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EXHIBIT 99(a)
Please mark your votes as in this example.
This proxy is solicited on behalf of the Board of Directors. Unless otherwise
specified, the shares will be voted "FOR" approval of the Merger. This Proxy
also delegates discretionary authority to vote with respect to any other
business which may properly come before the Special Meeting of Stockholders.
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1. Approval of the Merger
FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN
THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF THE NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING AND
THE PROXY STATEMENT.
NOTE: Please sign this Proxy exactly as the name(s) appears hereon. When signing
as attorney-in-fact, executor, administrator, trustee or guardian, please add
your title as such. Proxies executed in the name of a corporation should be
signed on behalf of the corporation by a duly authorized officer. Where shares
are owned in the name of two or more persons, all such persons should sign this
Proxy.
SIGNATURE (S) DATED
_ PLEASE SIGN, DATE AND RETURN IN THE ENCLOSED POSTAGE-PAID ENVELOPE _
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LEXINGTON GLOBAL ASSET MANAGERS, INC.
Proxy Solicited by the Board of DirectorsSpecial Meeting of StockholdersTo be
Held July 26, 2000 The undersigned stockholder(s) of Lexington Global Asset
Managers, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Lexington"), revoking all previous
proxies, hereby appoints(s) Stuart Smith Richardson, L. Richardson Preyer and
Lunsford Richardson, Jr., and each or any of them (the "Proxies"), the true and
lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact for the undersigned, with power of
substitution, to attend and to vote the stock owned by or registered in the name
of the undersigned, as instructed below, at the Special Meeting of Stockholders
of Lexington to be held at the offices of Lexington at Park 80 West, Plaza Two,
Saddle Brook, New Jersey 07663, on July 26, 2000 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time, and
any and all adjournments or postponements thereof. The Proxies are authorized
and directed to vote as indicated with respect to the following matter:
To approve and adopt an agreement and plan of merger dated as of February 28,
2000, among Lexington, ReliaStar Financial Corp., a Delaware corporation,
Pilgrim Capital Corporation, a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary
of ReliaStar, and Pilgrim Lexington Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation
and wholly owned subsidiary of Pilgrim, and the merger contemplated thereby, all
as described and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the
accompanying proxy statement/prospectus.
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