Authorization of Merger

​ Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana S.A. (hereinafter Grupo SURA), according with the announcement made to the market on March 23, 2018, hereby informs that by means of a Resolution from which was given notice, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia authorized Grupo SURA to formalize the amendment to its bylaws to merge, by the merger through absorption of its subsidiaries Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana Panamá SA and Gruposura Finance.   Pursuant to the foregoing, Grupo SURA will proceed to execute in a public deed the merger agreement approved by the companies' governing bodies (Shareholders and Board of Directors) in their March 23, 2018 meetings, as well as to register said deed in the Mercantile Registry of the Chamber of Commerce of Medellin.