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| AIF INVESTOR SERVICES AND EUROMONEY’S ISI EMERGING MARKETS ANNOUNCE CO-MARKETING ACTIVITIES
Dubai, U.A.E., March 12, 2005 – AIF Investor Services, LLC, provider of Shari’ah compliance ratings and reports on publicly-traded companies, and Euromoney’s ISI Emerging Markets, which operates the Islamic Finance Information Service (IFIS), today announced that they have begun providing enhanced benefits and discounts to one another’s institutional customers. An initial project has been launched to offer discounts and free trials on their existing services, with additional projects in planning stages. Under the initial joint project, AIF Investor Services will offer to its Professional Members a 2 week free trial on IFIS and on subscription an additional 30 days free access to IFIS in addition to the one year subscription. IFIS will offer its institutional subscribers a nine-month free trial or three month extension on AIF Professional Membership. The agreement is meant to build awareness with Islamic investors of both the broad data available through IFIS on Islamic financial transactions and events and the reliable Shari‘ah-compliance ratings and reports on specific stocks available through AIF Investor Services. “With access to AIF’s growing set of detailed Shari‘ah-compliance ratings and reports on publicly-traded companies, IFIS subscribers will be able to make better decisions and recommendations for their Shari‘ah-conscious clients regarding equity investments,” said Dr. Jeff Colborn, Chairman and CEO of AIF Investor Services. “As we build our coverage of popular stocks, we hope our service will become a trustworthy tool for Islamic institutional investors.” “We are pleased to work with AIF Investor Services to bring enhanced value to our institutional customers and theirs,” said James Hammond, Executive Vice President of Marketing for ISI Emerging Markets. “Both IFIS and AIF share a commitment to provide Islamic institutional investors with information of unsurpassed quality and usefulness.” AIF Investor Services, LLC was formed in 2004 with a mission to take the guesswork out of Islamic investing. Headquartered in Del Mar, California with additional offices in New York, AIF Investor Services provides investors and their advisors with reliable, easy-to-understand ratings and reports on the Shari‘ah compliance of publicly-traded companies. AIF Investor Services focuses its coverage on companies listed on US exchanges, but is committed to serving customers across the entire global community. AIF Investor Services is a subsidiary of American Islamic Financial Group, LLC. The Company offers personal memberships and professional memberships at http://www.AIF-InvestorServices.com. Personal memberships are designed for individual Shari‘ah-conscious investors. Professional memberships include additional benefits designed for institutional investors and industry professionals. IFIS (Islamic Finance Information Service) is an information service designed to meet the unique requirements of Sharia compliant finance industry participants. IFIS is a single stop resource for investigating market opportunities in the world of Islamic finance (http://ifis.securities.com). ISI Emerging Markets, a Euromoney Institutional Investor company, serves emerging markets specialists and multinational corporations, government agencies, libraries and consulting firms in the United States, Europe, and emerging market countries through its worldwide headquarters in New York and European headquarters in London, as well as its network of 22 offices throughout Latin America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and lately Sub-Saharan Africa. The Company's flagship Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) ((http://www.securities.com) aggregates and produces unique content including financial, economic and political news and information, and makes that data available to institutional subscribers electronically over the Internet for electronic search and retrieval. Full-text news articles, financial statements, industry analyses, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific and country specific information, which are derived directly from thousands of local and leading international information providers, appear in both English and local language. The Company is recognized as the leading business information resource for the Emerging Markets. EMIS is a powerful, useful and continuously updated business information repository from over 9500 information sources, especially for ASIA - (Southeast Asia, Greater China, India, Korea, IndoChina) and over 60 key emerging markets in Middle East, Latin America, Europe and Africa. AIF Investor Services contact:
Jeff Colborn
AIF Investor Services, LLC
ISI Emerging Markets Contact:
James R. Hammond III
ISI Emerging Markets
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