About LPL Financial

Serving financial professionals and their clients for four decades

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About LPL Financial

LPL Financial is one of the nation’s leading financial services companies and the largest independent broker/dealer.* Headquartered in Boston, Charlotte, and San Diego, LPL Financial offers enabling technology, comprehensive custody and clearing services, practice management programs and training, and independent research to approximately 16,000 financial professionals and more than 750 financial institutions nationwide.

Through the 1989 merger of two brokerage firms—Linsco (established in 1968) and Private Ledger (founded in 1973)—the founders of LPL Financial sought to create a formidable alternative to Wall Street firms, one in which financial advisors could build highly competitive businesses while always doing what was right for their clients.

Today, LPL Financial is proud to be an enabling partner helping a broad range of financial professionals focus on what they do best—help their clients attain their financial goals.

* As reported in Financial Planning magazine 1996-2009,based on total revenues.

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Corporate Snapshot

Assets under management $233.9 billion

Annual revenue $3.1 billion

Client accounts 3.5 million

Financial advisors supported Approximately 16,000

Advisors licensed with LPL Financial & subsidiaries 11,920

Technology, custody, & clearing service subscribers Over 4,000

Financial institution partners 765

Branch offices 7,000

Employees Approximately 2,700

As of 12/31/2008

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Who LPL Financial Serves

LPL Financial is 100% committed to the success of its customers. It tailors its programs and services to the unique needs of its distinct customer groups through three business units:

Supporting independent financial advisors at all career stages and their clients

Focusing exclusively on banks and credit unions and their financially diverse clients

Serving broker/dealers at a variety of leading financial services companies

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LPL Financial Advisors Across the Nation

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What LPL Financial Offers

Helping advisors help their clients protect and grow wealth is a top priority for LPL Financial. As an enabling partner, LPL Financial has one chief objective—to reduce complexity so financial advisors can focus on what they do best: help their clients to attain their goals and fulfill their dreams.

LPL Financial makes this possible by offering its advisors: Enabling technology Comprehensive custody and clearing services Practice management programs and training Independent research

When financial advisors are liberated from conflicts and bias and provided with tools and support to help them manage through the complexities of their business operations, they are free to fully focus on providing superior independent advice to their clients.

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Enabling Technology

LPL Financial offers a proprietary, web-based technology platform that allows advisors to manage critical aspects of their business while remaining highly efficient and responsive to their clients’ needs. Time-consuming processes—such as account opening and management, document imaging, transaction execution, and account rebalancing—have been automated to improve efficiency and accuracy.

With LPL Financial focused on technology, advisors are able to focus on what’s most important: growing their clients’ assets. Advisors are provided with direct access to leading-edge tools and support systems, including:

State-of-the-art business processing and client-management tools Numerous resources for advice presentations and client communications A wide breadth of research services Customizable marketing programs to drive business growth

Many advisors also subscribe to premium features, such as performance reporting, financial planning, and customized websites. Third-party resources have been integrated into the firm’s technology software, enabling seamless access to important tools and reducing duplicate operational functions.

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Comprehensive Custody & Clearing Services

LPL Financial custodies and clears the majority of its advisors’ transactions, providing an enhanced customer experience and expedited processing capabilities. Because LPL Financial is a self-clearing firm, it can address all facets of securities transaction processing, including:

Order routing, trading support, execution and clearing, and position keeping Regulatory and tax compliance and reporting Investment accounting and recordkeeping

These services are backed by a robust and responsive service and operations team focused on providing timely, accurate, and consistent support, with each LPL Financial employee committed to delivering best in class service.

This shared commitment allows the firm to meet advisors’ needs so they can best serve their clients. With LPL Financial focusing on back-office service and support, advisors are able to focus on their clients’ financial future rather than on logistics.

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Practice Management Programs & Training

LPL Financial constantly seeks ways to help customers increase their productivity. Because of its scale, the firmis able to dedicate an experienced and diverse set of professionals who work with customers to help build and manage their business and client relationships. Supportis offered through the following groups:

Training – Offers a wide variety of one-on-one and group training opportunities to help advisors grow their business and run an efficient practice

Advisory consulting – Supports customers wanting to grow their business with fee-based service offerings

Wealth management – Assists advisors serving high- net-worth clients’ needs with comprehensive estate, tax, philanthropic, and financial planning processes

Business development – Helps advisors, banks, and credit unions enhance the value and efficiency of their business with customized practice management services

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Independent Research

LPL Financial provides independent, unbiased research on mutual funds, separate accounts, annuities, alternative investments, equities, fixed-income securities, and more. The firm’s research team delivers timely perspectives on the ever-changing economic marketplace, helping advisors help their clients understand and adjust to the latest financial developments.

The nation’s leading independent brokerage firm,* LPL Financial has no proprietary products, investment banking business, or any other conflicts that get in the way of providing independent, unbiased, and objective recommendations.

LPL Financial advisors and their clients can be confident that the findings and recommendations of LPL Financial are the product of an experienced, objective partner. This research enables financial advisors to:

Keep abreast of developments in the markets and the global economy Proactively respond to emerging trends Leverage the expertise and experience of the research team in building

individual investment portfolios

* As reported in Financial Planning magazine 1996-2009,based on total revenues.

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Compliance

LPL Financial has made sizeable investments in developing a robust, superior platform of compliance technology and services. The company serves as a true business partner to its advisors, working closely with them and acting proactively on their behalf so they can run a compliant practice.

LPL Financial seamlessly integrates compliance functionality into its advisors’ practices, enabling many procedures to be fully automated. Approximately 300 LPL Financial employees assist with diverse compliance and monitoring requirements, including:

Review and approval of advertising materials used by financial advisors Surveillance of advisor trading activities and sales practices Oversight and monitoring of registered investment advisory activities Securities registration and insurance licensing of financial advisors Audits of branch offices

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Looking to the Future

The financial services industry, markets, and world are changing fast; people are living longer and facing increasingly complex financial needs. These factors mean that providing Americans with investment advice has never been more important than it is today.

Financial advisors and institutions need a partner that can help them meet today’s growing demands and challenges. As a true market leader, LPL Financial is well positioned to enable its customers to help their clients do just that.

To learn more visit:

www.lpl.com

The LPL Financial family of affiliated companies include LPL Financial, UVEST Financial Services Group Inc., Mutual Service Corporation, Waterstone Financial Group Inc., and Associated Securities Corp., each of which is a Member of FINRA/SIPC.

Not FDIC/NCUA Insured | Not Bank/Credit Union Guaranteed | May Lose ValueNot Guaranteed by Any Government Agency | Not a Bank/Credit Union Deposit

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