ADVISORY/BankAtlantic Bancorp To Present At The Ryan Beck & Co. Annual Financial Institution Investors Conference.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (Oct. 31) FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2002 BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BBX BBX Business Basic Extended BBX Business Barter Exchange BBX Blue Bell, Pennsylvania (Airport Code) BBX Blockbuster Express (UK video store) ), the parent company of BankAtlantic, Levitt Companies, and Ryan Beck & Co., today announced it would participate in the Ryan Beck & Co. Annual Financial Institution Investors Conference. Alan B. Levan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BankAtlantic Bancorp, is scheduled to make a presentation at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 31, 2002. Mr. Levan's audio presentation can be simultaneously accessed via a "listen only" conference call. To participate in the conference call, dial 1-800-937-6563. The slide presentation will be available on Ryan Beck's Internet site, http://www.RyanBeck.com, as well as the Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. section of BankAtlantic's Internet site: http://www.BankAtlantic.com. Copies of the presentation can also be received via email, fax or mail upon request by contacting BankAtlantic Bancorp's Investor Relations department at the address provided at the end of this release. About The Conference: The Ryan Beck & Co. Annual Financial Institution Investors Conference will take place between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on October 31, 2002. The conference will be held at the Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue at Central Park South, in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . For additional conference details, contact Karen Woolf at 973/597-6033. About BankAtlantic Bancorp: BankAtlantic Bancorp (NYSE:BBX) is a diversified financial services holding company and the parent company of BankAtlantic, Levitt Companies, and Ryan Beck & Co. Through these subsidiaries, BankAtlantic Bancorp provides a full line of products and services encompassing consumer and commercial banking, brokerage and investment banking, and real estate development. BankAtlantic Bancorp is one of the largest financial institutions headquartered in the State of Florida. BankAtlantic, "Florida's Most Convenient Bank," provides a comprehensive offering of banking services and products via its broad network of community branches throughout Florida and its online banking division - BankAtlantic.com. Seven-Day Branch Banking - Monday through Sunday. Saturday branch lobby hours are 8:30 A.M. - 3:00 P.M., and drive-thru hours are 7:30 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. Sunday branch lobby hours are 11:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M., and drive-thru hours are 11:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. Extended branch lobby hours are 8:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M., Monday through Wednesday, and 8:30 A.M. - 8:00 P.M., Thursday and Friday. Extended drive-thru hours are 7:30 A.M. - 8:00 P.M., Monday through Wednesday, and 7:30 A.M. - 8:00 P.M., Thursday and Friday. Levitt Companies is the parent company of Levitt and Sons and Core Communities. Levitt and Sons, America's oldest homebuilder and first to build planned suburban communities, currently develops single and multi-family homes for active adults and families throughout Florida. Core Communities develops master-planned communities in Florida, including its original and best known, St. Lucie West - a 4,600-acre community with 4,000 built and occupied homes, 150 businesses employing 5,000 people and a university campus. New master-planned developments include Westchester, now under development on Florida's Treasure Coast in St. Lucie County, featuring 5,600 residences, a commercial town center and a world-class corporate park. Ryan Beck & Co. is a full-service broker Full-Service Broker A broker that provides a large variety of services to its clients, including research and advice, retirement planning, tax tips, and much more. Of course, this all comes at a price, as commissions at full-service brokerages are much higher than those at discount dealer engaging in underwriting, market making, distribution, and trading of equity and debt securities. The firm also provides money management services, general securities brokerage, including financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against for the individual investor, consulting and financial advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal to financial institutions and middle market companies. Ryan Beck & Co. also provides independent research in the financial institutions, energy, healthcare, technology, and consumer product industries. Ryan Beck & Co. recently acquired certain assets and related entities from Gruntal & Co., LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , including the acquisition of The GMS GMS Greater Mekong Subregion GMS Global Mobile (Communications) System GMS Guild Management System GMS General Medical Services GMS Global Management System (Sonicwall) GMS GroupWise Mobile Server Group, LLC. The combined firm now has in excess of 600 retail account executives located in offices nationwide. For further information, please visit our websites: http://www.BankAtlantic.com http://www.LevittandSons.com http://www.CoreCommunities.com http://www.LevittCommercial.com http://www.RyanBeck.com http://www.Cumber cum·ber tr.v. cum·bered, cum·ber·ing, cum·bers 1. To weigh down; burden: was cumbered with many duties. 2. .com http://www.GMSgroup.com -- To receive future news releases or announcements directly via email, please access the e-News banner on the Investor Relations page at http://www.BankAtlantic.com. Statements in this release may constitute forward-looking statements and are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based largely on expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties including but not limited to the risks and uncertainties associated with economic, competitive and other factors affecting the Company and its operations, and other factors detailed in the Company's SEC filings. |
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