AMVESCAP PLC, incorporated on December 19, 1935, is an independent investment management company. Operating under the AIM, AIM Trimark, INVESCO, Invesco Perpetual and Atlantic Trust brands, the Company delivers its products and services to retail, institutional and private wealth management clients worldwide. The Company provides its clients with an array of investment management products on a domestic, international and global investment basis. Its products include equity, balanced, fixed income, money market and real estate investment portfolios. AMVESCAP PLC has a significant presence in the institutional and retail segments of the investment management industry in North America, Europe and Asia. During the year ended December 31, 2005, AMVESCAP PLC operated in four business segments: AIM, INVESCO, Private Wealth Management and AMVESCAP Retirement. On July 15, 2005, the Company sold substantially all of the assets of the AMVESCAP Retirement business other than its United States national trust bank subsidiary. As of May 31, 2006, the Company had $414.6 billion of assets under management. In North America, AMVESCAP PLC offers load mutual funds, separate account management and wrap or managed accounts. Outside of North America, it offers unit trusts and other European and Asian mutual funds, as well as separate account management for retail and institutional investors. The Company's retail and institutional clients are located in more than 100 countries. AIM The AIM operating group manages, distributes and administers mutual funds and related products sold to retail and institutional investors within North America that are marketed under the AIM Investments and AIM Trimark brands. The AIM operating group consists of two business units, AIM Investments and AIM Trimark. These business units offer mutual funds invested in the United States and international markets, including funds that target particular market sectors. Each of the two business units of the AIM operating group offers equity, balanced, fixed-income and money market funds. AIM Investments is the largest business unit in the AIM operating group. AIM Investments is a diversified investment manager, offering a variety of equity, institutional money market and long-term, fixed-income products. Its primary products are its AIM-branded retail equity and long-term, fixed-income mutual funds and institutional money market mutual funds. The funds are sold primarily through a variety of financial intermediaries. AIM Investments also provides advisory services to mutual funds managed by companies unaffiliated with AMVESCAP PLC. In addition to sales of funds through financial intermediaries as part of its retail channel, AIM Investments offers funds to pension plans and to insurance companies that use AIM's funds as investment options under their own separate accounts. AIM Investments also sub-advises funds sponsored by third parties, typically for use as investment options under insurance company separate accounts. Customers of AIM Investments' institutional money market funds include United States banks and Fortune 50 United States companies. AIM Investments also has developed a managed account business, which tailors individual, privately managed portfolios to clients' investment needs, and provides retirement products and state-sponsored college savings plans. AIM Investments also provides sub-advisory services to certain AIM Trimark funds and to mutual funds managed by its other business units. AIM Trimark manages mutual funds in Canada, as well as provides services through managed accounts. AIM Trimark also provides advisory services to mutual funds managed by companies unaffiliated with the Company. In addition to sales of funds through financial intermediaries as part of its retail channel, AIM Trimark offers funds to pension plans, insurance companies that use its funds in separate accounts, and banks and other financial institutions that use its funds as part of fund-of-funds offerings. AIM Trimark provides sub-advisory services to a mutual fund

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