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Kamakura Reports Fifth Consecutive Month of Weakened Corporate Credit Quality

Kamakura Index of Troubled Companies Remains at Highest Level in 20 Months

HONOLULU, June 1, 2005: Kamakura Corporation reported today that its monthly index of troubled companies in the United States stayed at 16.0% of the public company universe in May, the fifth consecutive month with declining or steady corporate credit quality. The index remains at its highest level since September 2003. The Kamakura troubled company index remains up 2.4% above March 2005 levels. Kamakura classifies any company with a default probability of more than one percent as troubled.

"The Kamakura troubled company index remains 4.9% higher than the low point of 11.1% reached in April 2004," said Warren Sherman, Kamakura President and Chief Operating Officer. "The number of companies with default probabilities between 1% and 5% remained at 9.6% of the universe in May. Companies with default probabilities between 5 and 10% were 2.5% of the universe. Companies with default probabilities between 10% and 20% were unchanged at 1.7% of the universe. The riskiest firms in the universe, those with default probabilities over 20%, also remained at 2.2% of the universe in May."

Kamakura is offering free trials of its KRIS default probability service to qualified institutions. For more information on Kamakura's free trial offer please visit the Kamakura Corporation web site. Additional information can also be found in Advanced Financial Risk Management (John Wiley & Sons, 2004) by Kamakura's van Deventer, Kenji Imai, and Mark Mesler available on Amazon. Advanced Financial Risk Management was recently named "best finance book of 2004" on riskbook.com.

About Kamakura Corporation

Kamakura Corporation is a leading provider of risk management information, processing and software. Kamakura has been a provider of daily default probabilities and default correlations for listed companies since November, 2002. Kamakura launched its business mortality model for unlisted companies in January 2004. Kamakura is also the first company in the world to develop and install a fully integrated credit risk, market risk, asset and liability management, and transfer pricing software system. Kamakura has clients ranging in size from $3 billion in assets to $1 trillion in assets. Kamakura's risk management software is currently used in the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Middle East, Japan, China, Korea and many other countries in Asia.

Kamakura's research effort is led by Professor Robert Jarrow, who was named Financial Engineer of the Year in 1997 by the International Association of Financial Engineers. Professor Jarrow and Dr. van Deventer were both named to the 50 member RISK Hall of Fame in December 2002. Kamakura management has published twenty-one books and more than 100 publications on credit risk, market risk, and asset and liability management. Kamakura has world-wide distribution alliances with IPS-Sendero and Unisys, making Kamakura products available in almost every major city around the globe.

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