Report of the statutory auditor on theconsolidated financial statements

As Group auditor, we have audited the consolidated financial statements (income statement, statement of comprehensive income, balance sheet, statement of changes in equity, statement of cash flows and notes) and the consolidated annual report of Verwaltungs- und Privat-Bank Aktiengesellschaft for the year ended 31 December 2013.

The Board of Directors is responsible for the prepar­ation and fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the requirements of the law as well as the consolidated annual report. This responsibility includes designing, implementing and maintaining an internal control system relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of consolidated financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. The Board of Directors is further responsible for selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in the circumstances.

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and their accordance with the consolidated annual report based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with Liechtenstein law, the auditing standards promulgated by the Liechtenstein profession and International Standards on Auditing (ISA). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reason­able assurance whether the consolidated financial statements and consolidated annual report are free from material misstatement. 

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers the internal control system relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the consolidated financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control system. An audit also includes evaluating the appro­priateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appro­priate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2013 give a true and fair view of the financial position, the results of operations and the cash flows in accordance with IFRS and comply with Liechtenstein law. Furthermore, the consolidated annual report corresponds to the consolidated financial statements.

We recommend that the consolidated financial statements submitted to you be approved.

Ernst & Young Ltd

(Auditor in charge)

Berne, 28 February 2014