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MassMutual Financial Group is a marketing name for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) and its affiliated companies and sales representatives. Founded in 1851, MassMutual is a mutually owned financial protection, accumulation and income management company headquartered in Springfield, Mass. MassMutual’s major affiliates include the following companies. For more information, use the go button to visit their Web site.
Babson Capital Management LLC
Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts
Roger W. Crandall, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Babson Capital Management LLC is a full-service investment adviser with a highly entrepreneurial approach. The firm creates investment strategies and solutions for institutions and other sophisticated investors - including corporate and public pension plans, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, hedge funds, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and other capital markets participants.

Babson Capital specializes in creating absolute-return and alternative strategies using fixed income, equity and derivative instruments; structured products such as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs); corporate and real estate financing; and customized investment solutions. As of September 30, 2007, the firm manages more than $100 billion (including subsidiaries).

With operations based in Boston and Springfield, Mass., and Charlotte, N.C., and with regional offices across the U.S. and subsidiaries in London and Tokyo, Babson Capital employs more than 600 people.

Baring Asset Management Limited
London, England
David Brennan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Baring Asset Management is an international investment management firm with investment skills, clients and business locations spanning world markets. Baring's investment competency encompasses developed and emerging market equity, fixed income and multi-asset portfolio management services offered to institutions, retail investors and private individuals. Worldwide clients include public and corporate pension plans, government agencies, financial institutions, charitable organizations, mutual funds and private individuals.

With over 100 investment professionals located in the world's major capital markets, the goal of Baring Asset Management is to create investment solutions tailored to client needs, and to provide best in class client service.

C.M. Life Insurance Company & MML Bay State Life Insurance Company
Enfield, Connecticut
Stuart H. Reese, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
These subsidiaries provide variable life insurance and other life insurance and annuity products.
Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC
Hartford, Connecticut
David J. Reilly, Chief Executive Officer
Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, MassMutual's real estate management and advisory firm, manages real estate assets for insurance companies, public and corporate pension plans, Taft-Hartley plans, endowments and foundations. Strong research and expertise across all major property types, markets, and investment styles play an integral part in the organization's success. In October 2004, Cornerstone was ranked among the 25 largest real estate investment managers in the United States by Pension and Investment magazine.

MassMutual Asset Finance
Foxborough, Massachusetts
John F. X. Chipman, President and Chief Executive Officer
MassMutual Asset Finance is an equipment finance company that serves as a funding partner to a select group of national equipment loan and lease originators, specializing in providing capital to investment-grade and near-investment-grade public and private companies. The company was founded in March 2004 as Winmark Equipment Finance, LLC in a joint venture between MassMutual and CrossHarbor Capital Partners, and became known as MassMutual Asset Finance when affiliates of MassMutual purchased CrossHarbor’s interest in Winmark Equipment Finance in May 2007.

MassMutual Asset Finance provides competitive rates on a wide variety of structures and collateral types, financing a broad array of essential-use equipment including transportation, information technology, machinery, corporate aircraft, telecommunications, manufacturing and industrial equipment, construction equipment and other collateral. MassMutual Asset Finance’s management team has funded more than $1 billion in new equipment purchases since inception, financing transactions typically between $5 million and $25 million.
MassMutual International LLC
Springfield, Massachusetts
Elaine A. Sarsynski, President and Chief Executive Officer
Global operations provide valuable diversification for MassMutual Financial Group. Our global business subsidiary, MassMutual International LLC has expanded over the past decade through the acquisition of several well-established firms and now conducts business in Asia, South America and Europe. Insurance, asset management products, and other financial services are offered through the efforts of almost 15,000 financial professionals and employees. MassMutual International LLC meets the needs of more than one million clients.
MML Investors Services, Inc.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Michael R. Fanning, President
MML Investors Services, Inc. (MMLISI), a broker-dealer and investment adviser, offers investment products, money management programs and financial planning services that help its registered representatives meet the complex financial needs of their clients. MMLISI provides access to a universe of investment products and services, including mutual funds, managed money programs, securities brokerage services, real estate investment trusts, limited partnerships, variable life and variable annuity products.

MMLISI and its registered representatives are dedicated to assisting clients in managing the risks associated with taxes, inflation, market fluctuations and changing economic conditions while providing them with investment opportunities consistent with their tolerance for risk and their financial goals.

OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
New York, New York
John V. Murphy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
OppenheimerFunds, Inc. has been helping investors achieve their financial goals since 1960. A leading asset management company, OppenheimerFunds and its controlled affiliates offer a broad range of products and services to individuals, corporations and institutions, including mutual funds, separately managed accounts, institutional-management services, hedge fund products, qualified retirement plans and subadvisory investment-management services. These products are distributed around the world in partnership with the MassMutual Financial Group companies and through other financial services firms.

OppenheimerFunds has over 2,200 employees worldwide including its corporate headquarters in New York City and a Denver-based service operation that is annually recognized for its outstanding service by National Quality Review and Dalbar, Inc., two of the industry's top service evaluation firms.

The MassMutual Trust Company, FSB
Enfield, Connecticut
Michal L. Bobryk, President
The MassMutual Trust Company offers a wide range of fiduciary services providing clients with lifelong solutions for wealth accumulation and preservation, wealth transfer and estate planning.

The MassMutual Trust Company has reinforced its reputation for superior and responsive service, and is recognized as a trustee provider for those with special needs. The Trust Company will continue to provide the highest level of service to our clients requiring life insurance trusts, charitable and special needs trusts, and other personal trust, estate and fiduciary planning strategies.

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