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DST Announces AIM Fund Services to Exclusively Use Vision®

KANSAS CITY, MO., May 19, 2003 – DST Systems, Inc. announced today that AIM Fund Services, Inc., a subsidiary of A I M Management Group Inc. (AIM) and transfer agent for The AIM Family of Funds®, will exclusively use the DST Vision™ Web site to supply customer account information to its respective financial intermediaries and broker-dealer operations groups. AIM previously participated in both AdvisorCentral™ and DST Vision™.

AIM is an indirect subsidiary of AMVESCAP PLC (NYSE: AVZ). INVESCO Funds Group, also an indirect subsidiary of AMEVSCAP, has used Vision since 1998.

“We evaluated available products with our colleagues at INVESCO Funds Group, and determined that Vision will provide our clients with valuable additional features such as transaction processing and online statements,” said Ira Cohen, senior vice president of AIM Fund Services. “Ninety percent of our traffic has been through Vision; we have worked with the other 10 percent to facilitate this decision.”

“We are very pleased that AIM has decided to move forward exclusively with Vision,” said Kyle Mallot, DST’s Client Services Officer. “AIM has had the unique opportunity to use both sites and to determine which was more useful to them, so we are especially happy with AIM's decision.”

Introduced in 1998, DST Vision™ is designed to give independent advisors an easy-to-use, one-stop information source for customer positions held directly with fund families and variable annuity providers. With a single ID and password, advisors have access to account management tools including transaction processing capabilities, customizable client portfolios, and electronic statements. Vision® is an open platform providing access to more than 93 million accounts residing on multiple recordkeeping systems. Participating funds include industry giants AllianceBernstein, AIM Investments, American Funds, MFS Investment Management, Nationwide Financial, OppenheimerFunds, Inc., and Pacific Life. Vision is continually enhanced to simplify account management and serve the evolving needs of financial intermediaries. Visit Vision at www.dstvision.com.

DST Systems, Inc. (NYSE: DST) provides sophisticated information processing and computer software services and products that help clients improve productivity, increase efficiencies, and provide higher levels of customer service. DST is organized domestically and internationally into three operating segments: Financial Services, Customer Management, and Output Solutions. DST operates one of the most advanced data centers in the world, which provides information-processing services to support the products within each operating segment. These products are further enhanced through the integration of DST’s advanced technology and e-commerce solutions.

Houston-based AIM Investments is one of the nation's leading investment management companies and an indirect subsidiary of AMVESCAP PLC (NYSE: AVZ). AIM Investments is dedicated to providing its clients with high-quality products and service through multiple investment management styles and a broad product range of retail equity, fixed-income, and money market funds, institutional portfolios, and separately managed accounts for high-income individuals. Founded in 1976, AIM had $124 billion in assets under management and approximately 9 million shareholders as of December 31, 2002. For more information, visit www.aiminvestments.com.

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