POEMS - #1 Website in the Business and Finance - Stocks and Shares industry in Hitwise Online Performance Award for Three Consecutive Years

3 April 2008 – PhillipCapital’s Online Electronic Mart System, POEMS (www.poems.com.sg) has outshone its competitors and won the #1 website in the Business and Finance – Stocks and Shares industry in Hitwise Online Performance Award 2007. We are proud to be the winner for this award for three consecutive years in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

2. The annual Hitwise Online Performance Awards acknowledge excellence in online performance through public popularity, awarding websites across a variety of industries. Results of the Hitwise Online Performance Awards are based on the Internet usage of approximately 1.5 Million Singapore Internet users visiting over 9,300 Singapore websites, with winners receiving the greatest market share of visits throughout 2007 in their online industry.

3. “We will like to first thank our clients and Singapore internet users for this honour. This award acknowledges our strong commitment to customers in providing a one-stop, integrated trading platform with our suite of products like Stocks, Futures, Forex, Contracts for Difference, Unit Trust and other financial products. Moving forward, we will continue our focus in constantly upgrading our platform to meet our clients’ needs.” said Mr George Kwok, POEMS Marketing Manager, Phillip Securities Pte Ltd (a member of PhillipCapital).

4. Mr Michael Walmsley, Hitwise General Manager of Competitive Intelligence and Search Marketing Services said, “With the dynamics of online marketing continually evolving, the online success of POEMS during 2007 is an incredible achievement. Receiving a Hitwise Online Performance Award acknowledges that POEMS is amongst the most popular websites visited by Singapore internet users, signifying the strength of their online marketing”.

5. Innovation and customer-centricity have always been the guiding principles for POEMS. To serve the increasing needs of our clients, new services were constantly being added to the POEMS platform. For instance, POEMS Mobile were launched in early 2005 to unleash the power of wireless trading for the convenience of dynamic investors by allowing them to capitalise on market opportunities with wireless access to real-time trading, live prices, order status, account information and stock alert, within a safe and secure trading environment. In late 2006, we launched an advanced trading platform called the POEMS ProTrader for the active traders. This platform aims to provide sophisticated trading tools and features that assist our clients in placing advanced and strategic stock order types.

6. For more information on this and other services on POEMS, please visit www.poems.com.sg or call 6531 1555.

About PhillipCapital
PhillipCapital is a group of companies which offers a full range of quality and innovative financial services to retail, corporate and institutional customers. PhillipCapital is an integrated financial services provider with more than 2800 staff in Asia and Europe and total shareholders’ funds in excess of US$500 million.

We provide a comprehensive suite of financial services to individual and corporate investors as well as institutions. Our services range from fund management, unit trusts, hedge funds, insurance planning, mortgage loans, investment research and broking in bond, securities, futures, foreign exchange, precious metals and commodities. Institutions can also benefit from our corporate finance and advisory services as well as information technology solutions.