Nova Capital Management Ltd. was founded in 2002 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Essex, Connecticut. Nova Capital Management Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in financing acquisitions, turnaround, and middle market transactions. It seeks to invest in underperforming and under-managed portfolio companies run by private equity and venture capital firms. The firm also invests in the secondary direct market. It invests across all industrial and commercial sectors. The firm typically acquires or manages holdings in portfolios of companies based in the United Kingdom, United States, and Western Europe with a transactional value of between £20 million ($39.84 million) and above £200 million ($398.42 million). It invests in companies that comprise a minimum of three businesses with value and risk diversification.

Retail Decisions Limited issues fuel and pre-paid cards in several world markets and provides retailers and financial institutions with services including payment processing, fraud prevention, database development, and IT consulting. ReD operates in Australia, Europe, South Africa, and the US. It also has partnered operations in Japan, India, China, and in South America. Retail Decisions Limited works with banks, oil companies, e-commerce retailers, and telecommunications firms. Corporate customers include Wal-Mart, Tesco, Macy's, Shell, and Virgin Mobile. ReD was founded in 2000.

Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc., a specialty finance company, engages in purchasing and serving retail automobile contracts originated primarily by franchised automobile dealers and select independent dealers of new and used automobiles, light trucks, and passenger vans in the United States. Consumer Portfolio Services, through its automobile contract purchases, provides indirect financing to the sub-prime customers of dealers, who have limited credit histories, low incomes, or past credit problems. Consumer Portfolio Services serves as an alternative source of financing for dealers, facilitating sales to customers who might not be able to obtain financing from traditional sources. Consumer Portfolio Services also provides services for the automobile contracts from its servicing branches in Virginia, Florida, and Illinois. Consumer Portfolio Services was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Smedvig Capital is a London based private equity firm formed in early 1996 by John Hewett and Peter Smedvig. Over that time, the firm has committed approximately £350 million to more than 40 investments. About a third of that sum has been invested directly with Smedvig as lead investor, typically in small buy outs and development capital deals. Direct investment size ranges from £2 million to £10 million of equity, although larger sums can be financed in collaboration with our strategic partners. The remainder has been invested with a small number of third party private equity funds where there is a strong affinity with the investment philosophy of the general partner. The most established of these relationships is Bain Capital. Whilst Smedvig Capital does not focus exclusively on any specific sectors, over time it has built expertise in a number of areas including information management, financial services, consumer goods, retail and support services.

Kent Financial Services (once known as Texas American Energy) has moved from the oil patch to the financial services field. Kent Financial Services, Inc. holds a majority stake in publicly traded Kent International Holdings (formerly Cortech), which scrapped its pharmaceutical research and is seeking new business opportunities in the US and China. Kent Financial Services, Inc. in 2010 also scrapped subsidiary Kent Educational Services, which controlled The Academy for Teaching and Leadership, a provider of educational programs for school administrators and teachers. Chairman and CEO Paul Koether owns approximately 60% of Kent Financial Services.

NexTrade Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Clearwater, Florida. NexTrade Holdings, Inc., a financial technology firm, develops electronic trading systems for buyers and sellers. It offers technology solutions for futures and commodities exchange, currency exchange, matching and routing, options trading, index and ETF, and clearing systems, as well as for front-end interfaces and securities exchanges. NexTrade Holdings company provides transaction processing and software architecture. It serves various financial institutions, including online brokers, market makers, mutual funds, hedge funds, and traditional brokerage firms.

Gluskin Sheff + Associates was founded in 1984 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm also provides wealth management services. It provides its services to high net worth investors, including entrepreneurs, professionals, family trusts, private charitable foundations, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations , corporations, and estates. The firm also manages accounts for institutions. It manages equity and balanced portfolios and mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe. It also invests in fixed income and alternative markets. The firm primarily invests in value, income, and growth stocks employing a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock approach. It also invests in income trusts, hedge funds, and fixed income.

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).

Pacific Investment Management Company LLC was founded in 1971 and is based in New Port Beach, California with an additional office in New York City. Pacific Investment Management Company LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans, investment companies, and foreign clients. It also manages accounts for high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, universities, foundations, endowments, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in value stocks of companies. The firm invests in fixed income securities including governments, corporates, mortgages, asset backs, money market, and hedged international bonds while creating its portfolios. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a combination of bottom-up and top-down stock picking approaches while making its investments.

Equity Ventures provides investment capital to companies looking to expand and for management buyouts and buyins. The firm acts as an investment advisor to the British Smaller Companies Venture Capital Trust, the British Smaller Technology Companies Venture Capital Trust, and as the fund manager of the HSBC UK Enterprise Fund for the South West. Equity Ventures has invested in a diversified array of customers including trailer manufacturer York Trailer, home builder Admiral Homes, and gaming operator London Clubs.

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