Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management was founded in 1984 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management, LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, including high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, endowments, foundations, public funds, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, and Taft-Hartley plans. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe and fixed income markets of the United States. It invests in stocks of small-cap, small/mid-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm invests in high-quality intermediate maturity fixed income government, municipal, and corporate securities. It employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach.

Sarasin & Partners LLP is a London-based specialist investment management firm in which the local management are major shareholders. The firm employs over 170 people and manages approximately £9.8 billion. With a committed team of investment professionals in the foreground and a strong bank in the background, we aim to provide an unusual combination of successful investment performance and high service standards. Our objective is to be one of the most highly regarded investment managers for private clients and charities and to build the firm’s reputation as a distinctive, active manager in the institutional marketplace.Founded in 1841, Bank Sarasin today is one of Switzerland’s leading private banking institutions. Its success is based on trust, confidentiality, expertise and dedication, as well as on the sustainable development of asset management, its core business. The Sarasin group - headquartered in Basel, Switzerland - employs around 1,600 staff. In addition to its headquarters in Basel, the Bank has further offices in Geneva, Lugano and Zurich. Internationally, the Sarasin group has offices in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Bank Sarasin is a public limited company whose shares are listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange, SWX. Its majority shareholder, Rabobank, enjoys the highest qualification of credit status (AAA-rated) from prominent international rating agencies. Measured by its core capital, Rabobank is one of the world's top twenty financial institutions.

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) is a demutualized and integrated securities and derivatives exchange. It has three segments: securities market, which provides listing, trading, clearing, account maintenance, and corporate action and price information services for the securities market; derivatives market, which provides trading, clearing and price information services for the derivatives market, and other operations, which provides other services. Its securities products include bonds, debentures and loan stocks; business trusts; equities; exchange traded funds; global depository receipts; infrastructure funds; real estate investment trusts and warrants. Its derivatives products include short-term and long-term interest rate futures and options on futures; equity index futures and options on futures; structured warrants, and certificates. It operates an over-the-counter clearing facility, SGX AsiaClear. On June 30, 2008, SGX acquired Singapore Commodity Exchange Limited.

Kelso & Company was founded in 1971 and is based in New York, New York. Kelso & Company is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged acquisitions and management buyouts and purchase of significant ownership of private companies, divisions, or subsidiaries of public or private companies; public companies through recapitalizations or going private transactions. The firm also seeks to purchase significant blocks of stock from public or private companies seeking equity capital or persons seeking liquidity. It does not pursue hostile transactions, substantial dismantling or liquidation of companies, and break-up opportunities. The firm invests for a period of over five years and exits its investments through an IPO, recapitalization, or strategic sale. It takes a board seat and usually has control through majority ownership in its portfolio companies. The firm can also make minority investments in conjunction with board representation or other significant shareholders' rights, or may join with other investors as a member of a control group.

European Investment Bank (EIB) is the financial backbone of the European Union (EU). Led by finance ministers from EU countries, the bank makes loans for trans-European enterprise and infrastructure projects, focusing on less-developed EU countries. About 90% of the loans go to projects located within the EU; major loan categories are transportation and energy. The bank also offers development aid to some non-European countries. The EIB owns a majority of the European Investment Fund (EIF), which invests in venture capital funds and debt financing for small businesses in the EU.

Cash America International, Inc. provides specialty financial services to individuals primarily in the United States and Mexico. Cash America International, Inc. operates in three segments: Pawn Lending, Cash Advance, and Check Cashing. The Pawn Lending segment offers pawn loans through its pawn lending locations, which operate under the names Cash America Pawn and SuperPawn in the United States, and Prenda Facil in Mexico. This segment also sells previously-owned merchandise acquired from customers who do not redeem their pawned goods, as well as sells items purchased from third-parties or customers. The Cash Advance segment offers unsecured cash advances in selected lending locations that are operated under the names Cash America Payday Advance and Cashland in the United States; and short-term cash advances over the Internet under the names CashNetUSA in the United States, QuickQuid in the United Kingdom, and DollarsDirect in the Canada and Australia. Cash America International, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

RBC Capital Markets is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Royal Bank of Canada and the leading debt and equity underwriter in the Great White North. As the only Canadian bank designated as a primary dealer in the US, RBC Capital Markets offers mergers and acquisitions support, securities trading and research, foreign exchange, infrastructure finance, and advisory services. It serves a number of industries, including aerospace, media, mining, energy, health care, forest products, transportation, and the public sector. Almost half of its business comes from the US. The firm has some 75 offices mainly in North America, but also in major cities in Australia, Brazil, Dubai, Europe, Asia, and South Africa.

Vining-Sparks IBG wants to help institutional investors kindle an investment blaze. Operating as Vining Sparks, the firm provides broker/dealer services to institutional investors including financial companies, money managers, funds, insurance firms, and municipalities. Through its alliance with Howe Barnes, Vining-Sparks IBG offers investment banking services including debt and equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions advisory. Headquartered in Memphis, far from the capital of capital centers, Vining Sparks has more than a dozen offices in the US and another in London. Chairman James Vining founded Vining-Sparks IBG to serve community banks in 1981.

Garage has raised more than $400 million in venture capital since 1997 and has expanded to include an affiliate in Canada. Founders include CEO and former Apple "Chief Evangelist" Guy Kawasaki and "Forbes" publisher Rich Karlgaard. Garage Technology Ventures helps get start-up companies on the road. The firm focuses on investing in seed-stage and early-stage emerging technology companies based in California and the western US. The firm also organizes events like its renowned "Art of the Start" and "Launch: Silicon Valley" conferences. Investments usually range from $500,000 to $3 million. Its portfolio of cutting-edge companies develops employment search engines, voice communications software and more.

iD TechVentures Inc., formerly Acer Technology Ventures, is an early stage investor for former Acer executive Stan Shih that focuses on the greater China region. Its portfolio includes high-tech chip manufacturers and software designers, but other holdings include oil well drilling products and media companies. iD TechVentures has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Taiwan, all the better to capitalize on the region's status as a powerhouse of manufacturing and technology innovation. iD TechVentures company has some $955 million in funds under management.

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