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Selective to Present at the 2026 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Insurance Conference

BRANCHVILLE, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIGI) announced today that John J. Marchioni, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Patrick S. Brennan, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, will present at the 2026 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Insurance Conference on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 4:20 p.m. ET. Investors can listen live to Selective’s presentation or access a recording by visiting the Investors page of www.Selective.com through October 9, 2026.

About Selective Insurance Group, Inc.

Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIGI) is a holding company for 10 property and casualty insurance companies rated “A+” (Superior) by AM Best. Through independent agents, the insurance companies offer standard insurance for commercial and personal risks and specialty insurance for commercial risks. Selective also offers flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program’s Write Your Own Program. Selective’s unique position as both a leading insurance group and employer of choice is widely recognized, with awards and honors including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers and certification for seven consecutive years as a Great Place to Work®.

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Schwab Trading Activity Index™: STAX Score Dips in August

Schwab clients were selective in August, pushing the STAX score lower for the first time since April despite market gains.

Key Takeaways:

• The Schwab Trading Activity Index™ (STAX) decreased to 57.50 in August, down from its score of 59.80 in July.

• Schwab clients appeared to grow more selective in August, pushing the STAX score lower for the first time since April, even as the markets advanced.

• Options and ETF trading trends suggest clients sought diversified, defined-risk ways to stay exposed to the markets without fully rebuilding equity positions.

WESTLAKE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
The Schwab Trading Activity Index™ (STAX) decreased to 57.50 in August, down from its score of 59.80 in July. The only index of its kind, the STAX is a proprietary, behavior-based index that analyzes retail investor stock positions and trading activity from Schwab’s millions of client accounts to illuminate what investors were actually doing and how they were positioned in the markets each month.

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“August trading activity suggests Schwab’s retail clients were becoming more selective as markets recovered,” said Joe Mazzola, Head Trading and Derivatives Strategist at Charles Schwab. “Rather than pulling back from the market, many appeared to rebalance, taking profits in high-beta software stocks after sharp rebounds while remaining engaged with growth and innovation leaders such as SpaceX (SPCX) and Nvidia (NVDA).”

Economic data during the August STAX period showed signs of slowing, with the July nonfarm payrolls report released early in the month declining by 23,000 and second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) rising just 1.5% on a seasonally adjusted annual basis. Monthly inflation growth also moderated over the summer.

Oil prices fell early in August before rebounding as tensions reemerged in the Middle East. Treasury yields, which had been closely correlated with oil, climbed throughout the month and may have contributed to investors’ caution. Hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh on the final afternoon of the STAX period sharply lifted September rate-hike odds, though the timing likely came too late to materially affect the overall August STAX score.

The S&P 500 Index rose 2.96% during the August STAX period, its strongest gain since May, yet client activity softened, underscoring a more cautious tone beneath the headline market advance. ETF demand reinforced that message. Two ETFs ranked among the top five net-buys, and four appeared in the top 10, suggesting clients preferred broader, diversified exposure over adding concentrated single-stock positions.

Options activity pointed to a similar shift. Call buying remained strong, particularly in companies tied to tech-heavy ETFs. But compared with prior periods when put buying was more common as a downside hedge, August’s options flow suggested investors were looking for defined-risk ways to stay exposed to the markets without fully rebuilding equity positions.

At the sector level, Industrials, Utilities, and Real Estate were the only S&P 500 sectors to attract net buying from Schwab’s retail clients in August, while Information Technology, Communication Services, and financials saw the largest net selling. From a demographic perspective, Gen X clients continued to lead net buying by age cohort, and self-directed traders remained much more skewed toward net buying when compared to self-identified investors.

Popular names bought by Schwab clients during the period included:

• Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SPCX)

• Micron Technology Inc. (MU)

• NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA)

• Intel Corp. (INTC)

• Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL)

Names net sold by Schwab clients during the period included:

• Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR)

• Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)

• ServiceNow Inc. (NOW)

• Salesforce Inc. (CRM)

• Oracle Corp. (ORCL)

About the STAX

The STAX value is calculated based on a complex proprietary formula. Each month, Schwab pulls a sample from its client base of millions of funded accounts, which includes accounts that completed a trade in the past month. The holdings and positions of this statistically significant sample are evaluated to calculate individual scores, and the median of those scores represents the monthly STAX.

For more information on the Schwab Trading Activity Index, please visit www.schwab.com/investment-research/stax. Additionally, Schwab clients can chart the STAX using the symbol $STAX in either the thinkorswim^® or thinkorswim Mobile platforms.

Investing involves risk, including loss of principal. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Content intended for educational/informational purposes only. Not investment advice, or a recommendation of any security, strategy, or account type.

Options carry a high level of risk and are not suitable for all investors. Certain requirements must be met to trade options through Schwab. Please read the Options Disclosure Document titled “Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options” before considering any option transaction.

Historical data should not be used alone when making investment decisions. Please consult other sources of information and consider your individual financial position and goals before making an independent investment decision.

The STAX is not a tradable index. The STAX should not be used as an indicator or predictor of future client trading volume or financial performance for Schwab.

About Charles Schwab

At Charles Schwab, we believe in the power of investing to help individuals create a better tomorrow. We have a history of challenging the status quo in our industry, innovating in ways that benefit investors and the advisors and employers who serve them, and championing our clients’ goals with passion and integrity.

More information is available at aboutschwab.com. Follow us on X, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

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Better Home & Finance Announces Leading Independent Proxy Advisor ISS Recommends Shareholders Oppose Vishal Garg’s Campaign to Remove a Majority of the Board

ISS Recommends Shareholders to “REVOKE CONSENT” on the WHITE Consent Revocation Card

Shareholders Who Have Previously Signed and Returned a Green Consent Card May Revoke That Consent by Signing, Dating and Returning the Company’s WHITE Consent Revocation Card

Special Committee Again Calls on Vishal Garg to End His Costly and Distracting Campaign

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
The Special Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Special Committee”) of Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR) (“Better” or the “Company”), today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”), a leading independent provider of proxy research and vote recommendations to the institutional investment community, has recommended that Better shareholders not provide consent on Vishal Garg’s green consent card and to “REVOKE CONSENT” on Better’s WHITE consent revocation card.

In making its recommendation, ISS noted¹:

• “[Mr. Garg] cannot distance himself from the state of play that the [C]ompany now finds itself in.”

• “[A] longer-term view demonstrates that the [C]ompany lost the majority of its value under his leadership…”

• “[A]s the founder and former CEO, [Mr. Garg] arguably bears more responsibility than any other party for this state of affairs.”

• “[D]isappointing results were announced at the same time as his departure, meaning that the negative market reaction since he departed may also be linked to performance during his tenure.”

• “The board’s decision to part ways with [Mr. Garg] appears defensible, and [Mr. Garg] has failed to establish why an overhaul of the board is necessary at this point.”

The Special Committee commented:

“We are pleased ISS has recommended that Better shareholders reject Vishal Garg’s proposal to remove five highly qualified members of the Board.

Mr. Garg’s campaign to disrupt Better’s Board and interfere with the Company’s ongoing search for a permanent CEO has been expensive and distracting. We once again call on Mr. Garg to withdraw his consent solicitation and allow the Board and management team to focus their full attention on stabilizing and strengthening the business.

It is time for Better to move forward.”

The Special Committee unanimously recommends that shareholders sign, date and return the WHITE consent revocation card and disregard any green consent card received from Mr. Garg. Shareholders who have previously signed and returned a green consent card may revoke that consent at any time by signing, dating and returning the Company’s WHITE consent revocation card.

Shareholders who have questions regarding the consent solicitation or need assistance revoking a previously submitted consent should contact the Company’s proxy solicitor:

Saratoga Proxy Consulting LLC

(212) 257-1311 / (888) 368-0379

[email protected]

About Better

Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR) is the first AI-native mortgage and home equity finance platform, and first fintech to fund more than $110 billion in loan volume. Better has leveraged its industry-leading AI platform, Tinman^®, to achieve its singular mission of making homeownership cheaper, faster, and easier for all Americans. Tinman^® allows customers to see their rate options in seconds, get pre-approved in minutes, lock in rates, and close their loan in as little as three weeks. In addition, Betsy™, the first AI loan agent built exclusively for the mortgage industry, revolutionizes the homebuying journey by answering questions, delivering approvals, comparing products, processing rate locks, and moving their loan application along to closing 24/7/365. Better’s mortgage offerings include GSE-conforming mortgage loans, FHA and VA loans, and jumbo mortgage and home equity loans. Better serves customers in all 50 US states and the United Kingdom.

For more information, follow @SaveBETR and @betrmortgage on X and @betterdotcom on Instagram and TikTok.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements in this press release that are not historical facts should be considered forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “believe,” “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “potential,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “expect,” “could,” “would,” “project,” “plan,” “target,” or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in this communication. These risks and uncertainties include those risks discussed in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 and the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2026 and June 30, 2026, as any such factors may be updated from time to time in the Company’s other filings with the SEC. New risks and uncertainties arise from time to time, and it is impossible for Better to predict these events or how they may affect us. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Better undertakes no obligation, except as required by law, to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, changes in expectations, future events or otherwise.

Important Additional Information and Where to Find It

The Company has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a definitive consent revocation statement dated August 28, 2026, together with an accompanying WHITE consent revocation card, in opposition to the solicitation of written consents by Vishal Garg and the members of his group (collectively, the “Garg Group”) seeking to remove members of the Company’s Board of Directors. INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE CONSENT REVOCATION STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS THE COMPANY FILES WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors and stockholders will be able to obtain copies of the consent revocation statement, any amendments or supplements thereto and any other documents filed by the Company with the SEC free of charge at the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov) and at the Company’s investor relations website (investors.better.com).

Participants in the Solicitation

The Company, members of its Board of Directors and certain of its executive officers and employees may be deemed to be “participants” (as defined in Instruction 3 to Item 4 of Schedule 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) in the solicitation of revocations of consent from the Company’s stockholders in connection with the Garg Group’s consent solicitation. Information regarding such persons and their direct or indirect interests in the Company, by security holdings or otherwise, is set forth in the Company’s definitive consent revocation statement, filed with the SEC on August 28, 2026. This document may be obtained free of charge from the sources indicated above.

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How Exact Media Expanded Its Reachable Prospect Audience 20X Using ZoomInfo

The ad agency and events company replaced a patchwork of data providers with ZoomInfo’s data enrichment and grew its complete-data prospect list from about 3% of its target market to more than 20x.

VANCOUVER, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, has reported that Exact Media, an ad agency and events company that connects brand advertisers with e-commerce retailers, expanded its complete-data prospect audience 20X using ZoomInfo, according to the company. The team also stood up the platform in 10 days from first call to first use.

Exact Media runs a Connections platform that pairs brand advertisers with e-commerce retailers, and it organizes in-person events for C-suite executives. Those events need roughly 30 senior executives per gathering, all in the same city or region, because the company does not fly attendees in. Finding enough of the right people in a given local market was consistently the hard part. The CRM should have made it easier. It did not.

The team’s CRM was built from web forms, conference rosters, webinar registrations, and prospecting lists sourced through a patchwork of vendors including Prospect.io and the former Data.com. Direct dials and emails were there. The industry, geographic, and technographic detail that decides who is actually a fit was not. Marketers had to look outside the CRM to find the right executives in a market, then map those people back in by hand. By the team’s own estimate, complete records existed on about 3% of prospects. That is not enough coverage to fill an event.

Exact Media considered Hoovers and Dun & Bradstreet before selecting ZoomInfo, choosing on quality and speed of implementation. The platform went live in 10 days from first call to first use. Once ZoomInfo’s data enrichment ran across the CRM, it filled in industry, geography, and technology stack on incomplete records, and it flagged more than 4,000 leads as “person moved,” meaning the contact had left the associated company. Marketers now start inside the CRM to search for senior executives by city, industry, and technology stack. Technographic filters and alerts identify e-commerce retailers when they install a target platform, so the team learns about a fit account when it appears, not months later.

After the switch, Exact Media has full information on 20x more. Bad records were cleared. Event planning moved from a look-outside-then-map-back workflow to a single search inside the CRM. The team credits ZoomInfo with allowing it to expand its marketing effort and do it much quicker, in the case study.

Exact Media plans to keep ZoomInfo at the center of how it plans events and campaigns as it grows the Connections platform, using firmographic and technographic filters to reach the right decision-makers in the right cities without expanding the team.

About ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, enables sales, marketing, and customer success teams to execute their go-to-market strategy with confidence. Powered by the industry’s most comprehensive B2B data, including more than 100 million companies, 500 million contacts, and billions of signals, ZoomInfo delivers the intelligence, automation, and integrations that modern revenue teams need to identify, engage, and convert their best buyers.

Learn more at zoominfo.com.

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