Investor alert: Kyodo Securities

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

Kyodo Securities has a website (www.kyodosecurities.com) using the
following address: Meiji Yasuda Seimei Building, 2-2-1 Marunouchi,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 Japan.

Kyodo Securities' 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".