GARDEN CITY, N.Y., Aug. 4, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Walker Financial Corporation (OTCBB:WLKF) is pleased to announce it has retained the services of AGORA Investor Relations Corp. ("AGORA") (http://www.agoracom.com) to provide investor relations services.
The objective of this agreement is twofold. First, to create effective communication between Walker Financial, its shareholders and the investment community through AGORA's Internet based investor relations system. Effective immediately, a customized and monitored Walker Financial IR HUB (http://www.agoracom.com/IR/WalkerFinancial) will allow both Walker Financial and AGORA to communicate with all investors simultaneously, anytime and in real-time, while providing shareholders with equal access and complete transparency to all investor relations communications. The IR HUB will also provide one-click access to the Walker Financial broker fact sheet, company profile, five most recent press releases, e-mail list registration, latest stock quote and chart information and an executive audio address updated quarterly. In addition, the IR HUB provides investors with a monitored discussion forum for the purposes of constructive and high-quality discussion about the Company that is free of spam, bashing, hyping and profanity.
Second, AGORA will be fully responsible for creating, implementing and executing an investor relations strategy, the consolidation of which will save management a considerable amount of time, effort and expense, allowing them to focus on core business operations, while significantly improving shareholder communications.
Walker Financial President and CEO, Mitchell Segal, stated, "Given the Company's goal to actively pursue an acquisition growth strategy, we believe the time has now come to significantly increase our communications with shareholders and the investment community. The solution provided by AGORA fulfills our need to manage and execute an IR strategy in a cost efficient manner, while providing our management team with the ability to focus on executing the business plan. Our shareholders and Company will benefit greatly from near real-time communications, regularly planned updates and increased exposure."
For all future Walker Financial investor relations needs, investors are asked to visit the Walker Financial IR Hub at http://www.agoracom.com/IR/WalkerFinancial where they can post questions and receive answers within the same day, or simply review questions and answers posted by other investors. Alternatively, investors are able to e-mail all questions and correspondence to WLKF@agoracom.com where they can also request addition to the investor e-mail list to receive all future press releases and updates in real time.
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AGORA Investor Relations Corp. (AGORA) is North America's leading outsourced investor relations firm for small-cap companies. AGORA's exclusive IR HUB delivers two-way investor relations and communications that provides 100% transparency, accessibility, equality and near real-time communications for all shareholders and the investment community. The digital delivery of investor relations also provides public companies with savings over traditional services ranging from 50-60%.
AGORA has specialized in small-cap investor relations since 1997 and is the exclusive provider of all content to the AOL Small Cap Channel.
About Walker Financial Corporation
Walker Financial Corporation is focusing its efforts on the marketing of products which benefit the baby boomer and senior populations. Through its subsidiary, National Preplanning, Inc., it is engaged in the sale of final expense and pre-need insurance as a voluntary benefit to captive audiences such as corporations, unions and affinity groups. Through its licensed insurance subsidiary, NPI Agency, Inc., Walker earns insurance commissions on the sale of such products. Through its subsidiary, American DataSource ("ADS"), the Company is engaged in the business of providing a complete line of administrative services for pre-need funeral and cemetery trust accounts.
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor provisions of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, continued acceptance of the Company's products and services in the marketplace, regulatory and competitive factors, new products and technological changes, the Company's dependence upon third-party suppliers, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Form 10-K and other regularly filed reports.