Financial Services Award Winners Announced

USA -- DALBAR has released the 2006 winners of its annual Customer Service Awards.

Putnam Investments and The Hartford are named the leading the financial services industry in the quality of service to their customers.

In addition to Putnam Investments and The Hartford, Evergreen Investments and Seligman Funds were also named industry leaders.

They were joined by AEGON/Transamerica, BlackRock, Equitable EQUI-VEST, Genworth Financial, Goldman Sachs, Guardian Insurance & Annuity Co., Guardian Investor Services, The Individual Life Division of the Hartford, The Hartford Mutual Funds, JPMorgan Funds, New York Life-MainStay Annuities, New York Life, Pacific Life, PLANCO, Primeric a, Prudential Financial, RiverSource, RS Investments, Sun Life Financial, Transamerica/IDEX, and Transamerica Capital.