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Aviva Investors

http://www.AvivaInvestors.com

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Baring Asset Management

Baring Asset Management is a global investment management firm with offices, clients and business lines spanning the world's major markets. We provide asset management services in developed and emerging equity and bond markets on behalf of institutional, retail and private clients worldwide, and have £27.6 billion of assets under management.

Since the foundation of Barings Bank in 1762, the common thread linking our past to our present has been our ability to help clients benefit from changes in the markets. This tradition continues today as we invest client assets across global markets using the proprietary insights generated by a team of over 100 investment professionals.

By combining insights that cut across location, sector and asset classes, Baring Asset Management offers a unique world-view into today's economies and markets. Our investment professionals, based around the world in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Boston, combine this informed perspective with local knowledge and presence to seek out investment opportunities with the potential to perform well and deliver the returns investors demand.

Today, Baring Asset Management operates as a subsidiary of MassMutual, a leading diversified financial services organisation.

Funds under management as at 31 December 2007

http://www.barings.com

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Newstar Asset Management

Founded in June 2000 by John Duffield, New Star is an investment management company committed to offering investors superior performance across a broad range of asset classes, from equities and bonds to more specialist areas such as property.

As a genuinely active fund management company, we maintain an environment in which the finest fund managers can focus on making investors richer, with as much freedom to invest as possible, subject always to rigorous monitoring, control and compliance. Our fund management team comprises some of the most talented and experienced fund managers in the industry and we also devote time and energy to developing the skills of younger investment professionals. New Star is, however, more than just a collection of talented individuals. Our culture encourages our investment teams to share and debate stock ideas within a dynamic and free-thinking environment.

http://www.newstaram.com/

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Vanguard Investments

Vanguard Investments Europe is the European arm of The Vanguard Group, Inc.

The Vanguard Group, Inc., founded in 1975, is an independent asset management and mutual fund firm, solely dedicated to investment management, and one of the top asset managers in the world with assets approximating US$ 1.37 trillion at end December 2007.

Vanguard’s unique corporate structure – the Vanguard Group is entirely owned by the U.S.-domiciled funds it manages - distinguishes us from our competitors in the asset management industry, avoids conflicting loyalties and enables us to offer the highest possible quality of investment solutions and services at extremely low costs.

Vanguard institutional investment solutions cover indexed, quantitative and fundamental active strategies. Vanguard has built its reputation on its high standards of corporate governance, transparency and ethics and the benefits of its investment philosophy - in particular those of cost optimization. With nearly 6,600 institutional clients worldwide, Vanguard has ample experience working with pension funds.

Vanguard Investment Europe has proved its ability to adapt to specific requirements of European Institutions while maintaining Vanguard’s high standards of excellence, ethics, transparency, service quality and the benefits of cost optimization.

Today, Vanguard offers over 200 investment funds worldwide, covering the main asset classes, of which 34 UCITS funds domiciled in Dublin and tailored to European investors’ needs. Offices are also located in the USA (Headquarters), Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan and Singapore.

http://www.vanguard.com/

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