DMG Information was founded in 1997 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices in Milford, Connecticut; Santa Monica, California; and Waltham, Massachusetts. DMGI is a division of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT), a UK-based media company listed on the London Stock Exchange. The firm prefers not to invest in early stage, pre-revenue companies unless closely aligned with the firm current activities or active in the market area. It seeks to invest in information driven companies with focus mainly on two areas: Business-to-Business and Careers. Within career division, the firm seeks to invest in education and student division. It prefers to invest in insurance, real estate, financial, mapping and geographical, medical or healthcare information sector. The firm primarily seeks to invest in companies with revenue of at least $50 million, with pre-tax profit margin of 20% to 30% or more. It typically invests for control but can take minority stake in early stage companies.

FirstCity Financial Corporation (FirstCity) is a financial services company. The Company engages in two business segments: Portfolio Asset Acquisition and Resolution, and Special Situations Platform. In the Portfolio Asset Acquisition and Resolution business, the Company acquires portfolios of performing and non-performing loans and other assets (Portfolio Assets), at a discount to their legal principal balances or appraised values, and services and resolves such Portfolio Assets. Through its Special Situations Platform, the Company provides investment capital to privately-held middle-market companies through flexible capital structuring arrangements to generate a risk-adjusted return. These capital investments primarily take the form of senior and junior financing arrangements, but also include direct equity investments, common equity warrants, distressed debt transactions, and leveraged buyouts.

Wall Street Associates was formed in 1987 from the spinoff of California First Bank's investment advisor subsidiary and is now owned by its employees. Wall Street Associates was formed in 1987 from the spinoff of California First Bank's investment advisor subsidiary and is now owned by its employees.

Mesirow Financial was founded in 1937 when Norman Mesirow purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Since then, the one-man brokerage firm has become a leading Chicago-based financial services firm and one of the largest independent financial services firms in the Midwest. For the past seven decades Mesirow Financial firm has remained committed to the fundamental principals upon which it was founded: integrity, service and performance. Throughout good times and bad, Mesirow Financial overriding mission is to help Mesirow Financial clients achieve their financial goals. Mesirow Financial do that by building long-term relationships and keeping sight of what's important to our clients. Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Mesirow Financial are an employee-owned, private company with more than 1,200 employees in offices across the country and in London.

Shenzhen Investment Limited operates as an investment holding company in China. Shenzhen Investment company is a mid-market property developer in southern China, which is 47.42%-owned by Shenzhen’s city government. Shenzhen Investment during 2008, was involved in the following principal activities: property development, property investment, property management, provision of transportation services, and manufacture and sale of industrial and commercial products. The company, in addition to its own property development business, holds a 27.38% stake in Road King, and a 22.62% stake in Coastal Greenland. Its total land reserves include 10 million square meters (GFA), of which 1.97 million square meters are under construction. The company has ownership interests in Road King and Coastal Greenland. Road King has a land bank of 5.61 million square meters (GFA), and Coastal Greenland has a land bank of 3.07 million square meters (GFA). Segments The Property Development segment engages in the development of residential, industrial and commercial properties. The Property Investment segment invests in residential, industrial and commercial properties for their rental income potential. The Property Management segment engages in the management of both Group developed properties and non-Group developed properties. The Transportation Services segment consists of the provision of taxi and passenger transportation services, automobile maintenance, cargo services and other related services. The Manufacturing segment engages in the manufacture and sale of industrial and commercial products.

Man Group plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the structuring, sale, and distribution of alternative investment products and solutions. It also operates as a futures broker. Man Investments Man Investments, the Asset Management division, is a major provider in the alternative investment industry. It provides innovative products and tailor-made solutions to private and institutional investors. Through its core investment managers - AHL, RMF, Glenwood and Man Global Strategies - Man has succeeded in developing leadership in hedge funds and has interests in other asset classes. In its core hedge fund asset class, Man offers funds of hedge funds, structured, style and single manager products. Man Investments’ Core Managers Man’s core investment managers form the foundation of the asset management business. They provide the investment content for portfolios and are responsible for portfolio construction, asset allocation decisions and risk management. AHL AHL was founded in 1983. The Company implements two main managed futures investment programmes - the AHL Diversified Programme and the AHL Institutional Programme. These programmes are quantitative and primarily directional in nature, meaning they seek to identify and take advantage of upward and downward price trends. Trading takes place around-the-clock and real time price information is used to respond to price moves across a diverse range of global markets encompassing stock indices, bonds, currencies, short-term interest rates and commodities.

Premier Asset Management manages funds and provides customized asset management services for individual and institutional investors in the UK and Ireland. Its products include individually managed mutual funds, multi-asset and subadvised funds, investment trusts, and professionally managed investment portfolios. In 2009 the company agreed to buy 10 former Credit Suisse mutual funds from Aberdeen Asset Management to increase its assets under management to more than $2 billion (more than $3 billion). Electra Private Equity and the management of Premier Asset Management bought the firm in 2007.

A.M. Best is a credit rating organization specializing in the insurance industry. Founded in 1899 by insurance professional Alfred M. Best, the company rates the creditworthiness of, and publishes analytical reports on, insurance companies. A.M. Best Company, Inc. also provides debt ratings of financial instruments offered by insurance companies, including bonds, notes, and securitization products. In addition to providing data on the insurance industry, A.M. Best provides ratings and analysis of financial institutions and health care systems. A.M. Best Company, Inc. operates in the US, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region through offices in New Jersey, London, and Hong Kong.

Bartercard International Limited is proudly Australian and has led from the front through innovating and developing systems. Bartercard International Limited has also enjoyed rapid growth through the development of a sophisticated franchising model that has been efficiently replicated throughout the globe. Bartercard has created an exchange whereby a company solicits business from another company within its network and is paid in in-kind services rather than cash. Bartercard International Limited has business trade exchanges among more than 75,000 members and merchant accounts in nine countries, many of which are located in the Middle East. A private company, Bartercard was founded in 1991 by executive chairman Wayne Sharpe and other directors.

ETCapital Limited was set up in 1992 as an investor in high growth businesses based in southern England. Since 1998, ETCapital has invested QTP, a specialist zero-stage technology fund, focused on the globally significant cluster of science based businesses around Cambridge, Oxford and London. prior to that it managed what is now the HSBC UK Enterprise Fund for East Anglia & the Home Counties investing in early stage businesses, both technology and non-technology, based in East Anglia and the northern Home Counties. In 2004, ET Capital took on the management of the residual investments of Cambridge Research & Innovation Limited, an early-stage technology fund also investing in the Cambridge cluster.

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