Ameritas Investment Corp. Selects Smarsh for Email Archiving and Compliance Services

- Leading independent broker/dealer turns to Smarsh for responsive support, reliable service and comprehensive solution suite -

Portland, Ore., Sept. 20, 2010 - Smarsh®, the managed service leader in innovative, secure and reliable email archiving and compliance solutions, announced today that Ameritas Investment Corp. (AIC) has migrated to the Smarsh hosted email archiving and compliance platform. AIC selected Smarsh for its track record of responsive support, reliable service and expertise to help implement and enforce the full- service broker/dealer's messaging compliance procedures for its more than 1,500 registered representatives and financial advisors nationwide.

"We needed a hosted archiving vendor that will partner with AIC to not only meet important regulatory requirements, but also meet the business needs of our financial advisors. We focused on finding a cost-effective, easy–to-use solution that would enable us to proactively manage and respond to the growing challenges of electronic communications,” said Cheryl Heilman, vice president and chief operating officer of AIC.

AIC chose Smarsh to provide email services after working with another hosted archiving provider for more than four years. In addition to email archiving and compliance, AIC implemented the Smarsh automated email supervision engine, the Virtual Compliance Officer, and the Smarsh secure messaging platform, smarshEncrypt.

"One of the key advantages of the Smarsh platform comes in the form of security. Smarsh offers a robust yet flexible feature set for safeguarding information," said Micah McCann, AIC technology manager. "Automated email encryption and the restriction of non-secure ports on email clients such as Outlook provide additional protection without sacrificing business efficiencies. This is a tangible benefit to our firm and our advisors."

"We are proud to welcome AIC to our client roster and look forward to providing them with peace of mind in their electronic record-keeping, supervision and data protection initiatives," said Stephen Marsh, founder and CEO of Smarsh. "Customer support and reliable service are core foundations of our business, and we take pride in easing the burden of our customers as they migrate and manage growing volumes of email data on the Smarsh hosted platform."

Smarsh has helped clients like AIC compile exemplary regulatory audit track records and surpass the standards within the email compliance mandates of both the Securities and Exchange Commission (notably rules 17a-3, 17a-4 and 204-2) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (3010 & 3011).

All services within the Smarsh integrated suite are centrally administrated through a secure web-based platform. System administrators can review electronic communication, implement and enforce classification, data-leak prevention and encryption policies and analyze these policies within the customizable reporting center.

About Ameritas Investment Corp.

Ameritas Investment Corp. (AIC), a UNIFI company, is a full-service broker/dealer with over 1,500 registered representatives and financial advisors nationwide. AIC serves over 40,000 customers through its financial advisors in three primary lines of business: brokerage, investment advisory and capital markets. For more information, visit www.aicinvest.com.

About Smarsh

Smarsh® provides hosted solutions for archiving electronic communications, including email, instant messaging and social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Founded in 2001, Smarsh helps over 10,000 organizations manage and enforce flexible, secure and cost-effective compliance and records retention strategies and mitigate risk. For more information, visit www.Smarsh.com or follow Smarsh at www.twitter.com/SmarshInc.

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