Lighthouse Partners Selects Paladyne for its Global Managed Account Platform

NEW YORK, NY ANDPALM BEACH GARDENS, FL – January 9 , 2007 – Paladyne Systems, LLC, a leading provider of alternative investment solutions, today announced that Lighthouse Investment Partners, LLC (“Lighthouse”), a multi-billion-dollar asset manager and fund of hedge funds provider, has licensed the PALADYNE™ product suite to enhance its global managed account platform. The PALADYNE suite will automate the trade capture and reconciliation processes as well as the collection, storage, and processing of securities terms and conditions and corporate actions. Lighthouse will also utilize Paladyne’s data warehousing and custom reporting tools, which provide seamless integration to Lighthouse’s existing infrastructure including, Advent Geneva®.

Lighthouse will implement the PALADYNE ASP™ offering, a fully-hosted solution including software, hardware, database maintenance, IT and disaster recovery services. The PALADYNE ASP platform will enable Lighthouse to offer its managers direct access to Paladyne’s front- and middle-office tools including order management, real-time P&L and portfolio management, data warehousing, custom reporting and performance analysis.

“After completing an extensive technology review, we selected PALADYNE ASP™ due to the broad scope of its product offering, and its integration with our existing accounting platform, Advent Geneva®,” said Rob Swan, Chief Operating Officer of Lighthouse. “Paladyne’s state-of-the-art technology and highly scaleable ASP platform will help us improve our business operations significantly with our existing team.”

“We are excited that Lighthouse has selected our ASP solution as a platform for building their managed account business, and we see a number of strategic initiatives to pursue with Lighthouse,” said Sameer Shalaby. “By seamlessly integrating with their Advent Geneva®, we provide Lighthouse with the necessary tools to streamline and automate their processes and improve their business operations without expanding staff.”

About Lighthouse Partners

Lighthouse Partners is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida with offices in New York City and Chicago. Lighthouse manages over $5.6 billion through its product suite which includes a combination of absolute return, multi-strategy products as well as strategic separate funds in the areas of Credit, Global Equity Long/Short, Managed Futures, and Asian Strategies.

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.

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