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BMO Financial Group will announce its fourth quarter and fiscal 2008 financial results and hold its investor community conference call on Tuesday, November 25, 2008.

• Investor Community Conference Call
  -Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
  -The conference call will be available in a listen-only mode:
  - via telephone at: 1 (888) 789-0089 or (416) 695-9753 (Toronto area)
  - via the Internet at: www.bmo.com/investorrelations
• Presentation material referenced during the conference call will be available at www.bmo.com/investorrelations
• Conference Call Rebroadcast
  - A rebroadcast of the investor community presentations will be available until midnight EST, Monday, March 2, 2009, by calling
  1 (800) 408-3053 or (416) 695-5800 and entering passcode No.648306.
  - The webcast will be available at www.bmo.com/investorrelations until Monday, March 2, 2009.

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