Canada Pension Plan Investment Board was founded in December 1997 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. CPP Investment Board is a state owned pension fund sponsor. The firm invests in the public and private markets across Canada. It invests in the public equity, fixed income and alternative markets of Canada. The firm also invests in private equity, real estate and infrastructure projects, and energy and natural resources. It also makes limited partnership investments in venture capital, private equity, and other investment vehicles. The firm is also known as Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Harbour Centre Development puts its money behind hotels and restaurants, real estate development, and other investment opportunities in Hong Kong and Singapore. Harbour company's crown jewel is The Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel (which the company owns and manages). Other investments include commercial property development near the hotel and residential property development in Hong Kong through subsidiaries Manniwoth Company and Kowloon Properties Company. Harbour Centre Development is a subsidiary of The Wharf (Holdings) Limited through a 66% stake.

Counsel Corporation seeks to acquire real estate and controlling stakes in a variety of established companies with stable management and growth prospects. It targets the real estate, communications, consumer goods, and other sectors in Canada and the US. Counsel Corporation company owns C2 Global Technologies and Fleetwood Fine Furniture, which manufactures custom case goods for upscale hotels. Counsel's real estate holdings throughout Canada include more than a dozen retail properties that contain more than 1 million sq. ft. of leasable space. Its private equity arm, Knights Bridge Capital Corporation, makes investments up to $10 million in small and mid-market companies in North America.

Managing partner Ned Sherwood founded ZS Fund L.P. in 1985. ZS Fund helps middle-market companies build their business while remaining independent. The private equity firm targets private or closely held public companies with annual profits between $4 and $30 million; it takes both minority and majority interests in its investments. Portfolio companies include Industrial Air Tool, market research firm Research Horizons, transportation company Transervice Logistics, and VPSI, a provider of commuter vanpooling services. ZS Fund also possesses expertise in estate planning, management transitions, industry consolidations, and resoving shareholder disputes.

Hong Kong-based Heritage International Holdings invests in commercial real estate, securities, media companies, and the gaming industry (including casinos in Macau and lottery-related businesses in China). Heritage International company also provides short-term financing to companies and individuals. It earns revenue from four primary sources: retail property rental income, interest income from lending money, dividend income from equity investments, and the sale of investments. Among Heritage International company's many holdings, it owns a stake in a lottery-related business (providing primarily lottery ticket sales and outdoor advertising) in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. was founded in 1995 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and recapitalizations of middle-market growth companies. The firm invests in consumer products, healthcare, specialty retail, and asset management companies. It invests in companies based in North America and Asia. The firm invests in companies having enterprise values between $150 million and $600 million and an earnings growth rate of at least 10 percent per annum. It seeks to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

Court Square Capital Partners was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New York, New York with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. Court Square Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm. The firm does not consider investments in the alcohol and tobacco, gambling, finance, real estate sectors, and start-up company sectors. It has a generalist approach though prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the building products, business services, chemicals, consumer products, food products and services, healthcare, manufacturing, industrials, media, technology and telecommunications, and transportation sectors in the United States. The firm does not invest globally from its New York and London offices. It typically invests between $50 million and $300 million in equity per transaction in companies with minimum enterprise values of $50 million to acquire a controlling interest.

RBC Wealth Management company offers private banking, asset management, brokerage, and estate and trust services in more than 20 countries. About half of the company's revenue, however, comes from outside Canada, where the company caters to more than 35,000 individuals and institutions. It has about $500 billion of assets under administration and about $245 billion of assets under management. RBC Wealth Management boasts more than 4,500 financial consultants, advisors, private bankers, and trust officers, and has about 200 offices throughout the US.

Marks and Spencer Financial Services (known as Marks and Spencer Money, or M&S Money for short) can help you with that and much more. The company provides a variety of financial products such as personal and auto loans, individual savings accounts (ISAs), fixed-rate savings, unit trusts, and credit cards to UK consumers. Its insurance offerings include life, home, travel, car, and even pet and wedding coverage. British banking giant HSBC bought M&S Money from department store operator Marks and Spencer in late 2004.

BNP Paribas UK Holdings Limited provides banking services to personal, corporate, institutional market, and private clients. The bank offers financial services such as underwriting, foreign exchange, Euro-bond and equity issues, short-term and long-term interest rate risks, and structured transactions. Additionally, it provides tax based financing, cash management and guarantees, buying and selling of bonds and shares, merger and acquisition advisory, and funding of international trade including finance and trading of physical cargoes. BNP Paribas UK is based in London, United Kingdom. The bank operates as a subsidiary of BNP Paribas.

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