Rivel Associate Client Program

Since its inception in 1991, Rivel Research Group has completed over 600 research projects with the primary goal of helping public companies make better communications decisions as it relates to the investment community. These projects have yielded a tremendous amount of data that has allowed us to establish a knowledge base that can be leveraged to create custom analyses on topics considered important to our clients. Over the past several years, we have also launched several large scale studies (known as our Perspectives Series) among the buy-side, investor relations officers and CEOs. Until now, this knowledge base has only been made available to our custom research clients. However, we have received several requests recently to make this research available on a larger scale. As a result, Rivel Research Group has decided to develop a new service that allows companies who may not have the budget for custom perception studies and other large scale research projects to avail themselves of this data. We have called it the Rivel Associate Client Program. What does it entail?

Deliverables:

• Delivery of two new "Perspectives" reports annually. *Next study in series: Perspectives on the European Buy-side. Our landmark European buy-side study is underway. Completed among a multinational cross-section of European buy-side analysts and portfolio managers, this research will provide a unique and valuable perspective on this critical constituency which technology and changes in the equity markets have made ever more accessible to international investor communications. It complements, indeed is a sister study to Perspectives on the Buy-Side, research we have completed among North American buy-side investment professionals in recent years, providing ever more comprehensive insight that can be used by public companies in improving the quality of their communications, as well as identifying the best means of disseminating information with maximum impact. Using our elite corps of executive interviewers, we expect to complete between 200 and 250 in-depth telephone interviews this spring and the report will be published early this summer.
• Access to webcast for each "Perspectives" study to discuss the results.
• Delivery of all previous "Perspectives" series reports.
• Corporate Priorities: Insights from the Rivel Database of Investment Community Opinion. We will deliver topical white papers on a monthly basis. Click here for a schedule of past and future issues.

Some of the potential Perspectives studies Rivel will be exploring with the Associate Client Program (will be driven by demand for the topic):

• Perspectives on the European Buy-Side
• Perspectives on Hedge Funds (update to the 2006 study)
• Perspectives from the CFO
• Perspectives on Investor Communications (update to the 2006 IR Best Practices research)

Pricing:

Given that this service is designed for those companies with limited budgets, we decided to offer this program at a low quarterly rate. There are three levels of service for the Associate Client Program:

Basic - The price for this service as described above is $950 per quarter and can be canceled at any time.

Level I – includes Basic Associate Client Program, plus option to request one custom Corporate Priorities piece per year. Cost for this program is $1,550 per quarter and can be canceled at any time.

Level II – includes Basic Associate Client Program, plus option to request two custom Corporate Priorities pieces per year. Cost for this program is $1,950 per quarter and can be canceled at any time.

More Information:

If you are interested in learning more about the Associate Client Program, please call Barbara Sullivan, Director of Marketing at (203) 635-4383 or email bsullivan@rivel.com.