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Albridge Wealth Reporting Release Provides Financial Advisors with Expanded Level of Choice for Calculating Portfolio Performance

Lawrenceville, NJ - July 17, 2007 – Albridge Solutions Inc., a provider of enterprise wealth management services and technology that enables financial institutions and advisors to deliver an accurate, single view of all of their clients' assets, announced the availability of internal rate of return (IRR) and daily time weighted return (DTWR) rates of return calculations in the latest release of its Albridge Wealth Reporting portfolio accounting and performance reporting solution.

The new IRR and the previously-available Modified Dietz formulas enable financial advisors to use a dollar-weighted calculation in determining a client's portfolio performance. These calculations take into greater account the timing and size of cash flows in and out of a portfolio and their impact on portfolio performance over time. In contrast, the new daily time-weighted calculation is tailored more to meet the needs of asset managers looking to follow the CFA Institute (formerly AIMR) standards for measuring their investment performance. This calculation is less impacted by the timing and size of cash flows on performance over time. Increasingly, calculating portfolio performance using the formula that best suits clients' needs has taken on greater importance within the financial advisor community.

Performance results are calculated and generated on-demand, in addition to regularly scheduled batch distribution, placing Albridge Wealth Reporting among the most flexible and responsive portfolio accounting and performance reporting solutions available. It is also one of the most scalable solutions, with more than 90,000 financial advisors accessing Albridge Wealth Reporting portfolio to provide performance measurement and wealth reporting across millions of investor accounts.

"Generating performance calculations dynamically was historically next to impossible due to the complex computations that are involved. Providing this level of flexibility in selecting rate of return calculations that can be scaled across a financial advisor's or financial institution's complete book of business is unmatched among portfolio accounting systems," said David Spaulding, president of The Spaulding Group, Inc., and an internationally recognized authority on investment performance measurement. "For the advisor, this level of flexibility enables them to evolve from a product specialist role and become a true wealth manager, providing measurable results on the financial advice they deliver to their clients. And for the first time, investors can measure the rate of return of the money manager or the rate of return they realized on their portfolio."

"The ability to provide investors with wealth reporting that reflects the rate of return for their portfolio, both with and without the impact of cash flows, provides a more accurate measure of their portfolio performance. Generating these calculations on the fly through Albridge's technology enables our financial advisors to provide a level of portfolio reporting, service and financial planning advice to their clients that select few in the industry can offer today," said Carol Hardiman, vice president of Business Solutions for Lincoln Financial Network.

"In expanding the range of rate of return (ROR) calculation options, Albridge is now providing individuals and asset managers with an unmatched level of choice in selecting calculations for measuring and reporting on performance at the individual holding, asset class, account, investor and consolidated portfolio levels," said Jake Rohn, executive vice president, Albridge Solutions. "Now, the financial institutions and advisors we support can generate portfolio performance reports using calculations that best fit the needs of their businesses and client relationships."

About Albridge Solutions
Albridge Solutions provides enterprise wealth management services to 150 financial institutions, more than 90,000 financial advisors and millions of investors that enables advisors to deliver an accurate, single view of all of their clients' assets. Using patent-pending technology, Albridge's enterprise wealth management technology provides unparalleled scalability in consolidating client account information from hundreds of data sources, including banking, brokerage, insurance, retirement and more. Combined with the firm's open architecture approach to development and compatibility with a range of third-party applications, Albridge's portfolio management system, Albridge Wealth Reporting, serves as the cornerstone of any wealth management platform. Additional information is available at www.albridge.com.