Santa Barbara, CA - May 23, 2005

Partnervest and Business First National Bank recently formed a strategic partnership that will make unbiased wealth-management services more accessible than ever before. View the full article (from the May 20, 2005 edition of the The South Coast Beacon).


About Business First National Bank
Business First National Bank is a premier community bank that combines the best of high touch banking and the experience of high tech commerce. The bank focuses primarily upon the needs of small to medium sized businesses in the Santa Barbara area. Since opening its doors in January 2001, businesses have been flocking to Business First and today the bank boasts a roster of well-known, high profile business leaders as clients. Business First also offers a full range of traditional deposit and credit products for businesses, including high yield money market accounts, sweep accounts, commercial lines of credit, equipment loans, term loans and commercial real estate loans.


About Partnervest Financial Group
Partnervest Financial Group LLC, headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, is a privately owned full-service financial services company. Partnervest provides superior, unbiased wealth management solutions for investors and the advisors that serve them. Partnervest and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Partnervest Securities, Inc. (Member NASD/SIPC), Partnervest Advisory Services LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor, and Partnervest Insurance Services LLC, an Insurance Agency, provide the full spectrum of financial services and products, as well as back-office operations, compliance, and business consulting services. For further information, contact Partnervest at (888) 991-9969 or at www.partnervest.com.