GAM Holding isn't afraid to gamble on risky bets. The asset management firm offers private clients, institutional investors, and intermediary clients such investment vehicles as equity, fixed income, private-label funds, and alternative investment funds, as well as portfolio management. GAM Holding was spun off in late 2009 from Swiss private banker Julius Baer. Now its own separate, public entity, GAM Holding comprises GAM, Swiss & Global Asset Management, and a 28% stake in Artio Global Investors. (Swiss & Global focuses on traditional investments, while GAM is known for alternative and absolute-return strategies, such as hedge funds). GAM Holding has assets under management of CHF$124 billion ($119 billion).

Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management LLC was founded in May 1984 and is based in San Diego, California, with additional offices in New York, New York, and London, United Kingdom. It operates as a subsidiary of Allianz Global Investors of America LP. Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides advisory services to its clients. It caters to individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, union, foundations, endowments, and foreign entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, emerging, and alternative markets across the globe. It invests in growth and value stocks of ultra micro-cap, micro-cap, small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm invests in U.S. convertibles to make its alternative investments. It employs a combination of a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios.

Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. was founded in April 2004 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Sherman Oaks, California. Epoch Holding Corporation (Epoch) is a holding company whose primary line of business is investment advisory and investment management services. The operations of the Company are conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. (EIP). EIP provides investment advisory and investment management services for retirement plans, mutual funds, endowments, foundations and high net worth individuals. As of June 30, 2009, EIP offered 11 separate investment products to its clients, including U.S. All Cap Value, U.S. Value, U.S. Smid (small/mid) Cap Value, U.S. Small Cap Value, U.S. Choice, International Small Cap, Global Small Cap, Global Choice, Global Absolute Return, Global Equity Shareholder Yield and Balanced Portfolios.

Battery Management, which was founded in 1983, manages more than $3 billion in committed capital; notable past investments include Akamai Technologies, Allegiance Telecom, Focal Communications, and Chordiant Software. Battery Management gives emerging technology companies the juice they need to keep running. A venture capital firm specializing in such high-tech fields as communications, software, and e-commerce, the company has invested in more than 200 businesses around the world. It invests as little as several hundred thousand dollars to seed small ventures on up to $100 million for late-stage expansion; it also takes equity stakes in companies through its private equity operations.

Israel Corp. is Israel's largest holding company and one of the top ten companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: ILCO) in terms of market capitalization.* It is also a global player with 50% of its manufacturing activities and close to 70% of its consolidated revenues derived from worldwide operations. The company's core holdings focus on industries that meet basic human, industrial and economic needs: fertilizers and specialty chemicals, energy, shipping and transportation.Israel Corp. is a long term investor with a strong reinvestment approach that balances the pursuit of economic value with environmental and social responsibility. Over the past forty years, Israel Corp. has played a pivotal role in the privatization of government-owned enterprises, helping their managements to transform them into multi-billion dollar global companies that are among the most innovative, profitable and responsible of their respective peer groups.

Trinity Ventures was founded in 1986. Trinity Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in start up and early stage investments. It seeks to invest both consumer and technology sectors with a focus on digital media; Internet services; mobility solutions; infrastructure; business and consumer services; software; software, services and systems; mobile; Internet; enterprise software; consumer enabling technologies; semiconductor; security; and clean tech. The firm seeks to hold a board position in its portfolio companies.

Deutsche Bank began operations in Russia in 1881, opened its first bank branch there in 1972, and founded the subsidiary in 1998. The company, known as Deutsche Bank Moscow, serves domestic and foreign individual, corporate, and government clients in Russia and the other former Soviet republics, offering corporate banking services (finance, advisory, sales, transaction) and private asset management. Customers have included Gazprom (through Gazprombank), Norilsk Nickel, Aeroflot, and Enel SpA. It also works the IPO market, helping VTB Bank go public in 2007; the deal was the world's largest public offering that year.

Technology Crossover Ventures was founded in 1995. Technology Crossover Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in public and private internet technology companies. The firm seeks to invest in majority and minority positions by providing capital for, minority growth equity; full or partial recapitalizations for both diversification of capital structure and modifying shareholder equity); acquisition financings to supplement complementary add-on acquisitions; buyouts; later stages of growth capital development; and other majority and public market transactions. It seeks to provide growth and acquisition capital to publicly trading companies in the form of PIPEs and also invests in its portfolio companies at the IPO stage and beyond. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the information technology sector, with a focus on, internet; financial technology; infrastructure and communications including equipment and communications businesses; software and services; semiconductors; enterprise software; healthcare IT; e-commerce; financial services; wireless technology; and consumer internet sectors.

Brainspark plc is a United Kingdom-based investment company. The Company is engaged in creating a portfolio of companies within the leisure, entertainment, interactive media and financial services sectors. The Company carries on its business in three geographical locations: the United Kingdom, Italy and Israel. The Company’s top 10 investment portfolios are Mediapolis (22.09%), Ondaland (20.0%), Indian Restaurant Group plc (29.9%), Bibop (50.5%), Filmmaster TV (10.0%), Geosim (13.0%), Vyke Communications plc (11.56%), Ancona (44.8%), Daniel Stewart & Co plc (5.7%), and Cogeme SET SpA (6.12%). The Company’s subsidiaries include Brainspark Associates Limited, Brainspark Services Limited and Gordons 153 Limited.

Numis Corporation Plc, through its subsidiaries, operates as an independent investment banking and stock broking company in the United Kingdom. It offers a range of research, execution, equity capital markets, corporate broking, and corporate finance services to quoted companies and their investors. The company also provides advisory services for fundraising and corporate finance transactions, including primary and secondary issues and mergers and acquisitions. Numis Corporation offers its services for aerospace and defense, building and property, engineering, fast moving consumer goods, life sciences, media, metals and mining, new energy and emissions, non-life insurance, oil and gas, retail, specialty and other financials, support services, technology, and travel and leisure sectors.

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