GoldenTree Asset Management Selects PALADYNE™ To Support Their Critical Reporting Needs

NEW YORK, NY, April 11, 2006–Paladyne Systems, a leading provider of alternative investment solutions, today announced that it has licensed its PALADYNE™ product suite to GoldenTree Asset Management, a US-based, multi-billion asset manager, to streamline their firm-wide reporting and attribution and deliver better services to investors.

The PALADYNE suite is a fully-integrated front-to-back office solution developed specifically for the hedge fund industry and is offered as a fully hosted solution or as an on-site installation. GoldenTree will implement Paladyne’s middle-office products on site as their firm-wide custom reporting, and performance attribution solution. The PALADYNE suite seamlessly integrates with many leading hedge fund applications including GoldenTree’s existing systems infrastructure thereby minimizing implementation timelines and costs.

“After extensive due diligence, it was clear to us that Paladyne offered the most flexible and comprehensive solution for meeting GoldenTree’s operational objectives,” said Bill Christian, Chief Operating Officer of GoldenTree Asset Management. “PALADYNE will significantly enhance our ability to manage our growing and complex business, and will enable us to reduce operational cost and business risk while providing increased value and services to our investors.”

“We are very excited about the opportunity to partner with an industry-leading hedge fund like GoldenTree,” said Sameer Shalaby, Chief Executive Officer of Paladyne Systems. “As one of the most complex hedge funds in the industry, GoldenTree provides an opportunity for Paladyne to further enhance our product suite to better service the entire hedge fund community.”

The PALADYNE suite includes the following modules:

  • Paladyne Portfolio Master™ — provides order management and allocation, portfolio management, real-time P&L, and strategy-based performance tracking.
  • Paladyne Analytics Master ™ — provides portfolio analytics, data aggregation, and custom reporting tools.
  • Paladyne Security Master™ — provides a centralized terms and conditions repository and distribution engine with real-time updates and corporate action alerts.
  • Paladyne Price Master™ — provides automated collection, storage, and analysis of prices and market data from any third-party sources.
  • Paladyne Client Master™ — provides complete client relationship management including website integration and reporting.

on-site installations later this year.

About GOLDENTREE ASSET MANAGEMENT

GoldenTree Asset Management, a Registered Investment Advisor with offices in New York and London, manages a variety of absolute return strategies, which invest in bank debt, high yield bonds, distressed debt, middle market loans, equities and real estate. GoldenTree manages $3.8 billion of absolute return assets. The firm’s total assets under management exceed $7 billion.

About Paladyne Systems

Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Company, is the leading provider of next generation investment management solutions. Paladyne offers its integrated front-, middle- and back-office platform, known as the Paladyne Suite™, to hedge funds, asset managers, fund administrators and prime brokers. The modular Paladyne Suite™ includes order management, portfolio management, reference data management, data warehouse reporting and reconciliation and is complemented by the Paladyne Network™, which comprises a select group of preferred strategic partnerships with leading software and market data firms. The solution can be delivered onsite or via Paladyne's industry-leading application service provider solution, Paladyne ASP™. Paladyne was established in 2005 and now serves over 180 clients worldwide. The firm has approximately 165 employees, and is headquartered in New York, with regional offices in New Jersey, London, Russia and Hong Kong.

The Paladyne® Suite includes the following modules:

  • Paladyne Portfolio Master™ — provides electronic trading, order management and allocation, portfolio management, real-time P&L, and strategy-based performance tracking.
  • Paladyne Credit Master™ — provides loan processing and administration to fully support loan trading, analysis, reporting, and management.
  • Paladyne Analytics Master™ — provides portfolio analytics, data aggregation, and custom reporting tools.
  • Paladyne Security Master™ — provides a centralized terms and conditions repository and distribution engine with real-time updates and corporate action alerts.
  • Paladyne Price Master™ — provides automated collection, storage, and time series analysis of prices and market data from any third-party sources.

About Broadridge

Broadridge is a technology services company focused on global capital markets. Broadridge is the market leader enabling secure and accurate processing of information for communications and securities transactions among issuers, investors and financial intermediaries. Broadridge builds the infrastructure that underpins proxy services for over 90% of public companies and mutual funds in North America; processes more than $4 trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day; and saves companies billions annually through its technology solutions. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com.