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PAICR Announce a Webcast on Investment Communications Strategies and Operations. BOSTON, April 11, 2012 Varden Technologies joins PAICR to offer a members-only webcast on April 26, 2012 (2:00 - 3:00 EST), entitled A Survey & Discussion: How Responsive Is Your Investment External Communications Strategy and Why? The webcast will provide a peer-review synopsis of how operational and strategic models have progressed, across sampled investment communications teams, in response to specific advances in business systems. PAICR is a non-profit association created for and facilitated by investment marketing and communications professionals. PAICR members number in the hundreds, representing investment firms throughout North America, the U.K., and Australia. Varden Technologies is a data integration and investment communications technologies firm, focused on the production, governance, and publication of client reporting, data-driven pitchbook, and marketing content. Preceding the webcast, a secure survey is active at InvestmentCommunications.org until 5:00pm EST on April 19, 2012. PAICR members are asked to participate by providing anonymous responses. Anonymous result sets will be serialized to form the basis for the webcasts discussion on trends and practices. Varden will be leveraged to provide comparative views on where and why they have focused their technical designs and feature sets across their 90+ relationships. PAICR members will gain a post-webcast paper as the exercises end-deliverable for internal discussions. Minh Nguyen, Vardens Director, shares Were happy to participate in this exercise. The intent is to survey how ops and strategies have been jolted by two industry progressions that finally have arrived to investment communications teams, as they had and will arrive to other business lines. The first is this migration from manual workflow to intelligent automation, where labor is geared for strategy advancements versus just status quo. The second is this conversion from desktop-based software to enterprisedeployed platforms which opens up to-be-discussed topics like content responsiveness, data self-servicing, and post-publication controls of content. As a solution provider, we cant build software in a vacuum. We actively go out and we engage clients and good organizations, like PAICR, to grow conversations, to learn from, and to share. Software may solve operational inefficiencies but they dont necessarily direct and cant force strategies. Thats left up to good people who shape their visions everyday to adapt and to negotiate against needs. So we thank PAICR members for allowing us to participate, to share our views, and to learn from you, who are daily practitioners and strategists. Exercises like this help propel our work in business systems

like pitchbook software and client reporting software. Perry Harris, Vardens President, contributes. Varden is a proud sponsor of PAICR, beginning in 2011 and renewed in 2012. PAICRs upcoming events include the RFP Symposium, on May 21, and the Annual Conference, on September 10 12. Gail Prins-Visser, PAICRs President, closes with, PAICR frequently uses Web-based events as we reach across borders to share industry movements and current practices. Marketing for financial services is an increasingly important industry role, and our purpose is to help our members learn, connect and succeed. We leverage this event with Varden Technologies as part of our continuous commitment to strengthen our members. About Varden Technologies, Inc. Established in 1999, Varden Technologies is an investment data integration and technology firm. With the consulting line concentrating on data analysis, custom development, and OMS implementation, Vardens product line serves the external investment communications niche. Its flagship platform, eReportal, drives responsive content strategies of investment marketing, sales, and client servicing teams with datadriven pitchbook software, performance and client reporting software, client servicing operational platforms, and custom deployments of point-of-entry data and content servicing portals. http://www.InvestmentCommunications.org About PAICR PAICRs objective is to identify, interpret, guide and advocate the best practices in the investment communications industry. PAICR is dedicated to the professional development of communicators by providing each member with the necessary tools to provide solutions and help each individual excel at their profession. PAICR supports and nurtures a growing community of professionals who share insights through a multitude of innovative, interactive and educational forums. http://www.paicr.com #### Varden Technologies, Inc. 211 Congress Street Boston, MA 02110 Caitlin Hagaman, Marketing Manager 617.482.5902 x322 (caitlin.hagaman@vardentech.com)