THOMSON MEDIA ANNOUNCES 2003 FUND OPERATIONS AWARD WINNERS Leadership, Innovation, and Efficiencies Categories

Thomson Media together with Mutual Fund Market News announced Thomson Medias 2003 Fund Operations Award winners in leadership, innovation, and efficiencies categories. This years winners are Ann E. Bergin in the Leadership category, AdvisorCentral in Innovation, and AIM Fund Services in Efficiencies. Runner-ups in Leadership category were Peter Lemay, from Automated Business Development, and Andrea Zulberti, from Barcleys Global Investors. In Innovation category, Alliance won the second and FT Interactive Data, third place. Brown Brothers Harriman came in second and Hartford Life came in third place in Efficiencies category.

New York, NY - February 24, 2003 -- Thomson Media, a division of The Thomson Corporation and a leading provider of information, data and software tools for professionals in the financial services and related technologies markets, together with Mutual Fund Market News, a must-read publication for top industry decision makers in the mutual fund industry, today announced Thomson Medias 2003 Fund Operations Award winners in leadership, innovation, and efficiencies categories.

The judges, selected by Mutual Fund Market News (MFMN), were chosen for their expertise in the specialty fund operations area. They chose the best leaders, innovators, and efficiencies based on their contributions to their companies, their effort and self-motivation, innovation, performance and decreased controllable expenses while maintaining or increasing productivity.

This years winners are Ann E. Bergin in the Leadership category, AdvisorCentral in Innovation, and AIM Fund Services in Efficiencies. Runner-ups in Leadership category were Peter Lemay, from Automated Business Development, and Andrea Zulberti, from Barcleys Global Investors. In Innovation category, Alliance won the second and FT Interactive Data, third place. Brown Brothers Harriman came in second and Hartford Life came in third place in Efficiencies category.

The winners will be presented with the award at the National Investment Company Services Association (NICSA) 21st Annual Operations Conference at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami on Wednesday, February 26.

Ann E. Bergin, managing director of Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., more than tripled the companys number of transactions while reducing the cost almost by half. As a dynamic leader, Bergin explored potential for partnerships and has contributed to the companys continued drive for innovation.

Andrea Zulberti, managing director & Head of Global Operations at Barclays Global Investors, won for her Leadership in developing and successfully implementing a $500 billion outsourcing deal with Investors Bank & Trust - the largest outsourcing deal in the history of the investment industry.

AdvisorCentral, the winner in Innovation category, was selected for its portal that connects mutual fund companies with advisers, brokers, and dealers. The portal uses XML technology to enable access to
account information. It also simplifies the process of adding more in-depth back-office and product information for fund companies.

Were thrilled to receive national recognition as a technology innovator," said Harry Groom, President and CEO, AdvisorCentral. "From its inception, AdvisorCentral has embraced open-architecture technology to make it exceptionally easy for mutual fund companies to reach intermediaries through our portal. This gives fund companies a true competitive advantage."

FT Interactive Data's Fair Value Information Service team consists of several individuals who dedicated over two years of working with the fund industry to research and develop a service to meet the industry's needs," said Ken Starr, FT Interactive Data's senior director of mutual fund products. FT Interactive won third place in Innovation.

AIM Fund Services received the award in Efficiencies for its tremendous measure performance and expenses control. The company determined 22 metrics, by which they were to measure their performance, resulting in decrease of controllable expenses by 29% and an increase of 18% in manual transactions.

"We needed a measurement system to help us track our ongoing improvement, focusing on the perspectives of financial, customer, internal business processes and learning and growth," said Tony Green, president of AIM Fund Services, Inc. "We determined the Balanced Scorecard was the most appropriate tool because it gave us a platform to communicate to our staff the critical metrics that impact the best interests of both our shareholders and AIM. It has helped us focus on consistent improvement of our service."

The second-place winner, Brown Brothers Harriman received the award for their Infomediary Communications System. The Informediary is a modular hosted platform, which simplifies communications between investment managers and their service providers, with a focus on mapping, normalizing and routing disparate data to streamline multibank communications.

With timely, in-depth coverage of the news and trends affecting the mutual fund industry, Mutual Fund Market News is considered a must-read" for top industry decision-makers. Mutual Fund Market News offers subscribers the insight and information they will not find in any other publication and the analysis they need to stay competitive. Readers look for business solutions that can give them an edge and help them formulate more profitable strategies. Also available online at www.mfmarketnews.com.

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