Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL) is a bank holding company. Western Alliance provides a range of banking and related services to locally owned businesses, professional firms, real estate developers and investors, local non-profit organizations, high net worth individuals and other consumers through its subsidiary banks and financial services companies located in Nevada, Arizona, California and Colorado. Western Alliance also offers an array of financial products and services aimed at satisfying the needs of small to mid-sized businesses and their proprietors, including cash management, trust administration and estate planning, custody and investments and equipment leasing. Western Alliance also provides a range of banking services, as well as trust and investment advisory services, through its consolidated subsidiaries. On December 31, 2009, Western Alliance sold a 75% interest in Miller/Russell & Associates, Inc (MRA).

RA Capital Advisors, formerly known as Relational Advisors, LLC, was founded in 1988 and is based in San Diego, California. RA Capital Advisors LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, fairness opinions, valuations, proxy solicitations, divestitures, and Initial Public Offering (IPO) services. Additionally, it provides structured financing, operational repositioning, and restructuring services. The firm caters to aerospace, automotive, energy, healthcare, technology, mining, and pharmaceuticals industries.

Stonehenge Partners, Inc. was founded in August 1999. Stonehenge Partners, Inc. is a private equity arm of Stonehenge Financial Holdings, Inc. specializing in private equity and mezzanine capital transactions. The firm typically invests in management and leveraged buyouts, leveraged acquisition, recapitalizations, and expansion and growth capital of middle market companies. It primarily invests in manufacturing, distribution, business services, and healthcare companies. The firm does not invest in real estate, oil and gas, high technology, and industries that are susceptible to a high degree of cyclicality. It seeks to invest in companies based in the United States with a focus on the Midwest region. The firm seeks to invest in companies with revenues exceeding $10 million and cash flow in excess of $2 million. It seeks to invest between $3 million to $15 million in its portfolio companies. The firm can invest in control and minority equity positions in the form of common stock or preferred stock as well as coupon only mezzanine with or without warrants. It also seeks to make co-investments in the form of mezzanine with common stock.

NEXT Financial Group, Inc. provides independent investment professionals a place to call "work", and the back office support, marketing clout, and technology services of a big investment firm. NEXT Financial company provides a variety of investment services catering to retirees and baby-boomers through its network of broker/dealers. NEXT Financial company is owned by its employees and representitives and is not affiliated with large investment or insurance companies, allowing reps and customers to choose from a variety of investment options.

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.

Direct Sharedeal Limited offers trading in global markets online or by phone, resarch resources, and online trading tools. Traditionally Scotland's only execution-only stockbroker, the company has broadened its scope beyond online trading, and now offers insurance, mortgages, and other financial services through various alliances. Launched in 1999, the Scottish stockbroker signed a partnership with Computershare Ireland in 2004 in order to expand its product base in the Irish market. Direct Sharedeal Limited brokered approval with the Securities Exchange Commission and successfully entered the US market in mid 2005.

Stifel Financial Corp. serves individual, corporate, municipal, and institutional investors through about 200 offices in the US, with a concentration in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Stifel Financial Corp. also has three offices in Europe. Through subsidiaries Stifel Nicolaus (founded 1890), Century Securities Associates, and others, the company provides securities brokerage, investment products, and financial advice for private clients. Stifel also offers brokerage and mergers and acquisitions advisory services for corporate clients, underwrites corporate and municipal bonds, and provides research on US and European equities. Stifel merged with Thomas Weisel in 2010.

Envision Capital Management, Inc. company manages customized short-term bond portfolios for individual investors, specializing in corporate bonds too small to get the attention of large, multi-billion dollar mutual funds. CEO Marilyn Cohen, who controls the company, personally manages investment portfolios for each one of Envision Capital's clients. She also authored "The Bond Bible", writes a column on bond investing for Forbes magazine, and pens a syndicated financial question and answer column.

Scottish Health Innovations Ltd works in partnership with NHS Scotland to protect and develop new innovations that come from healthcare professionals. By developing these ideas, SHIL creates new products and technologies that will improve patient care and generate income for NHS Scotland. SHIL services include: Project management, Market Research, Sourcing of funding, Intellectual property protection, Sourcing of development partners & Spinout set up. SHIL was set up in 2002 by NHS Scotland and Scottish Enterprise to provide this support to NHS innovation. It was recognised that there was a wealth of potential in the knowledge of NHS employees in terms of how to improve care and that there was no means of support out there to make the most of this. Since SHIL came in to existence they have successfully developed many ideas and projects that have come from NHS staff. These vary from basic ideas to more complicated research projects. If you work in healthcare and you have an idea for a new product SHIL wants to hear from you.

Invesco Aim Management Group is a mutual fund and investment management subsidiary of Invesco. Serving both institutional and retail investors in the US, the firm manages approximately 70 mutual funds that focus on domestic and international equities and, to a lesser extent, bonds and other fixed-income products. It also offers about 100 exchange-traded funds (under the Invesco PowerShares banner), as well as separately managed accounts, annuities, and retirement and college savings plans. Invesco Aim mainly distributes its products through third parties such as broker-dealers, financial advisors, and 401(k) plans. It has more than $60 billion of assets under management.

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