Bullrun Financial Becomes an Advent Certified Integration Partner; Real-Time Portfolio Management Tools Deploy in as Little as 5 Days.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Solutions 2002: The Advent User Conference

Exhibit Booth #50

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2002

Bullrun Financial, Inc., (www.bullrunfinancial.com) is now a Certified Integration Partner of Advent Software, Inc., (Nasdaq: ADVS), one of the industry's top providers of software, data and solutions to the professional financial services industry. Advent solutions streamline mission-critical operations, including client relationship management, reconciliation processing and trade order management.

Bullrun's solution helps investment professionals manage their portfolios more profitably with real-time access to critical attribution analysis, vital buy-and-sell information, stock suggestions and key performance metrics.

This new relationship gives investment professionals a single, integrated solution that provides both real-time stock performance information and guidance on selections from Bullrun, with high-volume back-end transaction management from Advent.

Because the two products will be fully integrated, Bullrun can be deployed in environments using Advent's software in less than one week.

"We deliver critical attribution analysis and up-to-the-minute equity and benchmarking information to portfolio managers' desktops," said John Michel, president and CEO of Bullrun Financial. "Our new relationship with Advent gives customers a single, integrated resource that's up-and-running in a matter of days."

"The Advent Certified Integration Program leverages the expertise of the financial industry's leading providers of software and services to enhance the functionality of the Advent Office suite," said Juliana Chioffi, director of Advent's alliance program. "Bullrun's solution is a clear fit, using advanced technology that provides a new standard for investment management tools."

Bullrun's Web-based software helps portfolio managers demonstrate their value by comparing their performance with multiple industry and internal benchmarks. The software also provides real-time attribution data and macroeconomic charts and data with detailed analysis for better investment decisions.

Bullrun Financial, headquartered in Princeton, N.J., with offices in Hong Kong and London, is privately held. The company can be reached at www.bullrunfinancial.com and at [phone].

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About Bullrun Financial, Inc.

Founded in March 2000, Bullrun Financial (www.bullrunfinancial.com) provides a comprehensive online technology platform that delivers real-time investment advice to institutional equity money managers. Bullrun's embedded analytic engines generate multiple investment strategies across global markets and portfolios, to enable investors to target and select equity investments with confidence. The company is introducing its online and enterprise solutions to prestigious financial institutions that manage billions of dollars in equity assets worldwide.