AWD Holding AG was founded in 1988 and is based in Hanover, Germany. AWD Holding AG operates as a subsidiary of Swiss Life Beteiligungs GmbH. AWD Holding AG, together with its subsidiaries, provides independent advice and financial planning services. It primarily advises private customers with various aspects of financial planning and retirement provision. The company’s advisory services cover various product categories, such as unit-linked products, investment funds, life insurance products, mortgages and financing, private health insurance, property and accident insurance, and property and tax-optimized products. It sells its products and services in the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and central and Eastern Europe. AWD Holding AG was formerly known as Allgemeiner Wirtschaftsdienst.

ThinkTank Holdings LLC was founded in 1999 by entrepreneur Scott Blum. ThinkTank is a venture capital firm with investments in about eight companies in entertainment, media, technology, and e-commerce. Among these are electronic retailers Buy.com and Sell.com as well as exercise site Yoga Today, and brand name developer ThinkBig Media. Four of its early investments have been sold. On top of raising capital for portfolio companies, ThinkTank provides merger and acquisitions advice, strategic business partnerships, legal support, business development, and marketing services. It also takes controlling positions in most of its portfolio companies.

Renaissance Technologies was founded by Jim Simons, a former math professor at MIT and Harvard who, despite his relative anonymity and avoidance of the spotlight, ranks among the world's highest-paid hedge fund managers. After three decades at the helm of Renaissance, Simmons retired in 2010 and took on a new role as non-executive chairman. Complex mathematical theories and statistical methods are reborn as investment strategies at Renaissance Technologies. The quantitative hedge fund, which has more than $15 billion in assets under management in three funds, utilizes computer technical models to exploit mispricings in financial markets.

Pacific Venture Group was founded in 1995. Pacific Venture Group is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in early and expansion-stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in companies at all stages of financing from start-up to leveraged buyout, recapitalizations, and consolidations. It typically invests across all segments of healthcare and information systems including healthcare information technology, medical devices, biopharmaceuticals, and healthcare services. Within healthcare information technology, the firm focuses on infrastructure solutions, leverage professional staffing, technology based outsource solutions, and clinical quality improvement. Within medical devices, it focuses on unmet therapeutic needs and disposables, cost effective medical devices, small equipments, and medical devices that enhance quality of life. Within biopharmaceuticals, the firm invests in drug delivery, drug discovery, specialty pharmaceuticals, and in licensing. Within healthcare services, it focuses on new care delivery models, outsourcing, healthcare staffing solutions, and recapitalizations and spinouts from larger companies.

President Joseph Shocken founded Broadmark Capital in 1987; since then the company has advised or invested in more than 150 deals worth some $1 billion. Broadmark Capital makes a big deal out of the little guy. The merchant bank provides financing and advisory services, including private placements of stock and mergers & acquisitions guidance, to emerging companies in the US and Europe. It also makes direct investments in firms. The company's typical deal ranges from $500,000 to more than $60 million. Targeted industries include life sciences and health care, technology, financial services, and communications.

Detwiler, Mitchell & Co. performs brokerage, wealth management, and equities research services through various subsidiaries. Subsidiary Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton & Graves handles institutional research (specializing in the communications, manufacturing, software, and semiconductor industries), as well as wealth management and brokerage services for high-net-worth individuals. Detwiler Fenton & Co. DMC Financial Services division, including its James Mitchell & Co. subsidiary, provides insurance, annuities, retirement products, and mutual funds. Messrs. Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton, and Graves own a majority of the company.

Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc., a specialty finance company, engages in purchasing and serving retail automobile contracts originated primarily by franchised automobile dealers and select independent dealers of new and used automobiles, light trucks, and passenger vans in the United States. Consumer Portfolio Services, through its automobile contract purchases, provides indirect financing to the sub-prime customers of dealers, who have limited credit histories, low incomes, or past credit problems. Consumer Portfolio Services serves as an alternative source of financing for dealers, facilitating sales to customers who might not be able to obtain financing from traditional sources. Consumer Portfolio Services also provides services for the automobile contracts from its servicing branches in Virginia, Florida, and Illinois. Consumer Portfolio Services was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

HSBC Private Bank comprises the private banking operations of UK banking bigwig HSBC Holdings. A subsidiary of principal holding company, HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) and operating through several subsidiaries of its own, the company specializes in private banking and trustee services such as investment advisory and wealth and tax planning for wealthy individuals and families. Banking services include deposit products, debit and credit cards, lines of credit, loans, high-end residential mortgages and home equity loans, and other related services. HSBC Private Bank group also provides specialty advisory services to charities, foundations, media companies, and diamond and jewelry concerns.

CapEx is an investment fund that specializes in mezzanine debt and equity investments in later-stage private or small-cap public companies with revenues of at least $10 million. An active investor, CapEx typically injects between $2 million and $5 million into companies in such industries as business services, consumer products, and manufacturing; it avoids the financial services, high tech, energy, and real estate sectors. Investments have included BriteSmile and SSP America (formerly Creative Host Services).

Fitch Ratings, one of the top three credit rating agencies in the world (alongside Moody's and Standard & Poor's), issues ratings for thousands of banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, corporations, and governments. With dual headquarters in New York and London and about 50 offices worldwide, Fitch Ratings engages in the politically charged business of rating the debt of nations; Fitch Ratings Inc. covers companies and governments in more than 90 nations. French holding company Fimalac owns 60% of Fitch Ratings; The Hearst Corporation owns the rest. Financial statistician John Knowles Fitch founded the company in 1913.

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