Frontiers Capital provides venture capital and consulting services to European technology companies. They like to invest in companies representing three distinct business segments: communications hardware (routers, terminals, semiconductors), communications software (operations support systems), and enterprise software (middleware, supply chain management, and customer relationship management systems). The venture capital firm has about E130 million in three funds: Frontiers Capital I, II, and III. Frontiers Capital merged with nCoTec Ventures in 2003.

Brookfield Asset Management, Inc. operates as a global asset management company, with a primary focus on property, power and infrastructure assets. Business areas The company operates and manages assets in the following areas: its property operations include core office properties in North America, the U.K. and Brazil, residential home building in North America and Brazil, as well as associated development activities and property services. The company’s power generation business is concentrated on hydroelectric power generation in North America and Brazil, with co-generation and wind energy facilities. The company’s timberland operations own and manage two million acres of private timberlands in North America and Brazil. The company’s transmission infrastructure business includes electricity transmission systems in Canada and Chile. The company’s specialty funds business develops, invests and manages funds and investments on behalf of institutional and related investors that co-invest in the same types of assets which the company owns, including bridge lending, restructuring, real estate finance and fixed income and real estate securities. The company also owns direct interests in various investments, collectively referred to as Private Equity Investments. PROPERTY OPERATIONS The company conducts a range of property operations in North America as well as in Europe and South America. Core Office Properties The company owns and manages a core office portfolio and focuses on major financial, energy and government centre cities in North America and Europe. The company owns interests in 133 commercial properties totalling approximately 85 million square feet of rentable area, as well as 18 development sites with 22.6 million square feet of potential developable area.

Diversified Investment Advisors company provides administration and management services for corporate retirement plans. It provides services for all types of retirement instruments ranging from pension plans and Roth IRAs to profit-sharing and Taft-Hartley plans. The company specializes in services for the health care industry, including hospitals and other institutions. It markets its products through benefits brokers, consulting firms, and independent brokers and agents. Diversified Investment Advisors is a subsidiary of AEGON USA.

Advanced Equities Financial Corp. was founded in 1999 by independent business owners and securities industry executives Keith Daubenspeck and Dwight Badger, whose entrepreneurial spirit led them to defy old-line traditions and convention by starting a different kind of firm. Advanced Equities soon became the pioneer in providing qualified high-net-worth individuals access to late-stage private equity offerings—opportunities previously available only to institutional investors. AEFC has developed a reputation for being led by entrepreneurs who want to help other entrepreneurs.Blazing a new trail in the world of private equity was followed by a singular approach to retail brokerage through the acquisition of First Allied Securities, Inc., which helped AEFC reinvent the independent advisor model. The First Allied model focuses on meeting the requirements of entrepreneurs with a deep understanding of their need for choices, providing access to opportunities in an ecosystem where initiative and autonomy reign supreme. AEFC made its first of many acquisitions in 2003 and by 2006 was named as the nation's No. 1 fastest growing brokerage firm by Inc. magazine.

NBGI Private Equity Limited is a private equity arm of NBG International Limited specializing in investments in small to medium sized businesses. It seeks to invest in management buyouts and buyins, institution led buyouts, growth capital, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. The firm does not invest in startups and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in consumer and leisure, manufactured, industrial and building products, and business and support services. It prefers to invest in the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests in a deal size between £5 million ($9.40 million) and £50 million ($94.09 million) with an equity investment between £2 million ($3.2 million) and £15 million ($24.05 million). It invests in private and public companies. The firm also invests in further rounds of financing for acquisition and growth in its portfolio companies.

Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and known as the PHLX for short) might think so. Founded in 1790, the exchange claims seniority status over the larger New York Stock Exchange. The PHLX provides electronic and hybrid floor-based trading of equities, options, and futures trading, as well as clearing services. The exchange trades some 7,000 stocks and 2,600 equity options. In 2008 The Nasdaq OMX Group bought the PHLX from a group of investors including Citadel Investment Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse (USA), Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and UBS for some $695 million. The exchange is now part of the Nasdaq Transaction Services US Group.

Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides investment banking, equity research, institutional sales and trading, independent brokerage, advisory, and asset management services in the United States. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. offers general investment banking and corporate finance consulting services; underwriting of public equity and debt offerings, including specified purpose acquisition companies underwriting; placement of private debt and equity offerings; merger, acquisition, and divestiture advisory services; rendering fairness and solvency opinions; and financial valuations. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. also provides investment consulting services, private investment management, retirement plan sponsor services, alternative investments, and architect program, as well as an asset management program, which provides centralized management of mutual fund and exchange-traded fund portfolios based on asset allocation models. In addition, Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. offers broker-dealer and investment advisory services to the independent registered representative community. Further, Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. reviews and analyzes general market conditions and other industry groups; issues written reports on companies, with recommendations on specific actions to buy, sell, or hold; furnishes information to retail and institutional customers; and responds to inquires from customers and account executives. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. serves middle market and emerging growth companies, and high net worth individuals. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. was founded in 1876 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Managing partners Alan E. Goldberg and Robert D. Lindsay founded Lindsay Goldberg in 2001. Currently, the firm has about 80 companies in its portfolio. Growing businesses that want to bring in additional capital may choose to add Goldberg Lindsay & Co. (Lindsay Goldberg) to their ownership rosters. The private equity firm targets family-owned businesses and entrepreneurships in various industries for long-term investment. Often remaining in investments for 10 to 20 years, Lindsay Goldberg typically partners with management by installing board members at companies its invests in. Through various affiliates, the firm has a national presence in the US, as well as in Germany and Norway.

Westar Capital LLC is a private investment firm established in 1987 that provides capital to acquire established growth companies in partnership with management. In special situations, Westar also provides equity financing for corporate expansion, restructurings or acquisitions and will purchase significant equity positions from large shareholders seeking liquidity.Westar collaborates with existing management to grow promising middle market companies into industry leaders over a five-to-ten year period. In all cases, we arrange for management to own a significant share of the equity. At Westar we believe superior investment performance is best achieved when a company is jointly owned by its managers and experienced investors who have the financial resources, long-term perspective and expertise to build highly successful businesses.

Gartmore Investment Limited is privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to other pooled investment vehicles. It also caters to banking or thrift institutions, charitable organizations and corporations. The firm manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Gartmore Investment Management Ltd. Gartmore Investment Limited is based in London, United Kingdom.

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