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Triad Guaranty Inc. To Join Nasdaq Financial-100 Index Beginning June 6, 2001

Date 30/05/2001

Triad Guaranty Inc. (Nasdaq:TGIC) of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will become a component of the Nasdaq Financial-100 Index®, effective at the beginning of trading Wednesday, June 6, 2001. Triad Guaranty Inc. will replace Allied Capital Corporation (Nasdaq:ALLC), which is delisting from The Nasdaq Stock MarketSM.

Triad Guaranty Inc. has a current market capitalization of $476 million. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Triad Guaranty Insurance Corporation, is a mortgage insurer providing mortgage insurance (MI) to residential mortgage lenders throughout the United States. Private MI makes homeownership available to buyers with down payments of less than 20%, facilitates the sales of mortgage loans in the secondary market and protects lenders from default-related expenses.

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