Cenkos Securities takes stock in its clients and then helps them take stock in the UK market. Through its subsidiaries, Cenkos Securities plc offers financial services and consulting to small- to mid-cap companies. Cenkos Securities plc services include stock brokering, investment advice (with an emphasis on long-term investments), corporate financing advice, and fund management. Cenkos Securities plc also advises on mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions, and makes markets in about 40 stocks on the LSE and other markets. Cenkos Securities plc serves various industries in the UK, including companies in the technology, mining, real estate, and insurance sectors. Cenkos was established in 2004 by chairman Andrew Stewart.

Derbyshire First Investments Limited was founded in 1987 as the Derbyshire Enterprise Board Limited by the Derbyshire County Council. DFI is a joint owner with the Derby City Council of the Rosehill Business Centre, a small business incubator located in Derby. Derbyshire First Investments (DFI) provides business counseling and consulting to start-up and early-stage businesses. DFI company's investments typically range from £50,000 to £250,000 and are usually used to provide working capital, expenditure on capital equipment, refinance bank debt, or develop and market new products. DFI's investment activities are centered in Derby but extend to surrounding counties.

Walker Crips Group plc provides securities brokerage, investment banking, and asset management services through subsidiaries. Walker Crips Stockbrokers offers trading, unit trust management, and related services. Walker Crips Financial Services provides individuals and businesses with financial advice, pension funds, unit trusts, insurance, and other investment vehicles. Keith, Bayley, Rogers & Co. is the company's corporate finance arm. London York Group offers pension and investment services. A new division, Walker Crips Structured Investments, opened in 2009. Walker Crips Group plc clients can work with a financial advisor or use the InvestorLink online system.

Morgan Stanley was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals worldwide. It operates in three segments: Institutional Securities, Global Wealth Management Group, and Asset Management. The Institutional Securities segment provides financial advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, recapitalizations, spin-offs, exchange offers, and leveraged buyouts and takeover defenses, as well as shareholder relations; capital raising; corporate lending; investments; and sales, trading, financing, and market-making activities, including equity trading, commodities, and interest rates, credit, and currencies, as well as financing services, including prime brokerage, consolidated clearance, settlement, custody, financing, and portfolio reporting services.The Global Wealth Management Group segment offers brokerage and investment advisory services covering various investment alternatives comprising equities, options, futures, foreign currencies, precious metals, fixed income securities, mutual funds, structured products, alternative investments, unit investment trusts, managed futures, separately managed accounts, and mutual fund asset allocation programs; financial and wealth planning services; annuity and insurance products; credit and other lending products; cash management services; retirement services; and trust and fiduciary services. The Asset Management segment offers products and services in equity, fixed income, and alternative investments, which include hedge funds, fund of funds, real estate, private equity, and infrastructure to institutional and retail clients through proprietary and third party distribution channels. This segment also involves in investment activities.

Jerusalem Venture Partners was founded in 1993 and is based in Jerusalem, Israel. Jerusalem Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and startup investments. The firm prefers to invest in enterprise software and media technologies including gaming and virtual worlds, mobile media, software and hardware applications, internet advertising, semiconductors and innovative materials, and communications and networking sectors. It typically invests in companies based in North America, Europe, Israel and Asia.

Virgin Money offers savings and investment vehicles such as individual savings accounts, pension plans, unit trusts, and deposit accounts. It also offers personal loans and home, car, life, pet, and travel insurance. Virgin Money has launched a successful credit card, with services reaching into Australia and South Africa. In 2010 it bought small UK private bank Church House Trust as a platform to offer retail banking. Virgin Money is looking to the US for expansion as well. Also in 2010 US billionaire Wilbur Ross (through WL Ross) arranged to acquire a 21% stake in the company for some $100 million ($152 million). A unit of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, Virgin Money was founded in 1995.

Barclays Private Equity Ltd. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices across Europe. Barclays Private Equity Ltd. is the private equity arm of Barclays Capital specializing in middle market and change of ownership transactions. It invests in management buyout, management buy-in, institutional buyout, equity release, expansion capital, and going private transactions of lower middle market companies. The firm also provides equity funding to privately financed infrastructure projects. It seeks to invest in support services, specialist engineering, financial services, consumer and travel, and other sectors. Within the support services sector, investments are sought in staffing- recruitment of temporary or permanent staff; BPO/FM– outsourcing, facilities management, and property services; asset rental- vehicle or equipment; logistics- supply chain management, freight forwarding, contract logistics, distribution, and haulage; professional and IT services; and other miscellaneous support services companies.

Ariel Capital Management was founded in 1983 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Ariel Capital Management, LLC (ACM) is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to high net worth individuals. It also provides its services to investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable and non-profit organizations, corporations, state and municipal government entities, Taft-Hartley plans, and public organizations. The firm manages separate client-focused equity portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It primarily invests in value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments. It obtains external research to complement its in-house research.

Neuberger Berman manages about 30 mutual funds invested in US and international equities, bonds, and tax-exempt money markets for individual and institutional clients. It also offers closed-end municipal bond, real estate securities, and hybrid funds; variable annuity portfolios; separate accounts; and alternative investments; as well as wealth management services for high-net-worth clients. Neuberger Berman operates about two dozen offices in the US, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region. Employees own a majority of the firm, which has approximately $180 billion of assets under management. Institutional clients account for more than half of that total.

The Ziegler Companies, Inc. was founded in 1902 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The Ziegler Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides financial services in the United States. It operates in two segments, Capital Markets and Investment Services. The Capital Markets segment underwrites fixed income securities to finance senior living and healthcare providers, religious institutions, private schools, and alternative energy projects. It also offers risk management and financial advisory, merger and acquisition advisory, health care consulting, and corporate and public finance services. This segment provides its services to not-for-profit corporations, municipalities, and for-profit business corporations in the healthcare and alternative energy industries. The Investment Services segment offers investment advisory services to institutional and individual clients; and financial products and financial planning services, including equity and fixed-income securities, mutual funds, real estate investment trusts, affiliated and non-affiliated alternative investments, annuities, insurance products, and portfolio management services to retail and institutional clients through its retail branch distribution network.

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