INTERNATIONAL INVESTOR Investment Management and Technology for the Global Financial Markets Published by Sovereign Publications

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International Investor has firmly established itself as a key resource for investment professionals within the Global financial markets. With up to the minute analysis and research data provided by key thought leaders and leading industry commentators, International Investor is essential reading for money market professionals who need to stay on top of their markets and ahead of the competition.

The 2006 issue of International Investor will provide strategic-level insights on market structure as well as examining the key issues affecting all sectors of the global money markets.

International Investor is dedicated to providing institutional investors with the most up-to-date and informative financial research data available and is therefore required reading for financial institutions.

Peter Shearlock, the Editor of International Investor, has 33 years' experience in financial journalism, publishing and consultancy. A former City Editor of The Sunday Times, he has also written for the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Express and The Independent.

He contributes to various publications (including The Banker, Growth Company Investor and The IRS Report), writes his own weekly investment newsletter (The Weekly Digest), and provides speech-writing and other specialist writing services to banks and other financial services companies.

He is the co-author of The Eurobond Diaries, published by Euroclear, 1994.

In order to provide the highest calibre of independent editorial research and analysis International Investor has invited a cross-section of globally recognised and highly respected financial leaders to provide commentary on the changing face of the markets.

Authors who have contributed articles to International Investor and proposed editorial contributors for the new issue include:

• Paul Arlman: Secretary General of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges
• Guy Lybrand: President of Luxembourg Investment Fund Association – ALFI
• John Langton: CEO, International Securities Market Association
• Stewart McMillan: Managing Director, Global Plus IC
• Wim Duisenberg: President, European Central Bank
• Alan Greenspan: Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank
• Keith Saxton: Director, Financial Markets IBM
• Samuel Lohman: President of The Offshore Institute
• Jonathan Taylor: Director General, London Investment Banking Association
• Charles Metcalfe: Deputy Chief Executive, Hermes investment Management
• John Fraser: Chairman: UBS Global Asset Management
• Gary Jenkins: Head of Fundamental Credit Strategy, Deutsche Bank
• Svilen Ivanov: Vice President, Boston Consulting Group
• Damon Buffini: Managing Partner, Permira
• Stan Beckers: Head of Hedge Funds, Barclays Global Investors
• Bart McDade: Global Head of Equities, Lehman Brothers
• Dan Mathisson: Head of Advanced Execution Services, Credit Suisse
• Jacques de Saussure: Head of Private Banking, Pictet

INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES SERVICES ASSOCIATION – 'ISSA'

The International Securities Services Association ISSA is a non-profit association interested in the promotion of industry wide progress in asset servicing. It embraces all segments along the investment value chain (stock exchanges, clearing houses, central depositories, custodian banks, brokers, asset managers and similar institutions). Its main objective is to provide an open discussion platform for securities market practitioners to tackle industry-overarching problems in a collegiate manner, to the benefit of all direct market participants and their clients alike. ISSA was founded in 1975 and is domiciled in Zurich. The association currently has around one hundred member institutions in 47 countries. For further information visit www.issanet.org.

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THE ASSOCIATION OF PRIVATE CLIENT INVESTMENT MANAGERS – 'APCIMS'

The Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers (APCIMS), is the growing trade association of 217 firms who, at over 500 locations, act for the private investor. Last year, our members undertook more than 18.6 million trades on the London Stock Exchange and they have £320bn under management for the private investors.

APCIMS objectives are:

	to advance the interests of our members across the financial services community;
	to communicate industry changes to our members;
	to lead the debate in the development of the European securities industry.

For more information, please visit www.apcims.co.uk.

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THE EUROPEAN FUND AND ASSET MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (EFAMA)

is the representative association for the European investment management industry. Through its 23 national member associations and over 40 corporate members, EFAMA represents about EUR 15 trillion in assets under management, of which EUR 7.5 trillion managed by around 46,000 investment funds. Its mission is to:

	strengthen the competitiveness and service of the industry by promoting the completion of a single European market;
	influence and improve the legal, fiscal and regulatory environment;
	promote high standards of ethics, integrity and professionalism;
	support highly effective investor protection.

For more information, please visit www.efama.org/.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BAI

The Bundesverband Alternative Investments e. V. (BAI) was founded on July 4th, 1997 in Bonn. The circle of members, from various fields of the professional Alternative Investment (AI) market, has developed to a membership of more than 115 companies, representing the majority of the AI industry in Germany.

The association aims to comprehensively promote all persons and companies involved in the field of Alternative Investments and in particular, to increase the popularity of Alternative Investments as an investment class as well as to educate the general public.

For further information, please visit www.bvai.de/typo/index.php?index_en

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The International Capital Market Association (ICMA)

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) is the organisation representing financial institutions active in the international capital market worldwide. ICMA's members are located in some 50 countries across the globe, including all the world's main financial centres, and currently number over 400 firms in total.

ICMA represents the very diverse interests of a large pan-European membership, from the smaller primarily retail focused private banks based in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy and Germany, to the largest global investment banks based in the City of London. It provides a forum for all professional market participants to have a voice in shaping the market through its various committees, regional groupings and special interest groups.

ICMA is building on over 35 years as the representative of the capital markets and continues to deliver valued, tailored services and resources its members and all the firms that operate within it.

For further information, please visit www.icma-group.org

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BVI Bundesverband Investment und Asset Management e.V. (BVI)

The BVI Bundesverband Investment und Asset Management e.V., founded in 1970 and based in Frankfurt, is the central association representing the interests of the German investment industry with approx. 1.4 trillion Euro of assets under management.

BVI's main tasks are supporting the business of its 80 members and promoting their interests in legislative processes, informing the public and contributing to investor education as well as establishing and maintaining relations with other associations and business organisations on national and international levels

For further information, please visit www.bvi.de

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Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften – German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association e. V. (BVK) was founded December 8, 1989.

BVK represents most of the German private equity and venture capital firms as well as the German branches of foreign private equity and venture capital firms. As per March 2006, BVK represented more than 180 private equity and venture capital firms.

Apart from full membership BVK offers associate membership to companies and organizations working in this particular business sector, i. e. accountants, lawyers, consultants etc.

By the end of March 2006, BVK full members held a portfolio of 21.5 billion Euro invested into 5,787 companies.

BVK serves as a link between government and business and represents its members’ views, needs and problems while supplying information and discussing any particular political and economic subject with the relevant governmental institutions.

Science and research are becoming more and more interested in private equity and venture capital issues. BVK supports universities, colleges and their students with their research activities and problem solving.

On the international level BVK exchanges information with other national organizations in the economic sector and other international private equity and venture capital associations.

Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften –
German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association e.V. (BVK)
Reinhardtstrasse 27 C
10117 Berlin
Germany

Phone: Fax: Internet: E-Mail:

+49.30.306982-0 +49.30.306982-20 http://www.bvk-ev.de/ bvk@bvk-ev.de

The key to the success of International Investor is the quality of the readership, which is projected at 70,000 key decision makers (Publisher's Survey).

The distribution of International Investor includes all leading institutional investors including Pension Funds, Insurance Companies, Mutual Funds, and Hedge Funds as well as Global Custodians, Banks, Broker/Dealers, Independent Advisory Firms and other Financial Institutions.

Copies of International Investor are distributed in both print and electronic format.

The readership includes:

CEOs/ CFOs/ COOs/ CIOs Research Directors Investment Managers Portfolio Managers Compliance Directors Heads of Connectivity Heads of MiFID Compliance Asset Managers Cash Managers Heads of Global Custody

IT/ MIS/ DP Directors Heads of Global Central Banks Fund Managers Fund Administrators Investment Directors Chief Risk Officers Heads of Network Management Divisional Directors Heads of Custody Services & Operations

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• Transmit all reader responses to you by fax or email within 24 hours of receiving them, so that you can contact your new potential customers without delay.
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