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EnerCom Adds Presenting Companies for The Oil & Gas Conference(R) 2017

DENVER, CO—(Marketwired – Jun 27, 2017) – EnerCom, Inc. will host The Oil & Gas Conference® 22 August 13–17, 2017, in Denver at the Westin Denver Downtown. Investment and oil and gas professionals can register for the event through the conference website.

The Oil & Gas Conference® is held each year in Denver in mid–August. Hosted by EnerCom Inc. for 22 consecutive years, it is an investment conference designed for exploration and production and oilservice and technology companies to give mid–year updates to a large gathering of institutional investors — portfolio managers, fund managers and analysts.

EnerCom is pleased to announce that presenting companies for the 22^nd year of EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® include but are not limited to:

Northern Oil and Gas (NYSE: NOG)
SilverBow Resources, Inc. (NYSE: SBOW)
Key Energy Services (NYSE: KEG)
Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. (NYSE: BXE)
SM Energy (NYSE: SM)

EnerCom expects to host approximately 2,000 investors at its 2017 EnerCom conference — mainly buyside portfolio managers and fund managers, CIOs, analysts, energy bankers, private equity, family offices and high net worth individual investors looking for growth opportunities in the energy sector.

Presenting companies include shale players from all the primary basins in the U.S. and Canada, conventional oil and gas developers working in California and the Gulf of Mexico, international operators, oilfield service providers and technology developers and more:

U.S. Marcellus/Utica – 7 operators
U.S. D–J basin – 6 operators
U.S. Eagle Ford – 11 operators
U.S. Permian basin – 10 operators
U.S. Gulf Coast – 7 operators
U.S. Mid–continent – 9 operators
U.S. Gulf of Mexico – 3 operators
U.S. Williston basin – 13 operators
U.S. Fayetteville – 2 operators
Canada WCSB/Montney – 16 operators
International – 2 operators

Presenting company stories are published on Oil & Gas 360®

Oil & Gas 360® is publishing a series of articles featuring background, operations and financial data for the presenting oil and gas producers, oilfield service companies and oil and gas technology developers at EnerCom's 2017 edition of The Oil & Gas Conference®. Energy investors may read about 2017's presenting companies at the following link: https://www.oilandgas360.com/category/togc–22/ .

A work–in–progress list of all companies presenting at the 2017 EnerCom conference is available on the conference website.

Conference Details: The Oil & Gas Conference® 22 offers investment professionals the opportunity to listen to senior management teams in the oil and gas industry present operational and financial strategies. The event provides industry professionals a venue to learn about important energy topics effecting the global oil and gas industry. And, the forum fosters healthy dialogue and informal networking opportunities for attendees.

Public and Private Company Presenters: The 2017 edition of EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® will feature public and private oil and gas companies with operations spanning more than 40 countries and six continents.

Additional Speakers: Global energy industry leaders, economists, market strategists, government officials and engineering experts will provide their insights on topics such as new influences on global commodities markets, the changing geopolitics of petroleum, and the effects of evolving technologies on energy development.

Who Attends the Conference: More than 2,000 institutional, private equity and hedge fund investors, energy research analysts, retail brokers, trust officers, high net worth investors, investment bankers and energy industry professionals gather in Denver for the conference.

One–on–One Meetings: EnerCom works in advance with presenting company management teams to arrange one–on–one meetings with the attending institutional investors and research analysts at the conference venue. In 2016, EnerCom managed more than 2,000 one–on–one meeting requests.

How to Register: Investment and oil and gas professionals can register for the event through the conference website.

ANNOUNCING ENERCOM'S OILFIELD TECH & INNOVATION DAY THURSDAY, AUG. 17, 2017

EnerCom is pleased to offer a unique opportunity to both industry leaders and startup innovators.

On Thursday, August 17, EnerCom will host the EnerCom Oilfield Tech & Innovation Day at the Westin Hotel, immediately following the public and private company presentations at the Oil & Gas Conference® 22.

The EnerCom Oilfield Tech & Innovation Day is the only event that allows industry technology leaders and innovators the opportunity to showcase their technology and service offerings in a technical presentation format to both existing and potential customers and investors. Innovators can use the EnerCom conference to boost capital raising efforts and to increase exposure to potential customers.

New downhole technologies, fluids, innovative chemistry and other advances in oil and gas field development are generating higher yields, better well economics, greatly improved type curves and higher overall field production while lowering the costs of drilling and completing wells. The rapid development of new technologies related to oil and gas extraction and the innovators who are bringing them to market have helped keep the U.S. shale movement at the forefront of the global oil and gas industry.

EnerCom's Oilfield Tech & Innovation Day is designed to introduce today's oilfield technology innovators to potential sources of funding and to introduce these innovative companies and their technologies to E&P and Oil Service management teams at the EnerCom conference.

Additional information about EnerCom's Oilfield Tech & Innovation Day may be found on the website: www.theoilandgasconference.com/oilfield–tech–day/

Register for EnerCom's Oilfield Tech & Innovation Day here: www.theoilandgasconference.com/register/

EnerCom History and Sponsors: EnerCom, Inc. founded The Oil & Gas Conference® in 1996. It is the oldest and largest energy investment conference in Denver. Global sponsors of EnerCom's Conferences are Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank; Netherland, Sewell & Associates; Preng & Associates; Hein & Associates LLP; and PLS. Sponsors of The Oil & Gas Conference® 22 are: Wunderlich Securities; Wells Fargo & Co.; Stephens Inc.; Scotiabank; Haynes and Boone; Fifth Third Bank; CIBC; DNB Bank ASA; Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Mutual of Omaha Bank; Petrie Partners; PNC Bank; MUFG; Rivington Holdings LLC; Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC); SMBC Nikko Securities; and Stifel.

About EnerCom, Inc.
Founded in 1994, EnerCom, Inc. is a nationally recognized management consultancy firm advising and serving energy–centric clients on corporate strategy, asset valuations, investor relations, media and corporate communications and visual communications design. EnerCom's professionals have more than 194 years of industry and business experience and a proven track record of success. Headquartered in Denver, EnerCom uses the team approach for delivering its wide range of services to public and private companies, large and small, operating in the global exploration and production, Oil Service, capital markets, and associated advanced–technology industries. EnerCom annually hosts two oil and gas investment conferences:

EnerCom Denver – August 13–17, 2017
EnerCom Dallas – Q1 2018

For more information about EnerCom and its services, please visit http://www.enercominc.com/ or call +303–296–8834 to speak with one of our consultants.

About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Crédit Agricole Group, the world's eighth largest bank by total assets (The Banker, July 2014). Crédit Agricole CIB offers its clients a comprehensive range of products and services in capital markets, brokerage, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking.

The Bank provides support to clients in large international markets through its network, with a presence in major countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.

With headquarters in New York City, and U.S. offices in Houston and Chicago, Credit Agricole CIB Americas offers its corporate and institutional clients financial products and services and made–to–order structuring, origination and distribution, through both its banking unit Credit Agricole CIB, and the full service broker–dealer Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., which is a member of the NYSE and NASD. Credit Agricole CIB is also present in Montreal, Canada, and in Latin America with offices in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.

The Energy Industry represents the single largest concentration of industry exposure at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, whose specialty focus dates back over 100 years. Our Energy practice for North America, located in Houston, focuses on all segments of the business and covers it on a truly global basis.

For more information, visit www.ca–cib.com.

About Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.

Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) was founded in 1961 to provide the highest quality engineering and geological consulting to the petroleum industry. Today they are recognized as the worldwide leader of petroleum property analysis to industry and financial organizations and government agencies. With offices in Dallas and Houston, NSAI provides a complete range of geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and engineering services and has the technical experience and ability to perform these services in any of the onshore and offshore oil and gas producing areas of the world. They provide reserves reports and audits, acquisition and divestiture evaluations, simulation studies, exploration resources assessments, equity determinations, and management and advisory services. For a complete list of services or to learn more about Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. please visit www.netherlandsewell.com.

For more information about NSAI, call C.H. (Scott) Rees, Chief Executive Officer, at 214–969–5401 or send an email to info@nsai–petro.com.

About Preng & Associates

Preng & Associates, founded in 1980, is the only retainer–based, international executive search firm specializing solely in the energy industry. Its number one priority is to assist clients with their executive selection, organization development, and human resource needs by providing the highest quality service. Preng's record of accomplishment is directly attributable to their experienced staff, worldwide network of industry contacts, proven search methodology, and high standards of professionalism. Preng has conducted over 3000 searches for board, executive, management, and professional positions in its 35–year history and has the highest success and repeat client track record.

Preng's practice is based on the premise that the search process is most effective when conducted by professionals with significant search industry experience. The company has earned a reputation for combining professional search disciplines with an in–depth industry and market understanding and has succeeded in some of the industry's most challenging and high–profile searches. Preng's international reach allows it to effectively conduct global engagements; and as a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, Preng practices and promotes its high standards of conduct and professionalism.

For more information about Preng & Associates, contact Charles Carpenter, Partner at 713–243–2610 or ccarpenter@preng.com.

About Hein & Associates

For more than 30 years, Hein & Associates has been recognized as a leading accounting and advisory firm where its people and clients share knowledge, thrive in a culture of teamwork, and build long–term relationships deeply rooted in integrity. With offices in Denver, Dallas, Houston and Irvine, Hein serves public and private companies in a variety of industries across the country. Hein is a member of two of the largest international associations of accounting and advisory firms, which allows us to provide seamless client care domestically and throughout the world. Hein is ranked as one of the “Top 100″ accounting and advisory firms in the country by Accounting Today, and consistently recognized by Inside Public Accounting as a “Best of the Best” firm, an honor bestowed on only 25 firms each year, based exclusively on management performance.

For more information, please contact Jim Brendel, Managing Partner, at jbrendel@heincpa.com or 303.298.9600.

About PLS

PLS was started in 1987 to adapt the real estate industry's highly effective MLS (multiple listing service) for the oil and gas industry. The firm takes its name from the simple concept of a “Petroleum Listing Service” but PLS has since expanded to provide operators and investors the information, marketing and advisory services they need to better manage their portfolios and facilitate profitable transactions.

To that end, PLS publishes various listings, news and research reports; offers proprietary databases; hosts prospect and property expos; brokers and direct markets properties, prospects, overrides and midstream assets for sellers seeking additional services; and provides advisory and consulting services on an as needed or project basis.

In total, over 2,000 independent companies and their 10,000+ professionals subscribe to one or more of PLS Core Reports, Regional Reports or Premium and Proprietary Databases. In addition, PLS divestment arm is one of the largest handlers of oil and gas asset sales in the mid to under market. Overall, PLS has handled over 900 projects worth an aggregate of $5.0 billion while its advisory arm has done over $1.0 billion in deals and continues to support clients in sourcing new opportunities and capital markets.

For more information about PLS products or services, please visit www.plsx.com.

About Wunderlich Securities

Established in 1996 in Memphis, TN, Wunderlich Securities, a full–service brokerage firm, is committed to providing a comprehensive range of professional products and services to meet the needs of individual investors as well as corporations and institutions. The Firm offers financial advisory, brokerage, equity research and investment banking services. Fixed Income broker services are provided through Wunderlich Securities Fixed Income Capital Markets and WunTrade divisions of Wunderlich Securities. The firm operates in 26 offices across 15 states and has more than 450 associated professionals.

For more information, please contact R. Kevin Andrews, Managing Director, Investment Banking, at (713) 403–3979 or visit www.wunderlichsecurities.com.

About Wells Fargo & Company

Wells Fargo & Company is a nationwide, diversified, community–based financial services company providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 8,700 locations, 12,500 ATMs, and the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 36 countries to support customers who conduct business in the global economy.

The Energy Banking Group, headed by Bart Schouest, provides corporate banking products and services to the energy sector, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, and diversified industries. With offices in Houston, Dallas, Denver, Calgary, and Aberdeen the group's success is driven by in–depth industry expertise and longstanding relationships with key industry participants. The group has over $45 billion of credit commitments to public and private companies across the upstream, midstream, downstream, services, and power and utilities sectors.

The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group, headed by James Kipp, provides strategic advisory and corporate finance expertise to energy and power clients, including upstream, midstream, oilfield services, downstream, coal and the power & utilities sectors. Areas of focus include equity, equity–linked and debt underwritings, private placements, syndications, and mergers and acquisitions. The Energy & Power Investment Banking Group has offices in Houston and Charlotte.

These teams work together to offer clients industry and product expertise, in addition to sharing their understanding of internal and external forces that drive both industry trends and financial markets. For additional information, contact us at 713–319–1350 or Energy@wellsfargo.com.

To learn more about Wells Fargo & Company, please visit the company's web site at www.wellsfargo.com.

About Stephens Inc.

Founded in 1933, Stephens is a privately–held, independent financial services firm focused on building value for companies, state and local governments, institutions and high–net–worth investors. We are headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, with offices in leading cities across the country.

Stephens has a been a principal investor in the Energy space since 1952 and has a longstanding commitment to assisting and advising public and private Energy companies throughout their life cycles. Stephens Energy investment banking practice began in 2009 and has completed 35 transactions to–date. There are currently 9 professionals in the Energy investment banking group complemented by 7 equity research analysts and associates covering the Exploration & Production, Oilfield Service, and Master Limited Partnership sectors. The combined knowledge base of the Energy team enables us to provide clients an unmatched level of investment banking service, including mergers and acquisitions advisory, fairness opinions and public and private debt and equity offerings. Our extensive network of relationships in the Energy sector and continued presence in the strategic and capital markets allows Stephens to provide clients with actionable advice and an independent perspective on asset valuations, potential strategic issues and financing alternatives.

For more information about Stephens, please visit:
http://www.stephens.com/investment–banking/sectors/energy/

About Scotiabank

Scotiabank is a leading global bank that provides a broad array of financial products and services to the energy industry in close to 50 countries. Our sophisticated energy platform fully integrates equity, debt, corporate lending, commodity hedging and capital markets solutions for energy sector companies in North America and around the world.

Scotia Howard Weil, our U.S.–based energy investment arm, provides equity research, institutional sales and trading, and equity capital markets services, with an exclusive focus on the energy industry. Scotia Howard Weil's equity research professionals cover over 140 energy companies, including European Integrated Oils/Independent Refiners, Infrastructure MLPs, Exploration and Production, Oilfield Equipment & Services, Appalachian Energy, and Coal Producers. Scotia Howard Weil sales and trading professionals possess a deep understanding of the energy industry and company–specific events and trends. Focused on optimizing your growth strategy, Scotia Howard Weil brings deep industry knowledge, experience, relationships and broad distribution capabilities to each transaction we execute in the U.S. energy equity capital markets.

Scotiabank is a global leader in oil and gas M&A, offering corporate M&A, asset acquisition and divestiture, and corporate finance services to its international clientele. With over 100 mandates completed since 2010 worth more than $85 billion*, Scotiabank provides best–in–class advisory solutions, market intelligence, technical expertise and unique global footprint to help drive your business forward. For more info, visit: www.gbm.scotiabank.com/energy, www.scotiahowardweil.com and www.scotiawaterous.com

* Bloomberg League Tables, Jan 1, 2010 – Dec 31, 2015. Excluding FSU.

About Haynes and Boone

Oil and gas is and has always been a volatile business, and today's environment is no exception. Haynes and Boone, LLP is an energy focused corporate law firm, providing a full spectrum of legal services to our clients across the oil and gas industry, including the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. Evidence of our commitment to the industry is our opening of our Denver office this year to better serve our energy clients along with our existing offices in Texas, New York, California, Washington, D.C., Shanghai and Mexico City. Haynes and Boone lawyers from all offices work as a team to meet the legal needs of our domestic and international clients involved in oil and gas. We represent domestic and foreign public and private companies engaged in the dynamic day–to–day work of finding and extracting energy in the form of oil and gas and the banks, investment funds and other investors that support them.

Our team of more than 100 energy lawyers, landmen and analysts understands the domestic and international physical and financial energy markets, and the firm has been helping both operators and lenders complete some of the largest financings in 2015/2016. With more than 550 attorneys, Haynes and Boone is ranked among the largest law firms in the nation by The National Law Journal.

For more info, visit www.haynesboone.com.

About Fifth Third Bancorp

Fifth Third Bank is a diversified financial services company with over $120 billion in assets. The Bank's energy group is comprised of experienced and knowledgeable individuals that can assist in providing and structuring financial solutions to meet their clients' needs across the upstream, midstream, downstream and services sectors. Solutions and capabilities include commodity hedging, interest rate management, foreign exchange, debt capital markets, treasury management, and depository/investment products.

For more information, please contact Richard Butler at 713–401–6101 or richard.butler@53.com.

About CIBC

CIBC is a leading North American bank headquartered in Canada and with offices around the world. CIBC was originally founded nearly 150 years ago, and has supported and financed the energy industry for many decades. CIBC was recently ranked as the strongest publicly traded bank in North America by Bloomberg, and is rated A+/Aa3 by S&P and Moody's, respectively.

Our energy specialists draw on the breadth of CIBC's capabilities to provide market insights and creative solutions for our clients. Services include corporate banking, commodity and interest rate hedging and strategy, A&D advisory, and capital markets.

CIBC is publicly traded on the NYSE and Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “CM” and has a market cap of $36 billion and nearly $400 billion in total assets. For more information, please visit www.cibc.com.

About DNB ASA

DNB is Norway's largest financial services provider, with total assets approaching $400 billion. The bank has for years been a major provider of capital to the oil & gas industry, growing up literally side by side with the highly prolific fields developed in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. The Oslo Energy Office maintains a global financing strategy, and serves this market through multiple offices around the world including Houston, London and Singapore.

Energy Americas, based in Houston, comprises approximately 20 seasoned energy finance professionals. Aside from facilitating the bank's global business strategies, the office concentrates primarily on serving middle market and larger customers in the four principal oil & gas sectors — upstream, midstream, downstream and service — as well as in Power and Renewables. The bank offers a variety of financial products, from traditional oil & gas reserve financing, to longer–term capital markets transactions and merger/acquisition advisory services through its broker–dealer arm, DNB Markets, Inc. Ancillary service capabilities include cash management/depository services, as well as commodity and interest rate hedging.

About Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Oil and Gas Group

The Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) Oil and Gas practice is comprised of a global team of bankers dedicated to covering the energy industry, dating back to the 1920s when Texas predecessor banks pioneered reserve–based lending. The practice includes an experienced in–house Petroleum Engineering team with over 150 years of combined experience. With one of the only full–service financial energy platforms in the industry, the BofAML oil and gas team manages significant capital commitments in the energy sector with dedicated bankers based in Calgary, Denver, Dallas, Houston, London and New York.

The BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research platform offers clients access to information and actionable ideas on stocks, bonds, economics and investment strategies. With approximately 700 analysts in more than 20 countries, we offer our clients knowledge about economic and business developments that are having an impact on the markets, so that they can work with their financial advisors to make the most of opportunities. BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research was ranked No. 1 for the fourth consecutive year on the 2014 list of Top Global Research Firms, Institutional Investor.

Bank of America

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle–market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 48 million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 4,800 retail financial centers and approximately 15,900 ATMs and award–winning online banking with 31 million active users and approximately 17 million mobile users. Bank of America is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry–leading support to approximately 3 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy–to–use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and more than 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BAC.

About Mutual of Omaha Bank

With expert banking talent and nearly $6 billion in assets, Mutual of Omaha Bank provides financial solutions to individuals and businesses across the United States. The bank is a subsidiary of Mutual of Omaha, a highly rated insurance and financial services leader for more than 100 years.

When it comes to the energy industry, Mutual of Omaha Bank's Houston–based energy group is uniquely positioned to meet the specialized lending needs of energy companies, their owners and investors. With a strong capital base and a team of highly experienced energy specialists, commercial bankers and wealth management advisors, Mutual of Omaha Bank offers the financial resources and expertise to be a value added partner.

For more information, visit www.mutualofomahabank.com.

About Petrie Partners

Petrie Partners, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm offering financial advisory services to the oil and gas industry. We provide specialized advice on mergers, divestitures and acquisitions and private placements.

The firm was formed in 2011 (as Strategic Energy Advisors) by senior bankers formerly with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Petrie Parkman & Co., an investment bank that built a reputation as a most trusted advisor to energy clients during the nearly two decades leading up to its merger into Merrill Lynch in 2006.

Through tenure with Petrie Parkman, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the senior members of the Petrie team bring to bear an average of more than 25 years of energy investment banking experience, including over 300 energy M&A and capital raising transactions representing over $350 billion of aggregate consideration.

About PNC

PNC is one of the largest, best–regarded and best–capitalized financial services companies in the country, with approximately $325 billion in assets and offices in 33 states, Canada and the United Kingdom. PNC's Energy Group, headed by Tom Byargeon, is a significant capital and service provider to energy companies, with approximately $6.5 billion in commitments to the industry. The Energy office in Houston houses a team with extensive experience and deep relationships across the entire energy supply chain. This group also offers strategic corporate finance advice and delivers PNC's comprehensive set of solutions and capabilities, including commodity and interest rate hedging, debt capital markets, loan syndications, treasury management, asset securitization, equipment finance and institutional investments.

For more information, please contact Tom Byargeon at 713–353–8782 or tom.byargeon@pnc.com. You can also visit www.pnc.com.

About MUFG

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has been a leading provider of banking services to the oil and gas industry in the Americas for more than 30 years, consistently ranking in the Top 10 Lead Arrangers and Top 10 Bond Arrangers in the Thomson Reuters Oil and Gas League Tables. We support clients across the industry — from regional exploration and production to global diversified services companies — that benefit from our focused approach, strong execution, and customized services. Whether you are looking to expand existing reserves, make an acquisition, or streamline operations, we can support your growth2 with services, including: underwriting and syndications; U.S./Canadian cross–border funding; securities underwriting and placements; leasing and tax equity financing; and commodities, interest rate, and foreign exchange risk management. For more information, visit: www.mufgamericas.com/oil–gas.

About Rivington Holdings, LLC

Rivington Holdings, LLC, is an independent investment and merchant banking firm specializing in institutional private capital placements to the middle market upstream energy sector. Founded in 2002, Rivington has successfully executed 86 private capital and M&A transactions with total consideration exceeding $6.5 billion. Rivington Securities, LLC is a registered Broker–Dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. Further information can be found at Rivington's website: www.rivingtoncap.com.

About SMBC

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), a Tokyo–based bank holding company that is ranked among the largest 25 banks globally by assets under management.

SMBC Americas Division, with more than 2,500 employees, oversees operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South America. We work across SMFG to offer corporate and institutional clients sophisticated and comprehensive financial services around the globe.

SMBC's roots in Japan trace back more than 400 years to 1590. The Americas Division of SMBC has more than a century of experience in the United States, beginning when the San Francisco branch of Sumitomo Bank was established in 1919. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (NYSE: SMFG) was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010.

For more information please visit the corporate website: www.smbcgroup.com/americas/group–companies/

About SMBC Nikko Securities Americas Inc.

The Investment Banking Group of SMBC Nikko Securities Americas provides a tailored portfolio of financial solutions and strategic advisory services across DCM, ECM, M&A, and Structured Finance for corporations and financial institutions worldwide. The team, as a unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, collaborates with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (“SMBC”) and our overseas branches, with headquarters in Tokyo, in addition to the DCM, ECM, M&A, and Structured Finance groups in North America. The combination of SMBC and SMBC Nikko Securities has allowed us to support our clients across various industries, regions, and products to achieve their goals.

Our rapidly expanding Equity Capital Markets (ECM) team offers equity and equity–linked financing solutions to corporate and project finance clients in the U.S. The experienced team is committed to a track record of client–centric excellence; providing products such as initial public offerings (“IPO”), follow–on offerings (“FO”), convertible offerings, at–the–market offerings (“ATMs”) and share repurchase programs to our clients. In addition to origination capabilities, the ECM team provides exceptional execution by our seasoned syndicate professionals.

We have been successful in broadening the shareholder base for issuers with U.S. and offshore institutional clients as well as Canadian institutions.

For more information please see the SMBC Nikko website: www.smbcnikko–si.com/about–us/offices.html

About Stifel

Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF) is a financial services holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, that conducts its banking, securities, and financial services business through several wholly owned subsidiaries.

Stifel's broker–dealer clients are served in the United States through Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated; Keefe Bruyette & Woods, Inc.; Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC; Century Securities Associates, Inc.; and Eaton Partners, LLC, and in the United Kingdom and Europe through Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited. The Company's broker–dealer affiliates provide securities brokerage, investment banking, trading, investment advisory, and related financial services to individual investors, professional money managers, businesses, and municipalities. Stifel Bank & Trust offers a full range of consumer and commercial lending solutions. Stifel Trust Company, N.A. and Stifel Trust Company Delaware, N.A. offer trust and related services.

To learn more about Stifel, please visit the company's web site at www.stifel.com.

Sentry Investments launches new Portfolio as part of Sentry Personal Pension Portfolios

TORONTO, ON—(Marketwired – June 27, 2017) – Sentry Investments (“Sentry”) is pleased to announce the launch of Sentry Defensive Income Portfolio (the “Portfolio”), a new addition to the Sentry Personal Pension Portfolios line–up.

Sentry Personal Pension Portfolios are a series of five global portfolios built with the long term in mind. Taking a cue from some of the world's most sophisticated investors — pension managers — the portfolios offer dedicated exposure to real assets, including real estate, infrastructure, precious metals and energy, as well as global high–yield bonds. Real assets offer distinct and complementary benefits to traditional equities and bonds, which are also included within each portfolio.

Each of the five portfolios offers a different balance of growth and income depending on an investor's specific needs and goals. The new Portfolio is focused on providing investors with income while also preserving capital.

“Sentry Defensive Income Portfolio provides investors with our most conservative option in the well–rounded Sentry Personal Pension Portfolios roster,” said Philip Yuzpe, President and Chief Executive Officer. “While the Portfolio is low–risk, it offers investors all the benefits of our investment team's expertise and active management, while providing exposure to the asset classes that are favoured by pension managers.”

Sentry Personal Pension Portfolios are managed by a team of nine seasoned Sentry investment managers, with tactical asset allocation provided by Sentry's Asset Allocation Committee: Gaelen Morphet, Executive Vice–President and Chief Investment Officer; James Dutkiewicz, Chief Investment Strategist and Senior Portfolio Manager; and Andy Nasr, Vice–President, Capital Markets and Investment Strategist.

The five portfolios are:

Sentry Defensive Income Portfolio
Sentry Conservative Income Portfolio
Sentry Balanced Income Portfolio
Sentry Growth and Income Portfolio
Sentry Growth Portfolio

SENTRY INVESTMENTS INC.

Sentry Investments is one of Canada's leading independent investment managers, with more than $18 billion in assets under management. Since opening our doors in 1997, we have earned and kept the trust of more than half a million Canadian investors. Sentry offers a diverse range of investment products and solutions through financial advisors and investment dealers, as well as portfolio management services to a variety of institutional clients. Our disciplined investment philosophy focuses on delivering superior risk–adjusted returns to help investors calmly create wealth.

Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Please read the prospectus before investing. Mutual funds are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated.

Certain statements included in this news release constitute forward–looking statements, including, but not limited to, those identified by the expressions “expect,” “intend,” “will” and similar expressions to the extent they relate to Sentry or the Portfolio. The forward–looking statements are not historical facts but reflect Sentry's current expectations regarding future results or events. These forward–looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations. Although Sentry believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward–looking statements are reasonable, forward–looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and, accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements. Sentry undertakes no obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward–looking statement or information whether as a result of new information, future events or other such factors which affect this information, except as required by law. For a complete disclosure record of the Portoflio and the other mutual funds comprising the Sentry Group of Funds, please visit their respective profiles at www.sedar.com.

Sentry Investments Inc.
Commerce Court West
199 Bay Street, Suite 2700
P.O. Box 108
Toronto, ON M5L 1E2

SG Blocks, Inc. Announces Closing of Public Offering

NEW YORK, NY—(Marketwired – Jun 27, 2017) – SG Blocks, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGBX) (“SG Blocks” or the “Company”), a premier designer, innovator and fabricator of container–based structures, today announced the closing of its previously announced public offering of 1,500,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $5.00 per share. All of the shares of common stock were offered by SG Blocks.

The shares began trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market on June 22, 2017 under the ticker symbol “SGBX.” The aggregate gross proceeds to SG Blocks from the offering, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses, were $7.5 million.

Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC acted as sole book–running manager for the offering.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) declared effective a registration statement on Form S–1 relating to these securities on June 21, 2017. A final prospectus relating to this offering was filed with the SEC on June 22, 2017. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained by contacting Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC, Prospectus Department, 30 Broad Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10004, telephone 212–440–9600, email: prospectus@jgunnar.com. Investors may also obtain these documents at no cost by visiting the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus and other documents the Company has filed or will file with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and the offering.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About SG Blocks, Inc.

SG Blocks, Inc. is a premier innovator in advancing and promoting the use of code–engineered cargo shipping containers for safe and sustainable construction. The firm offers a product that exceeds many standard building code requirements, and also supports developers, architects, builders and owners in achieving greener construction, faster execution, and stronger buildings of higher value. For more information, visit www.sgblocks.com.

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Harbert European Growth Capital Portfolio Company, TrustYou, Acquired by Recruit

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM—(Marketwired – June 27, 2017) – Recruit, a leading Japanese internet and media group, announced the acquisition of the global leader in guest feedback platform, TrustYou, following a sustained period of impressive growth momentum.

The Harbert European Growth Capital (“HEGC”) investment thesis recognized TrustYou's needs of finding a value–added partner with the expertise to provide long term capital that was as innovative as their business.

The investment aligned goals of founders and shareholders to deliver on growth targets with flexible capital, and we are delighted to have been a part of the exciting journey of European entrepreneurs.

“Our collaboration with HEGC was an important strategic step to achieve our goals and enable us to grow organically. The partnership was highly productive, professional, and entrepreneurial throughout,” says CEO and co–founder Benjamin Jost.

HEGC remains an active investor in the technology and life science industries, having recently closed our landmark 50th investment.

We continue to support growth of entrepreneurial businesses across Europe and look forward to continue working with and expanding our partners and community.

For more information regarding Harbert European Growth Capital please visit our website with details on getting in touch with the investment team at HEGC.

About TrustYou
TrustYou, the world's largest guest feedback platform, provides hotels with insights to improve their guest experience and market to future guests. Guest feedback informs 95% of booking decisions, and TrustYou's guest feedback platform incorporates hundreds of millions of hotel reviews, surveys, social comments, and direct messages through SMS, email, Facebook Messenger and more. This information is analyzed along each step of a traveler's journey, including booking and pre–stay queries, real–time guest request, and post–stay feedback, to generate actionable insights for hundreds of thousands of hotels.

TrustYou's platform is made up of various components, including TrustYou Meta–Reviews, verified global review summaries displayed on travel and search sites like Google, KAYAK, and Hotels.com; TrustYou Messaging, real–time guest messaging service; TrustYou Stars, an advanced guest satisfaction survey tool; TrustYou Analytics, the world's leading online reputation management tool and the accompanying app TrustYou Radar. PMS, CRM, IBE and other hotel software providers can make use of TrustYou Connect, a partner program to integrate TrustYou's guest feedback platform with its products to help their hotel clients to positively influence every stage of the guest journey.

Find more information on TrustYou at: http://www.trustyou.com.

About Harbert European Growth Capital
Harbert European Growth Capital is sponsored by Harbert Management Corporation (“HMC”). HEGC provides flexible, long term and permanent debt capital for technology and life sciences businesses across Europe, and has the ability to support businesses with follow–on reserves and global network of commercial and investor relationships.

About Harbert Management Corporation
Harbert Management Corporation, an alternative asset management firm with approximately $4.9 billion in Regulatory Assets Under Management as of May 31, 2017, is a privately–owned firm formed in 1993 to sponsor alternative asset investment funds. HMC serves foundations and endowments, funds of funds, pension funds, financial institutions, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals across multiple asset classes. Investment strategies include European and U.S. real estate, seniors housing, European and U.S. growth capital, mezzanine debt, independent power and public securities. Additional information about HMC can be found at www.harbert.net.

Sitehands Secures $25 Million Growth Equity Commitment from FTV Capital

NEW YORK, NY—(Marketwired – June 27, 2017) – Sitehands, an innovative provider of enterprise IT field services through a unique two–sided market approach, today announced it has secured a $25 million growth equity commitment from FTV Capital, a leading growth equity investor. Sitehands connects customer specific needs with vetted technicians through a two–sided marketplace and then extends that value to the customer by assuming full accountability for end–to–end service outcomes. The management team's significant domain expertise combined with data and analytics captured via the Sitehands technology platform bring measurable improvement to delivery efficiency and the underlying economics for the customers. The funding is the first institutional capital raised and will be used to expand the team, build out product enhancements, and further deepen the Sitehands network. As part of the transaction, FTV Capital managing partner Brad Bernstein and Sandhill East CEO, Andy Brown, will join the company's board of directors.

Sitehands offers multi–location enterprises an enhanced delivery model that standardizes processes and reduces costs unlike traditional solutions that are inefficient and reliant on long–term onerous contracts and fees. The company's on–demand technology platform can easily scale to offer all types of hands–on IT field work at virtually any location, seamlessly connecting customers and technicians via simplified interactions.

“Sitehands changes the paradigm of technical field service work by providing better service, faster start to finish outcomes, and reduced costs. Enterprise customers benefit by being able to take advantage of consumption economics and on–demand models, giving them the flexibility and agility required in today's competitive and dynamic business markets. Providers benefit through greater efficiency and standardized work requests, both of which translate directly to their bottom line,” explains Sitehands CEO J.P. Rosato. “Furthermore, the platform enables provider business partners, who have the right skills and technical expertise, access to greater opportunities to grow their businesses,” concludes Rosato.

“The Sitehands platform addresses a large and highly inefficient market that is ripe for disruption, solving a massive pain point for multi–location companies,” said Brad Bernstein, FTV Capital managing partner and new board member. “The many financial services enterprises in FTV's Global Partner NetworkÂ® have validated that the current IT services vendor market is highly fragmented and costly. The Sitehands management team's extensive industry experience has enabled them to build a compelling solution that resonates with enterprise and SMB customers.”

In a short timeframe, Sitehands has successfully won contracts from some of the largest and most demanding enterprise companies in the Fortune 100. The company also continues to rapidly add to its large community of service providers and partners globally. Current large enterprise customers who partner with Sitehands realize significant savings in the form of greater FTE resource efficiency and reductions in truck rolls. These initial customer gains are further amplified as the simplicity and results of using the Sitehands solution attracts more and more use cases inside of those enterprises.

About Sitehands

Sitehands delivers IT field services through a unique two–sided platform which provides orchestration and simplification with end–to–end accountability and continuous optimization. The Sitehands service catalogue spans a range of on–demand and planned IT field services including break–fix, site surveys for compliance and asset management, network technology refresh projects, and new site installations and decommissions across a broad geographic footprint in North America and a growing footprint throughout Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.sitehands.com.

About FTV Capital

FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $2.7 billion to invest in high–growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in three sectors: enterprise technology & services, financial services and payments & transaction processing. FTV's experienced team leverages its domain expertise and proven track record in each of these sectors to help motivated management teams accelerate growth. FTV also provides companies with access to its Global Partner Network, a group of the world's leading enterprises and executives who have helped FTV portfolio companies for nearly two decades. Founded in 1998, FTV Capital has invested in 98 portfolio companies including enterprise technology companies such as Actimize (acquired by NICE), Aveksa (acquired by EMC), Cloudmark, e–Security (acquired by Novell), KVS (acquired by Veritas), ReliaQuest, and Trustwave (acquired by SingTel). FTV has offices in San Francisco and New York. For more information, please visit www.ftvcapital.com.

CV Sciences, Inc. to Exhibit and Present at the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians 2017 National Conference

LAS VEGAS, NV—(Marketwired – June 27, 2017) – CV Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB: CVSI) (the “Company,” “CV Sciences,” “our” or “we”), today announced that its industry–dominating brand of hemp–derived cannabidiol oil finished products, PlusCBD Oilâ¢, will be exhibiting at the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) 2017 National Conference, held on July 12–15, 2017 at The Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, AZ.

As the professional association that represents licensed naturopathic physicians, the AANP strives to make naturopathic medicine available to every American and to increase recognition of naturopathic physicians as the identified authorities on natural medicine. Over the last three years, the Company's consumer products division has focused on distributing their PlusCBD Oilâ¢ brand to healthcare providers nationwide.

“Naturopathic physicians truly understand the power of botanical nutrition. We are elated to see the tremendous growth of PlusCBD Oilâ¢ amongst licensed practitioners and the AANP's Annual Conference has been integral in supporting the forward–thinking understanding around this promising ingredient. CV Sciences' continued participation has led to an increase in our distribution network and as a result, has impacted our top line growth,” states Stuart Tomc, VP of Human Nutrition at CV Sciences. “We are extremely excited to showcase our array of products and educate clinicians on current practical and nutritional benefits of hemp–derived CBD.”

VISIT BOOTH 210: CV Sciences invites attendees to visit Booth 210 to learn more about their botanicalâbased CBD product line. The Company will additionally feature its brand of practitioner–exclusive products available only to healthcare providers nationwide. Also, CV Sciences will be offering exclusive trade show discounts and show specials to practitioners attending the show.

EXHIBITOR–SPONSORED PRESENTATION: Join the CV Sciences team for an interactive presentation, “Hemp–derived CBD: The Missing Ingredient in your Tool Kit,” on Thursday, July 13^th, 2017 at 10 am in the AANP Conference Exhibit Hall at the Arizona Biltmore. Presented by AimÃ©e Shunney, ND, Medical Advisor to CV Sciences, the presentation will cover the interactions of CBD and the human endocannabinoid system as it relates to human health, the importance of proper quality control measures to ensure safety and efficacy, and how CV Sciences demonstrates Full Traceability – From Seed to Shelfâ¢.

NATURAL PARTNERS PANEL: CV Sciences is honored to participate in practitioner wholesale distributor Natural Partners' Roundtable Panel entitled, “CBD: State of the Science, Clinical Applications and What We Know,” on Friday, July 14^th, 2017 in the Prescott Room at the Arizona Biltmore. Speaking from her experience as a clinician, Dr. Shunney, along with a variety of panelists, will be covering various discussion topics around the CBD conversation: from sourcing to quality control to clinical applications. Attendees are encouraged to come early as seating is limited.

For more information or to schedule a meeting with the Company management, please contact Robert Haag at cvsi@irthcommunications.com.

About CV Sciences, Inc.

CV Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB: CVSI) operates two distinct business segments: a drug development division focused on developing and commercializing novel therapeutics utilizing synthetic CBD; and a consumer product division in manufacturing, marketing and selling plant–based CBD products to a range of market sectors. CV Sciences, Inc. has primary offices and facilities in San Diego, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Additional information is available from OTCMarkets.com or by visiting www.cvsciences.com.

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Medovex Corporation Schedules First Human Case for DenerveX(TM) System

ATLANTA, GA—(Marketwired – Jun 27, 2017) – Medovex Corp. (NASDAQ: MDVX) (“Medovex” or the “Company”), a developer of medical technology products, today announced that it has scheduled its first human cases for its DenerveX™ System in the EU to commence during mid–July, followed by other cases throughout the balance of the month and in August. Dr. Martin Deeg, an Orthopedic Surgeon from Stuttgart, Germany will be the first surgeon to utilize the new device.

The Company previously announced that it had received its first three commercial orders for its DenerveX System on the heels of receiving CE Mark approval for the system allowing it to be marketed in Europe. The first commercial orders of the DenerveX System included both the DenerveX Kit containing the DenerveX Device and the DenerveX Pro–40 Generators for Germany, UK and Italy.

Manny Sablowski, Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing, stated, “We are pleased to be building atop recent momentum having established near term dates for the first human cases in the EU. The first human cases follow the recent receipt of stocking orders from our distributors EDGE Medical of Manchester England, TCB Ortho Division of Germany, and AlfaMed of Porto San Giorgio, Italy.”

Sablowski continued, “In recent weeks, we also received additional positive feedback holding a successful DenerveX training session with our Italian distributor. I have high hopes that all our other distributors are equally excited like the AlfaMed team. Their twelve sales representatives are all specialists in the Spinal field and clearly understand Facet Joint Syndrome.”

Facet Joint Syndrome (FJS), also known as spinal osteoarthritis, spinal arthritis, or facet joint osteoarthritis, is a significant health and economic problem affecting millions each year in the United States, the EU, and rest of the world. Current treatment options are generally temporary and there is no proven long–lasting option for FJS.

The DenerveX System is differentiated from radiofrequency ablation technologies by denervating and removing capsular tissue from the Facet Joint in one single procedure. Treatment results from the combined effect of a deburring or polishing action and RF ablation treatment on the Facet Joint. Using this new technique, the slowly rotating burr removes the targeted facet joint synovial membrane and joint surface while the heat ablation destroys tissue and denudes any residual nervous and synovial membrane overlying the joint, removing the end point sensory tissue of the joint.

Published studies indicate that lower back pain is the fifth most common reason for U.S. doctor office visits, the most common cause for activity limitations in persons under the age of 45, and a driver of physician opioid prescribing patterns. Additionally, research indicates that total health care expenditure for LBP in the U.S. exceeds $100 billion dollars annually. The DenerveX System was specifically designed to address long term lower back pain management seeking to alleviate, and/or mitigate pain, in addition to potentially reducing dependence on pharmaceutical based remedies.

The DenerveX System consists of the DenerveX Device Kit, containing a single use medical device and the DenerveX Pro–40 Power Generator. The DenerveX system is not yet FDA cleared.

About Medovex

Medovex was formed to acquire and develop a diversified portfolio of potentially ground breaking medical technology products. Criteria for selection include those products with potential for significant improvement in the quality of patient care combined with cost effectiveness. The Company's first pipeline product, the DenerveX device, is intended to provide long lasting relief from pain associated with facet joint syndrome at significantly less cost than currently available options. To learn more about Medovex Corp., visit www.medovex.com

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Advisor Software Launches Behavioral IQ, First-of-Its Kind Behavioral Finance Risk Assessment Solution

WALNUT CREEK, CA—(Marketwired – Jun 27, 2017) – Advisor Software, Inc., a leader in wealth management cloud solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Behavioral IQ (http://advisorsoftware.com/solutions/behavioral–iq), a first–of–its–kind comprehensive behavioral finance profiling solution that calculates deep behavioral characteristics influencing risk and financial decision–making. Behavioral IQ's six diverse modules measure behavioral dimensions ignored by traditional subjective–preference risk surveys, resulting in a more accurate single risk score. Behavioral IQ turns insights into action and is the best way to determine a client's true financial behavior.

“The current psychometric risk assessment landscape for wealth management is broken. These tests have a high probability of producing flawed results, which can ultimately lead to a wrong investment strategy that could have disastrous outcomes,” said Dr. Andrew Rudd, Chairman and CEO of Advisor Software. “A more in–depth understanding of client risk and client decision–making is crucial in order for financial advisors to provide accurate advice and ensure that they are closely aligned with their clients' needs and goals. Behavioral IQ's measure of deep behavioral factors influencing risk and decision making enables financial advisors to truly understand clients' personalities and risk tolerance to make smarter, more informed financial decisions.”

Clients can take the Behavioral IQ assessment on their own time. Once they finish, clients will have immediate access to their in–depth reports online and can revisit the results at any time. The reports are also sent to their financial advisors. A Myers–Briggs–type assessment for finance, the multidimensional insight provided in Behavioral IQ's reports provide a more accurate look at a client's decision–making and risk appetite, enabling advisors to make better–aligned, more intelligent investment selections.

“Behavioral IQ provides in–depth insight into an investor's true financial behavior. Its combination of behavioral attributes gives advisors a far superior and reliable investment recommendation than a conventional, subjective–preference risk survey ever could,” said Evan Kulak, Co–Founder, Polaris Portfolios LLC. “Knowing more enables our platform to provide better counsel and offer more informed financial recommendations, ultimately resulting in higher client satisfaction and retention.”

Behavioral IQ provides an unparalleled understanding of a client's true behavior. Its six modules of risk dimension are research–backed and provide a broader, more comprehensive set of risk tolerance measures than the traditional psychometric approach. The modules capture other important aspects of investment behavior including financial decision–making preferences; risk tolerance; financial knowledge; comfort levels in gain and loss scenarios; confidence; and financial loss aversion to provide advisors with a much deeper, more accurate understanding of their clients.

Behavioral IQ creates stronger client engagement with advisors, helping advisors to identify clients who would benefit from coaching, respond appropriately to market events, and communicate more effectively. In addition, Behavioral IQ's ability to measure multiple dimensions of the investment personality enable advisors to sort and filter their investors according to these characteristics in the administrator console. It also enables them to understand regulatory vulnerabilities. Behavioral IQ provides insight into how advisors can best coach their customers, which may ultimately preserve wealth because advisors are helping the clients avoid financial mistakes.

“Client attitudes towards risk are swayed by whether choices are framed in terms of gains or losses and investing approaches vary greatly from quantitative to emotional,” said Terrance Odean, professor of finance at the University of California, Berkeley. “Behavioral finance recognizes that when making investment decisions people are more complex and less consistent than often assumed in finance models. To successfully advise a diverse set of clients in changing times, financial advisors must understand their clients' preferences and decision styles along many dimensions.”

Developed in partnership with financial capability strategist Suitable Strategies, Behavioral IQ was recently named the Financial Sector Innovation of the Year at the FStech Awards. It is the product of three years of intensive research and development with world–class academics and experts in the field of human decision–making to identify behavioral concepts that have the greatest potential to determine a client's true financial personality. Rooted in behavioral science, Behavioral IQ is benchmarked against comprehensive studies of the financial capability and investing decisions of U.S. investors. Early customers include Banco Santander.

Behavioral IQ is available immediately. For more information, visit http://advisorsoftware.com/solutions/behavioral–iq. To take the Behavioral IQ survey, visit http://bit.ly/2scrqcs.

About Advisor Software, Inc.
Advisor Software, Inc. is a leading provider of wealth management cloud platforms for financial advisors and institutions. The company has pioneered the first Wealth Management Cloud platform that offers streamlined access to a comprehensive range of financial services and resources. Advisor Software's products address advisors' functional needs, including Automated Digital Advice, Planning, Proposal Generation, Portfolio Construction, Rebalancing, and Investment Analytics. The company's solutions serve a wide range of financial institutions and professionals, enabling asset management firms, broker–dealers, banks, insurance companies, online brokerages, custodians, and providers of investment services and products to deliver more insightful, actionable investment advice and build stronger, more profitable client relationships.

For more information, please visit our website (www.advisorsoftware.com) and follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/advisorsoftware) and Twitter @AdvisorSoftware (https://twitter.com/advisorsoftware).

CoverHound and eHealth Partnership Expands Insurance Ecosystem for Consumers and Small Business Owners

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—(Marketwired – June 27, 2017) – Online property and casualty insurance comparison platform CoverHound announced today a partnership with eHealth (NASDAQ: EHTH). eHealth, a leading private online health exchange serves small businesses looking to compare and purchase health insurance from top insurers and enroll in coverage online.

Through this partnership, both companies will expand their insurance offerings and services to businesses. eHealth will offer their growing small business (SMB) customer base a compelling way to compare and purchase different types of business insurance by leveraging the digital insurance marketplace and call center agency operations that CoverHound offers.

By partnering with eHealth, CoverHound gives SMB customers access to eHealth's online health insurance marketplace and call center. Customers can search through different health insurance plans from the nation's leading providers at eHealth.com.

“Today, in many states eHealth helps customers compare health insurance plans from as many as eight different health insurance companies in their area,” said Seth Teich, eHealth's Senior Vice President, Business & Corporate Development. “CoverHound shares one of our core values, which is to give people as much information as possible to help them make informed choices when they buy insurance. We're thrilled to be partnering with CoverHound so that we can increase the types of insurance benefits we can offer our small business customers.”

“eHealth extends our network in a way that's consistent with our commitment to the needs of the mobile and digital consumer,” says Keith Moore, CEO of CoverHound. “Customers want and expect a marketplace that gives them a streamlined insurance shopping experience across multiple insurance options and that is our mission.”

About CoverHound

CoverHound is an insuretech company for consumers and businesses to easily compare and purchase insurance, built to deliver fast, accurate and actionable rates from leading US carriers based on their specific needs. Some of the top carriers include Chubb, Liberty Mutual, Hiscox, Progressive, Berkshire Hathaway Direct, Safeco, The General, Mercury, Hartford Steam Boiler and others to offer the most competitive rates in 50 states. Developed by a team with deep insurance and online financial services experience, CoverHound is dedicated to providing the best in class customer experience.

About eHealth

eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) owns eHealth.com, a leading private online health insurance exchange where individuals, families and small businesses can compare health insurance products from leading insurers side by side and purchase and enroll in coverage online. eHealth offers thousands of individual, family and small business health plans underwritten by many of the nation's leading health insurance companies. eHealth (through its subsidiaries) is licensed to sell health insurance in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. eHealth also offers educational resources and powerful online and pharmacy–based tools to help Medicare beneficiaries navigate Medicare health insurance options, choose the right plan and enroll in select plans online through Medicare.com (www.Medicare.com), eHealthMedicare.com (www.eHealthMedicare.com) and PlanPrescriber.com (www.PlanPrescriber.com).

Fulum FY 2017 revenue increased 6.9%; Gross Profit Margin rose to 71.6%

HONG KONG, CHINA—(Marketwired – Jun 26, 2017) – Fulum Group Holdings Limited (HKSE: 1443)

Financial Highlights


HK$'000		FY2017	FY2016	Change
Revenue		2,965,974	2,773,289	+6.9%
Restaurant operations
	“Fulum” main brand	2,138,701	2,087,494	+2.5%
	“Sportful Garden” main brand	383,398	349,860	+9.6%
	“Fulum Concept” main line	373,583	273,078	+36.8%
Sale of food and other operating items		70,292	62,857	+11.8%
Profit attributable to owners of the Group		82,842	101,404	–18.3%
Basic Earnings Per Share (Cent)		6.37	7.80	–18.3%

The board of directors of Fulum Group Holdings Limited (HKSE: 1443, the “Group” or “Fulum”) announced its annual results and its financial position. For the year ended 31 March 2017 (“FY2017″), revenue increased by 6.9% to HK$2,966.0 million, mainly due to the increased number of restaurants. Among which, revenue from “Fulum Concept” has increased by 36.8% to HK$373.6 million. During the year, profit attributable to shareholders of the Company has decreased by 18.3% and amounted to HK$82.8 million. Basic earnings per share are 6.37 cents.

The Board recommends a final dividend of HK2.55 cents per ordinary share for the year ended 31 Mar 2017 (2016FY: HK3.12 cents per ordinary share).

During the year, the Group continued its proactive development of the restaurants under the “Fulum Concept” main line, which comprised over one–half of the new restaurants established in Hong Kong are under the “Fulum Concept” main line, including 4 restaurants of the brand “MeokBang Korean BBQ & Bar” specialising in Korean barbecue, were opened in Tuen Mun, Tin Shui Wai and Wong Tai Sin, and 2 restaurants of the new brand “Co Co Kitchen” were opened in Mongkok and Tsim Sha Tsui. These new restaurants are extremely helpful in responding to the limited availability of prime restaurant spaces and attracting more young customers. For the brands, “Fulum Palace” and “Fulum” under the “Fulum” main brand, restaurants were launched under these brands in Shatin and in Tseung Kwan O respectively, and 2 restaurants under the “Sportful Garden” main brand were opened at Olympian City in Tai Kok Tsui, and E Plaza in Kwun Tong. It is expected that the opening of the restaurants can strengthen the core business of the Group.

Business Review
During the financial year under review, local catering needs remained stable. The Group continued to adopt proactive and aggressive expansion strategy to establish new restaurants and to explore diversifying catering brands to gratify local catering needs and enhance dining experience. During the year, the Group has opened 2 restaurants under the “Fulum” main brand, 2 restaurants under “Sportful Garden” main brand and 6 restaurants under the “Fulum Concept” main line in Hong Kong. As of 31 March 2017, the Group operated a total of 82 restaurants in Hong Kong, among which, 43 restaurants were under “Fulum” main brand, 12 restaurants were under the “Sportful Garden” main brand and 27 restaurants were under the “Fulum Concept” main line. The Group also operated 3 restaurants in the PRC.

“Fulum” main brand and “Sportful Garden” main brand are the important cornerstones of the Group. Currently, restaurants under “Fulum” main brand, including “Royal One Pleasant Palace “, “Fulum Palace”, “Fulum Restaurant”, “Fulum Fisherman's Wharf Restaurant”, “Pleasant Palace”, “Fulum”, “Banquet Palace ” and “Fulum”, provide Cantonese cuisine for mass market customers, while restaurants under “Sportful Garden” main brand focus on mid–high end Cantonese cuisine targeting mid–to–high end customers.

Meanwhile, the Group proactively launched different restaurants under the “Fulum Concept” main line in recent years, including “MeokBang Korean BBQ & Bar” and “Mount HallaSan BBQ” which mainly serve Korean cuisine, and “Treasure City Hot Pot Seafood Restaurant”, “Winter Steam Pot Restaurant”, “The Orient Barbecue Cuisine”, “Winter Yutango Restaurant” and “Steamy Seafood Cuisine” which mainly serve hotpot cuisine. The Group introduced a new brand “Co Co Kitchen” mainly serving “coconut chicken hotpot in Hainan style” in financial year 2016/17. Subsequent to the year end, the Group opened two “Tou Hotpot” restaurants in Causeway Bay and Tseung Kwan O respectively under a new Taiwanese hotpot brand, which are popular among the diners.

For the PRC market, the Group currently operates three “Fulum Palace” restaurants in Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Fuzhou, respectively. All of them which are located in the residential areas with dense population mainly provide mass catering services so as to meet the neighbourhoods' demand for Chinese cuisine and wedding venues within the regions. Believing in the enormous consumption power in the PRC market, the Group will open new restaurants in due course in the future to provide Mainland China residents with quality catering experience and services.

The following table sets forth the number of restaurant by business for the financial years indicated:


Number of restaurants (as of 31 Mar)		FY2016	FY2015
	“Fulum” main brand	46	45
	“Sportful Garden” main brand	12	11
	“Fulum Concept” main line	27	21
Total		85	77

The Group has introduced a customer loyalty membership card programme in June 2015 in the restaurants of “Sportful Garden” in Hong Kong for the Group's loyal customers to accumulate credit points to redeem for value–added benefits and gifts. Currently, there are more than 30,000 members under such membership programme. The Group will provide various membership benefits and discounts in order to increase the number of long–term customers.

Prospects and outlook
The Group is confident in the long–term prospects of the catering market in Hong Kong and the PRC and will continue to adopt proactive and aggressive strategy. Meanwhile, the Group is proactively looking for the opportunity of mergers and acquisitions and continues to identify catering brands, in particular Asian catering brands as targets for mergers and acquisitions, and thus makes Fulum Group a diversified catering kingdom.

For the PRC market, the mass catering market continued its rapid development and the Group is optimistic towards the long–term development of that market. The Group will increase the number of restaurants in Mainland China prudently to expand its customer base and market share.

About Fulum Group Holdings Limited
Fulum Group originated its business in 1992. The first restaurant “Fulum Hotpot Restaurant” was run in Tai Kok Tsui. It has been developed to a group of approximately 20 brands and 85 restaurants serving a variety of cuisines, along with approximately 4,920 employees under our Group. Fulum Group was listed successfully in the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in November 2014, with the Stock Code: 1443. Our business developments have turned into another new page in the milestone.

We have a network of restaurants in different districts of Hong Kong and provide different types of cuisines under various brands. We are planning to expand our Chinese cuisine business in China with the aim of providing high quality food to customers in the Greater China region.