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	Founded in 1988, the KGI Group is a multi-faceted, pan-Asian financial services group that thrives on providing the highest standards of service to its clients. The KGI Group prides itself on utilizing unsurpassable integrity and professionalism, prudence in its judgments and reliance on the security of a well-resourced institution to provide this service to its clients. The group's equity base totals approximately US$1 billion and manages assets approximating to US$3 billion as of December 2005. Our staff of over 2,000 professionals includes over 100 investment bankers and research analysts plus one of the largest salesforces of more than 450 investment representatives, making it the largest team to be found in any Asian financial organization. With offices in major Asian countries including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand, we are committed to the renewed development and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region. We are constantly building the core strength of our regional presence in order to achieve a more efficient capital allocation and to identify more worthwhile investment opportunities. We offer a wide range of financial products and services under the KGI Group. Our activities encompass regional brokerage services, asset management, corporate finance and direct and private equity investments. In addition to the high caliber investment advice offered by our experienced financial experts, we have specialists skilled in structured products, such as derivatives, fixed income and hybrid products.

	Our mission is to be the region's premier integrated Asian-based financial services group, the preferred choice for international corporations in their investment management needs and the acknowledged market leader in client services and ethical standards.

	We are among the largest and most active brokerage trading firms in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. Elsewhere, the KGI Group is looking ahead and demonstrating its innovative edge by pioneering electronic trading of stocks, debt instruments and mutual funds through an online brokerage service that combines the technology of the Internet with an interpretative voice response system. KGI is also implementing a technological-first for Asia, an innovative region-wide settlement and clearing system that provides superior back-office support services to clients. Our research teams in different markets supplement top-down macroeconomic analyses with bottom-up fundamental research on individual securities in order to offer original ideas and the fullest coverage of exciting smaller and medium-sized stocks, as well as of the leading Asian blue chips. Publicly listed KGI Securities is based in Taiwan and continues to grow; in Hong Kong, KGI is a member of both the Hong Kong Stock and Futures Exchanges; in Thailand, publicly listed KGI Securities (Thailand) Public Co. Ltd. dominates its local competitors.


	As a subsidiary of the well-funded KGI Group, KGI Hong Kong offers its clients a comprehensive range of products and services. A driving entrepreneurial spirit, insightful understanding of Asia, rigorous internal control systems and strong shareholder support are core KGI qualities. KGI HK employs over 100 sales professionals among over 300 staff members and has established an unrivaled depth of expertise in serving its clients' diverse investment needs in corporate finance, equities and futures brokerage services. KGI HK also holds a total of 11 trading rights on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Futures Exchange as evidence of its strong position in Hong Kong's highly competitive financial arena. Being one of Hong Kong's largest equity brokers by market share and one of the ten largest futures brokers, KGI HK operates a full-service brokerage firm for retail and institutional clients, aiming to provide customers with one-stop financial service. Its brokerage activities include equities, bonds, over-the-counter structured products and advisory services. KGI HK also offers margin trading facilities as well as futures and options for more sophisticated clients. With the acquisition of Seapower Securities Limited and Seapower Futures Limited in June 1999, KGI HK now has a total of four offices and branches in Hong Kong. At the forefront of technological change, KGI HK has actively embraced online trading, and its customers generate one of the largest internet trading volumes in Hong Kong. KGI's clients are able to trade in markets across the region and around the world.

	KGI commenced its operations in early 1997. In 1999, it acquired Seapower Securities and Seapower Futures, growing quickly to create a well-regarded, multifaceted financial services group with a formidable presence in Hong Kong.

	With over 40,000 clients and an aggregate shareholders' equity of over US$60 million, KGI HK has built a strong presence in Hong Kong's securities market.

Established in September 1988, KGI Securities (KGI Taiwan) started out focusing on retail brokerage, proprietary trading and underwriting, before expanding into fixed-income trading, foreign institutional brokerage services, global negotiable securities trading, overseas underwriting and various derivatives and transactions. Over time, KGI Securities has grown into a full-service investment bank. Employees' efforts have seen the Company establish itself as the market leader in terms of market share and market capitalisation among local OTC-listed securities companies. As a result, KGI Securities has increased its capitalization from NT$1.0bn initially, to NT$25.5bn, with over 1,700 employees working in 39 locations.

KGI Securities has kept pace with organic corporate growth and changes in the marketplace by continually winning over new clients. It has been able to do this as a result of its dedicated professionalism and innovative services. The Company's clients range from small start-up companies and mid-cap firms seeking aggressive growth, to large and mature corporations that are steadily expanding. KGI Securities is able to offer a wide array of customized financial packages that raise funds through structured instruments or guide enterprises through mergers or spin-offs, depending on the phase of development of the client. Today, KGI Securities is an established brand recognized for reliability and a broad product offering. The Company stands out among peers as a fully-integrated, innovative and dynamic investment bank.

Since its inception, KGI Securities has established a firm footing in Taiwan's financial markets by developing a platform that caters to the varying financial needs of investors at home and abroad. KGI Securities has developed a favourable trading environment for investors and implemented a highly-efficient Customer Relationship Management (CRM) program. In addition, it has penetrated the financial markets of such global strongholds as the United States, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Luxemburg and the United Kingdom, to bring global investment opportunities to its local clients. It has also developed a wide range of derivative products. The Company's Euro Convertible Bond (ECB) asset swap transactions and warrant issues were respectively ranked first and second in terms of market share in 2005. A broad range of customized products are also available, from structured products and bond options to NT dollar interest rate swaps and interest rate options. These additions have made KGI Securities' product portfolio even more diversified.

In order to boost income further and to provide customers with more value-added services, KGI Securities has applied for permission to run wealth management operations which securities firms in Taiwan are now eligible to do so. The Company is already internally re-organising in preparation for this new undertaking and plans to have this new service up and running in 2006. Using the regional financial product trading platform that it developed, KGI Securities has been able to integrate, for high net worth customers, financial products in Taiwan and abroad with more flexible and individual banking services.


	KGI Capital Asia Limited is the wholly-owned subsidiary of KGI Securities Company Limited and the investment banking arm of KGI Group in Hong Kong. To offer its customers more investment options, KGI Securities has aggressively embarked on a regional expansion strategy in order to help its customers with their international investment needs. In 1994, KGI Securities Company Limited established Sinpac Securities (HK) Company Limited in Hong Kong to start the first step of its regionalization and internationalization strategy and to enhance its presence in the underwriting and syndication business in the Hong Kong market. In view of capturing the vast market potential in the investment banking business in the Greater China region, Sinpac Securities (HK) Company Limited has undergone a series of restructuring and was renamed as KGI Capital Asia Limited in July 2002. With the close collaboration with KGI Securities in Taiwan and the strength of KGI Group brokerage platform in the Asia Pacific region, KGI Capital Asia Limited is expanding aggressively in the investment banking business and strives to become one of the best investment banking firms for corporations in the Greater China region.

	KGI Capital is well-positioned to provide the top-notch investment banking services to corporations in the Greater China region, including Taiwan, the mainland China and Hong Kong and to capture the advantages of the Hong Kong capital markets. KGI Capital provides a comprehensive range of services, including corporate finance and equity capital markets fund-raising services, financial advisory services and mergers and takeovers advisory services. In the corporate finance and equity capital markets fund-raising services, KGI Capital provides tailor-made fund raising scheme for high quality companies and multinational corporations in the Asia Pacific region as well as from all over the world. Our services include sponsoring initial public offerings in local and international exchanges, including the Main Board and Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Riding on the strong capital base of KGI Group and the effective and regional distribution network, KGI Capital are committed to offer our clients with various fund raising alternatives, including equity underwriting, shares issue, public offerings and private placement, to cater for our clients' financial needs. For financial advisory services, KGI Capital has a team of professionals which are experienced in corporate restructuring, formulation of business strategy, capital reorganization and restructuring, development of advanced financial models to assist our clients' business planning and valuation and seeking strategic and financial alliances and investors. For the mergers and acquisition business, KGI Capital has actively engaged in various takeovers and mergers deals in the past and is experienced in providing planning, structuring and execution of takeovers and mergers deals for both private and public listed companies. We also provide post-mergers corporate restructuring and reorganisations and implementation measures services to our valued clients in order to assist them to accomplish their business strategies and financial objectives.