Canaccord Genuity (formerly Canaccord Adams) provides equities research, sales, and trading services, and investment banking services such as securities underwriting, sales, trading, M&A advice, and industry research. Formed in 1969 through the merger of Weston W. Adams & Company and Harkness & Hill, the company specializes in the technology, metals, mining, life sciences, real estate, and financial services sectors. Canaccord Genuity also acts as a market maker for small- and mid-cap stocks in the US. Canaccord Capital (now Canaccord Financial) acquired Canaccord Adams in 2006. Four years later, it acquired M&A advisory firm Genuity Capital Markets and rebranded all of its capital markets businesses.

Institut de Participations de l’Ouest SA was founded in 1980 and is based in Nantes, France. Company Overview Institut de Participations de l’Ouest SA is a private equity arm of CIC Credit Industriel & Commercial, specializing in growth capital, management and owner buyout and buy-in transactions, and recapitalization. The firm usually invests in all the sectors. It typically invests in the following western region of France: Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Poitou-Charentes, Limousin, and Normandie. The firm invests between €0.5 million ($0.74 million) and €15 million ($22.27 million) per transaction in companies and seeks minority control in the businesses it acquires.

Nomura Securities International has its eye on fixed income, and we're not talking Social Security. The US-based division of Nomura Holdings, a top Japanese brokerage, provides securities research and trading, asset management, and capital markets services to individual, institutional, corporate, and government clients. Nomura Securities International, Inc. is a leading seller of Japanese equities in the US. Nomura Securities International, Inc. fixed income division underwrites and trades government bonds and derivatives. Nomura Securities International, Inc. ceased trading mortgage-related securities in 2007. Nomura Securities International opened its first US office in New York in 1927, and has expanded its reach to entail all of North and South America.

The Fidelity Global Group is an international asset-based investment firm that provides credit facilities to a variety industries through its subsidiaries. Fidelity Global provides development funding for communications, metals, mining, and chemical companies for both the private and government sectors internationally. It offers credit services and loans for refiners of nonferrous metal, such as aluminum, brass, copper, magnesium, and zinc, to purchase new equipment or expand operations. Fidelity Global company also offers loans to companies that are credit-challenged on a per project basis. Fidelity Global Group usually gets a percentage of the profits from those projects.

BGC Partners, Inc. operates as a financial intermediary to the financial markets specializing in the brokering of various financial products. BGC Partners, Inc. provides electronic marketplaces, including government bond markets, spot foreign exchange, foreign exchange options, and credit default swaps in various financial markets through its eSpeed- and BGC Trader- branded trading platform which can be accessed through its high speed data network, over the Internet, or third party communication networks.BGC Partners, Inc. serves banks, professional trading firms, futures commission merchants, professional market participants, financial institutions, investment banks, brokerage firms, asset managers, hedge funds, investment analysts, and financial advisors in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and other Americas. BGC Partners, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in New York, New York.

Assante Wealth Management provides a range of financial services to Canadians. The company has a network of about 800 advisors serving approximately 300,000 clients in Canada. It provides access to financial products and services such as tax-free savings accounts, mutual funds, stocks, bonds, insurance, cash management, and discount brokerage. Established in 1995, Assante Wealth Management has more than $20 billion in assets under management. The company became a subsidiary of mutual funds powerhouse CI Financial in 2003 after spinning off its US operations to shareholders as Loring Ward International.

Trident Capital, Inc. was founded in 1993. Trident Capital, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage growth capital and expansion stage companies and participates in buyout, spinout, recapitalization, and middle market transactions. It focuses its investment on healthcare services, clean tech, Internet, business services, information services, software including technology-leveraged outsourcing and processing for healthcare and insurance, communication and wireless, payment and transaction processing, innovation management, marketing and sales, and enterprise software and services for security, communications, and mobility. Within clean tech sector, the firm seeks to invest in solar, energy storage, fuel cells, green building materials, water, and carbon sequestration.

Davis Selected Advisers LP was founded in 1969 and is based in Tucson, Arizona. Davis Selected Advisers LP is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, including high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity portfolios. It also manages mutual funds. The firm invests in the public equity and alternative investment markets across the globe. For alternative investment, it invests in the real estate markets. The firm invests in value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap companies to make its investments. It employs fundamental research, using both quantitative and qualitative techniques with a combination of bottom-up and top-down approach to make its investments.

Calamos Asset Management, Inc. (CAM) provides investment advisory services to individuals and institutional investors through open-end funds (the Funds), closed-end funds (the Closed-End Funds), separate accounts, offshore funds and partnerships. CAM operates and controls all of the business and affairs of Calamos Holdings LLC (Holdings). The Company’s clients include institutional and individual clients with long-term investment horizons. The Company makes its range of investment strategies and services available to its clients, directly and through intermediaries, by offering a range of investment products designed to suit their investment needs. The Company markets its investment strategies to its clients through a range of products designed to suit their individual investment needs. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company offered four types of investment products that fall into the categories of mutual funds and separate accounts.

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL or the Company) is a holding company listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 15 October 1956. GBL strives to stimulate and promote the growth of a valuable and balanced portfolio of industrial investments, focusing on a small number of major companies, operating in a diversified range of sectors, in which it is able to play its role as a strategic shareholder. The Company’s portfolio consists of four participations, namely Bertelsmann, Total, Suez and Imerys. TotalFina Elf formed by the successive consolidations of the Total, PetroFina and Elf Aquitaine groups, TotalFinaElf is a global oil and gas group and a major player in the chemicals sector. Activities TotalFina Elf is one of the major integrated oil companies. Its activities are based in more than 100 countries and cover the entire oil industry chain, from upstream - exploration, development and production of oil and gas – to downstream - refining and distribution of oil products and international trading of crude oil and refined oil products. TotalFina Elf is also an important operator in the chemicals industry. Upstream, TotalFina Elf’s hydrocarbon reserves amount to some 11.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Present in the liquefied natural gas industry, TotalFina Elf is also expanding its activities to related market segments such as gas distribution and electricity generation. Downstream, the group has a refining capacity of 2.3 million barrels a day and sales of 3.7 million barrels a day of refined products. TotalFinaElf has interests in 27 refineries and operates a network of some 16,700 service stations under the Total, Fina and Elf brands, primarily in Europe.

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