Conditions and disclaimers that govern Marketing Communications contained in the Investment Companies pages of this website - 25 January 2010

Any Marketing Communication on the following pages of this website has been approved under part IV article 19 of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the “FPO”) by Numis Securities Limited (“Numis”) for communication in the United Kingdom only to investment professionals as that term is defined in article 19(5) of the FPO.  Its contents are not directed at, may not be suitable for and should not be relied on by anyone who is not an investment professional including retail clients. Numis does not provide investment advisory services to retail clients.  Such Marketing Communications are not directed at you if Numis is prohibited or restricted by any legislation or regulation in any jurisdiction from making it available to you.  You should satisfy yourself before reading it that Numis is permitted to provide marketing material concerning investments to you under relevant legislation and regulations.

Such a Marketing Communication is not an offer or a solicitation to buy or sell any security. It does not constitute a personal recommendation and recipients must satisfy themselves that any dealing is appropriate in the light of their own understanding, appraisal of risk and reward, objectives, experience, and financial and operational resources. It has not been prepared in accordance with legal requirements designed to promote the independence of investment research. Non independent research is not subject under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID”) to any prohibition on dealing ahead of the dissemination of investment research.  However, Numis is required by the FSA to have policies in place to manage the conflicts of interest which may arise in its production, which include preventing dealing ahead.

The prices of the investments referred to in this Marketing Communication and the income from them may go down as well as up and investors may realise losses on them.  Neither past performance nor forecasts are a reliable indicator of future results.  Numis accepts no fiduciary duties to the reader of this Marketing Communication and in communicating it Numis is not acting in a fiduciary capacity. Neither Numis nor any of its directors, officers, employees or agents shall have any liability, howsoever arising, for any error, inaccuracy or incompleteness of fact or opinion in it or lack of care in its preparation or publication except where such is caused by its gross negligence, wilful default or fraud; nor shall it exclude or restrict any liability it has under the regulatory system to the extent that to do so is impermissible under the law relating to financial services.

All statements and opinions are made as of the date on the face of the relevant Marketing Communication and are not held out as applicable thereafter.  Marketing communications will carry the date of publication or, on a Marketing Communication printed overnight, the date on which it was sent to the printers. Where a price is quoted in a Marketing Communication it will generally, in the absence of contrary words, be the latest practicable price prior to distribution or, in the case of a Marketing Communication printed overnight, the closing price at the close of business.  Unless otherwise stated, prices in such Marketing Communications are derived from quotations on the London Stock Exchange.

Numis or one or more of its associates or a director or an employee of Numis or of an associate may from time to time have a position, or may have undertaken or may undertake an own-account transaction, in a security referred to in the relevant Marketing Communication or in a related security. Such a position or such a transaction may relate to the market making activities of Numis or to other activities of Numis.

Numis or one or more of its associates may from time to time have a broking, advisory or other relationship with a company which is the subject of or referred to in the relevant Marketing Communication, including acting as that company’s official or sponsoring broker and providing corporate finance or other financial services.  It is the policy of Numis to seek to act as corporate adviser or broker to many of the companies which are covered by the Research Department. Accordingly companies covered in any Marketing Communication may be the subject of marketing initiatives by the Corporate Finance Department.

A company covered in such Marketing Communications may have paid for a researcher’s reasonable expenses to visit their premises or offered modest hospitality or entertainment: further details are available on request.

Printed Marketing Communications will identify material sources; electronic Marketing Communications are normally based on company announcements made through the Regulatory Information Service. In those cases (but not otherwise) where the subject company has seen the draft of the Marketing Communication and has suggested factual amendments which are incorporated by the researcher, this will be noted on the Marketing Communication.  This applies normally only to printed pieces.

In printed Marketing Communications the risk warnings (if any) attaching to a particular company will be set out; in electronic pieces there is a cross-reference to the archive of Marketing Communications elsewhere on this website where, under the appropriate company name, details of such matters can be viewed.