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National Financial And Fetter Logic To Offer Suite Of Data Management Solutions

Expanded Relationship Continues Growth of National Financial Alliance Program

BOSTON, February 1, 2007 -- Continuing its effort to help broker/dealer firms drive growth, create efficiency and manage risk, National Financial, a Fidelity Investments® company, today announced it will strengthen its expanding alliance program with the addition of its newest member, Denver-based Fetter Logic, Inc., a provider of advanced data and information management solutions for the financial services industry.

With the addition of Fetter Logic, National Financial's alliance program will offer access to an array of companies with a wide variety of offerings in wealth management solutions, investment analysis, research and performance measurement tools, electronic trading platforms, market data services and reporting and compliance tools.

Expanded Suite of Reporting, Aggregation and Consolidation Solutions

Recognizing that its 340 broker/dealers want greater oversight and visibility for the assets held away from the National Financial brokerage platform, National Financial will expand its alliance with Fetter Logic to offer a suite of data management solutions.

Fetter Logic's 'away' asset reporting, aggregation and consolidation solutions are designed to enable broker/dealer firms and their brokers to securely access, analyze and report on their respective clients and/or account information directly from National Financial's Streetscape®workstation.

"Given the continuous focus on oversight of assets outside of a brokerage account many broker/dealers are looking for an efficient solution to help them aggregate all assets for reporting, compliance and consolidation purposes," said Norman R. Malo, president and chief executive officer of National Financial. "This new offering enables our clients to gain a single, holistic view of critical data, making it easier to effectively meet increased regulatory demands and reporting requirements."

Built on a foundation of networked data, the Fetter Logic solution cleans and maintains mutual fund customer-level position data and then makes it accessible through a browser-based application from Streetscape. In addition to providing aggregated reporting on 'away assets,' the solution will also provide sales and management information across the firm.

"We are excited to be working closely with National Financial to develop a joint solution for their clients which leverages all of our data management expertise, providing one of the first broker/dealer solutions to allow access to a consolidated view of all managed assets directly from a clearing firm," said David Fetter, chief executive officer of Fetter Logic.

Alliance Program Offers Broker/Dealers Best-in-Class Solutions

National Financial's alliance providers are selected through comprehensive and extensive processes to help ensure that all firms are dedicated to a long-term relationship with National Financial and, therefore, committed to providing our clients added value through systems integration, continuous maintenance and ongoing enhancements. As a result, broker/dealers that decide to utilize an alliance offering may benefit from National Financial's selection process which may help to streamline their own review. National Financial also works with its alliance providers to integrate them into the company's marketing efforts, including advertising and conference activities to promote their collective solutions to clients and prospects.

"What makes National Financial's alliance program different is that not only do we work with each provider to incorporate their technologies, products and services with our offerings, but we go one step further and create solutions to meet the distinct business needs of our clients," said Malo.

National Financial has forged alliances with some of the most well-known organizations in the industry, providing broker/dealers a single point-of-access to the varying technology, resources and services needed.

Current alliance firms include, but are not limited to, Argus Research Company, Ativo Research, LLC, Best Independent Research, LLC, BondDesk Group LLC, CD Funding Group, LLC, Channel Trend Inc., Columbine Capital Services, Inc., EISI, Envestnet Asset Management, Fetter Logic, Inc., Finetre Corporation - An Ebix Company, First Rate, Ford Equity Research, FutureTrade, JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, Market Edge Equity Research, Morningstar, Inc., MuniWorks, Neovest, Inc., Reuters, Standard & Poor's, Strategic Advisers, Inc., SunGard, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Thomas White International, Thomson Financial, Townsend Analytics, Xtiva Financial Systems, Inc. Additional information on National Financial alliances can be found at www.nationalfinancial.com.

About Fetter Logic, Inc

Founded in 1997, Fetter Logic, Inc. is the premier full service provider of advanced data and information management solutions for the financial services industry. Serving over 250 retail and institutional broker dealers (including banks and clearing firms), the Fetter platform currently services over 6 Million accounts and $250 Billion in assets. Fetter's most recent product offerings include compliance workflow modules, data aggregation tools, ad hoc reporting tools, commission processing, and a full suite of Institutional functionality. For more information about Fetter Logic, Inc please visit www.fetterlogic.com.

About National Financial

National Financial, a Fidelity Investments company, offers Integrated Brokerage Solutions® to 340 clients ranging from retail broker/dealers to institutional investment firms. Collectively, National Financial's clients have more than 78,000 brokers. As of December 31, 2006, National Financial custodied over $649 billion in assets representing more than 5.3 million customer accounts. Integrated Brokerage Solutions incorporates innovative technology, products and programs, supported by dedicated client service professionals and trusted industry partners. This holistic, solutions-oriented approach is designed to help client firms attain competitive advantage by driving growth, creating efficiency and managing risk. For more information about National Financial and Integrated Brokerage Solutions, please visit www.nationalfinancial.com

About Fidelity Investments.

Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services, with custodied assets of more than $2.9 trillion, including managed assets of nearly $1.4 trillion as of December 31, 2006. Fidelity offers investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, and human resources and benefits outsourcing services to more than 23 million individuals and institutions as well as through 5,500 financial intermediary firms. The firm is the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans, the largest mutual fund supermarket and a leading online brokerage firm. For more information about Fidelity Investments, visit www.fidelity.com.

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