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PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

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Phoenix helps solve diverse and often highly complex personal financial and business planning needs through our broad array of life insurance, annuity and investment products. Estate Planning Life insurance can help secure the future for families and businesses - and so much more. Retirement Planning Annuities are the only investment vehicles that can guarantee supplemental income for life.

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Annual Meeting 2008 Annual Meeting

The Phoenix Companies, Inc., is pleased to offer online proxy voting for our Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which is scheduled to be held on Friday, May 2, 2008. This year’s Annual Meeting will be particularly important, and regardless of how many shares you own, YOUR vote is important. Whether or not you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, please vote as promptly as possible. Before you vote, you should carefully review the proxy statement and related materials for this year’s meeting. For your convenience, these materials may be viewed by going to the Annual Meeting Materials section of this page.

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Registered Shareholders:

You are a “registered stockholder” if you hold your shares in your own name with our transfer agent, BNY Mellon Shareowner Services.

Have your proxy card available and click this link and follow the instructions provided: http:// www.eproxy.com/pnx

Beneficial Shareholders:

You are a ”beneficial stockholder” if you hold your stock through a broker, bank or other nominee. Beneficial stockholders are also known as “street name” stockholders.

Have your voting instruction form available and click this link and follow the instructions provided: http:// www.proxyvote.com

Please note that Oliver Press Partners, LLC, its principals Augustus Oliver and Clifford Press and certain of their affiliates (collectively, “Oliver Press”) have notified us that they intend to solicit proxies for their own slate of three nominees for election to the Company’s Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting, in opposition to nominees that our Board and Governance Committee have selected.

Our Board of Directors unanimously recommends a vote FOR ALL of the Board’s five nominees by voting on the Internet or by telephone or b returning a BLUE proxy card.

Please only vote the BLUE proxy card that you receive from the Company. We urge you not to vote any White proxy card or voting instruction card that you may receive from Oliver Press.

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Site Map ME, PLAC is not authorized to conduct business in CA, GA, MA, ME, MN, NH, and NY and not authorized to conduct variable universal life

insurance business in ID and LA. The insurers referenced are separate entities and each is responsible only for its own financial

condition and contractual obligations.

Securities distributed by Phoenix Equity Planning Corp. (Hartford, CT), member NASD and subsidiary of Phoenix Investment Partners, Ltd., a member of The Phoenix Companies, Inc.

Not all products and services described here are available in all states of the USA.


IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THE SOLICITATION AND PARTICIPANTS THEREIN

 

In connection with its 2008 Annual Meeting, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. has filed a definitive proxy statement, BLUE proxy card and other materials with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Phoenix Companies, Inc. and its directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from its shareholders in connection with our upcoming annual meeting and the notice we received from one of our shareholders. Information regarding the special interests of the directors and executive officers in the proposals that are the subject of the meeting is included in the proxy statement that we have filed. The Phoenix Companies, Inc.’s shareholders are strongly advised to read the proxy statement filed in connection with the annual meeting carefully before making any voting or investment decision, as it contains important information. Shareholders are able to obtain this proxy statement, any amendments or supplements to the proxy statement, along with the annual, quarterly and special reports we file, for free at the web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov or at our web site at www.phoenixwm.com, in the Investor Relations section. In addition, copies of the proxy materials may be requested by contacting our proxy solicitor, Morrow & Co., LLC, toll-free at (800) 414-4313. Banks and Brokers may call collect at (203) 658-9400.