The Dreyfus Corporation was founded in 1951 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Denver, Colorado; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Norwalk, Connecticut; San Francisco, California; Rockville, Maryland; Berwyn, Pennsylvania and London, United Kingdom. The Dreyfus Corporation is privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. The firm also caters to Pension and profit sharing plans, other pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities and insurance reserves, nuclear decommisioning trusts. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm operates as a subsidiary of BNY Mellon Asset Management.

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through our history, Hummer Winblad Venture had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models. Hummer Winblad Venture helped entrepreneurs build companies in desktop software, embedded systems, client-server, distributed network computing, internet, and software as a service. Hummer Winblad Venture earliest portfolio companies started shipping software on floppy disks and today HWVP investors in pioneering companies in cloud computing. Hummer seen everything from shrink-wrap licenses to enterprise-wide "big deals" to subscription pricing; from direct sales to highly-leveraged channel strategies to download driven inside sales.

IGM Financial Inc. was founded in 1894. IGM Financial Inc., a personal financial services company, provides investment advisory and related services. The company’s activities are carried out through Investors Group Inc., Mackenzie Financial Corporation and Investment Planning Counsel Inc. IGM Financial Inc. is a member of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies. Investors Group Inc. (Investors Group) delivers personalized financial solutions to Canadians through a network of consultants located throughout Canada. In addition to a family of mutual funds and other investment vehicles, Investors Group offers a range of insurance, securities, mortgage products and services, and, through National Bank of Canada, also offers banking products and services. Mackenzie Financial Corporation (Mackenzie) is an investment management firm providing investment advisory and related services. Mackenzie distributes its products and services primarily through a diversified distribution network of third party financial advisors. Investment Planning Counsel Inc. (Investment Planning Counsel) is an independent distributor of financial products, services and advice in Canada.

Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. was founded in April 2004 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Sherman Oaks, California. Epoch Holding Corporation (Epoch) is a holding company whose primary line of business is investment advisory and investment management services. The operations of the Company are conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. (EIP). EIP provides investment advisory and investment management services for retirement plans, mutual funds, endowments, foundations and high net worth individuals. As of June 30, 2009, EIP offered 11 separate investment products to its clients, including U.S. All Cap Value, U.S. Value, U.S. Smid (small/mid) Cap Value, U.S. Small Cap Value, U.S. Choice, International Small Cap, Global Small Cap, Global Choice, Global Absolute Return, Global Equity Shareholder Yield and Balanced Portfolios.

Cinven is a leading European buyout firm, founded in 1977, with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Hong Kong. Cinven acquire European-based companies that require an equity investment by our funds of €100 million or more. Cinven European focus and expertise are complemented by an ability to capitalise on global growth opportunities through Cinven Asian office. Cinven focus on six sectors: Business Services, Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials, and Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT). Cinven acquires successful, high-quality companies and works with them to help them grow and develop, using Cinven proven value creation strategies. Typically, Cinven holds its investments for between four to six years. Cinven take a responsible approach towards our portfolio companies, their employees, suppliers and local communities, the environment and society as a whole.Cinven has a strong and consistent investment track record. Since the firm was founded in 1977, Cinven have completed transactions valued at in excess of €60 billion. We are responsible for many buyout industry ‘firsts', including the first €1 billion - plus buyouts in France, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Cinven are currently investing our fourth fund, which totals €6.5 billion. More than 150 investors based in 23 countries participated in the fund. They include leading institutional investors, mainly pension funds and insurance companies with a long-term investment horizon. Around half of our investors are based in Europe, another 40% are based in North America and the balance are based in Asia and the Middle East.Cinven complies with the UK's Guidelines for Disclosure and Transparency in Private Equity published by the Walker Working Group in 2007, and with comparable codes throughout Europe. Cinven Limited (‘Cinven') is manager of, and adviser to, the Cinven funds. Cinven Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

U.S. Venture Partners was founded in 1981. U.S. Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies. It typically invests in information technology, life science and technologies for adapting to or mitigating climate change with a focus on energy-related products and services, components, software, systems, semiconductors, web-enabled services for businesses and consumers, storage, wireless communication, sustainable agriculture, the Internet version 2.0, biomedical devices, and new drugs with profound social benefits. The firm seeks to invest in markets with revenue potential in excess of $1 billion and rarely invests in companies focusing on a market smaller than $300 million. It prefers to avoid investing in companies that compete directly with each other. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies and typically invests for a period of three to ten years.

U.S. Global Investors was founded in 1968 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. It also manages accounts for other pooled investment vehicles, individuals, and corporations. The firm manages family of equity and fixed income mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, gold, and natural resources markets across the globe. The firm invests in growth and core stocks to make its equity investments. For its fixed income securities, the firm invests in short and intermediate municipal debt, and U.S. government money market.

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.

Vining-Sparks IBG wants to help institutional investors kindle an investment blaze. Operating as Vining Sparks, the firm provides broker/dealer services to institutional investors including financial companies, money managers, funds, insurance firms, and municipalities. Through its alliance with Howe Barnes, Vining-Sparks IBG offers investment banking services including debt and equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions advisory. Headquartered in Memphis, far from the capital of capital centers, Vining Sparks has more than a dozen offices in the US and another in London. Chairman James Vining founded Vining-Sparks IBG to serve community banks in 1981.

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.

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