DENVER - January 5, 2016 - ALPS, a DST Company providing products and services to the financial services industry, today announced it has been named the Mutual Fund Administrator of the Year by Global Custodian.

According to Global Custodian, the leading magazine covering the international securities services business, the goal of the award is to identify the institution that delivers exceptional service to its clients based on direct input from the industry.

ALPS was identified as winner of the Fund Administration category following extensive analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from Global Custodian's 2015 Mutual Fund Administration survey.

'To be selected for this special award from what I know to be a list of outstanding administrators is quite an honor,' said Jeremy May, President of ALPS Fund Services, Inc. 'This success is a testament to our loyal clients and our dedicated employees.'

ALPS was honored at Global Custodian's Industry Leaders Gala Dinner and Awards Program held at the Harvard Club in New York City. The magazine, with a circulation of 20,000 investment professionals around the world, is defined by a series of annual surveys that have become benchmarks for the industry.

For more information on ALPS' suite of Fund Administration Services, visit alpsinc.com or contact Lisa Mougin at lisa.mougin@alpsinc.com.

About ALPS
Through its subsidiary companies, ALPS Holdings, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative investment products and customized servicing solutions to the financial services industry. Founded in 1985, Denver-based ALPS delivers its asset management and asset servicing solutions through offices in Boston, Golden, New York, Seattle, and Toronto. ALPS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kansas City-based DST Systems, Inc. For more information about ALPS and its services, visit www.alpsinc.com. Information about ALPS products is available at www.alpsfunds.com.

About DST
DST Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of sophisticated information processing and servicing solutions to companies around the world. Through its global enterprise, DST delivers strategically unified transactions and business processing, data management, and customer communications solutions to the asset management, brokerage, retirement, and healthcare markets. Headquartered in Kansas City, MO., DST is a publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.dstsystems.com.

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