Brookfield Asset Management Completes Annual Fi...

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - April 02, 2009) - Brookfield Asset
Management Inc. (TSX: BAM)(NYSE: BAM)(EURONEXT: BAMA) announced that
it has filed its 2008 Annual Report, including its audited financial
statements for the year ended December 31, 2008, with the SEC on
EDGAR as well as with the Canadian securities authorities on SEDAR.
The company also filed its audited reconciliation between Canadian
and United States of America Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
with the SEC on EDGAR. These documents are also available at
www.brookfield.com and a hard copy will be provided to shareholders
free of charge upon request.

Brookfield Asset Management Inc., focused on property, power and
infrastructure assets, has approximately $80 billion of assets under
management and is co-listed on the New York and Toronto Stock
Exchanges under the symbol BAM and on NYSE Euronext under the symbol
BAMA. For more information, please visit our web site at
www.brookfield.com.

For more information, please visit www.brookfield.com.


Contacts:
Brookfield Asset Management
Denis Couture, SVP
Investor Relations and Corporate and International Affairs
416-956-5189
416-363-2856 (FAX)
[e-mail]
www.brookfield.com


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