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A BOSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL BEST PLACE TO WORK FOR FIVE YEARS RUNNING! Our chairman and CEO, Joe Deitch, has declared the Boston Business Journal’s annual Best Places to Work award "the best business award any company can receive." Which is why we are thrilled beyond belief to be among the honorees again in 2008—our fifth year in a row—and to be the only midsize company to have achieved that recognition. The award is based on more than 20,000 employee satisfaction surveys from 375 companies, with winners receiving high marks in areas such as work environment, work/life balance, job satisfaction, and opportunities for advancement. Being named The #1 Best Midsize Place to Work in 2005, and among the best firms for five consecutive years, affirms our commitment to creating a supportive environment where our advisors and home office staff can thrive professionally and individually. Only by having the most talented and dedicated home office staff in the industry can we continue to provide the kind of service that has earned us an unprecedented nine Broker/Dealer of the Year awards from Investment Advisor magazine. It’s our people who allow us to be the preferred broker/dealer for successful independent financial advisors—and who collectively create the Anything but Common® culture that helps each advisor pursue his or her own version of success. Best of the Best! The #1 Midsize Company on Boston Globe’s Top 100 Places to Work List The trust and appreciation of loyal employees is the most important vote of confidence a company can get. That’s why Commonwealth’s election to the uppermost ranks of the Boston Globe’s inaugural Top Places to Work list means so much. According to a survey of employees representing more than 600 Massachusetts companies, Commonwealth is the number one place to work in the midsize category. We also placed second among all the top-rated companies. The high marks we received as a supportive and progressive workplace are another welcome confirmation that we continue to succeed in our mission to live our cultural values every day. Survey participants rated their employers in the categories of leadership, compensation, diversity, career development, family-friendly flexibility, and values and ethics. A special Globe section on the winners included a feature story on Commonwealth’s stellar performance in the professional development category. Entitled “Brain Trust,” the story cited our Sunday River Club and our Buddy Program as two notably creative examples of how we foster an atmosphere where people can learn and grow—and have fun in the process. Commonwealth also received top marks in diversity and in ethics and values—an achievement that testifies to our culture of openness, inclusion, and fairness, as well as to our leadership’s integrity. AND, ONCE AGAIN, A COMPUTERWORLD BEST PLACE TO WORK FOR TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS! We are honored to be recognized—for the second consecutive year—as one of Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT among small companies (those with fewer than 2,500 employees). The survey is based on responses from more than 31,000 technology professionals nationwide who rate companies on such factors as compensation, benefits, promotions, and diversity. We are particularly proud of our rankings in retention and training—where we placed second and third, respectively. We value this award as recognition of our longstanding commitment to hiring the best and the brightest—the true innovators in their field—and to our success in empowering them to develop the technology solutions our advisors need to achieve their own version of success. We owe both honors to none other than our incredible home office staff, who continues to put Commonwealth on top against some impressive competition. It’s what they do every day that makes this a best place to work—and a place some of the industry’s top advisors are proud to call home.
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