Hanseatic Group's success may give the company a swelled hedge. The company's hedge fund management affiliate Hanseatic Management Services employs quantitative methods implemented in 1994 to indentify long-term investment opportunities in the stock market. Serving institutional investors, the company has large-cap, small-cap, and multicap strategies. The average client has more than $15 million invested with Hanseatic, which has a total of approximately $230 million of assets under management. The employee-owned firm hopes to grow the latter figure to $1 billion and beyond.

White River Capital is a holding company that specializes in auto finance. Subsidiary Coast Credit offers subprime auto financing in more than 20 states. Visa International Service Association acquires the subprime receivables from franchise and independent auto dealers. Another unit, Union Acceptance, oversees a portfolio of non-prime automobile receivables. In 2005 UAC was bankrupt and stockholders were looking for a way to squeak out value in their investment. The shareholders agreed to exchange UAC for shares of White River. After the swap White River bought the similar, yet more successful, Coast Credit. The holding-company-hat-trick allowed UAC to carry its business forward even after it declared bankruptcy in 2002.

Lyceum Capital Partners LLP was founded in 1999 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Lyceum Capital Partners LLP is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. It seeks to invest in mid-sized businesses. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions. The firm seeks to invest in business and consumer service industries with a preference for healthcare, education and human capital, business outsourcing and technology, financial services, and media services companies. It selectively also invests in specialist consumer, retail, and industrial services. The firm seeks opportunities in companies based in the United Kingdom. It typically invests between £5 million ($9.76 million) and £40 million ($78.10 million) in companies with enterprise values between £10 million ($19.52 million) and £75 million ($146.44 million). The firm prefers a board seat in its portfolio companies.

In January 1997, Alchemy was formed as a private equity advisory business and in 2006 added a team to focus on distressed debt and special opportunities. In 2007, Alchemy launched a development capital fund advisory business based in India. The Alchemy Partners and Portfolio Monitoring Directors work closely as a small, highly professional team with considerable investment experience, supported by motivated and ambitious Executives. Funding is provided by a large number of blue-chip investors including major banks, pension funds, fund-of-funds, university endowments and high net worth individuals. Alchemy is perfectly positioned to take advantage of the current turbulent markets with its focus on value investing and experience in executing difficult deals.

Cowen Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Cowen and Company, represents the firm's investment banking and brokerage practice, which mainly entails strategic advisory and corporate finance services for small to midsized companies in the alternative energy, aerospace and defense, consumer goods, health care, media, technology, and real estate industries. Cowen Group, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; and San Francisco, California.

Managing partners Alan E. Goldberg and Robert D. Lindsay founded Lindsay Goldberg in 2001. Currently, the firm has about 80 companies in its portfolio. Growing businesses that want to bring in additional capital may choose to add Goldberg Lindsay & Co. (Lindsay Goldberg) to their ownership rosters. The private equity firm targets family-owned businesses and entrepreneurships in various industries for long-term investment. Often remaining in investments for 10 to 20 years, Lindsay Goldberg typically partners with management by installing board members at companies its invests in. Through various affiliates, the firm has a national presence in the US, as well as in Germany and Norway.

SES Advisors, Inc. benefits from helping companies manage their ESOP plans. An investment banking firm, SES Advisors offers consulting, financing, and legal services to companies who use or intend to use ESOPs, or Employee Stock Ownership Plans, as a retirement plan option. The company helps clients transition into ESOPs, offers administrative services to companies with existing ESOPs, and provides legal services through its affiliate Steiker, Fischer, Edwards & Greenapple, P.C.. SES Advisors provides services for various industries across the US, including construction and manufacturing companies, and engineering firms.

ICAP plc, the world's largest interdealer brokerage with more than $2 trillion in average daily volume, is a wholesale broker of OTC derivatives, money markets, and securities, focusing on foreign exchange, energy, credit, and equities markets. With operations in more than 30 countries, the firm is a major interdealer broker in US Treasury notes. Direct trade execution and processing are available to investment houses and major banks through the company's electronic trading services. Institutional clients include international, investment, and commercial banks. ICAP also has a joint venture with insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group.

Aeon Credit Service (Asia) was the first non-bank credit card issuer in Hong Kong, and today it is one of its largest. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited provides about 850,000 cardholders with more than 30 different house, affinity, and corporate cards under the American Express, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa, and UnionPay brands. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited also offers personal loans, cash advances, and insurance, but credit cards account for about 70% of its total revenues. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) operates in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited is part of Japanese retail and financial giant AEON CO.

William Blair & Company, L.L.C. was founded in 1935. William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is an employee-owned financial services firm that offers investment banking, equity research, institutional and private brokerage, and asset management to individual, institutional, and issuing clients. The firm’s services include portfolio management, sales and trading, investment banking services, mutual funds, and venture capital financing. In addition, William Blair & Company, L.L.C. also makes private equity investments through its investment arm William Blair Capital Partners.

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