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Marketocracy Selects John Navin as an mFOLIO Master for Managed Accounts

December 8, 2008
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Marketocracy Data Services LLC,
(MDS) an investment research firm that has developed the industry’s most
extensive farm system of investment talent, announced the addition of John
Navin
to its growing team of mFOLIO Masters, bringing the total number to
twelve. Navin navigated through the crisis earlier this year and is ahead of
the S&P 500 Index with his JMF model fund by over 28% year-to-date and by over
20% annualized since inception of May 7, 2001.

“As a technical analyst, when I see something like the 50-day moving
average cross below the 200-day moving average, I take notice because that
indicates the potential for a bear market,” explained John Navin. “I use
complex Fibonacci mathematics and other methods to verify or negate such a
signal. This was the strongest bear signal I had seen since I’d started with
Marketocracy in 2001. So in April I moved into cash and started buying inverse
ETFs and stocks I thought would fare better even in a bear market.”

“Investing is a rare skill so finding great portfolio managers is like
finding a needle in a haystack,” explained Mark Taguchi, President of MDS. “We
have more data on more managers and that gives us a distinct research
advantage in finding the best managers with long-term track records that are
doing well right now — even in this volatile market.”

MDS will offer an mFOLIO based on Navin’s JMF model fund for registered
investment advisors (RIAs). An mFOLIO is an actively managed model portfolio
that RIAs can use to manage client accounts with. The company’s affiliate,
Marketocracy Capital Management LLC (http://advisor.marketocracy.com) offers
separately managed accounts that invest in the stocks of the mFOLIO Masters
and allow investors to mix and match mFOLIOs to their personal investment
needs and objectives.

mFOLIO Masters are ‘best of the best’ model portfolio managers that have
risen through the ranks at http://www.marketocracy.com. For over eight years
Marketocracy has tracked 100,000 model portfolios, analyzing their
performance, sifting through millions of trades to search for those skilled
enough to be called mFOLIO Masters. To learn more about all the mFOLIO
Masters, including John Navin, and to see their detailed investment track
records, please visit: http://m100.marketocracy.com

Marketocracy Data Services LLC (MDS) is an investment research company
whose mission is to develop the most extensive farm system of investment
talent, to refine a team investment process, and to generate actionable
research. Its website — http://www.marketocracy.com — is home to over 80,000
people from 130 countries that manage 100,000 model stock portfolios.

Marketocracy Capital Management LLC is an investment management firm which
uses the research generated by MDS and manages mutual funds, hedge funds, and
separately managed accounts and is an affiliate of MDS.

To speak with a spokesperson please contact Kelly Cinelli at:
kelly@cwrpartners.com or 508.222.4802

SOURCE Marketocracy Data Services LLC


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