Investor alert: Institutional Equity Partners

Finansinspektionen (the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) has
today published this statement in order to warn investors against
dealing with unauthorised firms. Institutional Equity Partners is not authorised by Finansinspektionen and is therefore not entitled to provide financial services. Finansinspektionen has not received any notification of cross-border activities from other EES countries.

Institutional Equity Partners has a website (www.iepnet.com) using the following addresses:

• 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, U.S.A.
• BOC Tower, 1 Garden Road, Central Hong Kong
• Shin Kong Life Tower, Taiwan.

Institutional Equity Partners' representatives contact investors in Sweden through unsolicited telephone calls.

To find out whether a company or individual is authorised, check
Finansinspektionen's website at: www.fi.se under "Authorisation".