CalPERS was established in 1932 and is based in Sacramento, California with additional offices in San Francisco, California; Glendale, California; San Bernardino, California; San Diego, California; San Jose, California; Orange, California; and Fresno, California. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is a state owned investment manager. The firm provides a variety of retirement and health benefit programs and services, and administers other programs dedicated to protecting the financial security of its members. It also provides administrative support services; real estate asset management; real estate acquisitions and mortgage management; external management services; corporate relations; and internal research services. The firm provides its services to public employees, retirees, and families. It manages equity, fixed income, alternative portfolios, and hedge funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, private equity, fixed income, and hedging markets of the United States and across the globe. It also invests in cash equivalents and real estate. The firm invests in emerging markets and small-cap companies for its externally and internally managed equity portfolios. It makes its domestic fixed income investments in investment grade securities that are rated at least Baa3 by Moody’s or BBB- by S&P or Fitch Ratings. For its global fixed income investments, the firm invests in securities with a minimum rating of Ba3 by Moody’s or BB- by S&P or Fitch Ratings. It specializes in private equity financing making partnership, direct, and fund-of-funds investments.

Riordan, Lewis & Haden was founded in 1982. Riordan, Lewis & Haden is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in growth capital, management buyouts, shareholder’s liquidity, and recapitalizations. It makes growth investments for working capital needs, additional production capacity, strategic acquisitions, and geographic expansion. The firm makes investments in business services, high value added manufacturing, specialty distribution, healthcare, and financial services. I t prefers to invest in home improvement, lawn and garden, storage and organization, sporting goods, outdoor recreation, luggage and travel accessories, and pet products. Within business services, the firm focuses on IT services, systems engineering, consulting, information security, and specialized data services. It looks for branded food, consumer products, precision components, and complex materials in high value added manufacturing sector. For specialty distribution, the firm focuses on healthcare products, plastics, and food. Within healthcare sector, it particularly invests in rehabilitation services, assisted living, devices, and home care. The firm focuses on specialty insurance and specialty finance for financial services sector. It typically, makes investments in companies headquartered Western U.S. with a focus in California.

CITIC Pacific Limited was founded in 1990. CITIC Pacific Limited engages in the special steel manufacturing and iron ore mining operations primarily in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The company’s segments include Special Steel, Iron Ore Mining, Property, Aviation, Power Generation, Civil Infrastructure, Communications, and Marketing and Distribution. Special Steel CITIC Pacific Special Steel operates as a special steel manufacturer in China. Special Steel is used in a range of industries, including auto components, machinery manufacturing, transportation, energy, railways and shipping. The major products are bearing steel, gear steel, spring steel and seamless steel tubes. These are used in a range of different industries, including auto components, machinery manufacturing, oil, petrochemicals, transportation, energy, railways and shipping. The company’s three operating plants, Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel, Xin Yegang Steel and Shijiazhuang Steel, are ideally located to cover the main markets for special steel in eastern, central and northern China. Special steel refers to steel that has added or extra benefits, such as heat resistance, anti corrosion and anti fatigue. Categorised by shape, special steel includes bar steel, plate, strip steel, tube steel and wire steel. Customers: The company’s customers include Jiangsu Zhenda Seamless Tube; Pangang Group Chengdu Iron and Steel; Yangzhou Chengde Steel Tube; Dongfeng Motor; and Jiangxi Hongdu Steelworks. Iron Ore Mining The Sino Iron project is the most advanced magnetite development in Australia. CITIC Pacific has rights to two billion tonnes of resource.

Village Ventures is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focusing on the consumer media/retail and financial services sectors. Village Ventures strategy is to partner with leading entrepreneurs creating innovative products and solving complicated problems in those industries.When it comes to seed and early stage investing, village ventures believe that there is strength in numbers. True early stage firms are necessarily small, and therefore often lack the scale required to effectively support their entrepreneurs. Village Ventures has built a platform, which it offers to other seed and early stage firms, to provide for collaboration, co-investment and administrative cost sharing. This network is a powerful tool to expand village ventures reach and make us more effective partners for village ventures portfolio companies.

Since Western Selection P.L.C. is an investment company, it has no employees and out-sources all finance, administration and company secretarial tasks to City Group P.L.C., a company in which it has a 48.6% interest. Western holds substantial stakes in a number of U.K. small-cap growth companies (the strategic portfolio), and maintains a portfolio of U.K. and international blue-chip companies (the general portfolio) to smooth out the performance of small-cap holdings.The directors of Western believe that the company's strategic portfolio has the greatest potential for growth. As the risk associated with these strategic investments is correspondingly greater, the company maintains a general portfolio to generate an increasing income stream, covering overheads and the dividend payment. The composition of the general portfolio is designed to generate a more predictable income stream than that of the strategic portfolio. The general portfolio comprises holdings in blue-chip companies, with investment concentrated in the industry sectors perceived as having the greatest potential for long-term growth. Therefore although the general portfolio can be considered lower risk, via this sector-based or "themed" investment strategy, it has the potential to generate above average returns.

KBC Peel Hunt Ltd. is one of the UK's top mid- and small-cap brokers; it offers a range of services including corporate finance and insurance advising, as well as traditional brokerage activities. KBC Peel Hunt Ltd. client list includes more than 130 small- to mid-sized firms in the UK and abroad. KBC Peel Hunt makes markets in more than 1,200 stocks. KBC Peel Hunt Ltd. holds the #2 spot among market makers in London, and has affiliates in Brussels, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Charles Peel and Christopher Holdsworth-Hunt founded the firm in 1989. Belgium-based KBC Bank and Insurance (now KBC Group) acquired the firm in 2001.

Encore Capital Group, Inc. purchases and manages charged-off consumer receivable portfolios. Encore Capital Group, Inc receivable portfolios include unsecured, charged-off domestic consumer credit cards, auto loan deficiency, and telecom receivables purchased from national financial institutions, major retail credit corporations, telecom companies, and resellers. Encore Capital Group, Inc, through its subsidiary, Ascension Capital Group, Inc., also provides bankruptcy services to the finance industry, including negotiating bankruptcy plans, monitoring and managing the consumer's compliance with bankruptcy plans, and recommending courses of action to clients. Encore Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

NIBC Bank N.V. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands with additional offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, and Singapore. NIBC Bank N.V. is a subsidiary of NIBC Holding N.V. NIBC Bank N.V. provides merchant banking and specialized financial services to mid-cap companies, financial institutions, institutional investors, financial sponsors, family offices, and high net worth entrepreneurs/owners in Europe, North America, and the south-east Asia. The company’s Merchant Banking segment advises, finances, and co-invests with mid-cap clients in the Benelux and Germany. This segment offers various products and solutions, such as merger and acquisition advisory, financing, derivative products, and mezzanine and equity investments. Its M&A services include evaluating and recommending financial strategic alternatives; identifying potential transaction opportunities; advising on and assisting with negotiations and valuation issues; and providing fairness opinions. This segment’s investment management products and services comprise direct investments; third party funds in private equity/mezzanine, real estate, and infrastructure; and leveraged loans securitizations.

Mission Venture Management ministers to early-stage technology companies involved in software, information technology, enterprise applications, and infrastructure. The firm invests primarily in emerging companies in Southern California, providing them with capital and counsel. It usually serves as the lead investor and often takes a seat on the boards of the companies in which it invests, helping them to develop their management teams and to establish professional relationships. Typical initial investments range between $2 million and $10 million. Mission Ventures has some $500 million in capital under management. Portfolio companies have included Akonix Systems, CalAmp, and Entropic Communications.

Astellas Venture Management invests in seed-stage and emerging biotech companies, including drug discovery and development companies. The firm manages four venture funds, and its portfolio includes more than 20 companies. Astellas Venture Management is the venture capital arm of Astellas Pharma, formed from the 2005 merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical. Astellas Venture Management provides its portfolio companies not only with cash, but also access to the scientific expertise, production facilities, and marketing clout of its parent firm.

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