We are creating a service that will map all
the business contacts on the planet and allow people to access them
directly," said Jim Fowler, CEO and co-founder of Jigsaw. The firm provides
comprehensive research and informed proxy voting recommendations on more than
33,000 companies across 115 markets and offers the industry's only integrated
end-to-end voting solution.
"Linking with a firm the caliber of ISS gives us global reach for our best
in class Australian governance analysis, while allowing us to provide the same
level of deep expertise and quality service to our local clients," said co-
founder of Proxy Australia, Geof Stapledon, who will lead the new ISS unit . After integrating
with ISS, the new unit will expand its Australia and New Zealand research
universe and offer a complete continuum of solutions including corporate
governance policies, proxy research , vote recommendations, vote execution
services, vote disclosure and reporting, in addition to corporate governance
ratings on 8000 companies and a securities class action claims service.hedgestreet.

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We anticipate that institutional traders, hedge funds and
others will take advantage of the arrangement with CCorp.

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Marc holds a degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Michigan and an M. from the
Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA . The data contributions and collaborative oversight continuously
made by Jigsaw members ensures the accuracy and growth of the Jigsaw
marketplace.
The new unit, called ISS Proxy Australia, will serve as the hub for ISS'
Australian operations and will provide in-market research, service and
expertise to institutional investors and superannuation funds in the region
and worldwide.
When the combination of Proxy Australia and Institutional Shareholder
Services is complete in 2006, clients will enjoy significant benefits
including a "best of both" research product, solutions designed with local
market interests in mind, straight-through vote processing, Australia and New
Zealand market expertise and service, as well as access to an expanded suite
of corporate governance solutions globally.

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About Institutional Shareholder Services
ISS is the world's leading provider of corporate governance and proxy
voting solutions.

About Proxy Australia
Proxy Australia is a Melbourne-based firm primarily focused on providing
proxy voting advice and innovative governance research for funds managers and
superannuation funds.hedgestreet .

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com, where he ran
large direct marketing programs.issproxy.

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com before joining Jigsaw.
"Marc's expertise in direct marketing is perfectly aligned with
Jigsaw's business path.
"It's exciting to join a company that's introducing a radically
new and different approach to the established data business," said
Parrish., Institutional Shareholder Services
(ISS), the world's leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance
solutions, today announced that it has acquired Australia 's leading specialist
corporate governance research firm, Proxy Australia."
Proxy Australia has 30+ clients including an exclusive relationship with
the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI).

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"Jigsaw's going to turn the traditional data industry on its
head , and I'm looking forward to helping do it," said Marc Parrish,
vice president of marketing for Jigsaw . Jigsaw offers
members access to a database of contact information that increases
efficiency by shortening the time required to find business contact
data.

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About Jigsaw Data Corporation

Jigsaw (http://jigsaw. The firm currently
covers over 200 Australian and 20 New Zealand companies and offers a database
of five years of governance data on S+P/ASX 200 companies. The Clearing Corporation
serves numerous clients in a variety of markets and is the only active
independent futures clearinghouse in the world.

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Founded in 1985, ISS is headquartered in Maryland and has offices
in New York, Chicago , Toronto, London, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Tokyo and
Manila.

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SAN MATEO, Calif."

About HedgeStreet

HedgeStreet Inc.

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Marc will lead Jigsaw's
overall corporate , product and affiliate marketing programs as well as
its international expansion efforts.com and Onsale. HedgeStreet is privately held and based in San
Mateo, Calif.

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Prior to his Jigsaw appointment , Marc was vice president of
marketing for Capcom, one of the largest publishers of video games,
where he worked to align technology and product development goals with
business management objectives.

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"We have an acute awareness of institutional client needs across the
world's markets and we place a high value on local market expertise," said
John M. Seven staff, two founders, Professor Geof Stapledon and
Dean Paatsch will form the ISS base in Australia .

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means that any individual or institution that has a relationship with
a CCorp clearing participant can trade on HedgeStreet and clear
through CCorp, thus dramatically opening up the marketplace. HedgeStreet
also provides hedge funds with the opportunity to trade economic
derivatives and many institutionally traded contracts.clearingcorp .

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The combined company
will form the foundation of ISS' new Australian business unit, headquartered
in Melbourne. The group, with its deep knowledge of corporate governance
practices in Australia and New Zealand, its high quality proxy research and
its unique governance data, will play a critical role in delivering continued
value to ISS clients worldwide.
"Institutional investors will now have on-line access to a complete set of
governance indicators for Australian companies and a range of new services to
help them manage governance risk.

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Before Capcom, Marc held management
positions at palmOne (Palm), Egghead. "At the same
time, we also recognize that institutional investors play on a world stage and
need a corporate governance and proxy voting partner that can deliver a truly
global end-to-end solution.----HedgeStreet
Inc., www.
Said John Nafeh, Chairman and CEO of HedgeStreet: "This
arrangement opens up institutional trading on HedgeStreet, and with
HedgeStreet 's ability to quickly create and deploy financial
instruments on its exchange, will create a new paradigm for the
derivatives industry that will merge the OTC and the listed exchange
markets. Our
relationship with HedgeStreet demonstrates our commitment to extending
the spectrum of cleared products in the marketplace. A designated
contract market (DCM) and a registered derivatives clearing
organization (DCO), HedgeStreet is regulated by the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (CFTC) and monitored by the National Futures
Association (NFA).com

About The Clearing Corporation

The Clearing Corporation is a stockholder-owned, Delaware
corporation now in its 80th year of business.

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Corporation, the first online marketplace where people buy and sell
business contact information , announced that it has appointed Marc
Parrish as vice president of marketing.com, the nation's first online market that lets
investors trade innovative financial instruments based on economic
events , and The Clearing Corporation ("CCorp") announced today they
have entered into a clearing services agreement designed to enable
institutions to trade HedgeStreet products in the same way they trade
other exchange-traded derivatives.

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Jigsaw Data Corp. Names New VP of Marketing; Marc Parrish to Lead Strategic Marketing Operations

A. Combination Will Deliver Local Corporate Governance Expertise
With Global Scope

ROCKVILLE, Md. ISS provides proxy research , voting services and corporate
governance advisory services to financial institutions and corporations
worldwide."
Richard Jaycobs, CEO of The Clearing Corporation, said:
"HedgeStreet's class of financial instruments has enormous potential,
and CCorp is proud to take the lead in clearing these contracts.

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Founded in 1985, ISS has over 1300 institutional clients worldwide that
manage more that $23 trillion of the world's equity. is the nation's first financial market that lets
online retail investors trade innovative financial instruments in
small contract sizes -- previously unavailable to them.

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Under the agreement, CCorp clearing participants, who are also
HedgeStreet members, can permit their customers to trade HedgeStreet
products in the same way contracts are traded on other exchanges.

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Jigsaw Data Corporation is located in San Mateo,
California, and funded by El Dorado Ventures and Norwest Venture
Partners.

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Trevor Jarrett will join
the firm and operate from Sydney. Additional information
on The Clearing Corporation is available at www.

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"Marc's
marketing skills will be instrumental in fueling the Jigsaw
marketplace .