Underscoring the stock market's volatility in the second quarter, online brokerage Folio Investing today announced that each of its Top 5 performing Ready-to-Go Folios for the quarter were either bear market or bond Folios.

Folio Investing's Ready-to-Go Folios are professionally designed model portfolios that investors can purchase in a single transaction.  Using RTGs as building blocks, an investor can quickly assemble a complete and diversified portfolio.  Various RTGs represent market indices, industry sectors, geographic regions, investment styles, target date investments and other categories.

The Bear Market 2X Folio was Folio Investing's No. 1-performing Ready-to-Go Folio for the second quarter, with a return of 15.16 percent. The Bear Market 2X Folio is designed to be negatively or inversely correlated with the performance of the overall market on a daily basis.  This Folio is designed to provide a short-term hedge during market downturns or periods of significant volatility.  It is not designed to be used as part of a long-term strategy.

Two other similarly designed Bear Market Folios, along with two ETF-based Bond Folios, round out the Top 5 for the second quarter.  In contrast, the Top 5 RTG Folios for the first quarter consisted of a mix of industry and strategy Folios (See April press release.)

Folio Investing's Top Five Ready-to-Go Folios

Second Quarter 2010

Comparatively, the overall stock market, as represented by the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, fell 11.43 percent in the second quarter.

For quarterly performance data on all 150 RTG Folios, along with information on their holdings and methodologies, go to: www.FolioInvesting.com/rtg/.

About Folio Investing

Folio Investing, a division of FOLIOfn Investments Inc., is an online brokerage that enables investors to manage stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds as integrated investment portfolios called "Folios" that deliver better control, greater transparency, and lower cost. Investors can create their own Folios, much like creating personalized ETFs or mutual funds, or invest in over 150 Ready-to-Go Folios representing market indices, industry sectors, geographical regions, target dates, and more. The Folio Unlimited Plan features unlimited commission-free trading in twice-daily windows for only $29 a month or $290 a year. More information is available at: www.FolioInvesting.com.

Ready-to-Go Folios can be managed or unmanaged, are not registered investment companies, and are offered by FOLIOfn Investments Inc., a registered broker-dealer. FOLIOfn Investments Inc. does not provide investment, tax, or legal advice. FOLIOfn Investments Inc. is a member of FINRA/SIPC.

Past performance of RTG Folios is not indicative of future results.

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NICE Actimize, a NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) company and the largest and broadest provider of a single financial crime, risk and compliance software platform for the financial services industry, today announced that Caja Madrid, one of the largest savings banks in Spain, has deployed its Market Abuse solution to comply with strict requirements imposed by the Spanish regulator Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) and to better align with the EU market abuse directive. Caja Madrid has implemented NICE Actimize's Market Abuse solution to help it monitor and prevent market manipulation and insider dealing.

Caja Madrid is one of the first savings banks in Spain to adopt this type of solution. The Savings bank has assets of over 191 billion Euros under management. Working alongside Deloitte Espana, NICE Actimize deployed the first phase of its Market Abuse solution, including the bank's high priority models, within three months, and later phased in the full market abuse package to provide Caja Madrid with a complete overview of trading activities with the ability to identify and report suspicious transactions.

"The Actimize Market Abuse solution is a highly flexible and fully scalable product," explained D. Manuel Fernandez Navarro, Director del Area de Cumplimiento Normativo at Caja Madrid. "We set an aggressive deployment timeline and are proud that the first production phase of our compliance program was completed within three months. We were satisfied with the solution and NICE Actimize's deep domain expertise within the brokerage compliance space."

The Actimize Market Abuse solution helps large to mid-sized firms comply with regulatory requirements from all European regulators by monitoring and detecting suspicious transactions and automatically distributing alerts directly to relevant users within an intuitive case management workflow environment. It increases firms' insight into suspicious behaviour and improves risk management and compliance performance.

The Actimize Market Abuse solution uses several analytical methods to assign pnriority scores to alerts, thus improving the efficiency of regulators, trading managers and compliance staff. NICE Actimize's solutions are all built on a single technology platform, which provides lower total cost of ownership (TCO) as compared to siloed solutions and gives firms the flexibility to incrementally add new solutions over time.

"The EU Market Abuse Directive is very detailed, but it is up to each member country to interpret and to take the appropriate steps to adhere to the guidelines, and the Actimize Market Abuse solution has set the standard in Europe, being leveraged by firms and regulators alike," said Bruno Piers de Raveschoot, vice president, Head of Europe and Asia Pacific of NICE Actimize. "Caja Madrid is leading the way in Spain, by using our Market Abuse solution. Working across Europe, NICE Actimize helps its clients comply with the broader EU rules and local interpretations."

About Caja Madrid

Caja Madrid heads up the fourth largest financial group in Spain, with a 2009 year end assets of EUR 191,904 million, over 7 million customers and a market share in both loans and customer funds of over 7%. It follows a universal banking model, offering a wide array of products and services in retail, investment and private banking throughout its 2,179 branch network in Spain. At the end of 2009 it employed 15,259 people Caja Madrid group holds four branches abroad: Miami, Lisbon, Dublin and Vienna.

Caja Madrid is the leader and the most ancient entity concerning "Social Action", engagement and volume of applied resources.

About NICE Actimize

NICE Actimize, a NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) company, is the world's largest and broadest provider of a single financial crime, risk and compliance software platform for the financial services industry. NICE Actimize empowers its clients to prevent financial crime, mitigate risk, reduce operational costs, minimize losses and improve compliance. The company provides real-time and cross-channel fraud prevention, anti-money laundering, enterprise investigations, risk management and trading surveillance solutions built upon the Actimize Core Platform which has been enhanced by the company's acquisitions of Syfact and Fortent (Searchspace) analytics and technology. With offices across North America, Europe, and Asia, NICE Actimize serves more than 200 clients globally including all of the world's 10 largest financial institutions. http://www.actimize.com.

About NICE Systems

NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) is the leading provider of Insight from Interactions solutions and value-added services, powered by advanced analytics of unstructured multimedia content - from telephony, web, radio and video communications. NICE's solutions address the needs of the enterprise and security markets, enabling organizations to operate in an insightful and proactive manner, and take immediate action to improve business and operational performance and ensure safety and security. NICE has over 24,000 customers in more than 150 countries, including more than 80 of the Fortune 100 companies. More information is available at http://www.nice.com.

Trademark Note: ACTIMIZE, Actimize logo, Insight from Interactions, NICE and the NICE logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NICE Systems. All other marks are trademarks of their respective owners. For a full list of NICE Systems's marks, please see: http://www.nice.com/NICETrademarks.html.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, including the statements by Messer Piers, are based on the current expectations of the management of NICE-Systems Ltd. (the Company) only, and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results or performance of the Company to differ materially from those described herein, including but not limited to the impact of the global economic environment on the Company's customer base (particularly financial services firms) and the resulting uncertainties; changes in technology and market requirements; decline in demand for the Company's products; inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications; difficulties or delays in absorbing and integrating acquired operations, products, technologies and personnel; loss of market share; pressure on pricing resulting from competition; and inability to maintain certain marketing and distribution arrangements. For a more detailed description of the risk factors and uncertainties affecting the company, refer to the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise them, except as required by law.

    Press Contact:

    Jonathan Stotts
    NICE Actimize
    +1-212-994-3865
    jonathan.stotts@actimize.com

    Investors:

    Daphna Golden
    NICE Systems Ltd.
    +1-877-245-7449
    daphna.golden@nice.com

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MKM Partners today announced that Aaron Schwartz, CFA, has joined as Executive Director in its Equity Research department to cover enterprise software companies.  He will be based in MKM's Stamford headquarters.  Mr. Schwartz has covered the software industry as an equity research analyst for 10 years. He has a wide range of industry knowledge, with previous company coverage across a range of subsectors, including virtualization, network and systems management, storage and security software.  Aaron was most recently a Senior Vice President at Ladenburg Thalmann.  Prior to that, he spent 10 years at J.P. Morgan, where he served as a Senior Equity Research Analyst covering the software industry. Aaron holds a B.A. from Rollins College and is a CFA charterholder.

"I am excited about joining the proven and growing team at MKM Partners," Aaron remarked.  "I look forward to providing the high-quality and insightful research that MKM's research team is known for."

"Aaron brings a combination of bulge-bracket research experience and high-touch, independent thinking to MKM's highly regarded institutional equity research franchise," MKM Partners CEO Richard R. Castellano said.  "This maps directly onto MKM's client-facing strategy."

ABOUT MKM PARTNERS

MKM Partners is an institutional equity research, sales and trading firm.  Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, with offices in New York City, Boston and across the U.S., MKM provides clients with actionable and unbiased economic, technical, derivative, event-driven and fundamental research and has trade execution abilities in U.S. and foreign equity markets and in U.S. options markets.  In addition to offering timely access to its traders and analysts, MKM focuses on delivering exceptional service to institutional clients across its trading and research platforms.  More information about MKM Partners can be accessed at www.mkmpartners.com.

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Brownstone Investment Group ("Brownstone"), a fixed income investment firm, today announced that Sean Richter has joined as a Director in its Investment Grade Department.  Richter joins Brownstone from Stifel Nicolaus, where he spent two years as co-head of the Investment Grade Corporate Desk.

"We are thrilled to have Sean on board," said Douglas Lowey, President and CEO of Brownstone.  "We have branched out from our high yield roots by adding a top-notch investment grade operation over the past three years.  Bringing on Sean positions us to continue our successful expansion and diversification effort."

Brownstone began expanding into investment grade products in 2007, bringing on Michael Catalano and, a year later, Christie Morse.  Richter's hire solidifies the firm's disciplined growth strategy, which includes adding strategic professionals within its principal trading operation and developing synergistic new business lines.

"This is an exciting time to join Brownstone," said Richter.  "They have a long standing history, deep relationships, and a solid reputation on the Street."

Prior to his executive role at Stifel Nicolaus, Richter was a Senior Vice President at Jefferies & Company.  He held Vice President positions at Spear, Leeds & Kellogg from 2002-2005, and Pershing from 2001-02.  Richter began his career in corporate bond trading at Legg Mason Wood Walker in 1996, and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Loyola College in Baltimore.

For more information, please visit www.brownstone.com.

About Brownstone Investment Group

Founded in 1998, New York-based Brownstone Investment Group LLC ("Brownstone") is a dynamic, technology-driven fixed income investment firm.  The firm's multiple business lines center around its expertise within the high yield and investment grade credit markets.  Brownstone is one of the leading and oldest independently held firms operating in its niche.

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Arlington Asset Investment Corp. (NYSE: AI) (the "Company") announced today that the Company will release results for the second quarter of 2010 after the market closes on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, and will hold a conference call for investors at 9:00 A.M. ET on Thursday, July 29, 2010 to discuss the results.

Investors wishing to listen to the earnings call at 9:00 A.M. ET, Thursday, July 29, 2010, may do so via the Web at:  http://www.arlingtonasset.com/index.php?s=19

Replays of the earnings call will be available via webcast two hours after the call ends.

Arlington Asset Investment Corp. (NYSE: AI) is a principal investment firm that invests primarily in mortgage-related assets. The Company is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. For more information, please visit www.arlingtonasset.com.

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