It is with pleasure that we announce the promotion of Julie Lank to the position of Managing Director, Loss Mitigation. In this new role Julie will continue to report to Mitch Oringer, Sr. Managing Director. As Managing Director, Julie is responsible for the day to day asset management operations of National Collection and Loss Mitigation Services, LLC. Since joining NCLMS in 2009, Julie has continued to assume additional responsibilities with the engagement of several clients during her tenure.

We are also pleased to announce the promotion of Carla Ulufanua to Managing Director, REO Management. Carla previously held the role of REO Operations Manager, GSE?s. In her new role, Carla will run the day- to-day operations of the REO team across government and private clients. Carla has been with the organization for several years and has a very firm understanding of all internal processes and systems as they relate to asset disposition.

In addition, we are pleased to announce the promotion of Meghan Street to Senior Business Analyst, Strategic Management. Meghan will continue to report to Mitch Oringer, Sr. Managing Director. In her new capacity Meghan will manage increased responsibilities that cross technological and operational lines.

The National Groups is a top tier GSE vendor that also provides services to several of the mega servicers, special servicers, hedge funds and private clients throughout the country. The TNG Service delivery is achieved through its suite of four member companies which are independently managed by service delivery discipline (National Default Servicing, LLC (NDS), National Collection & Loss Mitigation, LLC (NCLMS), National Valuation Services (NVS) and National Closing Escrow & Title Services (NCETS). These managed member companies provide outsourcing of REO Management & Disposition, Short Sale Fulfillment and Loss Mitigation, Escrow, Closing & Title Services and Real Estate Valuations with a focus on offering the most efficient and flexible services possible that are tailored to each client?s needs and objectives. http://www.TheNationalGroups.com

Public Relations Contact: Desmond Primus, 860-368-3543 or dprimus(at)defaultservicingllc(dot)com

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Dailey Partners has trusted relationships with more than 1,200 venture, buyout, hedge and mezzanine funds as well as strategic investors. Principal partners have closed more than 60 transactions representing $ 600 million of cumulative capital raised.

Richard Waryn, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Your Trading Room said, “After a careful selection process, we determined that Dailey Partners provides us with the best opportunity to raise the capital that will enable us to achieve our ambitious growth objectives. The firm understands our space very well and their history of success with companies like ours gives us confidence that we will succeed.”

Tim Dailey, Managing Director and co-founder at Dailey Partners, stated, “We have worked with many companies in the technology and financial services sectors, and we understand the space, particularly in terms of capital required for high growth companies.? He went on to say, ?Your Trading Room is the ideal type of high growth company we look to represent and is perfectly positioned for institutional investment given the exceptional management team, differentiation in the market place, and projected growth in the Forex market over the next 5-10 years. We look forward to lending our expertise to the execution of the Company’s strategic growth plans.”

ABOUT DAILEY PARTNERS: Dailey Partners is a boutique investment bank that provides Private Placement and Mergers & Acquisitions services for emerging and middle market companies. The Company focuses on $ 5 – $ 75 million transaction sizes, including growth financings, acquisition financings, management buyouts, and sell-side advisory. Dailey Partners is a trusted referral source for more than 1,200 venture, buyout, hedge and mezzanine funds as well as strategic investors. The Company sources clients through a referral-only network and puts all companies through a rigorous screening process prior to engagement. The goal is to only work with high quality companies and management teams. For more information, please visit http://www.daileypartners.com.

ABOUT YOUR TRADING ROOM: YTR is an international provider of online foreign-exchange financial education, training and proprietary trading services. Dynamic and forward thinking, the Company empowers traders globally. The YTR difference is based on market leading solutions supported by four key disciplines: research and development; proprietary indicators and strategies; education and training; and live professional coaching. YTR?s LIVE trading rooms provide a superb framework of real-time support throughout a 24 hour, 5

ATB Financial (ATB), a leading Canadian full-service financial institution, has selected SunGard?s Adaptiv Riskbox and Collateral solutions to help manage counterparty credit exposure and respond to demand from across the business for greater transparency and efficiency.

ATB has been managing the desk level risk of its derivatives book on the Adaptiv platform since 2006. As the industry becomes more sensitive to the possibility of counterparty defaults, firms are using netting and collateral to mitigate the effect of a default. Adaptiv?s newest offerings to ATB will help the firm manage counterparty credit exposure from both a collateral management and a simulation Potential Future Exposure (PFE) perspective, which helps the bank understand its potential exposure to its trading partners and proactively reduce its counterparty risk.

Implementing a flexible and integrated market, credit and collateral management solution will help the firm better manage market and credit risk measures and the associated risk mitigation processing, as well as helping it disseminate that information to numerous internal departments for increased transparency across business silos. Adaptiv is also providing improved reporting capabilities, such as trade level drill down and scenario-based measures that will help provide consistent, up-to-date and accurate information.

Peter Freilinger, treasurer at ATB, said, ?We need the most robust infrastructure to support our management of counterparty credit exposure through collateral netting and PFE simulation. The expertise of SunGard?s Adaptiv team, as well as the technical and functional improvements they have made in the solution?s calculation speed and result distribution areas, showed us once again that SunGard understands both our business and what we need in order to effectively compete in today?s changing environment.?

Juerg Hunziker, president of SunGard?s Adaptiv and Front Arena business units, said, ?We work closely with our customers and industry players to understand the latest market developments and develop innovative solutions to help them capitalize on change. That is why so many of our customers choose to expand their relationship with us when new technology requirements arise.?

About ABT

ATB Financial (“ATB”) is a full-service financial institution headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ATB is the largest Alberta-based financial institution, with assets of $ 26.5 billion. Some 5,000 associates provide Personal and Business Financial Services, Agri-Industry, Corporate Financial Services, and Investor Services to more than 670,000 Albertans in 242 communities. ATB provides service through 165 branches and 131 agencies, a Customer Contact Centre, a network of Automated Banking Machines (ABMs) across Alberta, Internet and Telephone. ATB Financial was established in 1938 and has been a provincial Crown corporation since 1997. This year, it was named one of Canada’s 50 Best Employers by Report on Business Magazine, one of the 75 Best Workplaces in Canada by the Great Place to Work Institute, and one of Alberta’s Top 40 Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc.

ATB has built strong customer relationships in the pursuit of its vision to be Alberta’s first choice for financial services. ATB’s goal is to ensure that we deliver the best value to each customer through a competent, professional, and engaged team of associates to provide a fair return for our Shareholder, the Province of Alberta.

About SunGard?s Adaptiv

SunGard?s Adaptiv provides enterprise-wide credit and market risk management and operations solutions for financial services institutions. Adaptiv assists institutions of varying size and complexity to deploy technology to meet both internal and regulatory requirements for risk management and operational control. Adaptiv helps financial services institutions from the banking, hedge fund, asset management, insurance and corporate sectors with its deep understanding of risk management and operational processes. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com/enterpriserisk.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com.

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo, Front Arena and Adaptiv are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Agecroft Partners, the hedge fund consulting and third party marketing firm, was recognized at the 2011 HFMWeek US Service Awards as the winner in the ?Best Third Party Marketing Firm? category, which is the third year in a row they have been selected for the award. Winners were named in 34 different categories at the 2011 gala lunch and awards ceremony at Cipriani in New York City. The annual HFMWeek US Service Awards ceremony brings together the leading industry players to celebrate the achievements of top-performing Service Providers to the hedge fund industry. HFMWeek is a leading hedge fund industry publication with international distribution to more than 5,500 fund managers and their key advisors around the world. ?Agecroft Partners is honored to be selected for this award. We have worked very hard to create an institutional quality hedge fund consulting and third party marketing firm and believe this helps validate all of our efforts.? stated Don Steinbrugge, Founding Partner of Agecroft Partners.

Agecroft Partners has emerged as one the most sought after firms by industry conferences and the media for their views on the hedge fund market place and institutional investors. They have spoken at approximately 45 alternative investment conferences over the past three years, appeared in over 200 industry articles and are regular guests on business television including Bloomberg, Reuters Insider and Fox Business News.

Agecroft’s five partners average over 15 years of industry experience, and four of the partners worked for multi-billion dollar alternative investment firms before joining Agecroft. Members of Agecroft?s team have met with a majority of the largest pension funds, endowments, foundations and institutional consulting firms during their careers, and a significant percentage of these allocators have been clients. In addition, the team has strong relationships throughout the fund of funds, insurance company and family office marketplaces. They are in touch with approximately a thousand investors a month on a global basis, with an objective of meeting face-to-face with 60 to 100 investors per month.

Agecroft Partners emphasizes multiple factors in selecting the hedge funds they represent, focusing on established hedge funds with well-defined investment processes, deep infrastructure, and solid historical track records. The hedge fund organizations they work with range from approximately $ 250 million to $ 6 billion in assets under management.

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GFI Group, Inc (NYSE: ?GFIG?) a leading provider of wholesale brokerage, electronic execution and trading support products for global financial markets, has been ranked No.1 overall inter-dealer broker in the credit category by Risk magazine.

Risk conducted the poll amongst dealers and brokers globally and received 1,641 responses from dealers and brokers to this year?s interdealer survey. The responses were divided among Europe (57.7%), North America (22%), Asia (19.2%) and other (1.1%).

Colin Heffron, President of GFI Group said, ?We are very happy to be voted the top broker in the credit category for the fourteenth consecutive year. The change in the markets over the last 14 years has been significant so, to have achieved first place continuously points to the dynamic aspects of GFI?s hybrid platform?. He added, ?We work hard to provide our clients with the best quality service from our experienced brokers and our state of the art technology?.

GFI was also voted the top broker for Exotic Equity Products – in the Volatility/variance swaps category, in US Dollar/Yen and US Dollar/Sterling Forwards and in Euro/Yen and Euro/Sterling Options.

Voters in the survey could base their decisions on a variety of criteria, including pricing, liquidity provision, counterparty risk, speed of execution and reliability.

The survey covered 97 derivatives categories across interest rates, foreign exchange, credit and equity derivatives. Participants were asked to vote for their top three brokers in order of preference in derivatives categories that they had traded in over the course of the year.

About GFI Group Inc.

GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: ?GFIG?) is a leading provider of wholesale brokerage services, clearing services, electronic execution and trading support products for global financial markets. GFI Group Inc. provides brokerage services, market data, trading platform and analytics software products to institutional clients in markets for a range of fixed income, financial, equity and commodity instruments.

Headquartered in New York, GFI was founded in 1987 and employs more than 2,000 people with additional offices in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Cape Town, Santiago, Bogota, Dubai, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Calgary, Los Angeles, Nyon and Sugar Land (TX). GFI Group Inc. provides services and products to over 2,600 institutional clients, including leading investment and commercial banks, corporations, insurance companies and hedge funds. Its brands include GFISM, GFInet

David Landau & Associates, LLC, a leading provider of advisory services to private equity, hedge funds, REITs and other public and private real estate and financial services firms, announced that Michael Sullivan has joined the firm as a managing director.

Sullivan, 43, who has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, will serve as the main contact for some of the firm?s core clientele, as well as generate new business opportunities, including growing the firm?s hospitality practice.

?Michael Sullivan will serve a crucial role at DLA as our main point of contact for some of our core clientele,? said David Landau, president and CEO of DLA. ?We are thrilled to be able to leverage his vast experience in the real estate industry to grow our business. His knowledge of the hospitality sector in particular will serve as a great springboard for DLA as we expand our presence in that arena.?

Prior to joining DLA, Sullivan served as managing director and head of hospitality for Gemini Real Estate Advisors, a New York based real estate investment firm. He was responsible for the hospitality platform at the firm, which owns and operates a portfolio of hotels in New York and along the East Coast, and provides third-party hotel management services. Gemini Real Estate Advisors has been one of the most active hotel groups in New York. Sullivan was also a member of the firm?s investment committee.

Earlier, Sullivan was a vice president at Starhotels International Corporation, where he was responsible for global acquisitions, with a focus on the United States and Europe, as well as global strategy, branding and management of the firm?s U.S. operating company. The firm?s portfolio includes 22 hotels in Italy, France and the United States, and residential holdings in New York.

Sullivan previously served as vice president of asset management at Sunstone Hotel Investors, where he was responsible for the asset management of all third-party managed hotels in preparation for its 2004 IPO. He was also a vice president at Colony Capital, where he was responsible for the asset management and acquisition of approximately $ 1 billion of hospitality related assets for the international private equity firm. Earlier, Sullivan was a manager at ITT Sheraton Hotel Corp., leading the worldwide internal audit function for the international hotel company. He started his career as an auditor with PriceWaterhouse.

Sullivan received a bachelor?s degree in accounting from Boston College?s Carroll School of Management. Sullivan is an active member of the Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals (HFTP) and the Hospitality Asset Managers Association (HAMA) and has been a speaker at many industry related events.

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Madison Street Capital?s Asset Management Industry Focus Group released its Fall 2011 M&A Outlook- Hedge Fund Industry. The document focuses on the current deal environment, buyer/seller considerations, minority interest investments and future M&A drivers.

?The transaction activity in the Hedge Fund industry, as indicated by both the number and size of completed transactions, can best be described as sluggish,? said Karl D?Cunha, Senior Managing Director and head of Madison Street Capital?s Asset Management Industry Focus Group. ?However, if last year?s results have any predictive value, we can expect a surge in activity in the fourth quarter that will likely spill over into the first quarter of 2012.?

The key drivers behind M&A Activity include the following:

West Mountain, an Atlanta-based asset manager, announced today that it has increased its exposure to the short side of US for-profit education companies in its flagship investment vehicle. “Think of the student loan industry as the next housing bubble”, says Paul Alar, Managing Director of West Mountain. “Government programs increase the ability to purchase an asset (a home/an education), driving the asset’s price upward”, he continues. “Soon, the market for the asset becomes super-saturated and it collapses due to lack of demand, leaving borrowers unable to repay loans. This, in the case of student loans, has been exacerbated by the sub-prime housing debacle and the resulting high unemployment rate”.

The for-profit (as opposed to the not-for profit) education industry is expected to be hit hardest by the downturn because it is characterized by a high level of student drop-outs and strong competition. Further, for-profit schools enroll 13 percent of all college and university students, but they account for half of student loan defaults. They also accounted for a quarter of the $ 93 billion the federal government spent on student loans and Pell grants last year.

Legislators have taken notice of these statistics and new regulations are expected to make for-profits recruit students from a much smaller market and spend more capital to do so. Further, the looming specter of Federal debt reduction raises the strong possibility that Pell grant funding will be cut, likely causing a step-function change in demand for the industry.

About West Mountain, LLC

Based in Atlanta, GA, West Mountain, LLC pursues a global multi-advisor, multi-strategy approach to hedge fund investing. The company specializes in portfolio and capital protection and risk reduction. To learn more about West Mountain, LLC, please visit http://www.westmountainllc.com.

For additional information, contact Michael H. Pruner at (404) 885-5742 or mpruner(at)westmountain(dot)us.

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The fifth annual Hedge Fund Compensation Survey is live and is collecting data on hedge fund pay benchmarks.

The online survey can be completed quickly and eligible participants who complete the survey receive the final Hedge Fund Compensation Report (a $ 297 value) free of charge.

Hedge fund professionals can participate in the survey by visiting the Hedge Fund Compensation Survey website.

“This is our fifth year conducting the survey and we are seeing significant interest this year,” says David Kochanek, publisher of the Hedge Fund Compensation Report. “Each year our goal is to create a reliable and affordable compensation benchmark tool. The best way to do that is to collect data directly from those in the industry.”

The survey questions delve into more than just salary levels. The survey asks about work culture, bonuses, firm performance and job satisfaction. The results are helpful for both individuals evaluating their own compensation package and for firms looking to set compensation policies.

Hedge fund professionals can participate in the survey at http://www.HFCompSurvey.com and, by doing so, secure access to the Hedge Fund Compensation Report free of charge when results are published.

About The Survey

The Hedge Fund Compensation Survey is currently open to participants in the hedge fund industry. Data is collected directly from hedge fund managers and employees from firms, both large and small. Some of the firms participating in past surveys include: Citi, Bank of America – Merrill Lynch, Black River, Carlson, Deutsche Bank, Gartmore Investment, Gottex, HSBC, La Fayette, and UBS.

The annual survey is conducted by Hedge Fund Jobs Digest, publishers of a hedge fund jobs database and other career resources.

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Clopton Capital provides SBA loans and is located in Chicago, IL. They primarily focus on commercial mortgages, SBA loans and niche financing mechanisms such as gas station loans and commercial bridge loans. The founder of Clopton Capital is Jake Clopton and this press release is part of Clopton Capital’s consistent effort to remain involved with the public, namely their future clients. Clopton Capital can be contacted at CloptonCapital.com.

Recently Clopton Capital added trust deed investments to their portfolio of lending products and investments. This is part of their alternative investment hedge fund which is currently promoted and does business as CloptonInvestments.com. According to Clopton Capital, trust deed investments are essentially just a way to invest in a bridge loan issued on what is usually commercial property. The loans are secured by the property itself and often these investments are more profitable if the borrower defaults.

Clopton Capital’s plan is to promote these new offerings through their network of websites and to their current bridge loan funders. The purpose of offering these investments is to increase the firm’s capacity to issue bridge loans without using external capital. ?If we can make money providing the bridge loan and make money originating the capital to fund the loan via trust deed investments then we profit in two ways and help two clients simultaneously. This is a really exciting concept,? said Jake Clopton, the founder of Clopton Capital.

Clopton Capital’s future plans involve marketing additional fixed investment and variable investment products along with their commercial lending solutions. The firm is currently working to purchase and develop more websites to meet this goal throughout the coming years.

Clopton Capital can be contacted at their website CloptonCapital.com or at 866.647.1650 during regular business hours central time. Their website contains more specific information about their bridge loan products. Their website dedicated to trust deed investments is CloptonInvestments.com.

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