For Immediate Release

ZUG, Switzerland/EWORLDWIRE/Aug. 19, 2008 --- Gardner Finance AG (Gardner) today announced the appointment of Ms. Antje Urwyler as an investment professional in its Portfolio Management department.

Ms. Urwyler's key past responsibilities include serving as VP, Head Manager Selection & Strategy Analysis at Credit Suisse, Switzerland, where she was responsible for the due diligence and monitoring of hedge fund managers and strategies for Credit Suisse's alternative investment portfolios. She was involved in structure and process definitions, management and the growth of the bank's alternative investment unit. In her last position, Ms. Urwyler was Director, Head of Investment Office and part of the executive management at one of Credit Suisse's subsidiaries in sourcing hedge fund managers to the bank's single manager access platform.

She holds a master's degree in Economics from the University of Basel and a bachelor's degree from the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena.

About Gardner Finance AG

Gardner Finance has a strong history of providing its clients with innovative financial solution platforms that cover a wide range of financial industry products in the commodity trading, public/private equity and public/private debt markets. Gardner Finance AG focuses on and is a recognized specialist in the natural resources investment sector where it employs its extensive knowledge of commodity investment products in the energy, agriculture, metals and materials sub-sectors. Gardner's objective is to enable a comprehensive exposure to the commodity sector with its MacroIndex(TM) family of Indices while simultaneously smoothing out the inherent volatility and cyclical nature of these markets.

To learn more about Gardner Finance AG and our products, visit 'http://www.gardner.ch' and 'http://www.macroindex.com'.

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CONTACT:
Michael Laznicka
Gardner Finance AG
Rigistrasse 2
Zug, CH-6300
PHONE. +41(41)726-3200
EMAIL: laznicka@gardner.ch
http://www.gardner.ch

SOURCE: Gardner Finance AG