DST Output Signs with Precision Information - Relationship Delivers Educational Content to the Financial Services Industry

September 12, 2002 (New York) - DST Output, a leading print and electronic bill and statement provider, and Precision Information, a multimedia educational software company, announced today an agreement to provide educational content to DST Output clients in the financial services industry. This offering is designed to address the challenges faced by financial providers in helping their customers understand complicated financial information, particularly in a changing market.

Through this strategic relationship with Precision Information, DST Output can connect investors, intermediaries, plan participants and sponsors to a vast library of NASD compliant content.

"We believe this relationship will significantly enhance the offering DST Output brings to the financial services marketplace," said Kim Herren, senior vice president of marketing at DST Output. "The financial services firms we serve are continually searching to enhance sales opportunities, increase loyalty, reduce operational costs and enable self care. Together, DST Output and Precision Information can now better respond to these important issues."

As a part of the agreement, DST Output will offer its customers the ability to deliver this content in order to better enhance information through multiple communication channels such as on-statement personalized messaging, targeted inserts, newsletters, fact sheets, marketing materials, direct mail and e-mail. In addition, web site content allows investors and plan participants to quickly review thousands of articles, tutorials, quizzes, games and definitions.

"In today's market environment, there is ever-mounting pressure on financial service providers to help their customers understand complicated financial choices," said Joe Saari, president of Precision Information. "Our content, which is updated as laws change, is timely and customized to meet the needs of a particular firm."

This offering is designed to increase customer loyalty through better education and more targeted information and to enhance sales opportunities for intermediaries who can use content as a prospecting tool. In addition, the content library reduces the need for small and mid-sized firms to maintain in-house staff for content creation.

About DST Output

DST Output (www.dstoutput.com) has more than 30 years of experience helping the world's leading companies create lasting, profitable relationships with their customers. The company provides integrated print and electronic communications solutions for businesses in a variety of industries, including communications, video services, brokerage, banking, mutual fund, insurance and others and produces in excess of 2 billion communications each year. DST Output has 4,000 associates at multiple locations throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

About Precision Information

Precision Information (PI) is a rapidly growing personal finance software company devoted to developing and distributing innovative educational software and online applications for the financial services market. PI provides efficient, effective, and affordable financial education tools and learning systems to serve the needs of financial service firms, financial professionals, students, individual investors, and independent learners alike.

For more information about Precision Information or the The Encyclopedia of Personal Finance^TM call Precision Information at 888-345-1285, or log on to the company's Web site at www.precision-info.com. Intuit and Quicken, among others, are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. in the United States and other countries.