LEADING U.S. FINANCIAL REGULATORS, TRADE ASSOCIATIONS UPDATE WWW.HELPFORINVESTORS.ORG AS "ONE-STOP" RESOURCE FOR INVESTORS

Alliance for Investor Education Tool Highlights Key Online Aid for Investors

WASHINGTON, D.C.//July 21, 2008//In order to make it as easy as possible for investors in trouble to find the help they need quickly, the 19-member Alliance For Investor Education (AIE) today launched an updated version of the "one-stop information shopping" site at http://www.HelpForInvestors.org to pull together 14 key links into a single Web page. The easy-to-use list shows investors where to check out financial professionals, how to report investment fraud, the best help for dealing with other major problems – including broker bankruptcies, identity theft and 401(k) claims – and filing arbitration and mediation claims.

The content featured in the updated http://www.HelpForInvestors.org cuts across the entire investment community represented in AIE's membership ranks.

"People have many thousands of pages of excellent information available to them on the Web and our goal is to make sure that investors -- in their hour of greatest need -- can go directly to what they need in order to get help," said Alliance for Investor Education President Michael D. Jones, who also serves as senior executive vice president and chief administrative officer for the Financial Industry regulatory Authority. "As a coalition of government agencies, regulators and trade groups, the Alliance for Investor Education is striving to make the power of the Web work for investors, rather than allowing information that is scattered across a dozen Web sites to escape the attention of those who need it the most."

The key resources pulled together on one Web page for investors at http://www.HelpForInvestors.org are as follows:

CHECK OUT YOUR BROKER/INVESTMENT ADVISOR

REPORT INVESTMENT FRAUD/ABUSE

GET OTHER HELP

FILE ARBITRATION/MEDIATION CLAIMS

ABOUT AIE

Founded in 1996, the 19-member Alliance for Investor Education Web site at http://www.InvestorEducation.org provides investors with access to a full range of information they need to make wise investment decisions. The Alliance for Investor Education is dedicated to facilitating greater understanding of investing, investments and the financial markets among current and prospective investors of all ages. We pursue initiatives for education and join with others to motivate Americans to obtain objective information and increase their knowledge and understanding of investing.

Full members of the Alliance include: American Association of Individual Investors, American Savings Education Council/Employee Benefit Research Institute, BetterInvesting, CFA Institute, Financial Planning Association, Financial Publishers Association, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Investment Company Institute Education Foundation, Investor Protection Trust, National Council on Economic Education, National Endowment for Financial Education, National Futures Association, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the North American Securities Administrators Association are the governmental and quasi-governmental advisors to the Alliance.

CONTACT: Ailis Aaron Wolf, (703) 276-3265 or .