AST is a member of the portfolio companies of Pacific Equity Partners (PEP), sharing common ownership with a global alliance of leading transfer agent and equity plan service providers. With $5 billion of assets under management, Sydney-based PEP has made significant investments in businesses with specialist operations in share registry services, superannuation administration and investor relations.

Over the years, PEP has formed a network of strategic partnerships including AST, Canadian Stock Transfer Company, AST Fund Solutions, AST Phoenix Advisors, AST Investor Services, LINK Shareholder Services, Link Market Services and Orient Capital. Collectively, our companies form the Link Group network. As a single source of equity servicing solutions, the Link Group network has expanded beyond Australia into global markets including North America, India, South Africa, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Canadian Stock Transfer Company (CST) joined forces with Pacific Equity Partners and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company in 2010 to form a global share registry offering. The North American division of the Link Group is formed by the partnership of CST and AST. Together, AST & CST provide services to more than 8,000 issues and over 5.5 million shareholders throughout North America and in over 22 foreign countries.

AST Equity Plan Solutions (EPS) provides plan administration to more than 400 clients with approximately 750,000 participants in over 70 countries. EPS provides a host of specialized products and services designed to meet stock plan administration needs of businesses worldwide.

AST Fund Solutions, LLC, formerly known as The Altman Group, offers a comprehensive suite of Mutual Fund Proxy Solicitation and Advisory Services, including: closed-end and open-end mutual fund proxy management, mailing and tabulation, shareholder identification, corporate governance consulting and regulatory report mailing services.

AST Phoenix Advisors is a leading provider of proxy solicitation and corporate governance advisory services, offering fully integrated proxy solicitation, investor relations consulting, governance and information agent services.

AST Investor Services offers issuers and shareholders the ability to consolidate positions in a single account, online access to over 10,000 equity issuers and comprehensive investment tools.

AST Personal Wealth Solutions provides wealth advisory services to executives, employees and shareholders. Using wealth management tools, our Financial Advisors help clients develop investment portfolios and strategies to meet their financial goals.

LINK Shareholder Services provides comprehensive asset recovery services, helping issuers preserve their corporate equity with a broad range of escheatment and unclaimed property solutions.

Link Market Services Limited (Link) is a leading premium provider of registry services and technology to financial market participants in Australia. Link manages approximately 10 million holder records, maintains the registers of over 1,000 securities and provides services to more than 90 of the S&P/ASX Top 100.

Orient Capital offers a comprehensive range of products that leverage its expertise in share registry analysis, global database and communication technology, market intelligence, transaction support and investor relations advice.

For more information on any of the Link Group companies, please contact us at (888) 267-8625 or email newbusiness@amstock.com.