wasatch Advisors, Inc. 2,86 St        
    Management 1,74 St        

 

VIPsight - September 2015

 

COMPANIES

 

 

Gesco: still uphill

Gesco AG, the SDax-listed SME holding company got off to a flying start in the first quarter of 2015/16 (at March 31). Sources within the company, however, state that increased turnover and improved order quality notwithstanding, the difficulties are still far from over. Turnover was posted at approximately 119 million Euros, 8 percent up on the same period of the year before. The order book has grown by 15 percent and now stands at approximately 146 million Euros, with the caveat that a number of orders will be accounted for in next year’s turnover. A sizeable part of the business was generated by Setterstix. Inc., Gesco’s new American subsidiary. Despite the rise in turnover, the SME group is still short of the margins posted in recent years, the reason being the restructuring operations that two of the 17 subsidiaries are presently undergoing. Company management, however, maintains that these initiatives are expected to reach completion by the end of the present financial year.

Gesco, however, confirms its forecast of between 480 and 490 million Euros in group turnover for fiscal year 2015-16., with profits at between 12.5 and 14 million Euros.

 

zooplus: upswing in sales of products for house pets

zooplus AG, the mail order distributor of products for houshold pets, posted a 34 percent rise in revenue to 344 million for the first half of 2015 with a 36 percent increase in turnover to 333 million Euros. EBT is up 11 percent to some 3.6 million Euros. The SDax listed company points out that growth was not only the result of higher turnover but also by lower costs and maximized efficiency. Indeed, costs fell from 31 to 29 percent in the first half year.

In short, Zooplus is standing by its forecast for 2015, with gross revenue not less than 725 million Euros an EBT between 8 and 12 million Euros.

 

SAF-Holland: market swing towards trucks and trailers

Supplier to the automobile industry SAF Holland S.A. posted excellent results for the first half of 2015. Turnover is approximately 559 million Euros, up 16 percent on the corresponding period of the year before, and even the adjusted EBIT rose by 36 percent to almost 50 million Euros, all despite sluggishness in key markets like Brazil, Russia and Australia. The SDax-listed company owes its success to the increase in demand for trucks and trailers in the USA and Europe – SAF-Holland also manufactures drive shaft and braking systems as well as clutches and jacks. An additional factor in this success was the strength of the dollar and, all told, each business area – trailer systems, powered vehicle systems and aftermarket – posted significant increases, both in turnover and in profit.

The company has clearly stated its medium-term strategy of focussing on growth in emerging countries, and the results achieved in the Asia-Pacific area in the first six months of this fiscal year are particularly encouraging. SSAF-Holland has tweaked its forecast for 2015 slightly upwards seeing a turnover veering towards the upper limit of 980 million Euros. Adjusted EBIT is expected to be in excess of 90 million Euros.

 

 

 

 


 

 

The German Mittelstand

 

 

Stock market listed SMEs could use some diversity management

No woman wants to be seen as the one who owes her seat on the board to gender equality legislation according to Katja Suding, Federal vice chair of the FDP in a recent interview published in Bild am Sonntag. And yet the “pink quota” is coming. In the wake of last May’s ratification of the law on gender equality between men and women in top management positions in both the private and public sectors, approximately 100 companies have to set aside a quota of not less than 30% of seats on the Supervisory Board. In addition to these 100 stock market listed companies “obliged to cooption”, a further 3500 mid to large-size companies have to devise an abridged version of the law in order to define its own individual quota for the Supervisory Board, the executive board, and top management. This flexible quota can vary from company to company and be pegged to specific requirements of the company or area of activity.

A stock-market listed SME with a small Supervisory Board is troubled by the new legislation. Intentions are good but put bluntly, there are few candidates available. Head hunters are sharp-eyed on the lookout for qualified women who tend to prefer positions on the Supervisory Boards of larger companies. Small enterprises with a 3-person Supervisory Board have an even bigger problem because the skills required go beyond mere supervision. These members must supervise but also do networking. Shareholders have no desire to replace crucial Board members who are fundamental to a smaller size company. Rather than losing a valued, experienced Board member, the company may decide to increase the number of Board members, but the multiple of 3 requirement could have the effect of creating a board twice as big as before, with all that that entails in terms of costs.

This is why it is important that the companies in question identify their women candidates as soon as possible, and that then they invest in preparing them. What is really needed is a textbook “diversity management”, the only way of holding on to the right people. Achim von Michel, spokesperson and political reference point of the BundesverbandmittelständischeWirtschafte.V. (BVMW) in Bavaria is of the opinion that the quota system interferes with entrepreneurs’ decisional liberty. “Nobody is better qualified than the entrepreneur in knowing who is best suited for a given position. Selecting management post appointees ought not to be based on criteria such as age, skin colour or gender but only on the basis of qualifications. This is why the legal measures are completely wrong”.

It should, however, be remembered that there’s nothing to be gained by arguing, the quotas will be imposed and stock market listed SMEs will have to get used to them, and those who get an early start by investing (or by having invested) in women candidates will find themselves ahead of the game; instead of being appointed by gender, those women candidates will be fully entitled by competence to their seat on the Supervisory or executive board. Those instead who sat tight waiting for a watered down version of the law or even its failure to reach the statute book would be well advised to get moving.

 

 

 

 


 

 

Buhlmann's Corner

 

 

Tis the final conflict

so says The Internationale. “Arise ye wretched of the earth, .... We have been naught we shall be all”

As I write this, entire peoples are on the move, marching towards the North and the West, fleeing grinding poverty and blazing warfare that organizations on the ground are powerless to halt and international organizations such as G7, G8 and G20 etc seem to be doing their utmost not to interfere with or forget about. We are witnessing a migration on an unprecedented scale that some people find scary. What we see of the entire humanitarian crisis, however, is only the part that looks like getting too close for comfort to us as humans.

Taxpayers’ money is frittered away building walls and boundaries instead of filling the granaries with food and nobody gets angry at such infantile behaviour. It is nothing short of criminal - we are all enamoured of the idea of being good people as we smother the answer to the problem under fathoms of red tape or, failing that, pass the buck to our neighbour. What kind of an idea is it to have the trains run all the way to Denmark without stopping. Or to be wilfully obtuse like England and France. And there are precious few red carpets and welcoming fanfares for refugees from Africa and the Near East in places like the former DDR where, by history’s cruel irony, the people were hemmed in behind a wall that stood for forty years.

Take a closer look and you see a gigantic economic promotion project afoot to benefit the target countries and keep the balancing act going by shoring up a state of affairs that is perilously close to collapse. From the responsible standpoint, it stands to reason that the economic drive generated must be channelled (as it should be) towards economic development in the countries being abandoned. If not, the world of the future will be a combination of endless tracts of uninhabited land and elsewhere masses of human beings living together packed like sardines. Make no bones, this is an issue that dwarfs EMEA and even eclipses the rejuvenation of the ageing cultures from Bavaria to Lower Saxony.

Whining, pointing the finger and intoning “Brüder zur Sonne zur Freiheit“ (a song written in 1895 in a Moscow jail and sung for the first time by political prisoners during their forced march to exile in Siberia) is not a responsible answer.

Shrugging responsibility off to someone else who in turn will pass it on – a nefarious irresponsible mechanism we’re all too familiar with (see asset management etc) is a sure fire way of ruining the future before it arrives.

Otto von Bismark famously remarked in the North German Reichstag in 1870 “fear of responsibility is a malaise of our times”.

From where I stand, behaving responsibly is having the courage and/or strength of bearing the consequences of one’s actions or convictions. To each his/her own and together for all.

If you come across someone who thinks the same let me know. That’ll make two of us!

 

 

 


 

 

People

 

 

Capital Stage: The CEO quits

Citing personal reasons, Felix Goedhart of Capital Stage AG intends not to renew his contract as chair of the executive board that expires at the end of October, a decision that the Supervisory Board regrets. Goedhart has led the company since 2006 and his contribution has been crucial for its development. His place at the helm will be taken by Klaus-Dieter Maubach who, as a former member of the power company’s executive board has the expertise needed for developing new energy projects and implementing new business models in decentralized and renewable energy.

Together with CFO Christoph Husmann, Maubach will broaden the company’s base of relations with institutional investors and continue fostering company growth through new acquisitions.



PNE Wind: Fall freshness

A truce seems to have been reached in the power struggle presently dogging wind farm planner PNE Wind AG. CEO Martin Billhardt has sided with the whole Supervisory Board in tendering his resignation. The Prime Standard listed group hit the headlines in June for the chaos let loose during the AGM.. Major shareholder and former member of the Supervisory Board Volker Friedrichsen had been highly critical of the emoluments paid out to CEO and Supervisory Board chair, Dieter Kuprian. At that point, Billhardt stepped in, alleging that Friedrichsen had manipulated the original WKN windfarm numbers which, in the meantime had been bought out. Friedrichsen had overseen WKN’s growth as its majority shareholder until it was taken over by PNE.

The failed AGM must be repeated in mid-October. At that point, PNE shareholders will be called upon to elect a complete Supervisory Board from scratch. The question now is whether Friedrichsen will stand for re-election to it..



SMT Scharf: new brooms

The executive board of SMT Scharf AG will have a new member from 2016. Ralf Ferdinand Oberhaus will take the place of Heinrich Schulze-Buxloh who is resigning for contractual and age-related reasons. Oberhaus who has held appointments in a number of top management posts in international mining, railway and iron and steel groups will continue in his predecessor’s area of responsibility, namely distribution and service..

As from July, HansJoachim Theiss will chair the executive board of the Prime Standard-listed company after having resigned his position as member and vice-chair of the Supervisory Board, posts which, in turn will be filled by Dorothea Gattineau who was elected to the board to take his place. Theiss is head of finance and will take the place of Christian Dreyer who tendered his resignation in June. Another new appointee to the executive board is Wolfgang Embert responsible for technical matters.

 

 

 


 

 

Capital News

 

Hello Fresh: fresh foodstuffs in the stock exchange

Hello Fresh, purveyor of foodstuffs ordered on line is hoping to get a stock market listing before the end of the year, according to Handelsblatt citing a source within the company. Hello Fresh does not provide precooked food but portions of fresh ingredients to make certain set dishes. The start-up with Rocket Internet as its majority shareholder is now selling approximately 4 million portions per month, not only in Germany but in Great Britain, the United States and Benelux, with an annual turnover of 120 million Euros. At the beginning of the year, when Rocket Internet added a further 100 million Euros , bringing its share quota to 42 percent, the company established in 2011 was still worth 624 million Euros . According to an internal source, the company could grow up to approximately one billion Euros.

 

4SC: financial assistance for research

Biotec concern 4SC AG launched two share capital events to increase its share capital from 10,2 to approximately 19 million Euros. In one event, with the right of option, the Prime Standard-listed company placed a total of 7.25 million Euros worth of new shares at 4 Euros each. The gross revenue of the issue – some 29 million Euros – will be used to fund R & D projects in the field of anti tumour drugs Within the other real share capital increase, 4SC issued 1.5 million shares at 4 Euros each, which will enable it to liquidate a substantial part of a shareholder loan of 6 million Euros.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Director's Dealings

 

Company Person Function Buy / Sell Total value in Euro Number of shares Datum
BASF SE Smith, Wayne MB B 797.895 USD 10.500 24.08.2015
Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft Garnadt, Karl Ulrich MB B 49.560 4.000 31.07.2015
Deutsche Telekom AG van Damme, Niek Jan MB B 1.071.000 75.000 24.08.2015
Deutsche Wohnen AG ASSK Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG   S 540.003 22.900 13.08.2015
Evonik Industries AG RSK Asset Management GmbH   B 186.625 5.000 06.08.2015
Fielmann Aktiengesellschaft Righi, Pier Paolo SB B 10.066 174 26.08.2015
Fielmann Aktiengesellschaft Righi, Pier Paolo SB B 12.376 214 26.08.2015
Fielmann Aktiengesellschaft Righi, Pier Paolo SB B 5.955 103 26.08.2015
Fielmann Aktiengesellschaft Righi, Pier Paolo SB B 9.486 164 26.08.2015
Fielmann Aktiengesellschaft Righi, Pier Paolo SB B 3.703 64 26.08.2015
Fielmann Aktiengesellschaft Righi, Pier Paolo SB B 16.261 281 26.08.2015
Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide Schulte, Dr. Stefan MB-Head B 40.030 740 21.08.2015
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA Sturm, Stephan MB Exercise an Option 1.185.854 25.140 13.08.2015
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA De Meo, Dr. Francesco MB Exercise an Option 9.333.497 210.714 05.08.2015
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA Schneider, Dr. Ulf M. MB-Head Exercise an Option 2.325.099 56.760 04.08.2015
HeidelbergCement AG VEM Vermögensverwaltung AG   B 20.652.978 321.789 24.08.2015
KRONES Aktiengesellschaft Kronseder, Norman SB B 900.380 10.000 24.08.2015
KUKA Aktiengesellschaft Mohnen, Peter MB B 7.401 117 24.08.2015
KUKA Aktiengesellschaft Mohnen, Peter MB B 11.430 180 24.08.2015
Linde Aktiengesellschaft Büchele, Dr. Wolfgang MB-Head B 109.200 650 17.08.2015
LPKF Laser & Electronics Aktiengesellschaft Bentz, Kai MB B 5.680 800 24.08.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Kley, Dr. Karl-Ludwig MB-Head B 49.854 620 24.08.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Kley, Dr. Karl-Ludwig MB-Head B 50.068 573 13.08.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Kley, Dr. Karl-Ludwig MB-Head B 49.568 550 10.08.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 102.000 1.200 20.08.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 4.350 50 13.08.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 50.022 575 13.08.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 50.023 575 13.08.2015
MERCK Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien Reckmann, Dr. Bernd MB B 189.000 2.000 06.08.2015
METRO AG Koch, Olaf MB-Head B 127.250 5.000 25.08.2015
METRO AG Koch, Olaf MB-Head B 117.000 4.000 10.08.2015
MTU Aero Engines AG Martens, Dr. Rainer MB B 75.407 1.000 24.08.2015
MTU Aero Engines AG Martens, Corinna   B 79.722 1.000 21.08.2015
Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Schneider, Dr. Jörg MB S 178.188 1.019 06.08.2015
NORMA Group SE Kleinhens, Bernd MB S 36.734 797 14.08.2015
NORMA Group SE Kleinhens, Bernd MB S 624.251 13.553 13.08.2015
SAP SE Leukert, Bernd MB B 52.895 830 13.08.2015
SAP SE McDermott, Bill MB B 143.169 USD 2.000 11.08.2015
SAP SE van Skyhawk, Ingrid   S 8.013 122 04.08.2015
SAP SE Hahn, Andreas SB S 7.615 115 05.08.2015
STRATEC Biomedical AG Vielsack, Claus MB S 168.201 3.321 07.08.2015
STRATEC Biomedical AG Wolfinger, Marcus MB-Head S 265.597 5.244 07.08.2015
STRATEC Biomedical AG Siegle, Robert MB S 265.597 5.244 07.08.2015
Symrise AG Hirsch, Bernd MB B 17.778 307 12.08.2015
Symrise AG Hirsch, Bernd MB B 60.447 1.000 06.08.2015
Symrise AG Hirsch, Bernd MB B 59.990 1.000 07.08.2015
Symrise AG Bertram, Dr. Heinz-Jürgen MB-Head B 60.047 1.000 06.08.2015

 

 

 

 


 

 

VIPsight Shareholders

in August 2015

 

VIPsight Shareholder ID: MDAX & SDAX <click here>

 

VIPsight Shareholder ID: …….. Holdings in per cent
Companies Own-shares Notifiable shareholders Share Investment companies (KAGs) making disclosures*  
        Total Change Biggest KAG Share
               
DAX              
               
adidas AG   BlackRock, Inc. 4,98 St 24,67 -2,21 Capital Research and Management Company 3,53
    O. Mason Hawkins 3,06 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,02 St        
    Albert Frère 3 St        
    Thornburg Investment Management Inc. 2,73 St        
    UBS AG 1,83 St        
    Vorstand & Aufsichtsrat 1 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,38 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,16 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,15 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,03 St        
               
Allianz SE 0,60 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 6,25 St 24,91 -1,90 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,68
    Harris Associates L.P. 3,05 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,84 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,66 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,21 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,07 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,04 St        
               
BASF SE   BlackRock, Inc. 6,37 St 16,47 -1,85 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 1,27
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,32 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,26 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,78 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,35 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,11 St        
               
Bayer AG   BlackRock, Inc. 6,62 St 28,98 -1,72 Capital Research and Management Company 5,13
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 4,96 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 2,98 St        
    Bayer-Mitarbeiter 1 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,31 St        
               
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG   Stefan Quandt 25,81 St 14,37 -1,40 Dodge & Cox Funds 1,51
    Susanne Klatten 20,93 St        
    BlackRock 3,15 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0 St        
               
Beiersdorf AG 9,99 (St) maxingvest ag 50,69 St 7,54 -0,77 Artisan Partners Funds, Inc. 1,06
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,68 St        
               
Commerzbank AG   Bundesrepublik Deutschland 15,6 St 15,64 -1,50 Capital Research and Management Company 4,89
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,98 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 4,54 St        
    EuroPacific Growth Fund 2,75 St        
               
Continental AG   Schaeffler Group 46 St 19,43 -1,45 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,18
    BlackRock, Inc. 3,3 St        
    The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc 0,02 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0 St        
               
Daimler AG   Kuwait Investment Authority 6,8 St 19,42 -1,79 Harris Associates L.P. 1,32
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,56 St        
    Renault S. A. 3,1 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,99 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,3 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 1,11 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,22 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,11 St        
               
Deutsche Bank AG 0,01 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 6,32 St 14,42 -1,60 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 1,18
    Paramount Services Holdings Ltd. 5,83 St        
    LYXOR INTERNATIONAL ASSET MANAGEMENT S.A.S. 2,04 St        
    UBS AG 1,77 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0,07 St        
    Anshuman Jain 0,06 St        
    Henry Ritchotte 0,02 St        
    Jürgen Fitschen 0,02 St        
    Rainer Neske 0,01 St        
    Dr. Stephan Leithner 0,01 St        
               
Deutsche Börse AG 4,57 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 5,33 St 29,43 -2,08 Capital Research and Management Company 3,33
    Invesco Ltd. 5,02 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,98 St        
    Dodge & Cox 2,96 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 2,95 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 2,9 St        
    UBS AG 2,52 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,24 St        
               
Deutsche Lufthansa AG   Templeton Global Advisors Limited 5 St 24,66 -1,62 Franklin Templeton Investments 4,84
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,96 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,95 St        
    UBS AG 2,89 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,12 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,35 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,19 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,02 St        
               
Deutsche Post AG 0,12 (St) KfW - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau 20,96 St 18,23 -1,45 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,16
    BlackRock, Inc. 6,07 St        
               
Deutsche Telekom AG 0,40 (St) KfW - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau 17,17 St 12,70 -1,05 Capital Research and Management Company 1,00
    Bundesrepublik Deutschland 14,04 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,12 St        
               
E.ON SE 2,43 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 6,06 St 15,01 -1,63 Lyxor International Asset Management 1,32
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,96 St        
               
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA 2,42 (St) Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA 30,27 St 15,63 -1,40 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 1,23
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,09 St        
    Thornburg Investment Management Inc. 2,95 St        
    UBS AG 2,65 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,01 St        
               
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA   Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung 26,59 St 19,42 -1,54 Harbor Fund 2,34
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,98 St        
    Allianz SE 3,82 St        
    Henderson Group plc 2,99 St        
               
HeidelbergCement AG   Ludwig Merckle 25,89 St 24,02 -1,06 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 5,71
    Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc. 5,11 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,1 St        
    Morgan Stanley 2,98 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0 St        
               
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA 2,07 (Vz) Familie Henkel 60,84 St 19,90 -2,96 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,43
               
Infineon Technologies AG   Dodge & Cox 9,46 St 34,26 -2,63 Dodge & Cox Funds 5,88
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 7,85 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,22 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 5,01 St        
    Kuwait 3,25 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 3 St        
    UBS AG 2,4 St        
               
K+S AG   BlackRock, Inc. 5,13 St 15,91 -1,50 Capital Research and Management Company 3,66
    Meritus Trust Company Limited 2,97 St        
    EuroPacific Growth Fund 2,49 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,92 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,92 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,45 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,14 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,07 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,04 St        
               
LANXESS AG   BlackRock, Inc. 5,48 St 26,45 -2,43 Dodge & Cox Funds 4,96
    Dodge & Cox 5,09 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 4,24 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,92 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,91 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 1,28 St        
               
Linde AG 0,05 (St) Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 6,67 St 30,22 -2,16 Capital Research and Management Company 2,77
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,5 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 4,66 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,99 St        
    Commerzbank AG 2,94 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,75 St        
               
MERCK KGaA   BlackRock, Inc. 5,78 St 30,36 -2,02 Newton Fund Managers Ltd. 5,52
    Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 4,99 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 4,91 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 1,41 St        
    UBS AG 1,26 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,12 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,09 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,05 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,01 St        
               
Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG 0,49 (St) Warren E. Buffett 12 St 18,81 -2,44 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 1,18
    BlackRock, Inc. 6,16 St        
    People's Bank of China / State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) 3,22 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 3 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,64 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,95 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,28 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,06 St        
    Citigroup Inc. 0,02 St        
               
RWE AG   RWEB GmbH 16,15 St 13,95 -1,32 Alken AM LLP (UK) 2,46
    Privataktionäre 13 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,36 St        
    MIPL Group Limited 3,02 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 2,97 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,62 St        
    Belegschaftsaktionäre 1 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,36 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,01 St        
               
SAP SE 2,71 (St) Prof. Hasso Plattner 8,65 St 11,17 -1,30 Deka Investment GmbH 0,51
    Erbengemeinschaft nach Dr. h.c. Klaus Tschira 7,84 St        
    Dr. Dietmar Hopp 5,31 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,46 St        
    Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas 3,95 St        
    Morgan Stanley 1,21 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,79 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,12 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,1 St        
               
Siemens AG 5,19 (St) Siemens (Familie) 6 St 14,31 -1,72 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 1,13
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,29 St        
    DIC Company Limited 3,04 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,44 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,14 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,19 St        
    Vorstand 0,03 St        
    Commerzbank AG 0,02 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,01 St        
               
ThyssenKrupp AG   Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung 23,03 St 9,16 -1,32 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 0,95
    Cevian Capital II GP Limited 15,08 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 4,97 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,2 St        
               
VOLKSWAGEN AG   Porsche Automobil Holding SE 50,73 St 19,47 -1,74 Capital Research and Management Company 3,52
    Land Niedersachsen 20 St        
    Katar Holding 17 St        
               
TecDAX              
               
ADVA Optical Networking SE   EGORA Holding GmbH 17,2 St 12,21 -0,55 DeAWM Investment GmbH 7,76
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 7,76 St        
    DNB Asset Management AS 5,4 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,26 St        
    Dimensional Holdings Inc. 3 St        
    NN Investment Partners Belgium S.A. 2,95 St        
    FMR LLC 2,91 St        
    Brian L. Protiva 0,82 St        
    Eric Protiva 0,66 St        
    UBS Group AG 0,15 St        
    Anthony T. Maher 0,02 St        
               
AIXTRON SE 0,98 (St) Camma B.V. 6,79 St 32,17 -2,61 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 3,53
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 6,04 St        
    UBS Group AG 5,35 St        
    Generation Investment Management LLP 5,16 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 4,62 St        
    Vanguard Group Inc. 3 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,96 St        
    NN Group N.V. 2,93 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,11 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,05 St        
               
Bechtle AG   Karin Schick 35,02 St 26,86 -0,64 Flossbach von Storch AG 9,61
    Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. 10,07 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 4,92 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,99 St        
    Alceda Fund Management SA 2,93 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,86 St        
    Jürgen Schäfer 0,02 St        
               
CANCOM SE   Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 9,93 St 22,19 -2,19 Threadneedle Asset Management Limited 3,19
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 5,04 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Luxembourg S.A. 4,78 St        
    Denver Investment Advisors LLC 3 St        
    Astellon Capital Partners LLP 2,46 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,31 St        
    Klaus Weinmann 0,89 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,8 St        
    Dominik Eberle 0,07 St        
               
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG   Carl Zeiss AG 65,05 St 11,44 -0,58 Oddo Asset Management 2,14
    ODDO ET CIE 2,99 St        
               
CompuGROUP Medical AG 6,57 (St) Frank Gotthardt 33,65 St 17,24 -1,51 Fidelity Managem.& Research Co. 5,41
    Dr. Daniel Gotthardt 6,71 St        
    Dr. Brigitte Gotthardt 6,35 St        
    Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) 5,66 St        
    FMR LLC 5,09 St        
    Dr. Reinhard Koop 3,86 St        
    Armor Advisors, LLC 2,99 St        
    OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 2,96 St        
    Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 2,95 St        
               
Dialog Semiconductor PLC 3,96 (St) The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV 12,42 St 29,06 -0,45 CI Investments Inc. 4,01
    Citigroup Global Markets 9,44 St        
    State Street 5,92 St        
    Robert Citrone 4,68 St        
    Clearstream Banking S.A. 4,25 St        
    Chase Nominees Ltd 4,1 St        
    BNP Paribas Securities Services 4 St        
    Nortrust Nominees Limited 3,79 St        
    Waddell and Reed Financial Inc. 3,5 St        
    CACEIS Bank Deutschland 3,21 St        
    Kleinwort Benson (Jersey) Trustees Limited as Trustee of the Dialog Semiconductor plc Employee Benefit Trust 2,98 St        
    RBC Investor Services Trust 2,9 St        
    Black Creek Investment Management Inc. 2,68 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 2,51 St        
               
Drillisch AG   Ralph Dommermuth 20,11 St 27,11 1,12 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5,37
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 5,13 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 2,89 St        
    FMR LLC 2,84 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 2,28 St        
    Marc Brucherseifer 1,97 St        
    Mellon Capital Management Corporation 1,72 St        
    Paschalis Choulidis 0,78 St        
    Vlasios Choulidis 0,73 St        
    Johann Weindl 0,02 St        
    Dr. Horst Lennertz 0 St        
               
Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA   Familie Dräger 71,42 St 33,70 -0,71 Templeton Investment Counsel LLC 2,66
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,27 St        
    SICAV Objectif Small Caps Euro 3,19 St        
    Lazard Frères Gestion S.A.S. 3,04 St        
    Oddo Asset Management 2,97 St        
    Dräger Stiftung 0,12 St        
               
Evotec AG   Roland Oetker 13,23 St 8,95 -0,80 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,42
    BVF Inc. 12,57 St        
    TVM V Life Science Management GmbH & Co. KG 5,37 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 3 St        
    Dr. Werner Lanthaler 0,4 St        
    Dr. Mario Polywka 0,05 St        
    Mary C. Tanner 0,05 St        
    Dr. Walter Wenninger 0,03 St        
    Dr. Cord Dohrmann 0,03 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0 St        
               
freenet AG   Allianz Global Investors GmbH 5,16 St 38,06 -1,10 DeAWM Investment GmbH 6,06
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,65 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,7 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 3,08 St        
    J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc 2,98 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,82 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,65 St        
    Flossbach von Storch SICAV 2,63 St        
               
GFT Technologies SE   Ulrich Dietz 28,08 St 9,59 0,26 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 1,68
    Maria Dietz 9,68 St        
    Dr. Markus Kerber 4,99 St        
    Baden-Württembergische Versorgungsanstalt für Ärzte, Zahnärzte und Tierärzte 2,99 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,99 St        
    Fidelity Funds SICAV 2,91 St        
    Dr. Jochen Ruetz 0,38 St        
    Marika Lulay 0,14 St        
    Andreas Bernhardt 0,1 St        
               
JENOPTIK AG   Thüringer Industriebeteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG 11 St 27,79 -0,42 DeAWM Investment GmbH 8,02
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,2 St        
    ODDO ET CIE 3,03 St        
    Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,01 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,63 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,25 St        
               
LPKF Laser & Electronics AG   Lazard Frères Gestion S.A.S. 5,65 St 17,81 -2,86 Wasatch Funds, Inc. 2,97
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3,32 St        
    Rock Point Advisors LLC 3,04 St        
    Andrew Gibbs 3,01 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,92 St        
    WA Holdings, Inc. 2,89 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 2,72 St        
    Bernd Hackmann 0,56 St        
    Dr. Ingo Bretthauer 0,25 St        
    Bernd Lange 0,11 St        
    Kai Bentz 0,07 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,07 St        
    Dr. Heino Büsching 0,04 St        
    Prof. Dr. Erich Barke 0,01 St        
               
Manz AG   Dieter Manz 35,2 St 12,41 -0,20 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 1,18
    Ulrike Manz 3,8 St        
    Otto Angerhofer 2,77 St        
    AXA S.A. 2,65 St        
    ETHENEA Independent Investment S.A. 2,4 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 2,1 St        
               
MorphoSys AG 2,04 (St) Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. 5,78 St 29,01 0,02 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 4,39
    Novartis Pharma AG 5,56 St        
    Templeton Global Advisors Limited 3,1 St        
    Celgene Alpine Investment Co., LLC 3,01 St        
    Credit Suisse Fund Management S.A 2,95 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,95 St        
    Perceptive Life Sciences Master Fund, Ltd. 2,94 St        
    AVIVA plc 2,78 St        
    Invesco Advisers, Inc. 2,65 St        
    Dr. Simon Moroney 1,8 St        
    Dr. Marlies Sproll 0,14 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,08 St        
               
Nemetschek AG   Prof. Georg Nemetschek 53,57 St 4,67 -0,42 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 0,73
    Capital Research and Management Company 3,12 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,05 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,95 St        
    Allianz SE 0,96 St        
               
Nordex SE   SKion/momentum capital/Klatten 22,85 St 14,86 -0,20 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,89
    JPMorgan Chase Bank 5,02 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 4,83 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,95 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,13 St        
    Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart 0,01 St        
    UniCredit Bank AG 0,01 St        
               
Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG   Privataktionäre 4,9 St 47,58 0,30 Parvest Investment Management Company S.A. 3,45
    Hakuto - Handelsvertretung 3,48 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3,08 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,98 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 2,96 St        
    Montanaro Asset Management Ltd 2,94 St        
    Capital Research and Management Company 2,68 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,53 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 2,28 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 1,97 St        
    Mitglieder von Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,06 St        
               
QIAGEN N.V. 3,21 (St) PRIMECAP Management Company 9,21 St 19,09 -0,54 Franklin Templeton Investments 2,99
    BlackRock, Inc. 7,31 St        
    Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 5,75 St        
    Platinum Investment Management Limited 2,99 St        
    Manning & Napier Advisors, LLC 2,89 St        
    Generation Investment Management LLP 2,88 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 2,43 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,2 St        
    Harding Loevner LLC 2,18 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,07 St        
    Amundi Group 2,03 St        
    Dr. Metin Colpan 1,52 St        
    Peer M. Schatz 0,82 St        
    Prof. Dr. Detlev H. Riesner 0,61 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 0,27 St        
               
QSC AG   Gerd Eickers 12,55 St 22,71 0,02 Kempen Capital Management NV 10,17
    Dr. Bernd Schlobohm 12,5 St        
    J O Hambro Capital Management Limited 5,19 St        
    Kempen European Participations N.V. 5,09 St        
    Credit Suisse Fund Management S.A 2,98 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,96 St        
    Jürgen Hermann 0,27 St        
    Dr. Frank Zurlino 0,01 St        
    Barbara Stolz 0,01 St        
    Stefan A. Baustert 0,01 St        
               
RIB Software AG 2,89 (St) Thomas Wolf 20,08 St 29,13 1,69 Capital Research and Management Company 7,31
    Capital Group Companies Inc. 6,4 St        
    Hans-Joachim Sander 4,58 St        
    SAP AG 4,28 St        
    Lagoda Investment Management LLC 3,19 St        
    Schroders Investment Management 3 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 2,97 St        
    Invesco Ltd. 2,95 St        
    FIL Investments International 2,88 St        
    UBS Global Asset Management GmbH 1,95 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,42 St        
    Michael Sauer 0,9 St        
               
Sartorius AG 8,89 (St) Erbengemeinschaft nach Horst Sartorius 50,1 St 24,89 -0,89 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 2,65
  8,98 (Vz) Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. 30,01 St        
    Familienbesitz 5 St        
               
SMA Solar Technology AG   Pool SMA Solar Technology AG 25,2 St 7,77 -0,03 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 2,51
    Danfoss A/S 20 St        
    Peter Drews 4,76 St        
    Reiner Wettlaufer 4,76 St        
    Irene Cramer 4,75 St        
    Prof. Dr. Werner Kleinkauf 4,39 St        
               
Software AG 0,10 (St) Software AG Stiftung 31,59 St 21,41 0,15 Shareholder Value Management AG 2,31
    FMR LLC 3,8 St        
    Remo Stoffel 3,66 St        
    Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 3,29 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 3,26 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 3,22 St        
    Deka Investment GmbH 3,16 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,97 St        
    Shareholder Value Beteiligungen AG 2,3 St        
               
STRATEC Biomedical AG 0,10 (St) Herdor GmbH & Co. KG 9,65 St 25,76 -1,79 Montanaro Asset Management Limited 6,51
    Ralf Leistner 9,53 St        
    Bettina Siegle 9,48 St        
    Tanja van Dinter 9,33 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 4,98 St        
    Montanaro Asset Management Ltd 4,76 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 3,05 St        
    Financière de l'Echiquier 2,95 St        
    Hermann Leistner 0,38 St        
    Doris Leistner 0,34 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 0,33 St        
               
Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG   Telefónica Germany Holdings Limited 62,1 St 3,12 -0,03 T. Rowe Price Investment Services Inc. 0,70
    Citigroup Inc. 0,42 St        
    UBS AG 0,21 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,02 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0 St        
    HSBC Holdings plc 0 St        
               
United Internet AG 0,47 (St) Ralph Dommermuth 40 St 14,38 -1,07 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 2,49
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,94 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,84 St        
    Norbert Lang 0,22 St        
    Michael Scheeren 0,15 St        
    Robert Nikolaus Hoffmann 0,05 St        
               
Wirecard AG   MB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH 6,4 St 45,09 0,13 Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Limited 5,13
    Jupiter Asset Management Limited 6,27 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 4,94 St        
    T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. 3,15 St        
    Select Equity Group, L.P. 3,09 St        
    Comgest Global Investors S.A.S. 3,05 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 3,03 St        
    Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 2,97 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 2,94 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,39 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,13 St        
               
XING AG 0,00 (St) Burda Digital GmbH 50,26 St 27,06 -0,39 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 6,01
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 4,98 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,95 St        
    Schroders plc 2,98 St        
    Schroder Investment Management North America Ltd 2,95 St        
               

 

 

 


 

 

M & A

 

windeln.de: expanding in Western Europe

Shortly after its stock market listing in May 2015, windeln.de Ag, online distributor of products for newborns took over the Spanish mail order shop bebitus Retail S.L. Bebitus markets its products for newborns and toddlers in Spain, Portugal and France and, according to windeln.de, its turnover margin is approximately 7 million Euros, expected to rise to 15 million Euros in 2015. The takeover cost windeln.de some 5 million Euros. Both sides have agreed on further payments up to 2017 pegged to results, made in the form of new shares of windeln.de AG.

This transaction is a further step towards windeln.de developing its standing in the European market. In July, it took over Feedo the east-European mail order distributor presently active in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and China as well as Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This latest takeover opens doors in the western European markets, among which France in particular stands out for its high birth rates and thus great market potential.

 

Ströer SE: Acquisitions and a new major shareholder

Strörer SE, the advertising space sales organization is expanding its online German business. The Cologne based company purchased Media, the interactive digital distributor, and T-Online the digital portal from Deutsche Telekom. Ströer is a renowned seller of advertising space near bus-stops, train stations; it also sells the advertising space on billboards in football stadiums.

As payment, Deutsche Telekom gets new shares from an increase in Ströer’s share capital, worth some 300 million Euros, amounting to between 11 and 13 percent of the increased capital. The lock-up period of the new shares is one year, and the transaction should be brought to conclusion in the fourth quarter of the current fiscal year. All that is missing is approval by the monopolies commission. The purchase of the two companies, should raise the profit per share by more than 5 percent from 2016, again based on the increase in capital, and prior to the joining of forces. In so doing, the company expects to create the financial terrain for greater dividends and further wealth-creating investments,.

The purchase of Interactive Media (rated third in the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online Forschung ) Ströer Digital Group expects to give a substantial boost to its leadership of the online sale of advertising space in the German market. For example, Interactive Media manages the websites of "autoscout24.de", "bunte.de" and "kicker online". The second most important offerer on the market is MEdia Impact, a subsidiary of publisher Axel Springer Verlag. T-Online, by contrast is thought of as the company with the most coverage in Germany. Apparently, the previous owner, Deutsche Telekom, had put it up for sale in 2014 deeming its growth potential too small and because of shifts in clients’ user habits after going on line by this portal.

ISRA Vision: Broadening the range of products

Yet another take-over. Machine Vision specialist Isra Vision AG of Darmstadt is forging ahead in its strategy of development and is purchasing Karlsruhe- based Vision Experts GmbH The group’s strategy is to bolster its core business by catering to the needs of the packaging industry. Vision Experts expects to increase its turnover by more than 20 percent to more than 3 million Euros this financial year. According to Isra Systems, the purchase price was calculated on the basis of the turnover for 2014. Integration is expected to reach conclusion over the coming two quarters, at which point the present headquarters of the group will be unified with those of Vision Experts. The new entry is specialised in optical inspection devices for high quality printed products and for printed packaging for metal or pharmaceuticals.

 

 

 

 

VIPsight - August 2015

 

COMPANIES

 

Winterkorn top of the heap

After a two year dip in Euro-remunerations, emoluments paid out to the CEOs of stock market listed companies have begun to rise again. According to a survey conducted by business consultants hkp, the average rise of directors fees in 2014 was 4 percent, or 5.8 million Euros. The average amount of the actual emoluments paid out to the CEOs of the 30 Dax-listed concerns is 5.9 million Euros. Top of the European list is Martin Winterkorn, the highest paid CEO in Europe, followed by the two CEOs of Cie. Financière Richemont of Switzerland, Richard Lepeu and Bernard Fornas.

 

The top ten of Dax-listings are:

Martin Winterkorn          Volkswagen      15.9 Million

Dieter Zetsche               Daimler            14.4 Million

Frank Appel                 Deutsche Post   9.6 Million

Ulf Schneider               Fresenius         9.2 Million

Kurt Bock                     BASF               7.8 Million

Kasper Rorsted                 Henkel              7.7 Million

Joe Kaeser                    Siemens           6.7 Million

Marijn Dekkers              Bayer               6.7 Million

Elmar Degenhart            Continental       6.2 Million

Anshu Jain                    DeutscheBank   6.2 Million

 

K+S takeover stalled

Jochen Tilk CEO of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan is continuing in his efforts to get the K+S executive board to sit down to a constructive dialogue on the issue of Potash’s intentions of purchasing it. The Canadians are by no means discouraged by the reluctant stance adopted by the K+S management. As of now, Potash is still undecided whether to table an official purchase offer for the German fertilizer and salts producer. Company sources, however, confirm that Tilk’s preference lies in a non-hostile transaction with his competitors from Kassel. In a recent presentation of quarterly results, German born Tilk highlighted the advantages for both sides which, according to him, would accrue from the two companies joining forces, adding that he wants to maintain sites and jobs. At the beginning of July, the Canadian company with its headquarters in the province of Saskatchewan proposed the deal but K+S CEO Norbert Steiner, was in total opposition to the terms the Canadians were offering, namely 41 Euros per share, which values the company at 7.8 billion Euros excluding indebtedness. Both the executive and Supervisory Boards are of the opinion that the offer is too low. In addition to more money K+S is also looking for commitments to maintain sites and jobs that are more watertight than those set out in a letter to the K+S management. Tilk states he is willing to offer more binding guarantees. 

 

Wilex: improved prospects

If the first half-year figures for biopharm company Wilex AG are anything to go by, they point to a success story in increasing turnover and cutting costs. The first six months – ending November 30 of this financial year – witnessed a 35 percent increase in revenue, to 2.3 million Euros over the corresponding period of the previous year. Approximately 1 million Euros came from liquidating reserves, foreign exchange gains and rent of property.

At the same time, costs were cut to 4.2 million Euros, 30 percent down on the first half-year of 2014, achieved by discontinuing clinical development and cutting costs through restructuring. Research and development accounted for some 46 percent – 1.9 million Euros – and further savings were made by reducing costs for commissioned research and administration. Its status of subsidiary of Heidelberg Pharma, qualified the company for funding for the next three years’ research into an active substance against prostate cancer. According to management funding is guaranteed until mid-2016, secured by an increase in share capital dated March 2015.

 

Bastei Lübbe Digital: towards the future

Bastei Lübbe AG, the well-known publishing house, increased its turnover last financial term (30.3.) with most of the increase in digital publishing. Good news for investors, the dividend is expected to rise, too.

The prime standard-listed media group posted a 2.5 percent increase in turnover on the previous year to approximately 110 million Euros. Digital product such as e-books and digital audio books account for over 20 percent of sales compared to 14 percent the previous year. Ebitda ballooned by 9 percent to approximately 18 million Euros. Extraordinary revenue from the sale of 55 percent of its quota to subsidiary company Beam (on-line, e-bookshop) went hand in hand with one-off costs for computerisation and internationalisation.

The company is clearly oriented to focussing future initiatives on digital product, in particular those of its digital subsidiaries Beam and Daedalic Entertainment, a computer game producer. Bastei Lübbe has forecast a slight increase in turnover this financial year to 115 million Euros, which is then expected to rise by at least 10 percent in the two successive years. By contrast, management is expecting a slight drop in Ebitda in 2015-6. Bastei is expected to announce a dividend to investors of 0.30 Euros per share, 2 cents more than last year – expected payout almost 4 million Euros. 

 

 

 


 

 

 

The German Mittelstand

 

German SMEs seek strategy-oriented successors

Some 135,000 German SME entrepreneurs are on the lookout for worthwhile successors to carry on their businesses from 2018 on. The figure emerged from a survey conducted by the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IFM) in Bonn. According to Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KFW) who drew from a variety of databases, no fewer than 580,000 enterprises on the verge of a generation shift. Despite their disparity, the conclusions are all the same. German SMEs are working flat out to build sustainable conditions for succession.

The numbers are worrying and call for political action. The main session of a Europe-wide event dedicated to SMEs (7. Europäische KMU-Woche) held in Berlin at the beginning of July was devoted entirely to the question of succession within SME companies. Political interest in finding a solution stems mainly from the fact that a great many jobs are at stake. Iris Gleicke, government delegate for SME matters, and Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Economy and Energy has the numbers at her fingertips. Each year, some 400,000 jobs depend on the successful generational handover of the company that employs them.

Many entrepreneurs are beginning to wonder who’s going to take over running their business. Pensionable age is getting ever closer and there are no likely heirs in the family, which leaves one of two alternatives. Close down or sell out. The company may be bought out by a director or by a group of employees. More often, though, it falls into the hands of outside investors and one can understand the reluctance of an entrepreneur to see the company that he devoted his life to, broken up and sold piecemeal to investors out to make a quick kill.

The ideal solution would be a purchaser with strategy and perspicacity, an entrepreneur-investor not looking for a quick sale, but oriented towards company maintenance and growth along a path agreed on with the company management. People like this do exist, and one of them is the GESCO industrial group that has become specialized in the production of machines and tools, and in the technology of plastic materials.

GESCO AG sees itself as a specialist in questions of succession in SMEs, buttressing a functioning business model to extend and develop it. At the time of succession the specialist buys up 100 percent of the company equity, without, however, following an exit strategy. When the old entrepreneur is no longer involved, GESCO introduces a new management team that comes in with a quota of 10 to 20 percent vested interest and hence the same long-term vision as the parent company.

The disappointing results that Corporate Raiders lead to, are making politicians sit up and take interest in the matter. They see that succession within a company can only be seen as positive when jobs are secure long-term and, even better if more are created. The proposals put forward by the Federal Ministry of the Economy and Energy – including “nexxt-Initiative” and “nexxt-change” – are indeed useful but they don’t go far enough to cover the needs of SMEs in terms of information , practical support and adequate investment.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Buhlmann's Corner

 

Good conduct or responsibility?

Or in today’s terminology, do I want compliance or do I want ethics?

Of course you need rules otherwise traffic would be in permanent gridlock, nobody would get anywhere, and social and economic interaction would cease to exist . Sooner or later something happens and it gets recorded on a camera put there by the regulators. Broadly speaking, German legislation on joint stock companies introduced 6 September 1965 (Aktienrecht - BGBl I page 1185, in force from 01.01.1966) still holds good today. With no acknowledged responsibility, things can work for years as long as nobody starts asking questions. Insurance companies, pension funds and public sector expenditure all invest more in advertising than in responsible conduct.

A very unique case in point unfolded last month in Madrid during the AGM of Red Electrica when, after many years the company decided to change the structure of management – the Chairman and Chief Executive were no longer to be combined in one person for the following reasons:

“Red Electrica Board is a true believer in aligning the governance structure of the company with international best practices. Not only due to the fact that 69% of Red Electrica ownership is in the hands of foreign investors, but because the Board led by the chairman, is convinced of the benefits of having a well-tempered structure with proper checks and balances, especially in a complex regulatory environment“. This was the approach management adopted to explain the need for change to the shareholders whose approval was being sought.

Things work a bit differently in Volkswagen AG. There, we are witness to a minuet of posturing between the chairman of the executive board and his Supervisory Board counterpart. The former is obsessed with the idea of shifting from the position of CEO to being head of the Supervisory Board in one move and without going through the cooling-off period. Insofar as the issue doesn’t run counter to a policy of general legality, it can be said that here, responsible conduct would be to involve the shareholders in deciding how and when.

This all holds for M&As too. Despite the absence of any kind of official, let alone substantive offer on the part of Western Potash, K+S saw fit to send a letter to its shareholders asking them to hold off forming any kind of opinion regarding the situation or coming to any conclusions. But then the same envelope contained a questionnaire that the company invited the shareholders to fill in and, bypassing the recommendation agencies, express their opinion on the issue.

Canvassing in this fashion would be perfect for banks for getting their shareholders onboard. Two come to mind that are complete opposites, namely Banco Santander and Monte dei Paschi di Siena. Are you more interested in a cultural shift, or is banking with good and responsible conduct good enough for you?

Many people point to the divergence between the capital of the passives and the wealth of the actives, but they both have to be on the balance sheet, inseparably. Good conduct is for capital without which we wouldn’t get very far. Responsibility is, instead, how to make use of, take care of and enhance the capital.

On the subject of capital and good conduct, we saw, in 2009, that it doesn’t work to bundle worthless capital and sell it under another name. It was so all-pervasive that we talked endlessly, and mistakenly about “bank crisis”. When will we ever learn that outsourcing responsible conduct forges ever longer and obscure hierarchies of responsibility that in the end always trigger the same “something” that happens. So the question remains, how long before we identify it for what it is instead of looking the other way? 

 

 

 


 

 

People

 

Aurubis has announced that the company, presently in a phase of reorientation towards new goals and Frank Schneider the executive board member for the recycling/precious metals division and, have reached an agreement on the terms of the latter’s resignation. The MDax-listed group is cutting its business areas from three to two; Schneider’s will be incorporated into copper production and copper products.

 

In the course of its meeting on July 21, Bilfinger’s Supervisory Board decided that a few weeks after the debut of new CEP Per Utnegaard two executive board members would have to go. A consensual agreement is being sought with Joachim Enenkel (power division) and PieterKoolen (industrial division). The executive board will be cut from five members to three.

 

FUCHS Petrolub, the Mannheim-based lubricant manufacturer is setting the stage for a change in CFO. Alexander Selent, the executive board member for finance for the last 16 years and executive board vice chair is retiring at the end of the year. From 1 January, 2016, the new CFO will be Dagmar Steinert. Ms Steinert has been in charge of Investor Relations in FUCHS PETROLUB since 2013 and she will be the first lady CFO in the company’s eighty-year-long history. Furthermore, the executive board will gain one member more. With effect from 1 January 2016, Timo Reister will join the board as head of the Asia/Pacific basin and Africa. According to CEO Stefan Fuchs this area of the world is brimming over with potential that a company like Fuchs entrenched as it is in Europe and the USA cannot afford to ignore.

 

On July 14, the Duisburg tribunal appointed Prof. Tobias Kollmann to the Supervisory Board of Klöckner & Co, effective immediately. Prof Kollman, who lectures in E-business and E-entrepreneuship and has been full professor of company economics and computer economics at Wurzburg University for ten years, will take the place of the late Robert J. Koehler, who died on May 17 last. Kollman had been chair of the “Junge Digitale Wirtschaft”, the body who counselled the Federal Economics Minister on issues of information and communication economics.

 

Michael Andersen is set to become CFO of KRONES. Still CFO of Gea Heat Exchangers, Andersen will transfer directly to Krones effective January 2016. Pursuant to an agreement signed in March with his current employer, the name of the person who will replace Christoph Klenk CEO has not been released.

 

After 51 years of service in MAN, Jochen Schumm is taking retirement and Josef Schelchshorn, currently head of human resources in Seat has been appointed to succeed him on July 1 as head of Human Resources of MAN Truck & Bus. Schelchshorn’s career began in 1979 in Audi. His predecessor, Schumm, by contrast, began his career in 1964 in Volkswagen where he trained as an industrial management assistant. He subsequently became executive board member with responsibility for Human Resources in Seat, a VW subsidiary. He joined MAN three years ago. 

 

Jenoptik: musical chairs in the Supervisory Boardroom

TecDax listed laser optical equipment specialist Jenoptik AG has a new Supervisory Board chair. Subsequent to the exit of ECE, the major Austrian shareholder, and, thence its two representative board members Rudolf and Christian Humer, two new candidates were proposed whose identity, however is still under wraps. In the meantime the board elected Maithias Wierlacher to the chair, effective immediately. A Supervisory Board member for three years, Wierlacher is also CEO of Thüringer Aufbaubank, and replaces Rudolf Humer who held the post for seven years.

 

Zeal Network: new executive board

Zeal Network SE (formerly Tipp24) executive board chair Hans Cornehl, was not interested in extending his contract that expires at the end of 2015. Since the handover to his successor Helmut Becker is proceeding apace, the latter will take over the helm as early as September, and Cornehl will quit the SDax-listed company earlier than originally expected.

Over a period of 13 years, Cornehl has served on the executive board of the online lottery company, the latter as CEO. He piloted the former Tipp24 to listing on the stock market; Becker, his successor has been on the executive board of Zeal since 2013 as the board member for Marketing. Previously he had served as Chief Commercial Officer on the executive board of Xing AG after being appointed to a number of posts calling for leadership qualities in ebay Deutschland. His appointment to the Zeal executive board was preceded by a two-year stint in the company’s Supervisory Board.

 

United Power Technology: surprise exit

Oliver Juan, former CFO of the Chinese-owned United Power Technology, resigned his post and quit the company at the end of June, citing personal reasons. The Prime Standard-listed, German registered concern is officially on the market for a replacement. The company’s financial affairs are being handled in the interim by Financial Director, Zhong Jia Yang.

 

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen: an unexpected absence

The company will be led by CFO Dirk Kaliebe until CEO Gerold Linzbach gets over his ilness. Kaliebe will take the chair of the executive board and head human resources. Heidelberger Druck has considered the possibility that Linzburg’s recovery could take longer than originally expected. Finance Magazine is of the opinion that Linzbach could be back at work before the expiry of his contract in 2017. Kaliebe has served on the executive board since 2006.

 

 

 


 

 

Capital News

 

Deutsche Annington Immobilien has finalised its increase in capital with the right of option, for 2.25 billion Euros. Shareholders purchased 105.5 million new shares at 20.90 Euros each prior to the expiry date of June 30. Germany’s largest real estate group announced that the option right quota was 98.1 percent. The approximately2 million shares left unsold will be put on the market. 1.9 billion Euros have been earmarked for financing the takeover of Südewodi Patrizia Immobilien. The remainder will be used to refinance collateralised loans and pay for transaction costs. Deutsche Annington Immobilien’s announcement of the Südewo takeover was made on June 14 .

 

Lotto24: new equity for two shareholders

By means of an increase in capital excluding all option rights, Lotto24 AG accrued some 7.7 million Euros in revenue. The Prime Standard-listed company placed I 2,195,899 shares at 3.49 Euros each with two shareholders, Othello Vier Beteiligungs Gesellschaft and Jens Schumann. The placement price was 10 percent higher than the average trading price of the three days preceding the transaction. Lotto24 has announced that the new equity will be eligible for trading from October onwards within the Prime Standard-listing of the Frankfurt bourse. The net revenue is earmarked for funding commercial growth.

 

Halloren: a new major investor in chocolate

Germany’s oldest chocolate manufacturer, Halloren Schokoladenfabrik AG, has increased its share capital by a transaction worth some 4 million Euros for the company that has been Entry Standard-listed since 2007. The 577,084 shares placed at 6.80 Euros each were all fully subscribed by Charlie Investors S.a.r.l. which brings its holding in the east German chocolate factory to 26 percent.

 

ADO Properties: more real estate being traded

The stock exchange flotation of real estate concern ADO Properties AG took place at the end of July. A subsidiary of Israeli owned ADO Group it has a portfolio containing some 14,000 apartments in Berlin. Approximately 23 million shares both extant and new were placed in a second phase of the operation at an issue price of 20 Euros each. Of the revenue, 200 million Euros – corresponding to 10 million new shares – from an increase in capital, will go directly into the coffers of the Prime Standard-listed concern. A maximum of 260 million will go to the parent company that for now intends maintaining a minimum quota of 35 percent. The company has earmarked the revenue for expanding its Berlin real estate portfolio and to continue growing.

 

 

 


 

 

M & A

 

Kontron: All -round service

Embedded Computer Technology (ECT), expert Kontron AG has acquired the entire share equity of its Indian subsidiary Kontron Technology India PvT. Ltd. Prime Standard-listed Kontron expects that this transaction will enable it to provide a better service to the 120 clients it has in the area. The transaction is part of the company’s development strategy for the Asia Pacific basin.

 

Tele Columbus: market status consolidated

Germany’s third largest cable network operator Tele Columbus has taken over its competitor Prima Con Holding GmbH. The price stated of 711 million Euros does not yet include cash reserves and liabilities. This transaction places 2.8 million homes within SDax-listed Tele Columbus’s network and confirms its market leadership as a cable network provider.

Prima Con, up to now the German market’s fourth-largest operator has its own optical fibre network that provides cable TV and telecommunication services. According to Tele Columbus, Prima Com’s turnover towards the end of last year amounted to approximately 132 million Euros.

Conclusion of the transaction is expected by end July, but the final approval by the monopolies commission is still pending. According to ”Handelsblatt, Tele Columbus will fund half of the transaction with the revenue from the stock market flotation in January and the other half by means of bank loans and a 125 million Euro bridge finance.

 

Nanogate: total control

Nanogate AG, the specialist in surface treatments and finishings has taken over the entire equity quota of its subsidiary company GfO AG. Nanogate, quoted on the Entry Standard list exercised its majority option on the remaining 25% quota. No information has been given regarding the price of the transaction. Nanogate is also enhancing its potential in inkjet treatment. Nanogate’s turnover and profit have vastly improved since it became involved with GfO in 2010.

 

SGL Carbon: costly divorce

SGL Carvon SE has sold its American subsidiary, HITCO Carbon Composites Inc., at a loss. Hitco, a manufacturer of structural components for aircraft, was sold to Avcorp Industries of Canada, with the sole exception of the Material Solutions business. The 47 million dollars of the deal, made up of payments due to the Canadians, repayments of advance payments made by customers and the payment of various services to Avcorp, comes out at a loss. The American authorities still have to approve the transaction which is expected to reach completion by the end of October. SGL is expecting an outflow amounting to some 40 million Euros, most of which should mature at the moment of closing. SDax-listed SGL, does however stand by its forecast for 2015 and a net increase in Ebit and Ebitda. 

 

 

 

VIPsight Shareholder ID: …….. Holdings in per cent
Companies Own-shares Notifiable shareholders Share Investment companies (KAGs) making disclosures*  
        Total Change Biggest KAG Share
MDAX              
               
Aareal Bank AG   Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder 6,5 St 36,84 0,51 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 4,01
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,43 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,8 St        
    Dr. August Oetker Finanzierungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH 4,7 St        
    FMR LLC 3,45 St        
    Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,04 St        
    NEU BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,97 St        
    Basler Leben AG 2,7 St        
    Deutscher Ring Krankenversicherungsverein a.G. 1,4 St        
    Condor Lebensversicherung-AG 1,1 St        
               
Airbus Group SE 0,06 (St) Société de Gestion de Participations Aéronautiques-Sogepa 10,9 St 17,57 -0,05 Capital Research and Management Company 3,42
    KfW - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau 10,9 St        
    Capital Group International Inc. 5,07 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,98 St        
    Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI) 4,1 St        
               
Aurubis AG   Salzgitter AG 25 St 23,84 1,85 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 2,84
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,08 St        
    Delta Lloyd Asset Management N.V. 2,99 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,98 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,01 St        
    Vorstand 0,01 St        
               
Axel Springer SE   Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. 51,5 St 31,35 -0,95 Tweedy, Browne Fund Inc. 9,52
    Dr. Friede Springer 5,56 St        
    Dr. Mathias Döpfner 3,06 St        
    Vorstand 0,13 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,08 St        
               
Bilfinger SE 3,99 (St) Cevian Capital II GP Limited 25,62 St 26,93 2,13 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,44
    Schroders plc 3,34 St        
    NEU GVO Asset Management AG 3,04 St        
    DJE Investment S.A. 2,98 St        
    Delta Lloyd Asset Management N.V. 2,59 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,25 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 1,68 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,84 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,1 St        
               
Brenntag AG   Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd. 5,26 St 25,46 0,63 Threadneedle Asset Management Limited 3,40
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,03 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 5 St        
    Newton Management Limited 3,14 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3 St        
    T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. 2,99 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,07 St        
    Longview Partners LLP 1,03 St        
    UBS AG 1 St        
    Manning & Napier Advisors, LLC 0,96 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,14 St        
    Steven Edward Holland 0,02 St        
    William A. Fidler 0,02 St        
               
Celesio AG   Mc Kesson Corporation 75,92 St 3,83 0,01 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 0,68
    Magnetar Financial LLC 3,14 St        
               
CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA 0,01 (St) Klaus-Peter Schulenberg 50,2 St 19,18 0,28 Fidelity Managem.& Research Co. 2,18
    FMR LLC 2,97 St        
    Edmund Hug 0,02 St        
    Dr. Bernd Kundrun 0,02 St        
    Alexander Ruoff 0,01 St        
    Prof. Jobst W. Plog 0 St        
               
Deutsche Annington Immobilien SE   BlackRock, Inc. 8,27 St 11,07 0,53 MFS Massachusetts Financial Services Company 1,75
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 5,93 St        
    Lansdowne Partners Limited/Lansdowne Partners International Limited 4,94 St        
    The Wellcome Trust Ltd 4,46 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 4,03 St        
    Wellington Management Group LLP 3,14 St        
    Jeremy Coller 1,95 St        
    Guy Hands 1,83 St        
    Citigroup Inc. 1,48 St        
    Lion Residential Holdings S. à r.l. 0,86 St        
    Abu Dhabi Investment Authority 0,4 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0,06 St        
    Dr. Marion Helmes 0,01 St        
               
Deutsche EuroShop AG   Familie Otto 17,33 St 16,66 0,41 BlackRock AM Ire Ltd 1,39
    Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung 2,99 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,97 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 0,28 St        
    Klaus Striebich 0,04 St        
    Manfred Zaß 0,02 St        
    Vorstand 0,02 St        
    Dr. Bernd Thiemann 0,01 St        
    Reiner Strecker 0,01 St        
               
Deutsche Wohnen AG   Sun Life Financial Inc. 8,69 St 29,08 0,28 MFS Massachusetts Financial Services Company 5,06
    BlackRock, Inc. 7,19 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 5,87 St        
    Capital Group International Inc. 2,59 St        
    APG Asset Management N.V. 2,58 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 2,55 St        
    Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe KdöR 1,96 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,67 St        
               
DMG MORI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT   Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. 52,54 St 30,42 1,92 DeAWM Investment GmbH 6,34
    Paul E. Singer 11,73 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,89 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,82 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,01 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 0,26 St        
               
Dürr AG   Heinz Dürr GmbH 25,2 St 21,13 -0,36 MainFirst SICAV 2,28
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,93 St        
    Heinz und Heide Dürr Stiftung 3,47 St        
    ALECTA PENSIONSFÖRSÄKRING 3,15 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,97 St        
    Vorstand 0,6 St        
               
ElringKlinger AG   Familien Lechler 52 St 19,81 -0,15 Alken AM LLP (UK) 2,62
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,1 St        
    Baillie Gifford & Co. 3,07 St        
    NEU Black Creek Investment Management Inc. 3,05 St        
    MIPL Group Limited 3,01 St        
    Alken Luxembourg S.A. 2,96 St        
    Klinger B.V. 2,56 St        
               
Evonik Industries AG   RAG-Stiftung 67,9 St 1,61 0,06 MainFirst SICAV 0,24
    CVC Capital Partners 17,9 St        
    Ellington Investments Pte. Ltd. 4,64 St        
               
Fielmann AG   KORVA SE 71,64 St 6,51 0,21 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 0,68
               
Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide 0,08 (St) Land Hessen 31,35 St 7,80 0,10 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 1,09
    Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH 20,02 St        
    Deutsche Lufthansa AG 8,45 St        
    RARE Infrastructure Limited 4,87 St        
    Lazard Asset Management LLC 2,88 St        
               
FUCHS PETROLUB SE   Familie Fuchs 53,4 St 16,46 -0,15 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,38
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,2 St        
    Vorstand 0,02 Vz        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,01 Vz        
               
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft   Kuwait Investment Office 7,9 St 35,06 -0,49 Alecta pensionsförsäkring 4,86
    BlackRock, Inc. 4,29 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 3,01 St        
    FMR LLC 2,99 St        
    Schroders plc 2,94 St        
               
Gerresheimer AG   Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC 7,14 St 39,36 -0,59 CI Investments Inc. 4,23
    Black Creek Investment Management Inc. 4,96 St        
    Eton Park Overseas Fund, Ltd. 4,92 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,14 St        
    Highclere International Investors LLP 3,13 St        
    Edinburgh Partners Limited 3,11 St        
    WS Management LLLP 3,1 St        
    Old Mutual plc 3,01 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,96 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,93 St        
    Morgan Stanley 2,58 St        
               
GERRY WEBER International AG   Gerhard Weber 29,54 St 17,40 0,44 Fidelity Managem.& Research Co. 2,15
    Udo Hardieck 17,52 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 4,91 St        
    Ralf Weber 3,35 St        
    FMR LLC 2,9 St        
    Charlotte Weber-Dresselhaus 0,17 St        
               
Hannover Rück SE   Talanx AG 50,22 St 14,84 -0,25 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,98
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,75 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,06 St        
               
HOCHTIEF AG 2,10 (St) Acs, Actividades de Construccion y Servicios S.A. 60,7 St 6,35 0,38 Sparinvest DK 0,76
    Qatar Holdings LLC 11,1 St        
    Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. 2,98 St        
               
HUGO BOSS AG 1,97 (St) BlackRock, Inc. 8,06 St 9,20 0,44 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,58
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,15 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 5,02 St        
    Zignago Holding S.p.A. 4,19 St        
    Alecta pensionsförsäkring, ömsesidigt 3,26 St        
    PFC S.r.l. 2,91 St        
    Tamburi Investment Partners S.p.A. 0,85 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,04 St        
    UniCredit S.p.A. 0,02 St        
               
Jungheinrich AG   LJH-Holding GmbH 50 St 31,17 2,79 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5,81
    WJH-Holding GmbH 50 St        
    Streubesitz 100 Vz        
               
Kabel Deutschland Holding AG   Vodafone Group Plc 76,57 St 5,14 0,02 RBC Global Asset Management Inc. 0,72
    Paul E. Singer 13,48 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 2,75 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 1,25 St        
    Barclays PLC 0,02 St        
               
KION GROUP AG 0,17 (St) Weichai Power 38,25 St 14,81 -0,52 DeAWM Investment GmbH 2,95
    Pelham Long Short Master Fund Ltd 5,33 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 3,13 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 2,81 St        
    KION Management Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG 0,9 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,12 St        
               
Klöckner & Co SE   Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. 6,51 St 25,23 0,21 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 3,59
    Federated Global Investment Management Corp. 5,06 St        
    Interfer Holding GmbH 4,98 St        
    UBS Group AG 3,21 St        
    Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,06 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,87 St        
    AMUNDI S.A. 2,77 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,98 St        
    Prof. Dr. Dieter Hans Vogel 0,05 St        
               
KRONES AG   Familie Kronseder 51,67 St 16,61 -0,08 Oddo Asset Management 2,51
    Petra Schadeberg-Herrmann 4,16 St        
    Schadeberg GbR 3,28 St        
    ODDO ET CIE 2,95 St        
    Tweedy, Browne Company LLC 2,88 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,71 St        
               
KUKA AG   J.M. Voith GmbH & Co. Beteiligungen KG 25,1 St 15,30 -1,16 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 2,96
    Swoctem GmbH 10,02 St        
    AXA S.A. 4,74 St        
    NEU Schroders plc 3,02 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 3 St        
    York Capital Management Global Advisors, LLC. 2,67 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 2,6 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,8 St        
    Guy P. Wyser-Pratte 0,43 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,22 St        
               
LEG Immobilien AG   BlackRock, Inc. 15,26 St 39,32 0,17 BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A. 6,50
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,39 St        
    CBRE Clarion Securities LLC 5,35 St        
    Perry Luxco RE S.à r.l. 2,99 St        
    Ruffer LLP 2,99 St        
    Invesco Ltd. 2,98 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 2,93 St        
    Lansdowne Developed Markets Master Fund Limited 0,47 St        
               
Leoni AG   T. Rowe Price International, Inc. 5,04 St 25,84 0,92 T. Rowe Price Investment Services Inc. 3,89
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,45 St        
    State Street Corporation 2,98 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,96 St        
               
MAN SE   Volkswagen AG 75,28 St 5,43 0,02 Old Mutual IM Ltd 2,49
    Truck & Bus GmbH 43,3 Vz        
    Volkswagen AG 26,46 Vz        
               
METRO AG   Haniel 24,996 St 11,83 0,08 Franklin Templeton Investments 1,96
    Schmidt-Ruthenbeck 15,77 St        
    Otto Beisheim Holding GmbH 9,1 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 3,36 St        
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 3,06 St        
    Templeton Global Advisors Limited 3,04 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,16 St        
               
MTU Aero Engines AG 1,91 (St) The Capital Group Companies Inc. 9,16 St 35,66 -0,40 Artisan Partners Funds, Inc. 3,69
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 5,77 St        
    Maverick Capital Ltd. 3,05 St        
    Oddo Asset Management 3,03 St        
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 2,99 St        
    Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC 2,98 St        
    Artisan Partners Limited Partnership 2,92 St        
    GIC Private Limited 2,77 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,83 St        
               
NORMA Group SE   Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 9,96 St 51,88 -0,49 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 4,48
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 5,34 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,02 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 3,15 St        
    SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc. 3,05 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,05 St        
    AXA S.A. 3 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Delta Lloyd N.V. 2,94 St        
    T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. 2,89 St        
    Vorstand 2,15 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,3 St        
    Bank of America Corporation 0,04 St        
               
OSRAM Licht AG   Siemens Beteiligungen Inland GmbH 17 St 14,40 0,34 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 1,51
    FMR LLC 6,69 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 3,97 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,31 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,76 St        
    UBS Group AG 1,22 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,12 St        
               
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG 2,32 (St) Capital Research and Management Company 9,96 St 42,10 -0,08 Capital Research and Management Company 10,47
    BlackRock, Inc. 8,04 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 3,05 St        
    Invesco Ltd. 3 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 2,36 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,21 St        
               
Rheinmetall AG 3,09 (St) Prudential PLC 3,6 St 24,21 -0,74 Harris Associates L.P. 3,94
    Wellington Management Group LLP 3,28 St        
    LSV Asset Management 3,03 St        
    Dimensional Fund Advisors LP 3,01 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,99 St        
    Harris Associates L.P. 2,8 St        
    Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC 2,71 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,06 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,84 St        
    Vorstand 0,14 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0,02 St        
               
Rhön-Klinikum AG 0,03 (St) B. Braun Melsungen Aktiengesellschaft 18,01 St 39,49 -1,09 Alecta pensionsförsäkring 17,18
    Asklepios Kliniken GmbH 15,25 St        
    Eugen Münch 6,32 St        
    Ingeborg Münch 4,95 St        
    Old Mutual plc 4,17 St        
    Jamie Zimmermann 3,24 St        
    UBS AG 2,96 St        
    Alecta pensionsförsäkring, ömsesidigt 2,89 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,99 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 1,08 St        
    Maven Trading Ltd. 0,36 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,05 St        
               
RTL Group S.A. 0,76 (St) Bertelsmann Capital Holding GmbH 75,1 St 8,85 0,02 Capital Research and Management Company 1,28
               
Salzgitter AG 10,00 (St) Land Niedersachsen 26,5 St 14,73 -0,07 Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,13
    NEU Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,95 St        
               
STADA Arzneimittel AG 0,15 (St) Apotheker und Ärzte 11 St 18,23 -0,57 DeAWM Investment GmbH 3,74
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,04 St        
    LSV Asset Management 3,05 St        
    Empyrean Capital Partners, LP 2,95 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,94 St        
    Gryphon Investment Counsel Inc. 2,93 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,36 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 1,37 St        
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 0,04 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,01 St        
               
Südzucker AG   Süddeutsche Zuckerrüben-Verwertungs-Genossenschaft eG 52 St 6,62 0,04 Sparinvest DK 0,70
    Zucker Invest GmbH 10 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 2,14 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,03 St        
               
Symrise AG   Sun Life Financial Inc. 10,62 St 32,93 -0,32 MFS Massachusetts Financial Services Company 3,76
    Horst-Otto Gerberding 6,01 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 5,26 St        
    Bankhaus Lampe KG 3,29 St        
    Jahr Holding GmbH & Co KG 3,05 St        
    MFS International Value Fund 3 St        
    Standard Life Investments Limited 2,99 St        
    Prudential PLC 2,97 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,96 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2,93 St        
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 2,56 St        
               
TAG Immobilien AG 9,85 (St) Ruffer LLP 14,71 St 51,60 1,89 Flossbach von Storch AG 11,48
    Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. 10,01 St        
    Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder 9,95 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 9,82 St        
    Helaba Invest Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH 5,9 St        
    Taube Hodson Stonex Partners LLP 5,22 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 5,18 St        
    MFS International Value Fund 4,99 St        
    Capital Guardian Trust Company 3,3 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,06 St        
    Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings Ltd. 2,94 St        
    BlackRock Group 2,64 St        
    Dr. Lutz R. Ristow 1,5 St        
    Rolf Elgeti 0,07 St        
    Prof. Dr. Roland Frohne 0,04 St        
               
Talanx AG   HDI Haftpflichtverband der Deutschen Industrie V.a.G. 79 St 4,36 -0,05 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,01
    Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company 6,49 St        
               
Wacker Chemie AG 4,75 (St) Dr. Alexander Wacker Familiengesellschaft mbH 60,39 St 10,73 0,49 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 1,88
    Blue Elephant Holding GmbH 10,86 St        
               
Wincor Nixdorf AG 9,99 (St) Kiltearn Limited 7,11 St 33,30 -0,09 DeAWM Investment GmbH 5,30
    Polaris Capital Management, LLC 5,02 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,58 St        
    Highclere International Investors LLP 3,09 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,92 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,91 St        
    William Blair & Company, LLC 2,8 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,23 St        
    Eckard Heidloff 0,02 St        
               
Zalando SE   Verdere S.à.r.l 31,84 St 1,43 0,00 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,34
    Global Founders GmbH 11,2 St        
    Anders Holch Povlsen 9,37 St        
    Yuri Milner 7,06 St        
    HV Holtzbrinck Ventures Holding GmbH 5,13 St        
    Tengelmann Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungs GmbH 5,03 St        
    Gründer 3,71 St        
    Len Blavatnik 1,6 St        
    Rocket Internet AG 0,61 St        
               
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ADLER Real Estate AG   Mezzanine IX Investors S.A. 37,01 St 0,51 0,28 AXA Fund Management S.A. 0,28
    Klaus R. Wecken 10,47 St        
    Pruß GmbH 9,55 St        
    Uhlandstraße Investments GmbH 9,45 St        
               
alstria office REIT-AG   CNP ASSURANCES 4,67 St 25,27 1,28 Prudential Investments LLC 1,70
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 4,61 St        
    Brookfield Investment Management, Inc. 4,59 St        
    FMR LLC 3,01 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 3 St        
    JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,9 St        
    Morgan Stanley 2,72 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,7 St        
    Cohen & Steers, Inc. 2,62 St        
               
AMADEUS FIRE AG   MainFirst SICAV 9,99 St 47,05 6,02 MainFirst SICAV 9,58
    FIL Limited 5,04 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 5,01 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 5 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 4,98 St        
    Lazard Frères Gestion 4,97 St        
    Matthias Ruhland 4,95 St        
    Rhine Alpha Stars 4,62 St        
    Sun Life Financial Inc. 4,55 St        
    Standard Life Investments Ltd. 2,99 St        
    JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,74 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,35 St        
    Dr. Axel Endriss 0,12 St        
    Christoph Groß 0,1 St        
    Ulrike Bert 0,01 St        
               
BayWa AG 0,06 (St) Bayerische Raiffeisen-Beteiligungs-AG 35,34 St 2,13 0,00 UBS Global Asset Managment GmbH 0,45
    Raiffeisen Agrar Invest GmbH 25,18 St        
               
Bertrandt AG 0,70 (St) Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft 28,97 St 22,00 -0,62 MainFirst SICAV 3,77
    Friedrich Boysen Holding GmbH 14,9 St        
    Management und Mitarbeiter 8,74 St        
    MainFirst SICAV 3,87 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,99 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,94 St        
    William Blair & Company, LLC 2,62 St        
               
Biotest AG   OGEL GmbH 50,1 St 28,67 -0,06 Flossbach von Storch AG 6,92
    Kreissparkasse Biberach 17,33 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,95 St        
    Scherzer & Co. AG 0,81 St        
    Prof. Dr. Gregor Schulz 0,03 Vz        
    Dr. Michael Ramroth 0,03 Vz        
    Dr. Georg Floß 0,03 Vz        
    Dr. Bernhard Ehmer 0,03 Vz        
               
Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA   Evonik Industries AG 14,78 St 6,67 0,01 Capita Financial Managers Limited 1,14
    Bernd Geske 8,8 St        
    Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund 5,53 St        
    SIGNAL IDUNA Allgemeine Versicherung Aktiengesellschaft 5,43 St        
    PUMA SE 5 St        
    Odey Asset Management LLP 3,47 St        
    BlueBay Asset Management plc. 3,34 St        
               
Braas Monier Building Group S.A.   Monier Holdings S.C.A. 48,4 St 0,62 -0,09 DWS Investment S.A. 0,35
    Wellington Management Group LLP 5,13 St        
               
Capital Stage AG   AMCO Service GmbH 22,01 St 8,52 -0,27 INVESCO Asset Management Ireland Ltd. 2,30
    Dr. Liedtke Vermögensverwaltung GmbH 8,14 St        
    Blue Elephant Venture GmbH 7,25 St        
    Albert Büll 6,35 St        
    ETHENEA Independent Investment S.A. 2,98 St        
    RTG Beteiligungs GmbH 1,64 St        
    Dr. Jörn Kreke 1,4 St        
    Felix Goedhart 0,66 St        
    Dr. Zoltan Bognar 0,14 St        
               
CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA 2,28 (St) Erbengemeinschaft nach Herrn Senator h.c. Heinz Neumüller 27,37 St 14,35 0,61 Sparinvest DK 2,52
    FIL Limited 2,98 St        
    Fidelity Funds SICAV 2,89 St        
    Sparinvest Holdings SE 2,74 St        
    CeWe Color Versorgungskasse e. V. 1,53 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,9 St        
               
comdirect bank AG   Commerzbank AG 81,27 St 2,99 0,00 Shareholder Value Management AG 0,96
               
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG   Dirk Roßmann 19,93 St 9,10 0,24 JPMorgan Asset Management (Europe) S.a r.l. 1,50
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 5,23 St        
    Ricardo Portabella 5 St        
               
DEUTZ AG   AB Volvo 25 St 16,10 0,60 Fidelity Investments Luxembourg S.A. (FIL) 3,81
    Old Mutual plc 3,1 St        
    FMR LLC 3,04 St        
    SKAGEN AS 2,99 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,95 St        
    FIL Limited 2,94 St        
    Artisan Partners Limited Partnership 2,91 St        
               
DIC Asset AG   Deutsche Immobilien Chancen-Gruppe 33,2 St 17,32 2,21 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 1,98
    solvia Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH 5,1 St        
    RAG-Stiftung 4,76 St        
    NEU Asset Value Investors Limited 3,1 St        
    NEU British Empire Securities and General Trust plc 3,08 St        
    Ell Capital Management, Inc. 2,79 St        
    Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP 2,68 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,01 St        
               
DO Deutsche Office AG   Oaktree Capital Group Holdings GP, LLC 60,4 St 9,80 2,24 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 2,09
    Ironsides Partners LLC 4,52 St        
    Carmignac Gestion S.A. 3,07 St        
    Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH 2,92 St        
    Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe KdöR 2,89 St        
    UBS AG 0,19 St        
               
GESCO AG 0,01 (St) Stefan Heimöller 13,6 St 7,15 0,07 Loys AG 1,29
    Investmentaktiengesellschaft für langfristige Investoren TGV 6,4 St        
    Vorstand 0,6 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,1 St        
               
GfK SE   GfK-Nürnberg e.V. 56,4 St 20,75 1,25 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 4,10
    Parvus Asset Management Europe Ltd. 4,97 St        
    Highclere International Investors LLP 3,13 St        
    FIL Limited 3,06 St        
    FMR LLC 2,99 St        
    Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited 2,98 St        
    UBS AG 0,66 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,03 St        
               
GRAMMER AG 2,86 (St) Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 5,18 St 24,01 -1,99 DeAWM Investment GmbH 6,83
    Wynnefield Partners 5,17 St        
    EQMC Europe Development Capital Fund plc 5,1 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 5,02 St        
    Dimensional Holdings Inc. 5,01 St        
    JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,99 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 2,88 St        
    Source Markets plc 0,85 St        
    Morgan Stanley 0,37 St        
               
GRENKELEASING AG   Grenke Beteiligung GmbH & Co. KG 42,64 St 26,36 -1,26 Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Limited 5,31
    Jupiter Asset Management Limited 7,2 St        
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 4,99 St        
    Mark Kindermann 0,36 St        
    Prof. Dr. Ernst-Moritz Lipp 0,22 St        
    Jörg Eicker 0,04 St        
    Gilles Christ 0,03 St        
    Florian Kai Schulte 0,02 St        
    Antje Leminsky 0,02 St        
    Erwin Staudt 0,01 St        
    Prof. Dr. Thilo Wörn 0,01 St        
               
HAMBORNER REIT AG   RAG-Stiftung 9,09 St 11,04 -0,25 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,44
    NEU Belfius Insurance NV/SA 5,04 St        
    Dr. Theo Siegert 4,6 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 3,1 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 3,03 St        
    Ruffer LLP 2,64 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 2,31 St        
               
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG   Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg 69,58 St 7,92 -0,09 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 4,67
    First Eagle Investment Management, LLC 5,002 St        
               
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG 0,06 (St) Ferd. Rüesch AG 9,02 St 18,46 1,37 Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 6,29
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 4,84 St        
    Dimensional Holdings Inc. 3,01 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,94 St        
    Deutsche Bank AG 0,87 St        
               
Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.   Gesellschafterfamilie 78,8 St 0,28 0,00 DeAWM Investment GmbH 0,26
    Citigroup Inc. 0,05 St        
               
Hornbach Holding AG   HORNBACH Familien-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH 100 St 57,22 -1,69 First Eagle Funds (division of ASB Securities LLC) 38,66
               
Hornbach-Baumarkt-AG   HORNBACH HOLDING AG 76,4 St 3,82 0,66 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,57
    Aufsichtsrat 0,21 St        
    Vorstand 0,19 St        
               
INDUS Holding AG   Versicherungskammer Bayern 19,4 St 9,79 0,06 MainFirst SICAV 1,27
    Hans Joachim Selzer 6,4 St        
               
KOENIG & BAUER AG   MKB Holding GmbH 10,2 St 15,16 0,17 Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 6,81
    Bestinver Gestion S.A., SGIIC 9,77 St        
    Claus Bolza-Schünemann 5,07 St        
    ID Sparinvest A/S 4,16 St        
    Rota Klaeger 3,57 St        
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 2,68 St        
    Aufsichtsrat 0,1 St        
               
KWS SAAT SE   Familien Büchting/Arend Oetker/Giesecke 56,1 St 10,33 -0,20 DWS Invest Sicav 2,62
    Tessner Beteiligungs GmbH 15,11 St        
    Vorstand 0,26 St        
               
MLP AG   Manfred Lautenschläger 23,53 St 15,05 0,36 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 4,41
    Harris Associates L.P. 9,82 St        
    HDI Pensionskasse AG 9,48 St        
    FMR LLC 9,08 St        
    Barmenia Krankenversicherung a. G. 6,67 St        
    Allianz SE 6,27 St        
    Angelika Lautenschläger 6,03 St        
    Berenberg Bank, Joh. Berenberg Gossler & Co. KG 4,84 St        
    Schroders plc 3,07 St        
    AXA S.A. 2,99 St        
    Franklin Templeton Investment Funds 2,99 St        
    Dr. Peter Lütke-Bornefeld 0,14 St        
    Johannes Maret 0,09 St        
    Manfred Bauer 0,01 St        
               
PATRIZIA Immobilien AG   Wolfgang Egger 51,62 St 17,12 -0,57 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,51
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 3,07 St        
    WA Holdings, Inc. 3,04 St        
    Klaus Schmitt 0,15 St        
               
PUMA SE 0,95 (St) SAPARDIS S.A. 73,97 St 2,93 0,48 Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 0,45
    J.P. Morgan Markets Limited 3,19 St        
               
RATIONAL AG   Siegfried Meister 62,99 St 11,57 0,29 Columbia Advisors, LLC 1,36
    Walter Kurtz 7,81 St        
    Allianz SE 3,01 St        
    Vorstand 0,03 St        
               
SAF-HOLLAND S.A.   Deutsche Bank AG 5,29 St 50,62 -1,87 DeAWM Investment GmbH 9,60
    Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 5,24 St        
    FMR LLC 4,99 St        
    Management & Directors 3,04 St        
               
Schaltbau Holding AG 2,36 (St) Familie Dr. Jürgen Cammann 11,62 St 18,94 0,20 Shareholder Value Management AG 5,00
    Familie Zimmermann 11 St        
    Monolith Duitsland B.V. 6,7 St        
    BNY Mellon Service Kapitalanlage-Gesellschaft mbH 5 St        
    Kreissparkasse Biberach 3,05 St        
    Peter Jahrmarkt 0,08 St        
               
SGL Carbon SE 0,08 (St) SKion GmbH 27,46 St 1,78 -0,10 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 0,42
    Bayerische Motoren Werke AG 18,44 St        
    Volkswagen AG 9,92 St        
    Voith AG 6,8 St        
    Dr. Michael Majerus 0,09 St        
    Societe Generale S.A. 0,03 St        
               
SHW AG   Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited 7,17 St 33,30 -5,66 Capital Research and Management Company 3,57
    Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft mbH 5,31 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 4,93 St        
    F&C Asset Management plc 4,38 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 3,57 St        
    UBS Group AG 3,13 St        
    FIL Limited 2,97 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,73 St        
    Schroders plc 2,72 St        
    Linz Textil Holding AG 2,65 St        
    Henderson Global Investors Limited 2,55 St        
    JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 2,32 St        
    Union Investment Privatfonds GmbH 1,75 St        
               
Sixt SE   ES Asset Management and Services GmbH & Co. KG 60,08 St 10,80 0,21 DeAWM Investment GmbH 1,84
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 3,03 St        
               
Stabilus S.A.   JPMorgan Chase & Co. 6,25 St 7,61 0,00 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 2,86
    Mondrian Investment Partners Limited 5,01 St        
    Schroders plc 4,95 St        
    Management 1 St        
               
Ströer Media SE   Dirk Ströer 29,95 St 19,04 0,13 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 5,97
    Udo Müller 24,22 St        
    Sambara Stiftung 5,73 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 5,13 St        
    J O Hambro Capital Management Limited 2,91 St        
    HMI Capital, LLC 2,86 St        
    UBS AG 2,84 St        
    Credit Suisse Group AG 1,86 St        
    Christian Schmalzl 0,06 St        
               
TAKKT AG   Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH 50,28 St 29,82 -0,56 Franklin Templeton International Services S.A. 5,73
    Franklin Templeton Investment Management Limited 4,99 St        
    Allianz Global Investors Europe GmbH 3,04 St        
    Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat 0,01 St        
               
Tele Columbus AG   York Capital Management Global Advisors, LLC. 20,86 St 0,05 0,00 DWS Investment S.A. 0,05
    Tele Columbus Management S.à r.l. 10 St        
    Capital Research and Management Company 8,7 St        
    Davidson Kempner 7,3 St        
    BlackRock, Inc. 6,22 St        
    Capula European Special Situations Fund (GP) L.P. 3,8 St        
    Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd. 3,44 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2,56 St        
               
TLG IMMOBILIEN AG   LSREF II East AcquiCo S.à r.l. 18,48 St 1,20 0,00 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 1,17
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 5,61 St        
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0,22 St        
               
TOM TAILOR Holding AG   Guo Guangchang 23,16 St 29,79 0,04 Vanguard Group, Inc., The 3,43
    Schroders plc 10,06 St        
    Morgan Finance S.A. 4,77 St        
    Wellington Management Group LLP 3,97 St        
    Vanguard Whitehall Funds 3,03 St        
    Litman Gregory Masters International Fund 3,01 St        
    Kempen Capital Management N.V. 2,99 St        
    Old Mutual plc 2,99 St        
    Henderson Group plc 2,98 St        
    T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. 2,72 St        
    Dieter Holzer 1,04 St        
    Thomas Schlytter-Henrichsen 0,13 St        
    Dr. Axel Rebien 0,08 St        
    Dr. Christoph Schug 0,07 St        
    Gerhard Wöhrl 0,06 St        
    Andreas W. Bauer 0,02 St        
               
Villeroy & Boch AG 11,98 (Vz) Luitwin Gisbert von Boch-Galhau 17,74 St 14,18 -0,65 M&G Investment Management Ltd. 5,16
    Wendelin von Boch-Galhau 7,41 St        
    Franziskus von Boch-Galhau 7,14 St        
    Dr. Alexander von Boch-Galhau 4,16 St        
    Caroline de Schorlemer-d'Huart 3,16 St        
    Gabrielle de Schorlemer-de Theux 3,16 St        
    Christophe de Schorlemer 3,16 St        
    Vorstand 0,2 St        
               
Vossloh AG   Heinz Hermann Thiele 30,21 St 17,12 -0,29 Lazard Freres Gestion 2,98
    Franklin Mutual Advisers, LLC 5,68 St        
    Carmignac Gestion S.A. 5 St        
    ETHENEA Independent Investment S.A. 4,88 St        
    Iskander Makhmudov 3,08 St        
    Lazard Frères Gestion S.A.S. 3,01 St        
    SICAV Objectif Small Caps Euro 3,01 St        
    Annette Oesterlee 1,89 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 1,43 St        
    Christine Piekenbrock-Oesterlee 0,06 St        
    Philipp Oesterlee 0,04 St        
    Cornelius Oesterlee 0,04 St        
               
VTG AG   Compagnie Européenne de Wagons S.à r.l. 43,84 St 7,26 0,34 La Banque Postale Asset Management (LBPAM) 0,93
    Andreas Goer 25,62 St        
    UBS Group AG 2,98 St        
    Samana Capital LP 2,22 St        
               
Wacker Neuson SE   Familie Wacker 33 St 5,22 0,04 DFA Invest Dimensions Gr. Inc. 0,80
    Familie Neunteufel 30 St        
    Vorstand 0,5 St        
               
WESTGRUND AG   Wecken & Cie. 40,86 St 8,19 0,82 Allianz Global Inv. Europe 3,32
    Quartenal Investment Limited 9,67 St        
    British Empire Securities and General Trust plc 6,46 St        
    Asset Value Investors Limited 4,8 St        
    Syquant Capital 3,03 St        
    Allianz Global Investors GmbH 2,98 St        
    Swanepoel Limited 1,02 St        
               
ZEAL Network SE   Oliver Jaster 10,22 St 26,11 -3,00 Ethna Capital Partners S.A. 8,62
    Schroders plc 7,43 St        
    Marc Peters 4,82 St        
    LRI Invest S.A. 4,41 St        
    Jens Schumann 4,17 St        
    BNP Paribas Investment Partners S.A. 4,02 St        
    Vanguard International Explorer Fund 3,16 St        
    Credit Suisse Fund Management S.A 2,98 St        
    Norges Bank (norwegische Zentralbank) 2,91 St        
    Farringdon Capital Management SA (FCML) 2,81 St        
    Dr. Hans Cornehl 0,68 St        
               
zooplus AG   Prof. Dr. Hubert Burda 18,86 St 18,46 0,05 Capital Research and Management Company 7,25
    RAG-Stiftung 14 St        
    Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb Inc. 10,01 St        
    SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc. 7,56 St        
    The Capital Group Companies Inc. 5,12 St        
    Wasatch Advisors, Inc. 4,56 St        
    Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH 3,85 St        
    Dr. Cornelius Patt 3,6 St        
    Management 1,74 St