HSBC to Acquire Atlantic Advisors

Business Editors

NEW YORK ----HSBC Investments (USA)
Inc.

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And subscribers can always count on 1-day personal answers
from BLR's editors by email. And as a convenience to human resource managers, the firm is
offering a free download of a Special Report on one of the
most-questioned HR regulations of all time, "Top 100 FLSA Overtime Q +
As" at http://www. is to acquire Atlantic Advisors LLC ('The Atlantic'), a privately
held fixed income investment management company headquartered in New
York City. HSBC Halbis Partners will be a
specialised fundamental active investment business, focusing on
delivering sustainable , value-added performance in selected areas
including fixed income, Asian and emerging markets equities , European
equities, and some alternative strategies.

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HR professionals can also browse by human
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, BLR publishes books, newsletters ,
and Web products serving professionals in human resources,
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"This acquisition also confirms and strengthens our commitment to
building HSBC Halbis Partners into a focused 'alpha' business.

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At 31 December 2004, The Atlantic
had assets under management of over US$700 million.

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The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter
of 2005. The
core portfolio management team of Peter Marber, Michael Gagliardi and
Denise Simon collectively have more than 50 years of experience
investing in markets in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America,
the Caribbean and the Middle East.

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" Prince continued, "Instead of poring through pages of
regulations to find the relevant answer (and know where to start), you
simply ask a question and immediately get a targeted answer.

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Based in Old Saybrook, Conn. At December 2004, the HSBC
Group as a whole had assets under management of US$476 billion.

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The Atlantic is a leading specialist manager of global emerging
markets fixed income products for some of the world's largest
corporations as well as institutional and individual investors. It will have around 200
investment professionals based in London, New York, Paris and Hong
Kong.

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revolutionary new website with all the HR answers, all the time. The simplest method is to just type in
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serves over 110 million customers worldwide from over 9,800 offices in
77 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the
Americas , the Middle East and Africa.

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For a free catalog
call 1-800-727-5257 or visit www. With assets of US$1,277 billion
at 31 December 2004, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and
financial services organisations.

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BLR.
As announced on 4 May 2005, and subject to receiving the necessary
legal and regulatory approvals, HSBC is establishing HSBC Halbis
Partners, a specialised investment business , into which it intends to
integrate The Atlantic in due course. With the company's strong resources and unparalleled
commitment to emerging markets, we couldn't imagine any better partner
than HSBC . The HSBC Group

HSBC Holdings plc is headquartered in the UK.

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HSBC Halbis Partners

HSBC is currently seeking legal and regulatory approvals to
establish HSBC Halbis Partners in the USA and other jurisdictions.

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A combination of proprietary search
technology linked to BLR's extensive HR content, written in plain
English and enriched in XML, instantly returns a choice of answers
ranked by relevance."

Notes to editors:

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Sure the search and XML technology
are what makes it work - but the big excitement is what a powerful
tool this is - how it delivers instant, accurate answers to difficult
questions. It is the latest addition to HSBC's fixed
income business, headed by Gregg Diliberto, and gives us a team of
well known professionals with an impressive track record .

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Peter Marber, president of The Atlantic, said: "We're thrilled to
join an institution with a great global platform for our specialised
products.

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Chris Cheetham, the prospective global CEO of HSBC Halbis
Partners, commented: "This acquisition will significantly enhance
HSBC's capabilities and expertise in managing global emerging markets
fixed income portfolios.

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HSBC is marketed worldwide as 'the
world's local bank '.

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Business Editors

OLD SAYBROOK, Conn.
BLR's HR managing editor Susan Prince said about the new release,
"It's very exciting because there has never been a service like this
in the human resource space before.blr.
Until HSBC Halbis Partners is created in the USA, it will be a trading
name of HSBC Investments (USA) Inc.

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BLR is offering a free trial of InstantHRAnswers.BLR.

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Together with other specialist
businesses and HSBC Investments, HSBC Halbis Partners will form part
of HSBC's Group Investment Businesses which, at December 2004, had
assets under management of US$224 billion.

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