New Star International launches improved website

New Star International is pleased to launch its new and improved website, www.newstaram.com. The new easy-to-navigate website will provide a dedicated online information service covering our international range of investment funds and the star fund managers who manage them. The site contains a wealth of information concerning the company, its fund managers, services, philosophy and credentials.  The site has enabled New Star to address accessibility issues for visually impaired users.

New features include:
Fund centre - this contains information about our fund range, where our funds are domiciled and registered for sale and fund identification codes.  Here users can also view daily/weekly and historic prices.

Contact us -regional sales contact details can be found here.

News and views - this section provides fund managers' views on market developments, the funds' positioning and favoured holdings.

Investment insight - fund managers explain their investment process, how they have positioned the fund according to market developments and their outlook for the fund going forward.

Performance charts - these provide a comparison of how New Star international funds have performed against their relevant sector averages or indices.

New Star provides information on each fund through fund factsheets, brochures and annual and interim reports and accounts, which can all be downloaded. Daily and historic prices, dealing information, prospectuses, application forms and switch/top-up and redemption forms are also accessible.

Rob Page, Marketing Director, comments:
"New Star prides itself on providing the best possible client service. We understand how important it is for institutions and intermediaries to keep up to date with developments in our fund offerings and the need to have the latest information on our services. The internet is an essential tool in this process. The improved navigation of our website will enable us to continue to deliver a first-class online service for international intermediaries and their existing and prospective clients and will further strengthen New Star's expansion overseas."

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For further information, please contact:

Trina Arthur                              New Star Investment Funds                 +44 (0) 20 7225 9574
Denise Lyttle/Linda Lowe            Polhill Communications                      + 44 (0) 20 7655 0550

New Star important facts:
NOTES TO EDITORS:

• New Star, one of the UK's fastest growing fund management companies, was founded in June 2000 by John Duffield, previously the founder of Jupiter Asset Management, which he built into one of the most successful retail investment businesses in the UK.
• New Star is expanding its international business in response to the growing demand from investors in Continental Europe. The aim is to become a leading mutual fund provider in the next few years, offering international investors the investment expertise of one of the fastest growing and most successful UK fund management groups.
• New Star's international strategy is to develop key partnerships in local markets.
  New Star International's website can be found at www.newstaram.com.
• Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The contents contained within this release are directed at investment advisers only and should not be relied upon by individual investors.

Investments in New Star funds are suitable only for investors who can fully evaluate and bear the risks involved. This document does not constitute an offer or solicitation to anyone in any jurisdiction in which such an offer is not authorised or to any person to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation. Distribution of this document in certain jurisdictions may be restricted and accordingly persons into whose possession this document comes are required to inform themselves about and to observe such restrictions.

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