Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C was founded in 1990 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, New York; and San Francisco, California. Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C is a privately owned investment manager. The firm manages client focused portfolios and hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe. As part of its alternative investments, the firms invests in currency, commodities, and derivatives such as interest-rate swaps, futures, options, repurchase agreements, and reverse repurchase agreements. Its fixed income investments include investments in government bonds and mortgage-backed securities. The firm employs a mix of strategies including credit arbitrage and structured credit strategies to make its investments. It employs a combination of quantitative and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its investment portfolio. The firm makes its investments in the stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It conducts an in-house research to make its investments.

Athena Capital Advisors LLC was established in 1993 by Lisette Cooper, Athena's president. Athena Capital Advisors hopes to remove the headaches involved with financial planning. Athena Capital Advisors specializes in providing investment services for wealthy families and institutions, offering portfolio advisory and research services. Athena Capital Advisors company's institutional clients include hedge funds, private equity funds, and real estate firms.

Highland Capital Management, L.P. is a SEC-registered investment adviser with approximately $24 billion of assets under management. It is one of the largest global alternative fixed income managers, specializing in bank loans, high yield credit, distressed debt, structured products, real assets, and long-short equities, with a global geographic reach. Highland's diversified client base includes public pension plans, foundations and endowments, corporations, financial institutions, fund of funds, governments, high net worth individuals, and mutual fund investors. To best meet the different goals of these investors, Highland offers a variety of product types, including credit funds, private equity-style funds, managed separate accounts, hedge funds, retail mutual funds, and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). Highland Capital is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and maintains offices in New York, London and Singapore.

Harbinger Group Inc., formerly known as Zapata Corporation, is a holding company which has approximately $148.7 million in cash, cash equivalents and investments as of March 31, 2010, including 98% of Zap.Com Corporation. Harbinger Group Inc. is currently searching for acquisition candidates.Zap.Com is a public shell company which does not have any existing business operations. Zap.Com may search for assets or businesses that it can acquire so that it can become an operating company. Zap.Com may also consider developing a new business suitable for its situation. Zap.Com trades on the OTCBB under the symbol "ZPCM."

HIFX PLC was founded in 1998 and is based in Windsor, the United Kingdom. It has operations in Europe, North America, and Australasia. HiFX Plc was formerly known as HiFX Limited and changed its name to HiFX Plc in January 2004. HiFX Plc provides foreign exchange advisory services. It offers advisory services on identifying the nature of risks, foreign currency forecasting, and foreign currency exchange rates, as well as provides advisory services for foreign exchange structured products and managing surplus funds. The company also provides online and international money transfer services; news and information on various aspects of the currency markets, foreign exchange, emigrating, and overseas property; overseas property insurance services; and foreign exchange services for property purchase and emigration.

Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc., an investor services outsourcing company, provides back-office and transfer agency services for mutual funds, 529 plans, retirement plans, settlement administration, business continuity, real estate investment trusts, and contractual plans. Its services include mail processing, image/cash processing, distribution and dealer, transaction processing, correspondence, investor, financial reconciliation and control, corporate actions, compliance, systems reporting and statements, NSCC processing support, disaster recovery, settlement, and consulting, as well as tax withholding, submission, and reporting. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. serves institutional and retail-based customers representing the mutual fund, insurance, retirement provider, and banking industries.

GlobeOp Financial Services S.A. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. GlobeOp Financial Services S.A., through its subsidiaries, provides business process outsourcing, financial technology services, and risk analytics to hedge funds and other targeted sectors of the financial services industry. It offers specialized Web-based financial products supporting middle and back office trade processing, fund administration, complex derivatives, and risk reporting. The company provides middle and back office services, such as daily reconciliation, daily portfolio profit and loss statements, data aggregation and pricing, exposure calculations and reports, over-the-counter (OTC) processing, real time analytics, security master processing, and trade capture; and fund administration services, including fund valuation, investor communications, fund performance reporting, pricing and net asset value calculation, share registry and transfer, and audit support. GlobeOp Financial also offers transaction solutions, including GoOTC, an outsource package for OTC derivative trade processing; and GoMarkets, a multi-asset electronic trading and connectivity platform for asset managers, long/short equity funds, mutual funds, regional and custodial banking institutions, pension funds, and insurance companies.

Siebert Financial, through subsidiary Muriel Siebert & Co., provides discount securities brokerage and institutional financial services. Siebert Financial Corp. retail division offers equity trading, mutual fund access, and retirement accounts to self-directed individual investors. Customers can access their accounts and trade by phone, Internet, wireless device, or in person at seven retail branches in California, Florida, New Jersey, and New York. Siebert Financial provides securities trading and underwriting and other services to corporations and government entities. Founder and president Muriel "Mickie" Siebert, the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange, owns some 90% of the company. Siebert Financial Corp. was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Crowell Weedon & Co. was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in Carlsbad, West Covina, Encino, Newport Beach, Pasadena, San Diego, La Jolla, and Long Beach, California. Crowell, Weedon & Co. (CWC) provides financial advisory and securities brokerage services. The firm’s services include financial planning, fee-based investment programs, customized retirement strategies, investment advisory, corporate finance, preferred and common stocks, and tax-deferred annuities and insurance.

Gemina was established in 1961, under the name of Compagnia Generale Alimentare S.r.l., as a holding company operating in the food sector. During the 1970's, the company took on its current name and started operating as an industrial holding company, and in 1981 was listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. During the '80s, the company launched an investment program in the financial and merchant-banking sectors. In 1996, the company started progressively reducing its financial sector investments, which were no longer considered strategic, and redirected its energies, mainly focusing on the industrial sector. In March 1997, Gemina's partial division, with the establishment of the beneficiary HdP, started gaining effectiveness. Indeed, the shareholdings in the industrial companies present in Gemina's investment portfolio were transferred to HdP. Gemina then concluded the divestment of its financial assets, direct to acquire, by launching, in the second half of 1998, a new investment program:significant quotas of shareholdings in companies, operating in well-established businesses and capable of ensuring a suitable level of soundness to the company portfolio and in medium/small sized companies operating in the production of goods and services and with good development prospects. Starting from 2000 Gemina focuses its activities on directing and controlling its subsidiaries. In the same period Gemina takes part in the privatization of ADR (managing company of Roma’s airports) and develops its core business in the area of airports’ infrastructures. In the meantime Gemina divests its shareholdings in the other subsidiaries and today it holds the 95,76% of ADR shares’ capital that is the most important asset of Gemina’s group.

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