OUR COMPANY HISTORY

ALPS, celebrating over 25 years of customized and innovative service to the mutual fund industry, traces its roots to changes in the Glass-Steagall banking laws back in the early 1980's. Indeed, with the financial institutions deregulation act, a wide range of securities, insurance and other financial products suddenly became available to banks and thrift institutions and banks across the country were getting into the mutual fund business.

It was inside that emerging market that company founders Bob Alexander and Art Lucey, both executives with the First National Bank of Denver, saw opportunity. Specifically, a chance to create a company that provided certain specialized services that banks could not offer themselves. And so it was that in June of 1985, ALPS came to be.

ALPS TODAY

In just two and a half decades, ALPS has evolved from its modest beginnings of servicing a single bank mutual fund client, into a full-service provider to the investment management industry. Now with more than 300 employees, nearly 200 clients, and an executive team that's been in place for over 15 years, ALPS continues to actively promote all of its various business segments, from asset servicing through ALPS Fund Services, Inc. to asset gathering through ALPS Distributors, Inc. and ALPS Advisors, Inc.

With a combination of expertise in a broad range of products and a culture built around the founders' encouragement to "Do Things Right," ALPS is uniquely positioned in the industry to help its clients structure, service and distribution of all product types.