NASDAQ enters strategic alliance with Georgeson Shareholder

New York, NY, June 3, 2004 ― The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (“NASDAQ^® ;” OTCBB: NDAQ) announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Georgeson Shareholder, a Computershare company, to provide Georgeson’s IRtrack™ product to NASDAQ listed companies. IRtrack offers IR professionals a single solution for ownership identification, market intelligence, stock surveillance, analysis, investor targeting and integrated relationship management of institutional investors.

These services will be made available through the NASDAQ Corporate Services Network^SM (www.nasdaq.net), a forum of products and services from leading providers designed to help companies maximize the effectiveness of their investor relations and compliance functions, while saving time and money in the process. Georgeson’s IRtrack product has been integrated into a secure online application that delivers the standard shareholder intelligence services of NASDAQ-Online with the enhanced capabilities of IRtrack Contact Data and Management.

“NASDAQ’s goal is to provide listed companies with integrated access to products and services that increase the effectiveness of a company’s investor relations and make doing business more efficient,” said Bruce Aust, Executive Vice President, NASDAQ Corporate Client Group.  “Through our alliance with Georgeson Shareholder, our companies will be able to access an outstanding array of shareholder intelligence. Through this, they can develop highly targeted activities, which are critical to the success of any public company’s investor relations program.”

Paul Conn, Global Head of Computershare Analytics, added, “We are delighted to be associated in this way with The NASDAQ Stock Market and we look forward with confidence to working closely with many of the world-class companies listed on NASDAQ.”

NASDAQ sets the standard in providing its listed companies with key investor relations services such as the Market Intelligence Desk^SM, International Visibility programs and NASDAQ-Online. Further, through the NASDAQ Corporate Services Network, NASDAQ-listed companies are provided access to products and services, from leading third party vendors, that cost-effectively enhance their investor relations programs, including press release distribution to all major news bureaus, webcasting of CEO profiles and interviews from the MarketSite, IR website hosting, webcasting, event briefs and transcripts.

About The NASDAQ Stock Market

NASDAQ is the largest U.S. electronic stock market. With approximately 3,300 companies, it lists more companies and, on average, trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market. It is home to category-defining companies that are leaders across all areas of business including technology, retail, communications, financial services, transportation, media and biotechnology. NASDAQ is the primary market for trading NASDAQ-listed stocks. Approximately 51% of NASDAQ-listed shares traded are reported to NASDAQ systems.

For more information about NASDAQ, visit the NASDAQ Web site at www.NASDAQ.com or the NASDAQ Newsroom^SM at www.nasdaq.com/newsroom.

About Georgeson Shareholder
Founded in 1935, Georgeson Shareholder is the world’s oldest and most highly regarded financial relations and investor relations firm. GS provides expert services to more than 3,500 corporations and mutual funds worldwide, including proxy solicitation, tender and exchange offers, stock option plan and M&A advisory services, IRtrack TM investor intelligence and surveillance, corporate governance, PostMerger CleanUp SM, small shareholder oddlot programs, employee plan services, information agent, broker/dealer services, reorganization services, financial printing/mailing and shareholder relations/call center solutions. Through its subsidiary, Source One, GS also offers full range of customer contact center capabilities.

Georgeson Shareholder has been a member of the Computershare group of companies since 2003. For more information, visit the Georgeson Shareholder Web site at www.georgesonshareholder.com

About Computershare
Computershare (ASX: CPU) is one of the world's leading financial services and technology providers to the global securities industry, providing services and solutions to listed companies, investors, employees, exchanges and other financial institutions.

With a unique range of integrated services, Computershare provides specialized records management for company share registers and employee share and stock option plans, document design and communication, strategic investor relations and market intelligence, and a variety of sophisticated trading technologies for financial markets.

Computershare is the largest and only provider of global shareholder and employee management services, administering more than 68 million shareholder accounts for over 13,000 corporations across twelve countries on five continents. Founded in Australia, Computershare today employs more than 7,000 people worldwide.

Contact for Computershare:

Paul Conn
212.805.7154

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