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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 13, 2007

Quantum Capital Management Announces the Availability of
Their Core Equity Strategies on Adhesion Technologies'
WealthADV Platform


Quantum Strategies Widely Suitable for a Broad Group of Investors

Marin County, CA and Charlotte, NC (11/13/2007)  Quantum Capital Management, an investment strategy firm, has made three of its previously proprietary investment portfolios available to independent advisors via Adhesion's WealthADV platform. Quantum Capital is an independently managed subsidiary company of $26 Billion Focus Financial Partners, the largest privately owned wealth management firm in the United States. Quantum is also one of approximately 225 national investment advisors in the Charles Schwab Advisor Network. The firm's performance records are in compliance with the CFA Institute's Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) and independently verified by third party auditors, Ashland Partners, LLC.

"Until recently, Quantum's strategies were only available directly through the firm", remarks Rich Conley, SVP of Sales at Adhesion. "Now, with WealthADV, advisors gain access to the strategies without the need to open a separate account with Quantum , without the firm's account minimum restrictions, and regardless of which custodian they use (e.g., Schwab Institutional, TD Ameritrade Institutional, Pershing, or Fidelity)."

Howard Aschwald, a co-founder and the Chief Investment Officer at Quantum noted, "We really like the WealthADV managed service model for RIAs. With WealthADV RIAs can begin to utilize our strategies with a simple ‘check of a box', versus going through the process of engaging us to provide the actual portfolio management for each account. It is a win-win for both the RIA and Quantum."

The Quantum core strategies are designed to hold the majority, or in the case of the Global Growth Strategy, the entire equity component of an asset allocation plan. "We have been serving high net worth clients for over eleven years through all kinds of markets. We've found that clients really like an equity strategy that makes intuitive sense and allows them to weather downside risk with a lot of emotional comfort", said Steve Bradley, co-founder and CEO of Quantum. "We really think our strategies will be a great alternative for those RIA's serving individual clients who are looking for a steady investment approach and low manager turnover", added Howard Aschwald.

There are three core Quantum equity strategies available at WealthADV:

QCM Long Term Growth:  Invests in established US companies with solid fundamentals and proven records of increasing sales and profits that are at least $2 billion in market capitalization. Quantum looks at rising Economic Margins in relationship to a firm's Market Value to net Invested Capital to determine an intrinsic value. Quantum's use of non-standard financial information is one of the key differentiators and value contributors in its proprietary research process. The portfolio is exposed to all ten S&P GICS sectors and aims for returns at or above the Russell 1000 Growth Index with at least 10% lower volatility risk. This is designed as a core growth strategy.

QCM Dividend Growth:  The strategy is focused on achieving above average current income, growing dividends and growth of capital. The portfolio is comprised of stable, dividend-paying companies with projected dividend growth at least equal to the rate of inflation and portfolio dividend growth that is at least double the rate of inflation. Quantum utilizes the same fundamental research process as its other disciplines, but limits it selection universe to U.S. domiciled companies that are greater than $2Billion in market capitalization and that pay at least 80% of the dividend yield of their respective GICS sector. The portfolio is exposed to all ten S&P GICS sectors aims for returns equal to S&P 500 with at least 10% lower volatility risk. This is designed as a core value strategy.

QCM Global Growth:  The objective is to achieve superior returns through a strategically designed portfolio with exposure to more rapid global growth opportunities and focused participation in the more rapidly growing segments of the U.S. economy. The portfolio is exclusively constructed with ETF assets for all ten Global GICS sectors, U.S. small and mid cap growth stocks, and emerging markets. Allocations are managed at the GICS S&P 500 sector level and rebalanced annually to current strategic targets in order to optimize the risk-adjusted returns of the portfolio. Returns are expected to significantly exceed the S&P 500 with approximately the same level of volatility risk. This is designed to be the only equity strategy of a portfolio.



Quantum Capital Management is a Registered Investment Advisor founded in 1996. Assets under management were approximately $240mm as of September 30, 2007. The firm has achieved a reputation for designing well engineered portfolios that generate positive alpha with lower than index risk. The professional section of Quantum's website, www.quantumcap.com discusses the firm, its people and the Quantum strategies in more detail.

WealthADV is a comprehensive Managed Investing service, delivering the complete client reporting, back office and UMA solutions that RIAs need for growing successful practices.

With WealthADV Unified Household Reporting clients receive distinctive, consultant style reports, optimized for managed accounts. Unified household reporting can roll together a client's full set of assets:   WealthADV UMAs, other managed or advised accounts, partnership interests and other assets, as well as accounts advised away. WealthADV is a fully outsourced, managed service for high-end client reporting which includes the needed back office administration such as multi-custodian data consolidation and reconciliation, portfolio accounting, performance measurement, and billing, without the requirement for the RIA to administer technology or hire operations staff.

With WealthADV Unified Managed Accounts (UMAs) RIAs have the flexibility to construct custom composite allocations from an open-architecture library of investment strategies from nationally-acclaimed and boutique money managers, and their own proprietary models. Professional Overlay Portfolio Management (OPM) is the core process that drives WealthADV UMAs. It requires coordinating the investment recommendations among multiple managers and any client restrictions or mandates, generating and blocking trade orders, trade execution with various custodians, and active management of tax impacting events. As such, effective OPM requires leading edge technology and experienced portfolio managers, resources few independent advisors can muster. With WealthADV UMAs, professional overlay portfolio management and trading is an integral part of the service, removing another scalability hurdle for RIA firms.

WealthADV is a registered trademark of Adhesion Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Key Contacts:
Howard B. Aschwald, CFA
Quantum Capital Management
(415) 927-8430
haschwald@quantumcap.com
www.quantumcap.com

Rich Conley
Adhesion Technologies
(888) 295-8351
rich.conley@wealthadv.com
www.WealthADV.com



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