Northland Securities, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Northland Securities Group LLC. offers securities brokerage and investment banking services to individual investors, corporations, government agencies, and institutions. It also provides products such as mutual funds, annuities, public finance, real estate investment trusts, institutional sales and trading, and bond underwriting. Additionally, the firm assists in equity research and financial consulting services. Northland Securities comprises of affiliates that include Dakota Capital Solutions and Northland Networks.

Founded in 1985, Granahan Investment Management, Inc. is employee-owned. Granahan Investment Management (GIM) provides small capitalization equity investing for large institutional clients through its two funds. Its Small Cap Explorer fund targets companies with a market cap between $500 million and $2.5 billion while its more recent Small Cap Core Growth fund targets companies with a market cap between $100 million and $1 billion. All told the firm has some $3 billion in assets under management. Portfolio companies include business information provider Dun & Bradstreet, automated teller machine operator Euronet, and marketing services provider ValueClick.

AXA Rosenberg Group LLC is the specialist active global equity investment management firm within the AXA Investment Managers group. As of March 2010, the firm manages more than $62 billion in assets globally. The firm was founded in Orinda, California, in 1985 as Rosenberg Institutional Equity Management by Dr. Barr Rosenberg and a small team of colleagues who were confident that investment insights could be gained by combining statistical methods with detailed knowledge of company fundamentals. Quickly expanding globally, the firm opened offices in Tokyo, London and Singapore in the years that followed. The original Rosenberg group joined with AXA Investment Managers in 1999, becoming AXA Rosenberg. The company has continued to expand its presence in major financial markets globally and now has offices in Hong Kong, Toronto, Greenwich, and Sydney. AXA Rosenberg is a fundamental manager devoted to the rigorous, dispassionate analysis of data. The cornerstone of our investment philosophy is simple: investors can profit by purchasing stocks that have a distinct earnings advantage relative to their peers.

iStar Financial Inc. operates as a finance company focusing on the commercial real estate industry. iStar Financial Inc. provides custom-tailored financing to high-end private and corporate owners of real estate. iStar Financial Inc. financing products include senior and mezzanine real estate debt, senior and mezzanine corporate capital, corporate net lease financing, and equity. iStar Financial Inc. also involves in corporate tenant leasing business, which provides capital to corporations and others who control facilities leased primarily to single creditworthy customers. As of December 31, 2008, iStar Financial owned 362 office, industrial, entertainment, hotel, and retail facilities in 39 states. iStar Financial Inc. qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. iStar Financial Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in New York, New York.

Nuveen Investments was founded in 1898 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Nuveen Investments, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to public pension funds, university endowments, foundations, insurers, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional investors. It manages closed-end exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, and hedge funds for its clients. The firm also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth stocks of large-cap companies and value stocks of multi-cap companies with a focus on large-cap and small-cap companies. It in invests in national and state-specific municipal securities to make its fixed income investments.

Actis Capital, LLP was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Africa, China, Latin America, South Asia, Mumbai, India; Singapore, and South East Asia. Actis Capital, LLP is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion capital, PIPEs, replacement capital, acquisitions, industry consolidation, management buyouts, going private transactions, property development finance, and mezzanine finance investments in emerging and growing companies. The firm primarily seeks to invest in business services, consumer services, financial services, industrials, infrastructure, logistics, and real estate. It also invests in the energy sector through the Actis Energy Fund.

Melrose PLC, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an engineering company. The Dynacast segment supplies die-cast parts and components for computing, consumer electronics, healthcare, automotive, and telecommunications industries. The Energy segment provides energy industrial products, such as turbogenerators, transformers, and switchgear units. This segment serves gas turbine producers and specialist generators; and oil and gas, mining, defense, telecommunications, utilities, and industrial contracting sectors. The Lifting segment manufactures wire and rope solutions, such as crane, fishing, marine, mining, and oil and gas wire and fiber ropes; and high carbon wire and construction products. This segment also provides accessories used in the lifting and material handling industry. It serves onshore and offshore oil and gas, deep shaft and surface mining, petrochemical, alternative energy, general industrial, construction, fishing and marine, and material handling industries. The Other Industrial segment offers window hardware, and storm and screen door hardware; automated material handling solutions for airports, post and parcel distribution facilities, manufacturing and warehouse operations, and library automation; and designs, manufactures, and supplies scrap processing and recycling equipment for ferrous, non-ferrous, and paper industries.

NYSE Euronext, through its subsidiaries, provides securities listing, trading, market data products, and software and technology services worldwide. The company offers products and services in cash equities, futures, options, swaps, exchange-traded products, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions to issuers, investors, financial institutions, and market participants. It operates NYSE, the New York Stock Exchange, which lists various debt and equity structured products, such as capital securities, mandatory convertibles, and repackaged securities; and NYSE Arca, an electronic exchange for equities, exchange traded funds, exchange traded notes, exchange-traded vehicles, certificates, and options. The company also operates Euronext that lists various securities, including domestic and international equity securities, convertible bonds, warrants, trackers, and debt securities, including corporate and government bonds. In addition, it operates NYSE Liffe that trades futures and options contracts; NYSE Arca Europe, which offers electronic, low latency trading platform for blue chip stocks; NYSE Alternext operates its European markets for emerging growth companies; NYSE Amex, which lists various classes of companies that are qualified for listing on NYSE; NYSE Liffe US that trades full and mini-sized gold and silver futures and options on futures contracts; and SmartPool, a European dark pool dedicated to the execution of institutional order flow.

Frontenac Company was founded in 1971. Frontenac believes in the power of the people -- powerful people, that is. The private equity firm utilizes an investment strategy dubbed "CEO1ST", in which it matches one of its roster of already successful executives with high-potential companies. The company targets private midsized firms, typically family-owned companies worth up to $250 million. It invests in industries including financial services, business services, health care, publishing, and consumer goods. It participates in MBOs and expansion capital investments and holds its interest stakes for the long term. Frontenac has more than 200 investments under its belt and more than $1 billion in capital under management.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Berkshire) is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities. The most important of these are insurance businesses conducted on both a primary basis and a reinsurance basis. Berkshire also owns and operates a large number of other businesses engaged in a variety of activities. Berkshire’s insurance and reinsurance business activities are conducted through approximately 70 domestic and foreign-based insurance entities. Berkshire’s insurance businesses provide insurance and reinsurance of property and casualty risks world-wide and also reinsure life, accident and health risks world-wide. Berkshire’s insurance underwriting operations are comprised of sub-groups: GEICO and its subsidiaries, General Re and its subsidiaries, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group and Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group. On February 12, 2010, the Company acquired all of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF).

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.