The Sacramento Valley Board of Trade (SVBT) provides risk management and related collections information and services for member businesses in the food, beverage, and media industries. Founded in 1980 by sister firm Northern California Collections Service, SVBT helps clients prevent debt losses by compiling and distributing monthly reports containing total due, past due, and returned check information on accounts within the industries. Members can also submit and review credit alerts via the board's Web site.

Fred Alger Management was founded in 1964 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Jersey City, New Jersey and Boston, Massachusetts. Fred Alger Management, Inc. is an asset management arm of Fred Alger & Company Incorporated. The firm provides its services primarily to individuals. It also caters to investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations, endowments and foundations, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity portfolios. It also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm primarily invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. It uses in-house research to make its investments.

ICMA Retirement Corporation company was founded in 1972 by public-sector employers through the International City/County Management Association. ICMA Retirement Corporation (ICMA-RC) offers financial planning and manages and administers retirement plans exclusively for public-sector employees. A not-for-profit organization, it offers products including retirement health savings plans, IRAs, 401(a)s, 401(k)s, and 457s. ICMA Retirement Corporation company serves more than 800,000 employees of state and local governments, offering some 900 retirement savings plans in all. ICMA-RC is sponsor of the Vantagepoint and Milestone funds.

HKEx is the holding company of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited and Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited. It brings together the market organisations which have transformed Hong Kong's financial services industry from a domestically focused market to become a central market place in Asia attracting investment funds from all over the world. HKEx was listed in June 2000 following the integration of Hong Kong's securities and derivatives markets. As a market-driven organisation, answerable to its shareholders, HKEx competes vigorously for opportunities in the region and around the world.HKEx's operations are organised into focused units, directly supervised and controlled by management and the board of directors. The board, the highest decision-making body, determines HKEx’s objectives, missions, strategies, policies and business plan and monitors their implementation by management. In its role as the operator and frontline regulator of the central securities and derivatives marketplace in Hong Kong, HKEx regulates listed issuers; administers listing, trading and clearing rules; and provides services, primarily at the wholesale level, to customers of the exchanges and clearing houses, including issuers and intermediaries – investment banks or sponsors, securities and derivatives brokers, custodian banks and information vendors – who service the investor directly. These services comprise trading, clearing and settlement, depository and nominee services, and information services.

Neuberger Berman manages about 30 mutual funds invested in US and international equities, bonds, and tax-exempt money markets for individual and institutional clients. It also offers closed-end municipal bond, real estate securities, and hybrid funds; variable annuity portfolios; separate accounts; and alternative investments; as well as wealth management services for high-net-worth clients. Neuberger Berman operates about two dozen offices in the US, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region. Employees own a majority of the firm, which has approximately $180 billion of assets under management. Institutional clients account for more than half of that total.

Jesup & Lamont, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage, investment banking, market making research, investment advisory, asset management services, and order execution services to retail and institutional customers primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Jesup & Lamont, Inc. offers brokerage services, including ancillary services, such as market data and financial information, portfolio tracking and records management, account security, and cash management services directly to retail customers, including individuals, and small to mid-sized institutions, such as banks, credit unions, hedge funds, money managers, mutual funds, and pension funds.Jesup & Lamont, Inc. also provides municipal bond and corporate/high yield bond trading, and certificate of deposit underwriting services; and market making and order execution services, which include filling orders received from independent broker dealers to buy or sell domestic or foreign securities for affiliated and unaffiliated broker dealers and institutions. In addition, Jesup & Lamont, Inc. offers investment advisory services, including investment portfolio planning, recommendations and separate account manager and mutual fund research and due diligence, portfolio performance review and reallocation, and wrap accounts for registered investment advisors. Jesup & Lamont, Inc. was formerly known as Empire Financial Holding Company and changed its name to Jesup & Lamont, Inc. in January 2008. Jesup & Lamont was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Gryphon Investors was founded in 1995 and is based in San Francisco, California. Gryphon Investors is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts, leveraged build ups, and growth capital investments in middle market companies. The firm targets its investments in business services, consumer, specialty retail, and general industry sectors. It typically invests in industries that have high fragmentation, scale advantages, strong underlying demographics, and demand drivers. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the United States. It prefers to invest between $25 million and $75 million in equity or equity linked securities in companies with revenues between $25 million and $250 million. The firm seeks to acquire controlled or shared controlled position in a portfolio company. It generally exits its investments within three years to five years.

Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides cash access products and related services to the gaming industry in the United States and internationally. Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. cash access products and services include Casino Cash Plus 3-in-1 ATM that enables patrons to access cash through ATM cash withdrawals, point-of-sale (POS) debit card transactions, and credit card cash advances; QuikCash, a non-ATM cash advance kiosk for the casino gaming industry; money transfer services; check verification and warranty services that allow gaming establishments to manage and reduce risks on patron checks that they cash; and full service kiosks, a multi-function patron kiosk for cash access into self-service kiosks for slot ticket redemption services.Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. also provides information services, such as central credit, a gaming patron credit bureau that assists gaming establishments in credit making decisions; QuikCash Plus Web, a cash access transaction processing system for cashier operations that run on a gaming establishment's own computer hardware; QuikReports, which provide access to information on patron cash access activity; and QuikMarketing, a patron transaction database. In addition, it offers cashless gaming products comprising Powercash, a product that leverages a player’s loyalty card to enable that player to load funds on that card from their checking accounts, credit cards, or debit cards. Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. offers its products and services through a direct sales force to traditional land-based casinos, gaming establishments operated on Native American lands, casinos, riverboats, cruise ships with gaming operations, pari-mutuel wagering facilities, and card rooms. Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Altin was founded in 1996 and it includes more than 30 underlying funds representing 10 diverse investment strategies. Altin began disclosing its portfolio holdings in 2009. The somewhat rare move toward transparency was made in the wake of the the global economic crisis, during which many investors withdrew from hedge funds. Altin is a closed-end investment firm that manages hedge funds. It concentrates on holding a stable portfolio that will reward investors with long-term capital appreciation. The funds it holds are drawn from the Asian, North American, and European markets. It operates through its Altin (Cayman) subsidiary in the Cayman Islands and trades on both the Swiss and London (AIM) exchanges.

Exor S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment company. The company makes medium- to long-term investments in diversified sectors, primarily in Europe, the United States, China, and India. Its investments portfolio consists of interests in companies from various industries, including automobile, agricultural and constriction equipment, trucks and commercial vehicles, components and production systems, financial services, real estate services, business services, paper, and tourism and entertainment. The company was formerly known as IFI–Istituto Finanziario Industriale S.p.A. and changed its name to Exor S.p.A. in March 2009 as a result of merger with IFIL S.p.A. The company is headquartered in Turin, Italy with additional offices in New York and Hong Kong. Exor S.p.A. is a subsidiary of Giovanni Agnelli e C. S.a.p.az.

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