FBR to Report Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Financial Results

FBR & Co. (Nasdaq:FBRC) (FBR), a leading investment bank serving the middle market, announced today that the company will release results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2012 before the market opens on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

Investors wishing to listen to the earnings call at 9:00 A.M. U.S. EST, Wednesday, February 6, 2013, may do so via the Web or conference call at:

Webcast link: http://investor.shareholder.com/media/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=124101&CompanyID=FBCM&e=1&mediaKey=A638ADF35B185A230531194DBE6AEB85

Toll-free: 877.303.6433

International: 224.357.2198

Access code: 88745006

Replays of the earnings call will be available via webcast following the call.

FBR & Co. (Nasdaq:FBRC) provides investment banking, merger and acquisition advisory, institutional brokerage, and research services through its subsidiary FBR Capital Markets & Co. FBR focuses capital and financial expertise on the following industry sectors: consumer; diversified industrials; energy & natural resources; financial institutions; insurance; real estate; and technology, media & telecom. FBR is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with offices throughout the United States. For more information, please visit www.fbr.com.

The FBR & Co. logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=8135

Statements in this release concerning future performance, developments, events, market forecasts, revenues, expenses, earnings, run rates and any other guidance on present or future periods, constitute forward-looking statements that are subject to a number of factors, risks and uncertainties that might cause actual results to differ materially from stated expectations or current circumstances. These factors include, but are not limited to, the effect of demand for public offerings, activity in the secondary securities markets, interest rates, costs of borrowing, interest spreads, mortgage pre-payment speeds, risks associated with merchant banking investments, the realization of gains and losses on principal investments, available technologies, competition for business and personnel, and general economic, political and market conditions. For a discussion of these and other risks and important factors that could affect our future results and financial condition, see "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in Part II, Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011; and other items throughout the Company's Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K.

CONTACT: Investors:
         Bradley J. Wright
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