LONDON, 20 May, 2008 — Newton Investment Management has bolstered its institutional sales and consultant relations team with the appointment of Anthony Briskey.

Briskey will assist with Newton's direct sales efforts as well as enhance the company's existing consultant relations capacity.

Prior to joining Newton, Briskey was Institutional Business Development Manager at Close Investments (part of Close Brothers) responsible for developing Close Investments' institutional business and brand throughout the UK and Europe. He was responsible for building relationships with consultants and direct sales to pension funds and multi-managers in the UK and Europe.

Commenting on the appointment, John Burke, Head of UK Institutional Business Development at Newton, said: "We are delighted to welcome Anthony at such an exciting stage of the company's growth. He joins a well resourced team focusing on our primary objective of creating real wealth for our existing clients, but also in looking at proactively growing our presence in the institutional market in a number of areas.

"As pension funds increasingly look at diversification strategies, we will be focusing on our multi-asset, absolute return and specialist portfolios."

Newton Investment Management Limited is a London-based global asset management subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and part of BNY Mellon Asset Management. With assets under management of more than £38 billion, the company provides a broad range of award-winning investment products and services to individuals, pension funds, charities and corporations. News and other information about Newton is available at www.newton.co.uk.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 34 countries and serving more than 100 markets. The company is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, providing superior asset management and wealth management, asset servicing, issuer services, clearing services and treasury services through a worldwide client-focused team. It has more than $23 trillion in assets under custody and administration, more than $1.1 trillion in assets under management and services $12 trillion in outstanding debt. Additional information is available at bnymellon.com.

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