Financial Services Industry Mergers Announced in the 3d Quarter

+++ Listed by Sector part 1 of 4

Buyer 1 H&R Block Inc., Kansas City, Mo. 2 Bank of Montreal, Toronto (Harris Bankcorp, Chicago) 3 Goldman Sachs Group Inc., New York 4 Chase Manhattan Corp., New York 5 Wells Fargo & Co., San Francisco 6 Freedom Securities Corp., Boston 7 Freedom Securities Corp., Boston 8 Provident Financial Group Inc., Cincinnati 9 BankBoston Corp. 10 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York 11 Allstate Corp., Northbrook, Ill. 12 Jefferson-Pilot Corp., Greensboro, N.C. 13 American General Corp., Houston 14 Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance, London, U.K. 15 Fidelity National Financial, Irvine, Calif. 16 Household International Inc., Propsect Hts., Ill. 17 ReliaStar Financial Corp., Minneapolis 18 Bank of New York Co. Inc. part 2 of 4

Announced

Seller Date 1 Olde Financial Corp., Detroit 31-Aug 2 Burke Christensen & Lewis Securities, Ch Sept. 22 3 Hull Group Inc., Chicago 12-Jul 4 Hambrecht & Quist Group, San Francisco Sept. 28 5 Ragen MacKenzie Group Inc., Seattle Sept. 28 6 Hill Thompson Magid & Co. Sept. 16 7 Gibraltar Securities Co., N.J. 1-Jul 8 Capstone Realty Advisors LLC, Cleveland Sept. 21 9 Chastain Capital Corp., Atlanta 17-Aug 10 General American Life Insurance Co., St. 25-Aug 11 American Heritage Life Inv. Corp., Jacks 8-Jul 12 Guarantee Life Companies Inc., Omaha, Ne Sept. 20 13 St. Paul Financial Life Cos., Minn. Sept. 8 14 Orion Capital Corp., Conn. 12-Jul 15 Chicago Title Corp., 1-Aug 16 Decision One Mortgage Co., Charlotte, N. 22-Jul 17 Pilgrim Capital Corp., Phoenix, Az. 22-Jul 18 Estabrook Capital Management, New York 17-Aug part 3 of 4 1 Discount brokerage firm 2 Discount brokerage firm 3 Options and Futures brokerage/trading firm 4 Securities brokerage firm 5 Securities brokerage firm 6 Securities brokerage firm 7 Securities brokerage firm 8 Commercial Mtg. loan originator and servicer for life ins. cos. 9 Commercial Mtg. Mezzanine loan repo transaction

b/w Chastain and GMAC 10 Life Insurance Company 11 Life Insurance Company 12 Life Insurance Company 13 Life Insurance Company 14 Property & Casualty insurer 15 Title Insurance Company 16 Mortgage Banking company 17 Investment Advisory firm 18 Investment Advisory firm part 4 of 4

AnnounceAssets sold

Assets acquir($ in mi ($ in mill.) 1 $850 N/A 2 45 N/A 3 531 N/A 4 1,350 815 5 245 699 6 45 N/A 7 40 N/A 8 N/A 1,300 9 22 21

21 10 1,200 N/A 11 914 2,066 12 425 1,973 13 80 298 14 1,391 4,115 15 1,140 2,029 16 100 N/A 17 258 7,600 18 Terms not 2,300

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