LEAGUE GETS SOME INK!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Dear Member-Partners and Member Candidates,

It gives me pleasure to report that LEAGUE has received a great deal of positive media coverage in the last quarter. Article topics have ranged from our philosophy of Intergenerational Wealth^TM, to several news stories on the progress of our flagship Colwood City Centre development.

Fresh Ink
My partner Adam Gant and I were interviewed by various media in the last few months. Among them:

• The lead story of the Spring, 2011 edition of Strategize Magazine was all about LEAGUE Financial Partners and featured both my partner Adam and myself on the front cover.
• In August, Adam was interviewed extensively by the US website Trepp REIT Cafe about the state of Canadian REITS. You can listen to the podcast of the interview by clicking here;
• I was interviewed by the Calgary publication Business Edge, about LEAGUE and or focus on Intergenerational Wealth. You can find the complete full-page story here;
• An interview with Adam is featured here in Property Biz Canada, discussing LEAGUE's continued progress, strategies and future;
• A story in the Victoria Times Colonist described LEAGUE's involvement in the purchase of a Victoria landmark and our commitment to renovate the structure and enhance the neighbourhood by so doing;
• A Victoria publication, Douglas Magazine, featured an article about the Member Partners' Solar Energy Limited Partnership. Albeit the article was not technically correct -- although our investment is part of a fund that owns the largest collection of solar arrays in Ontario, we don't own it all -- you'll find it an interesting read.
• LEAGUE was also featured recently in BC Business. The article tells how with your support, we together faced down the credit crisis and continued to show how we are leaders, not followers.

Colwood City Centre
With demolition work due to begin on the site of Colwood Plaza this fall, media interest picked up. Articles that featured architect renderings of the structures and interviews with my partner Adam have appeared in:

• The Victoria Times Colonist - Builder to break ground on Colwood City Centre development;
• The Goldstream Gazette - Colwood Corners overhaul eyed for year's end;
• Property Biz Canada - LEAGUE Financial Partners' Colwood City Centre Project to Transform Victoria Bedroom Community;
• The Vancouver Island Business Examiner -- LEAGUE Unveils Colwood Project;
• Journal of Commerce - Massive Vancouver Island development;
• The April 2011 edition of Profile Magazine featured a special insert on Colwood City Centre.

In the same issue of the Vancouver Island Business Examiner was an article on the purchase of the Evergreen Mall in Sooke, near Victoria, by Partners REIT, the public REIT of which LEAGUE IGW REIT maintains a controlling interest and from which continues to benefit.

Summit of Leaders
LEAGUE also received very good press coverage of its "Summit of Leaders". The event was attended by an outstanding array of international entrepreneurs, as well as business students at Royal Roads University where it was held at the university's new Centre for Learning last July.

Interviews with the Summit's featured speaker, Don Mattrick, Vice President of Interactive Entertainment Business for Microsoft, appeared in the Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times-Colonist.

LEAGUE's press release publicizing the event also received wide coverage. And while not distributed in the media, I thought I'd also share the video of this inspiring speech given by of one of the Summit's esteemed presenters, Mr. Howard Brodski. I'll let his words speak for themselves.

You can check LEAGUE's complete "clippings collection" by clicking this link. And if you see anything that features LEAGUE in the news, you'd be helping Adam and me greatly if you'd tell us about it by writing to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Warmest regards,

Emanuel F. Arruda Co-Founder & Chairman The LEAGUE Group of Companies

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