Mutual of America Life Insurance was founded in 1945 and is based in New York, New York with regional offices in the United States. It has satellite offices in Alaska and Hawaii. Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, a registered broker-dealer, provides pension and retirement-related products, programs, and services in the United States. Mutual of America Life Insurance company provides group and individual variable accumulation annuities, and related services for the pension, retirement, and long-range savings. The company also offers universal life insurance, group life insurance, and group disability products. It also operates equity, retirement, fixed income, asset allocation, and balanced funds.

LaBranche & Co Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a registered broker-dealer. It operates as market-maker in options, futures, and exchange-traded funds (ETF) traded on various exchanges. LaBranche & Co Inc. operates in two segments, Market-Making and Institutional Brokerage. The Market-Making segment operates as a market maker in equity, index and ETF options, ETFs, and futures on the NYSE Amex Exchange, the NYSE Arca Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange; broker-dealer registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Securities Authority; market maker for ETFs traded on the London Stock Exchange, and the Euroex and Euronext Exchanges; broker-dealer with Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission; and market maker for ETFs in Hong Kong, as well as engages in hedging transactions in Asia. The Institutional Brokerage segment provides securities execution, fixed income, and professional trading brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders; and operates as a market maker in over-the-counter, bulletin board, and pink sheet securities. LaBranche & Co Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York.

Founded in 1998 by Bill Hambrecht, WR Hambrecht + Co is a financial services firm committed to using technology and auction processes to provide open and fair access to financial markets for all its clients. The firm’s impartial auctions have dramatically changed the traditional investment banking landscape by allowing the market to determine pricing and allocations.The OpenIPO® auction, for example, levels the playing field in initial public offerings, allowing individuals and institutional investors to bid online for shares of an IPO. All investors end up paying the same price – a price determined by the auction. The OpenBook® auction for corporate bonds, is an online system that offers transparent, real-time price discovery. OpenFollowOn® auction extends the transparency and real-time price discovery of the OpenBook auction to follow-on equity offerings allowing interactive bidding and gives investors a view into the book as it builds.WR Hambrecht + Co continues to identify markets where auctions will benefit investors and issuers. WR Hambrecht provide underwriting and advisory services for technology and emerging growth companies, as well as technology driven institutional agency brokerage and a fully electronic retail brokerage platform for individual investors. WR Hambrecht + Co is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. WR Hambrecht Canadian affilliate, WR Hambrecht + Co Canada, is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

CapMan provides management and advisory services for funds investment in real estate and other assets in the Nordic region and Russia. The company manages funds worth approximately E3.5 billion (about $5.7 billion). Its CapMan Private Equity business focuses on investments in middle-market buyouts, tech firms, and medical technologies; CapMan Real Estate invests in commercial and hotel properties, primarily in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Fund investors include insurance companies, pension funds, and banks.

Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. was founded in 1988 and is based in Denver, Colorado with an additional office in Phoenix, Arizona. As of 07/10/2001, GMB is a subsidiary of CoBiz Financial Inc. Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. (GMB) is an investment bank that offers financial advisory services to middle market companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placements of equity and debt, valuation and fairness opinion, and strategic financial advisory services. It caters to business services, construction, consumer, healthcare, and telecommunications industries.

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers merger and acquisition, private placement, acquisition financing, management buyout, and recapitalization advisory services. Additionally, it provides retail brokerage, securities trading, and business valuation and insurance services. The firm, formerly known as J.J.B. Hilliard & Son, was founded in 1854 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky. As of March 31, 2008, J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, LLC operates as a subsidiary of HL Financial Services, LLC.

Louis Dreyfus Commodities, one of the world’s leading commodity merchants and processors of agricultural products, has merchandised and traded bulk commodities in international markets since 1851. LDCommodities is ranked number one in world cotton merchandising and is one of the three largest producers of orange juice with a 15-percent share of the global market. The company is also a leader in the grains and oilseeds, sugar, coffee, rice, metals, freight and emerging financial trading markets.

Founded in 1889, Bank of Bermuda was bought by British banking giant HSBC in 2004. The Bank of Bermuda Limited provides fund administration, trust, custody, asset management, and banking services globally. The bank operates through four divisions: Global Fund Services, Private Client Services, Corporate Banking, and Community Banking. The Global Fund Services division provides fund administration products, banking, and global custody services, including hedge funds, emerging market funds, funds of funds, and private equity funds to investment industry. The Private Client Services division provides private trust and investment services to high net worth individuals and families. The Corporate Banking division provides cash management services to offshore insurance management companies, multinational corporations, and local Bermuda-based companies.

Updata Partners was founded in 1998. Updata Partners is an investment arm of Updata Capital, Inc. specializing in growth capital, expansion capital, acquisition financing, buyouts, recapitalizations, and corporate spin-offs investments. The firm also provides finance for founder and investor liquidity. It typically invests in information technology sector with a focus on software and information services businesses. Within the information technology sector, the firm seeks to invest in application software and software-as-a-service, internet, digital media and e-commerce, infrastructure software, and business and information services. The firm invests between $5 million and $20 million in companies with revenue between $5 million and $50 million. The firm prefers to be a lead or co-lead investor. It seeks to co-invest in its portfolio companies.

The Stephens Group, LLC, is a private, family-owned firm investing in private and public companies with exceptional management teams in growing industries. For more than 70 years, Stephens Group family has partnered with talented managers, entrepreneurs and chief executive officers to help them achieve their strategic visions and build long-term value. Today, Stephens Group provide a select, yet diverse group of companies with an independent source of capital, unbiased advice and access to Stephens Group extensive network of business contacts.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.