Retailers Association of Massachusetts, Association Benefits Insurance Agency, and Baystate Financial Services Team Up to Provide Added Value to Women Business Owners in the Boston Area

Newton, MA, June 17, 2007 – The Retailers Association of Massachusetts (RAM) and Association Benefits Insurance Agency (ABI) are teaming up with Baystate Financial Services (BFS) to organize a fun-filled, informative, and interactive event for women in business in the Boston area. These companies are collaborating in order to provide added value to their respective clients, especially in the financial planning industry where these women business owners are considered an underserved market.

The main event: Andy Savitz, the best selling author of “The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies are Achieving Economic, Social, and Environmental Success - And How You Can Too” will speak on the triple bottom line, the place in which corporate and societal interests intersect. It is a new way to measure the bottom line - where profits go side-by-side with environmental and social performance - and an illuminating way to understand the often-fuzzy concept of sustainability. It is a spot that the best-run and most profitable companies have already found, and Savitz, former head of PricewaterhouseCooper's Sustainability Business Services practice, says is attainable for any business that knows where to look and is willing to change.

Rebecca Kovatch, Vice President of New England Securities will discuss how she balances work and life.

Yolanda, founder of Yolanda Enterprises, Inc. will serve on a panel with Donna White, Esquire, partner at Prince, Lobel, Glovsky, & Tye, LLP, and Laurie Burkhardt, Vice President of Financial Planning at Baystate Financial Services. Together, they will administer an open discussion with the attendees on topics of interest including exit strategies, estate planning, and health care for employees.

The event will take place at the Boston Marriott Newton on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

If you would like more information, please contact Betsy Miller at 617.585.4540 or bmiller1@baystatefinancial.com.

Baystate Financial Services is one of New England’s oldest and largest privately owned financial services firms, with offices throughout the northeast. For over a century, we have provided insurance, investment management, estate planning, business succession, employee benefits, retirement funding, long-term care insurance and education funding strategies. We are an independently owned and operated group of highly trained professionals dedicated to helping individuals, executives and business owners achiever their financial goals.

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