PJC Piper Jaffray Companies

NEW YORK, March 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Piper Jaffray & Co. is pleased to announce it is holding its 17th annual Financial Services Conference March 20-21 in New York. The conference will feature management presentations from a wide range of established and emerging small, mid and large capitalization financial companies in the specialty finance, mortgage finance, financial technology, banking and specialty insurance sectors. "We are excited to host our financial services conference again this year," said Joel Denney, head of Investment Research at Piper Jaffray. "This year's line-up of management teams and presentations will provide our investing clients with invaluable insight into earnings growth, credit trends, the housing boom/bust and competitive trends in financial services." Companies scheduled to present and attend the conference include: Alliance Data Systems Corporation, Allied Capital Corporation, Ambac Financial Group, Inc., American Capital Strategies, Ltd., AmeriCredit Corp., Annaly Mortgage Management, Inc., Assured Guaranty Ltd., CapitalSource Inc., Cash America International Inc., CheckFree Corporation, Countrywide Financial Corporation, Delphi Financial Group, Inc., Direct General Corporation, Dollar Financial Corp., Euronet Worldwide, Inc., Fidelity National Financial, Inc., Financial Federal Corporation, First American Corporation (The), GATX Corporation, IndyMac Bancorp, Inc., KMG America Corporation, MCG Capital Corporation, Medallion Financial Corp., MGIC Investment Corporation, MoneyGram International, Inc., MortgageIT Holdings, Inc., New Century Financial Corporation, Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp, Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc., Radian Group, Inc., RAIT Investment Trust, Resource America Inc., SeaBright Insurance Holdings, Inc., State Auto Financial Corporation and Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. Company and investor participation in the Piper Jaffray Financial Services Conference is by invitation only. Clients interested in attending should contact their Piper Jaffray representative. Members of the media who would like to attend should contact Susan Beatty at 612 303-5680 or . Piper Jaffray & Co. is the chief operating subsidiary of Piper Jaffray Companies (NYSE:PJC), a focused securities firm dedicated to delivering superior financial advice, investment products and transaction execution within selected sectors of the financial services marketplace. The company operates through two primary revenue-generating segments: Capital Markets and Private Client Services. Piper Jaffray & Co. has served corporations, government and non-profit entities, institutional investors and the financial advisory needs of private individuals since 1895. With headquarters in Minneapolis, Piper Jaffray has approximately 2,900 employees in 107 offices in 23 states across the country and in London. For more information about Piper Jaffray, visit us online at http://www.piperjaffray.com/ . DATASOURCE: Piper Jaffray & Co. CONTACT: Susan Beatty, Media Relations of Piper Jaffray & Co., +1-612-303-5680 Web site: http://www.piperjaffray.com/

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