Asset Acceptance Capital tries to help creditors accept the things they cannot change and to have the courage to pay off the debt they can. Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. buys portfolios of written-off consumer debt (credit cards, consumer loans, utilities) at a deep discount, then attempts to collect on them. About half of the value of its portfolio is made up of Visa, MasterCard, and Discover card receivables. Asset Acceptance Capital focuses on debt in the primary, secondary, and tertiary markets, which means between one and three collection agencies have already had a go at them; these portfolios are often the cheapest to acquire but are the hardest to collect on. Tertiary accounts make up about half of its portfolio.

Founded in the late 1800s as The West Point Telephone and Electric Company, a telephone and electric concern that would eventually rival AT&T in the long distance industry, ITC today answers to an altogether different call -- that of a financial holding group. It has invested in several telecom companies, including MindSpring, headhunter.net, and knology. Current holdings include ITC Commercial Funding, which provides commercial mortgages for income-producing properties in the South; restaurant supplier Instawares; and Realview TV, a streaming video system developer. ITC Holding also has interests in the Gro-Eco growing system and venture capital firm Kinetic Ventures.

TRS was founded in 1939. Teachers Retirement System of The State of Illinois is a public pension benefit plan that provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for Illinois public school teachers, administrators, and personnel. Funded by contributions from members, employers, and the State of Illinois, as well as by investment income, TRS manages approximately $30 billion in assets. The system serves more than 350,000 members from all public schools except those in the city of Chicago. TRS is one of five state-funded retirement systems; the others are the State Universities Retirement System, the State Board of Investments, the State Employees' Retirement System, and the Judges Retirement System.

Commonwealth Bankshares was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for Bank of the Commonwealth (the Bank). The Bank operates four branches in Norfolk, six branches in Virginia Beach, four branches in Chesapeake, two branches in Portsmouth, one branch in Suffolk, one branch in Powells Point, North Carolina, one branch in Waves, North Carolina, one branch in Moyock, North Carolina and one branch in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Bank conducts all of the business operations of a typical independent, commercial bank, including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits, and the initiating of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. The Bank also offers other related services, such as home banking, trust, travelers’ checks, safe deposit, lock box, depositor transfer, customer note payment, collections, notary public, escrow, drive-in facility and other customary banking services.

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.

Silentpoint PLC is an investment company which is actively managed and is not constrained by any requirement to track indices or conform to investment fashion. It focuses principally on equity investments without constraint of market capitalisation or balance of industry group weightings.At the core of our investments are holdings in companies where we believe there is fundamental under valuation and scope for share price appreciation. Historically, the company has been heavily weighted to the junior oil and mining sector.

Fiske Plc is a UK agency brokerage firm serving private clients; Fiske also is seeing growth in its institutional investor business. The company also offers corporate financial advising. In June 2002 the company acquired investment bank Ionian Group Ltd. The unit, which does business as Ionian Investment Management, serves corporate, institutional, and private investment clients. Jove Investment Trust controlled nearly 20% of Fiske, but reduced its stake in 2004.

Equity Ventures provides investment capital to companies looking to expand and for management buyouts and buyins. The firm acts as an investment advisor to the British Smaller Companies Venture Capital Trust, the British Smaller Technology Companies Venture Capital Trust, and as the fund manager of the HSBC UK Enterprise Fund for the South West. Equity Ventures has invested in a diversified array of customers including trailer manufacturer York Trailer, home builder Admiral Homes, and gaming operator London Clubs.

Credit Saison Co., Ltd. is one of Japan's leading credit card companies, issuing Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and affinity cards carrying its Saison brand to some 26 million cardholders. In addition to issuing plastic, Credit Saison provides financial services and products including insurance and asset management. Subsidiary Saison Fundex issues loans, while Atrium provides loan servicing. Other subsidiaries and affiliates provide ticket sales, and collection and staffing services. Credit Saison was founded in 1951 as a retailer specializing in payment plan sales. Credit Saison is merging its credit card operations with Seven & i Holdings.

Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices across United States. Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (HTGC) is a specialty finance company that provides debt and equity growth capital to technology-related companies at all stages of development from seed and emerging growth to expansion and established stages of development, which include select publicly listed companies and lower middle market companies. The Company primarily finances privately-held companies backed by venture capital and private equity firms and also may finance certain select publicly-traded companies that lack access to public capital or are sensitive to equity ownership dilution. HTGC sources its investments through its principal office located in Silicon Valley, as well as its additional offices in the Boston and Boulder.

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