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Beneficial Owners Securities Lending Conference - January 29 –31, 2012 - Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa

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Platinum Sponsor(s)

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing offers clients worldwide a broad spectrum of specialized asset servicing capabilities, including custody and fund services, securities lending, performance and analytics, and execution services. BNY Mellon Asset Servicing provides services through BNY Mellon and other related companies.

BNY Mellon is a global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 36 countries and serving more than 100 markets. BNY Mellon is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, offering superior investment management and investment services through a worldwide client-focused team. It has $25.9 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $1.2 trillion in assets under management, services $11.7 trillion in outstanding debt and processes global payments averaging $1.6 trillion per day. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Learn more at www.bnymellon.com and through Twitter @bnymellon.

http://www.bnymellon.com

Clients around the world turn to Citi’s OpenLendSM for a wide range of securities lending capabilities that few organizations can match. Citi prides itself on tailoring our individualized OpenLend program around each client’s unique requirement parameters and offers lenders unparalleled solutions and access to 70 lending markets through Citi's vast global network. As a leader in lending for institutions around the globe, Citi has a distinctive combination of extensive industry expertise, superior performance, a high touch client service model, and stringent risk management framework. Our unmatched ability to provide our clients with a customized securities lending solution leverages the breadth, experience, and innovative nature of our program. Openlend offers custodial, third party, and hybrid (combinations of agent and exclusive structures) lending solutions as well as prime brokerage, collateral and liquidity management solutions.

The OpenLend program is being recognized by the industry for our market-leading capabilities. In 2011, we were named “Equity Trader of the Year-Lending” in Fundamentals’ 2011 Global Securities Lending Awards and -- for the second year in a row -- we were rated Number One in the “Market Capability: Emerging Markets” category in the Global Investor/ISF 2011 Equity Lending Survey. In addition, we were recently named European Securities Lender of the Year at the ICFA European Awards 2011.

While helping lenders maximize yield is important, Citi's priority is to offer solutions that help lenders preserve principal while maintaining liquidity. Citi is committed to work with lenders to structure solutions designed to achieve their risk and reward goals. In addition to securities finance, Citi's OpenInvestorSM, includes local and global custody, mutual fund and alternative investment solutions as well as investment administration services for institutional, high net worth and separately managed accounts.

https://primebroker.citigroup....

J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services is a premier securities servicing provider that helps institutional investors, alternative asset managers, broker dealers and equity issuers optimize efficiency, mitigate risk and enhance revenue. Worldwide Securities Services leverages the firm's unparalleled scale, leading technology and deep industry expertise to service investments around the world. It has $16.9 trillion in assets under custody and $7.5 trillion in assets under administration.

http://www.jpmorgan.com/wss

As one of the world's most experienced lending agents providing both custodial and third-party lending, State Street offers the individualized service, client-facing technology and commitment to transparency institutional investors are looking for. Whatever the market conditions, our dedicated team can help clients optimize opportunities without compromising our conservative approach to risk or their need for flexibility.

At State Street, we understand that one size does not fit all. Our clients' needs are very specific, and they're changing every day. By leveraging a consultative approach and our extensive network of local market expertise, we will work with them to develop a customized lending program based on their specific parameters.

This flexibility is underpinned by our investment in people, technology, product development and multiple distribution routes to market, including exclusives and auctions. And we're always finding ways to stay ahead of the competition, investigating new markets, client fund domiciles or forms of collateral. All to make sure our clients get the most out of their lending program.

For more information visit www.statestreet.com/securitiesfinance.

http://www.statestreet.com/sec...

Gold Plus Sponsor(s)

BBH is a privately held financial services firm that helps many of the world's most sophisticated mutual funds, investment managers, banks and insurance companies achieve their international business objectives. For nearly 200 years, the Firm's partnership structure has produced a culture of independent thinking and alignment of interests with our clients, creating lasting relationships built on a foundation of integrity, experience, and trust.

BBH Global Securities Lending leverages the firm's resources to achieve customized solutions and optimized performance for every client, providing third party and custodial lending services via traditional agency and agency exclusive arrangements. Supporting our commitment to clients is our 100% client satisfaction rating achieved each year in the Global Custodian Securities Lending Surveys, where BBH was named the #1 Global Securities Lending Provider in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The firm was also ranked the #1 Custodial Provider in the 2010 and 2011 Global Investor Beneficial Owners Surveys, and received aiCIO's Industry Innovation Award for Securities Lending in 2010. For more information, please visit www.bbh.com/securitieslending.

To learn more about what makes BBH unique, please contact John Hartnett john.hartnett@bbh.com.

http://www.bbh.com

With over 10 years of experience, eSecLending is the largest third party global securities lending agent providing customized securities lending solutions for sophisticated institutional investors worldwide. Their approach introduced investment management practices to the securities lending industry, offering beneficial owners an alternative to custodial lending models. Their philosophy is focused on delivering and providing clients with complete program customization, optimal intrinsic returns, high touch client service and comprehensive risk management. Their process for each client's program typically begins with a competitive auction to determine the optimal route to market for different portfolios or asset classes whether it is via agency exclusives or discretionary lending. This differentiated approach facilitates best execution while delivering greater transparency and control.

http://www.eseclending.com/

Gold Sponsor(s)

BlackRock is a premier provider of asset management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual clients worldwide. As of September 30, 2011, BlackRock's assets under management total US$3.345 trillion across equity, fixed income, cash management, alternative investment, real estate and advisory strategies. Through BlackRock Solutions® — the natural evolution of our long-standing investment in developing sophisticated and highly integrated systems — we offer risk management, strategic advisory and enterprise investment system services to a broad base of clients with portfolios totaling approximately US$10 trillion.

BlackRock serves clients in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. Headquartered in New York, the firm maintains offices in 27 countries around the world. For additional information, please visit the firm's website at www.blackrock.com.

http://www.blackrock.com

http://www.morganstanley.com

Silver Sponsor(s)

Deutsche Bank operates one of the world's most successful securities lending programs providing institutional clients with turnkey access to the world's securities lending markets. Our team, one of the most experienced in the industry, is located across multiple time zones enabling clients to generate incremental returns wherever they are invested. We work consultatively to design the optimum solution for each client.

Features and benefits:
-Global presence across all markets
-Multiple, integrated routes to market (agency and principal lending)
-Greater access to loan opportunities
-"Intrinsic value" oriented lending style
-Leading-edge options for managing cash collateral
-Fully customized client solutions
-Direct access to the securities lending management team
-Award winning client service
-Full transparency via web-based real-time risk reporting
-Superior track record through the credit crisis
-Indemnification backed by the capital and financial strength of Deutsche Bank AG
-Interfaces seamlessly with more than 30 custodians

http://www.db.com

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment bank, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net-worth individuals. Goldman Sachs provides securities lending services to mutual funds, public funds, plan sponsors, and endowments. We are uniquely positioned to offer principal, auction, and traditional non-custodial agency lending programs under one umbrella. Consistently ranked at the top of the Global Investor / ISF Magazine Beneficial Owners’ Survey, Goldman Sachs offers sophisticated lenders a higher level of performance and service than available through typical lending programs. In-depth market knowledge and customized lending structures, coupled with significant program transparency and performance validation enable Goldman Sachs to optimize the risk adjusted returns in each of our client’s lending programs.

For more information on any aspect of our program, please contact John Scully (617-204-2434), Tred McIntire (617-204-2414) or Les Nelson (212-902-2121).

http://www.gs.com

Northern Trust Corporation (Nasdaq: NTRS) is a global leader in delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions to corporations, institutions and affluent individuals. For more than 120 years, we have evolved with the changing needs of our clients and the world. Northern Trust provides clients with the opportunity to optimize the value of their portfolios by participating in our Securities Lending program. Leveraging superior investment management capabilities, Northern Trust is a leader in the Securities Lending industry, operating trading centers throughout the United States, Europe, Canada and Asia/Pacific to take advantage of markets throughout the world 24-hours a day. Northern Trust is consistently recognized as a top lender, maintaining an exceptional 30-year track record, and holding top positions at the RMA, ISLA, PASLA, CASLA, ASLA and EquiLend. Northern Trust tailors our clients' programs to their specific needs, fully consistent with our culture of putting clients first in all matters.

http://www.northerntrust.com/s...

SunGard a Fortune 500 company with annual revenue in excess of $5 billion, serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 50 countries, including the world's 25 largest financial services companies.

SunGard provides a comprehensive suite of securities finance and collateral management solutions: from trade initiation through to final return; including order routing, trading, position management, operations, accounting, settlement, transaction analytics and benchmarking and trade automation services. With over 20 years experience SunGard has a global linked community of securities finance users around the world.

·SunGard Apex solutions suite enables customers to manage their entire securities finance and collateral management business in a single framework. From position management, trading and P&L at the front end, through risk and operational management in the middle office, to settlement in the back office, Apex is a complete international solution.
·SunGard Astec Analytics solutions leverage an expansive database of daily securities lending transactional data to give ‘market color’ to the trader, as well as providing performance measurement and program management insight.
·Global One’s experience with the lender community means that beneficial owners, asset managers and global custodians alike benefit from the reliability and depth of functionality that Global One has delivered over many years, bringing a quick route to market coupled with operational efficiency to your lending program.
·SunGard Loanet provides a fully comprehensive, integrated solution for N.A. Domestic securities lending, along with access to a broad securities finance community for facilitation of inter-market automation services, such as contract compare.

18 out of the world’s top 20 banks use one or more products from SunGard's suite of solutions for Securities Finance. Find out more: www.sungard.com/securitiesfinance

http://www.sungard.com/securit...

Bronze Sponsor(s)

4sight is an independent software solutions provider acting exclusively within the collateralized markets.

We have over 15 years of experience developing software products and offer 4sight Securities Finance (4SF) and the 4sight Xpose solution for collateral management. These solutions provide front-to-back office support for securities finance, repo, collateral management & trading, liquidity management, synthetic finance, settlement and risk mitigation.

4sight Xpose offers integrated collateral and liquidity management, allowing you to manage securities finance, repo, triparty, OTC and exchange traded derivative exposure across product lines, rather than as independent silos.

Our clients include custodial lenders & agents, principal intermediaries, direct lenders and local, regional and global broker dealers, all of whom use our solutions for their stock loan, repo, collateral and liquidity trading and management operations.

Through our many years of experience and specialism in these fields, we are uniquely placed to provide tailored solutions in an ever changing and complex market place.

As a company, 4sight delivers:

• Software at the cutting edge of technology

• Expert industry knowledge

• A global presence

• Outstanding responsiveness to our clients

• The reliability of a company that has worked with some of the world
•s largest financial
institutions to deliver many successful projects

Visit www.4sight.com for further details.

http://www.4sight.com
http://www.4sight.com/products...
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Credit Suisse AG
Credit Suisse AG is one of the world's leading financial services providers and is part of the Credit Suisse group of companies (referred to here as 'Credit Suisse'). As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is headquartered in Zurich and operates in over 50 countries worldwide. The group employs approximately 50,700 people. The registered shares (CSGN) of Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group AG, are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com .

Private Banking
In Private Banking, Credit Suisse provides comprehensive advice and a broad range of wealth management solutions, including pension planning, life insurance products and wealth and inheritance advice, which are tailored to the needs of high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals worldwide. In Switzerland Credit Suisse supplies banking products and services to individual clients, corporates and institutions.

Investment Banking
In its Investment Banking business, Credit Suisse offers securities products and financial advisory services to users and suppliers of capital around the world. Operating in 57 locations across 30 countries, Credit Suisse is active across the full spectrum of financial services products including debt and equity underwriting, sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, investment research, and correspondent and prime brokerage services.

Asset Management
In its Asset Management business, Credit Suisse offers products across a broad spectrum of investment classes, including hedge funds, credit, index, real estate, commodities and private equity products, as well as multi-asset class solutions, which include equities and fixed income products. Credit Suisse’s Asset Management business manages portfolios, mutual funds and other investment vehicles for a broad spectrum of clients ranging from governments, institutions and corporations to private individuals. With offices focused on asset management in 19 countries, Credit Suisse’s Asset Management business is operated as a globally integrated network to deliver the bank’s best investment ideas and capabilities to clients around the world.
All businesses of Credit Suisse are subject to distinct regulatory requirements; certain products and services may not be available in all jurisdictions or to all client types.

https://www.credit-suisse.com

Data Explorers (www.dataexplorers.com) is the leading global provider of securities financing data and daily long and short institutional fund flow insight. Based in New York, London and Hong Kong, the company’s analytics help clients identify investment opportunities and manage risk by analyzing fund flow, stock loan availability, short interest and stock lending volume. Established in 2002, Data Explorers unique content set of more than nine million daily position updates is sourced directly from contributing customers across securities financing, including investment banks, prime brokers, lending agents, beneficial owners and hedge funds.

http://www.dataexplorers.com

Finadium is a research and consulting firm focused on asset servicing in financial markets. Finadium conducts consulting assignments and quarterly reviews on custody, securities lending, collateral management, OTC derivatives and cash investments. Our clients include pension plans, mutual funds, universities and other asset holders. In our research practice, we assist asset holders, banks and technology firms with understanding the market and regulatory environment for asset services and in maximizing the effectiveness of their resources. Finadium research is available on a subscription basis. For more information, please visit our website at www.finadium.com or visit our blog at www.securitiesfinancemonitor.com.

http://www.finadium.com/
http://www.secfinmonitor.com

KDC Alpha is a matched book trading partnership that replicates the prime brokerage industry's proprietary matched book trading business. KDC Alpha's strategy has generated a positive return each month since inception and is designed to outperform other alternative investment strategies over multiple market cycles. KDC Alpha's performance has demonstrated low correlation to equity and fixed income markets and is especially attractive as an enhancement/hedge overlay for equities, fixed income, ETFs, MLPs, registered mutual funds and precious metal portfolios. KDC Alpha’s returns are positively correlated to rising interest rates and volatility.

KDC Alpha operates as a broker's broker within securities lending trading markets. The strategy profits by identifying and executing lending rate arbitrage opportunities with an emphasis on hard to borrow securities. Capital contributed to KDC Alpha is used to secure lending lines with other regulated counterparties through which KDC Alpha's traders execute the strategy. KDC Alpha trading activity is market neutral.

http://www.kellnerdileo.com

Stonewain Systems Inc. provides world class software and solutions for the securities finance industry. We believe that this market is ready for a comprehensive, fully integrated solution that combines a high level of industry specific functionality with leading edge technology and automation to deliver the greatest operational efficiencies to clients.

http://www.stonewain.com/

Media Partner(s)

dealReporter provides proprietary forward-looking intelligence and analysis on a wide range of corporate events in the equity and credit markets. With a focus on M&A, event-driven special situations, convertible arbitrage, Equity Capital Market and Debt Capital Market transactions, along with global regulatory coverage, dealReporter delivers readers only the newest, most actionable information, as well as in-depth analytics and data. This in-depth coverage, data and analysis provides clients that all-important edge in the investment-decision process and risk management. dealReporter is a part of The Mergermarket Group, a Financial Times Company. Visit www.dealReporter.com .

http://www.dealreporter.com

FTSE Global Markets magazine provides superior comment and analysis on the world's equity and debt markets. It is distributed 10 times a year to over 20,000 market professionals from financial institutions, pension funds, mutual funds, stock exchanges, hedge funds, investment firms, brokerages and trading floors as well as specialist data providers.

http://www.ftse.com/Research_a...

Global Investor/isf magazine is one of the flagship titles published by Euromoney Institutional Investor plc. It was launched 25 years ago and is highly regarded in the global asset management community as a prestigious, credible title offering authoritative and timely coverage of the top players in the industry.
Asset servicing and securities finance are the another core areas covered by the magazine - in both cases regulatory requirements, rapid technological advances and increasing client demands have prompted radical change in recent years.

Global Investor/isf’s aim is to provide trusted, comprehensive coverage of these trends and the entire business process.

http://www.globalinvestormagaz...

SLTimes is the only news-focused source to exclusively cover the global securities borrowing and lending markets. The publication tracks US and international companies, providing insights into securities lending operations around the world.

http://www.securitieslendingti...