Turner Investment Partners adds five external wholesalers to Private Client Group

BERWYN, Pa.--(Business Wire)--
In a second round of hiring to expand its Private Client Group`s new-business
efforts, Turner Investment Partners has appointed five external wholesalers.

As external wholesalers, they are responsible for seeking new
investment-management business for Turner from organizations and affluent
individual investors in the managed-account, investment-advisory, family-office,
and private-wealth-management markets. In their work, they cultivate new and
existing relationships with brokers, investment advisers, and financial planners
in assigned geographic regions.

The five new appointees:

* John T. Buckley, 46, who covers New York;
* Andrew Martone, 46, who is responsible for Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine;
* Frank J. McNamara, 28, who covers Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and
West Virginia;
* Travis Sandberg, 37, who is responsible for northern California, Oregon,
Washington State, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Alaska; and
* Stephen Topley, 42, who handles New Jersey.

All five report to Gary Ross, managing director of the Private Client Group.

Last August Turner hired four external wholesalers and three internal
wholesalers to expand the group, which is part of the firm`s Distribution Team.
The firm anticipates making no additional appointments to the 17-person group in
2009. Turner, an employee-owned investment manager founded in 1990, manages more
than $17 billion in stocks in alternative, core, growth, international,
quantitative, and value portfolios on behalf of institutions and individuals, as
of September 30, 2009.

Mr. Buckley joins Turner after serving as a regional vice president and
wholesaler at Claymore Securities. In 1985 he earned a bachelor of arts degree
at Concordia College-New York, where he was a varsity basketball player. He
lives in Massapequa, New York.

Mr. Martone previously served as vice president and wealth manager at JPMorgan
Asset Management. He received a bachelor of arts degree at Salem State College
in 1986. From 1987 to 1989 he was a professional hockey player with the
Kristianstad Ice Hockey Club in Sweden. He is a resident of Hopkinton,
Massachusetts.

Mr. McNamara`s previous position was regional vice president, wire houses and
regionals at Genworth Financial. He graduated from the University of
Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor of arts degree in 2003. He lives in
Quincy, Massachusetts.

Mr. Sandberg formerly was a regional vice president at John Hancock. He is a
1994 graduate of Skidmore College, with a bachelor of science degree. He lives
in San Francisco.

Mr. Topley formerly served as a regional investment consultant with Arrow Funds.
He received a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000
and is a resident of Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Turner Investment Partners
Bruce Zewe, 484-329-2329
E-mail: bzewe@turnerinvestments.com

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