Dinamia Capital Privado, Sociedad de Capital Riesgo, S.A. is a Spain-based holding company. Dinamia Capital Privado SCR SA is engaged in private equity, which consists of the acquisition and sells of equity investments in unlisted companies with the ultimate goal of generating capital gains over the medium to long term. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s investments portfolio included Gestion Integral Novolux Internacional SL, The Beauty Bell Chain SL, High Tech Hotels & Resorts SA, Enfasis Billing & Marketing Services SL, Saint German Grupo de Inversiones SL, Colegios Laude SL, Hortus Mundi SL, TBBC Helena Investments SL, Limestone Spain SL, Miser SL, Leucorodia SL, Ronda Corporate SL and Helena Debtco, among others. In addition, the Company is 16.71%-owned by Ventos SA.

First Cash Financial Services, Inc. primarily operates pawn stores that lend money on the collateral of pledged personal property in the United States and Mexico. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. also engages in the retail of previously owned merchandise acquired through pawn forfeitures and purchased from the general public. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. pawn stores provide collateral consumer loans on pledged personal properties, such as jewelry, consumer electronics, tools, sporting goods, and musical instruments; consumer financial services, including credit services, check cashing, money orders, money transfers, and prepaid card products. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. also owns and operates kiosks inside convenience stores that offer credit services and check cashing. As of December 31, 2009, First Cash Financial Services owned and operated 383 pawn stores and 163 short-term loan stores, as well as 39 financial services kiosks. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Arlington, Texas.

Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Morgan Joseph Holdings Inc. Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc. is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers private placement, recapitalization, fairness opinions, financial restructuring, management buyouts, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions advisory services. It caters to consumer products, healthcare, automotive, chemical, transportation, construction, entertainment, telecommunications, and media industries. The firm’s clientele include WebMD Health Corporation, Devcon International Corp., Michael Baker Corporation, ImmunoGen, Inc., Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Thomas & Betts Corporation. Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc. was formerly known as Morgan Lewins & Co. Inc. and changed its name on September 30, 2002.

JAFCO Co., Ltd. was founded in 1973, has offices in Japan and other parts of Asia. US subsidiary JAFCO Ventures focuses on US investments. Nomura Holdings and its affiliates together own about 30% of the company. JAFCO manages funds for investors including corporations, insurance companies, pension funds, and financial institutions. It invests in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, media, electronics, retail, computer technology, and pharmaceuticals. The firm, with $530 billion (nearly $6 billion) under management, has seen more than 850 of its investments go public.

LaBranche & Co Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a registered broker-dealer. It operates as market-maker in options, futures, and exchange-traded funds (ETF) traded on various exchanges. LaBranche & Co Inc. operates in two segments, Market-Making and Institutional Brokerage. The Market-Making segment operates as a market maker in equity, index and ETF options, ETFs, and futures on the NYSE Amex Exchange, the NYSE Arca Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange; broker-dealer registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Securities Authority; market maker for ETFs traded on the London Stock Exchange, and the Euroex and Euronext Exchanges; broker-dealer with Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission; and market maker for ETFs in Hong Kong, as well as engages in hedging transactions in Asia. The Institutional Brokerage segment provides securities execution, fixed income, and professional trading brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders; and operates as a market maker in over-the-counter, bulletin board, and pink sheet securities. LaBranche & Co Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York.

Industrivärden was established in 1944; Ericsson was its sole original investment. Industrivärden's roster reads like a who's who of Nordic entrepreneuralism. The holding company invests in midsized and large public Nordic companies with an emphasis on industrial manufacturers and financial services. (Industrivärden is a Swedish word meaning "industrial value".) It owns stakes in companies including financial services group Handelsbanken, telecom company Ericsson, toolmaker Sandvik, and paper products maker Svenska Cellulosa. AB Industrivärden company prefers to take long-term significant stakes in companies in which it can take an active ownership role.

NYSE Amex, formerly the American Stock Exchange or AMEX, is NYSE Euronext's US market for emerging growth companies and a specialist in options and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Operating as NYSE Amex Options and NYSE Amex Equities, the exchange uses a hybrid model of auction-based and electronic trading; it lists more than 500 operating companies and funds and is the one of the nation's largest options exchanges (behind the Chicago Board Options Exchange). NYSE Euronext acquired AMEX in 2008 and changed its name to NYSE Alternext US. Responding to feedback from traders, NYSE changed the company's name to the more-familiar NYSE Amex in mid-2009.

Founded in 1993, Woodbridge Group, Inc. also offers capital raising and valuation services. Woodbridge operates in North America, Europe, Asia, Mexico, and Brazil. Woodbridge Group isn't in the construction business, but it does build bridges between commercial buyers and sellers. The mergers and acquisitions firm helps buyers determine strategic fits, search for potential acquisition candidates, extend offers, negotiate prices, and close deals. It helps sellers (typically companies with $5 million to $100 million in revenues) develop marketing collateral, then discreetly market and sell their businesses. It serves clients worldwide in the areas of manufacturing and distribution, services, retail, and technology.

Kardan N.V. (Netherlands) is a Netherlands-based investment group listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The Company acts as an investment company which is engaged in the development of real estate, insurance and pension, banking and lending, infrastructure projects, infrastructure assets, rental of vehicles and sale of vehicles and others through its subsidiaries, joint ventures and associated companies. The Company is mainly active in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Common Wealth of Independent States (CIS) and China. It has four directly held subsidiaries located in the Netherlands and Israel and numerous indirectly held subsidiaries located in Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Albania, China and Germany among others. In addition, Kardan is active in the automotive, consumer goods and communications and technology sectors through its subsidiary Kardan Israel.

Charter Oak Equity and its predecessor funds have invested in private equity since 1992. These little acorns might grow into mighty oaks too! Charter Oak Private Equity targets small and middle-market companies. Its investment vehicles, Charter Oak Capital Partners, Charter Oak Equity, and Charter Oak International Partners, invest in the health care, chemicals, consumer products, and industrial manufacturing industries. Investments include Daisy Manufacturing (the air rifle maker) and Aylward Enterprises (pharmaceuticals packaging). The company's Revere Industries holds several of its industrial manufacturing companies. Charter Oak Partners still exists as a hedge fund manager focused on long/short equity.

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