Investor alert: Ashford Financial Group, AFG

Finansinspektionen (the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) has
today published this statement in order to warn investors against dealing with unauthorised firms. Ashford Financial Group 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.

Ashford Financial Group has a website (www.ashfordfinancialgroup.com) using the following address: 26F Shinjuku Sumitomo Building, 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Tokyo-to, Japan, 163-0212.

Ashford Financial Group's 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".