BW2115 AUG 24,2000 5:00 PACIFIC 08:00 EASTERN ( BW)(MA-BONDRESOURCES.COM) Launch of Internet's First Bond Portal, BondResources.com, Helps Average Investors Make Decisions Like the Pros Business Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24, 2000-- Site aggregates research data previously available only to brokerage houses It's easy to find equity research information on the Internet. But for many, adding fixed-income investments to a portfolio remains a bewildering maze of brokers and extensive, time-consuming research. Until now. Introducing BondResources.com, http://www.bondresources.com, the world's first portal devoted to providing information on buying and selling fixed-income investments. Free to all users, BondResources.com brings together proprietary research data, analysis tools, news, information and educational resources on one site, putting the power of informed decisions in the hands of millions of online investors. In all, there are more than 150,000 pages of bond-related content easily accessible on the site. Before BondResources.com, the aggregate of this information could only be found at professional brokerage houses or by spending hours in online and traditional research. BondResources.com's easy-to-use navigation takes beginning investors to tutorials, glossaries, links, and other basic information about fixed-income investment. More experienced investors can quickly access intraday and daily news, commentaries, quotes, charts, and more. In addition, investors can also access a wealth of professional commentary and content supplied by the bond-investment industry's top information providers, including: -- BARRA Bond Express -- The Bond Market Association -- Econoday -- GovPX -- Market News International -- Municipal Market Advisors -- Standard & Poor's MMS -- Thomson Financial's Municipal Group -- Value Line(R)Mutual Fund Profiles -- The Wall Street Journal Guide to Money & Investing The site also provides direct links to dozens of firms that trade bonds, meaning that any investor can buy or sell bonds based on the information they've gathered at BondResources.com. Through the proprietary BondFinder and BondFundFinder search tools, users can even enter specific criteria and, in a matter of seconds, BondResources.com will scan more than 20,000 different bonds and help suggest various bonds and bond funds available for purchase that meet each user's unique investment objectives. BondResources.com is powered by BondPartner.com, Inc., the Internet's leading service bureau of bond content for individual investors. BondPartner.com's fully redundant architecture and bi-coastal server farms ensure fast and efficient information delivery to BondResources.com. For more information (media only) or to arrange an interview with BondResources.com president Steven Hall, contact Brian Bellmont at (651) 890-2115 or brian@television-generation.com. --30--cr/ms* CONTACT: BondResources.com, Boston Brian Bellmont (651) 890-2115 KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRY KEYWORD: BANKING COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS E-COMMERCE INTERNET