[April 17, 2012]

TIM Group Announces First Annual Top Performer Equity Rankings for North America

TIM Group, which provides alpha generating information technology, consulting and services to the financial services industry, today released its first annual rankings recognizing the top performers in institutional equity sales at brokerage firms in North America.

TIM Ideas Top Performer Awards, 2011 ranks the top 10 North American performers overall and the top performers in 10 basic sectors from among 2,300 sales people at 285 North American sell-side firms. This is based on the level of out performance (versus comparable indexes) of 194,055 equity trading ideas that they developed for their clients. TIM Group also released a similar ranking for equity sales in Europe.

"2011 was another challenging year for stock ideas given the many macro events that impacted the markets," said Colin Berthoud, Co-founder of TIM Group. "However, our data shows that a number of quality sales people and firms were able to dramatically outperform their benchmarks and peers.

"Top overall performers averaged 87 ideas that averaged a market outperformance of 5.12% and a length of 44 days. This equates to more than 42% on an annualized basis. Top sector performers averaged 60 sector specific ideas that averaged a market outperformance of 3.67% and length of 27 days, which equates to more than 49% on an annualized basis."

The data comes from the company's web-based TIM Ideas, the world's leading alpha capture system. TIM Ideas enables top sales specialists and sales traders from more than 750 brokerage firms around the world to send trading ideas to buy-side firms, which, in turn, use TIM Ideas to capture, track and monetize these ideas to enhance returns.

See the full lists below.

TIM Ideas Top Performer Awards are the only rankings that measure the value of sell-side trade ideas developed by equity sales people, who are playing an increasingly important role today. Equity sales marshal all of a brokerage or research firm's resources in the creation of client specific trading ideas for fundamental and quantitative investors, with both long- and short-term investment horizons. Performance plays a key role in commission allocation.

"TIM Ideas Top Performer Awards provide ultimate transparency," Mr. Berthoud said. "Equity sales people were rigorously ranked based on the actual performance of each of their client trading ideas as compared to relevant indexes, from the time the idea was sent to clients on the TIM Ideas platform to when the idea was closed.

"While our rankings demonstrate individual excellence, to be good on a consistent basis throughout the year, a sales person needs excellent resources, too. The fact that sales people from small and large firms were among the top performers shows that everybody is on a level playing field."

TIM Ideas Top Performer Awards, 2011 - North America

Results were based on an analysis of the alpha generating performance of 194,055 long and short trading ideas on North American stocks sent to clients in 2011 via the TIM Ideas platform.

Performance was measured by the return on the idea from the time it was initiated to the time it was closed versus the performance of the S&P 500 (or the relevant MSCI sector benchmark for sector awards) during that same period. The influence of outsized returns on a small number of ideas was mitigated by also rewarding higher rates of idea development and setting a minimum number of ideas in each quarter.

About TIM Group

TIM Group provides alpha generating information technology, consulting and services to the financial services industry. The company's focus is on helping buy and sell-side firms and administrators maximize their intellectual property to generate more revenue. Please visit the company's website at timgroup.com.

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