Contact: Mike Dunn
212-922-7859
dunn.mg@mellon.com

BOSTON, November 29, 2007 – Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC, a fixed income asset management subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, announced today that James W. Lukens has joined the firm as senior product manager. Lukens will oversee the firm’s product management and marketing communications efforts, managing its product specialists as well as its graphics and proposal-writing teams.  He will report to Alex Over, managing director of sales, marketing and client service at Standish. 

“We are very pleased to have someone with Jim’s broad industry experience and communication talents,” said Mitchell E. Harris, chairman and chief executive officer of Standish.  “As we continue growing our business, we look to Jim to help us communicate the innovative solutions we are developing to institutional investors and their consultants.”

Lukens comes to Standish with nearly 20 years of experience in fixed income investment management, communications and client service.  For the last 11 years, he was with Putnam Investments, where he was senior vice president and head of its fixed income institutional portfolio management team. Lukens held a similar product management and communications position with Keystone Investments, and he was previously an officer with the endowments of Brown and Yale universities.  Earlier, he was on the faculty of English department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught marketing communications to graduate and undergraduate business students.  Lukens is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University and received his Ph.D. with distinction from Indiana University.  He is a CFA charter holder and a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

With more than $160 billion in assets under management, Standish provides investment solutions for a wide variety of sophisticated investors with its broad spectrum of fixed income capabilities.  These include absolute return strategies, high income/high yield, emerging market debt, global fixed income, core/core plus, municipal/tax sensitive, beta strategies, short duration and stable value strategies.  Headquartered in Boston, with offices in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, Standish is one of 19 investment subsidiaries that comprise the BNY Mellon Asset Management business. 

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 34 countries and serving more than 100 markets. The company is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, providing superior asset management and wealth management, asset servicing, issuer services, clearing services and treasury services through a worldwide client-focused team. It has more than $20 trillion in assets under custody and administration, more than $1.1 trillion in assets under management and services $11 trillion in outstanding debt. Additional information is available at bnymellon.com.
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