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The Nationwide Financial(R) Personal Investor Site Moves to Nationwide.com
    COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Nationwide Financial Services,
Inc. (NYSE: NFS) today announced that it has moved all of its personal
investor account information and educational resources to nationwide.com. Now,
all of these resources and planning tools can be accessed from one central
location. The move introduces a new look, increased speed, streamlined
navigation and information written in easier-to-understand terms.

    What's new
    Besides changing bookmarks to nationwide.com, the Investor Service Center,
the online source for account information and transactions, has undergone some
recent improvements to provide a better experience including:
     - Enhanced privacy protections. The site incorporates security features
       to ensure account confidentiality, including password protection,
       Secure Sockets Layer (https://) safe-transfer technology and session
       timeouts.
     - Faster downloads. Web pages now load faster and transactions will go
       through more quickly.
     - Simplified navigation. Easy-to-understand navigational tabs, colorful
       images, and consumer-friendly information make moving throughout the
       site easier and enables quick identification of key information.
     - Increased accessibility. Improvements have been made to better meet the
       needs of individuals with disabilities by ensuring assistive tools,
       like screen readers, are compatible with the site.

    Additional enhancements to the Investor Service Center will continue
throughout 2006.

    What's staying the same
     - Access to accounts and other personal information. The ability to
       access accounts, complete a transaction or check fund performance
       remains available through the Investor Service Center.
     - Login information. Visitors will continue to access the site with their
       existing user names and passwords.
     - Investment Professional content. Plan Sponsors, plan administrators and
       investment professionals will continue to access the same, reliable
       information they use to manage their client accounts at
       nationwidefinancial.com.

    "We think these changes make the site easier to use and provide better
access to the tools and information needed to make important financial
decisions," said Gordon Hecker, vice president and chief marketing officer of
Nationwide Financial.
    As another enhancement to Nationwide Financial's electronic service
capabilities, life insurance and annuity customers are now able to receive
their statements and other regulatory documents by e-mail. By signing up to
receive these documents electronically, customers will no longer receive paper
copies and instead will now have access to current and past account
information anytime, anywhere -- no more digging through paper files. To sign
up, account holders need to visit nationwide.com and log on to the Access My
Account page.
    To view what your clients will now see, investment professionals can visit
the newly redesigned nationwide.com or contact their relationship manager.

    About Nationwide Financial
    Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: NFS), a publicly traded company
based in Columbus, Ohio, provides a variety of financial services that help
consumers invest(1) and protect their long-term assets, and offers retirement
plans and services through both public- and private-sector employers.
    It's part of the Nationwide group of companies, which offers diversified
insurance and financial services.  The group is led by Nationwide Mutual
Insurance Company, which is ranked No. 99 on the Fortune 100 based on 2004
revenue(2).  For more information, visit http://www.nationwide.com.
    Nationwide, Nationwide Financial and the Nationwide Framemark are
federally registered service marks of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. On
Your Side is a service mark of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.

     1  Nationwide Investment Services Corporation, member NASD.  In MI only:
        Nationwide Investment Svcs. Corporation.
     2  Fortune Magazine, April 2005

     Contacts:
     Carah Brody at (614) 677-0275
     brodyc@nationwide.com

     Erica Lewis at (614) 249-0184
     lewise6@nationwide.com
SOURCE Nationwide Financial Services, Inc.
http://www.nationwide.com
Company News On-Call:
http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/607050.html
CONTACT:
Carah Brody, +1-614-677-0275, or
brodyc@nationwide.com, or Erica Lewis, +1-614-249-0184, or
lewise6@nationwide.com, both of Nationwide Financial Services,
Inc.