SEC Provides Alternate Contact Information for Registered Investment Advisers Displaced by Hurricane Katrina

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2005-128

Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 2005 — The Securities and Exchange Commission has established a website directory to help Hurricane Katrina victims contact their investment advisers where normal operations have been disrupted. The directory provides alternate contact information for registered investment advisers in Mobile, Ala.; Covington, La.; Metairie, La.; New Orleans, La.; and Gulfport, Miss.

The alternate contact information will include telephone numbers, alternate business addresses, and e-mail addresses as provided by the advisory firms on a voluntary basis. The site will be updated daily.

The website directory can be found at the Commission’s Katrina Regulatory Relief and Assistance website, http://www.sec.gov/katrina.htm.

Registered investment advisers who wish to provide alternate contact information for posting on the SEC website should contact the following staff at the Commission’s Atlanta District Office:

Donna Esau
3475 Lenox Road, N.E., Suite 1000
Atlanta, GA 30326-1232
404.842.7654

Danielle Ryea
3475 Lenox Road, N.E., Suite 1000
Atlanta, GA 30326-1232
404.842.7629

http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2005-128.htm