Investor alert: Shaffer Lienhard / Beijing Mercantile Exchange, BEMEX

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

Shaffer Lienhard has a website (www.shaffer-lienhard.com) using the following address: International Business Plaza, 14 Austin Road West, Kowloon 2166 8010, Hong Kong S.A.R.

Shaffer Lienhard's representatives contact investors in Sweden through unsolicited telephone calls and offer trading with derivatives at Beijing Mercantile Exchange, BEMEX, with website (www.bemex.org) using the address: Beijing Yintai Centre, 187 Henghui East Road, Chaoyang, 100113, Beijing, China.

Please, also see investor alert against Breisach Liebman and Kyoto Mercantile Exchange, KMEX, issued 21 March 2011.

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