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.

Hotung Investment Holdings Ltd, a venture capital firm with operations in Taiwan, the US and China, was incorporated in March 1997 and has been listed on the Main Board of SGX-ST since August 1997. It is the first and only Taiwan venture capital firm listed on the Singapore Exchange. The Group's two business divisions are Venture Capital Investment and Fund Management Operation. In Venture Capital Investment Business, it works through its 3 subsidiaries, Hotung Venture Capital, Daitung Development and Investment and Huitung Investments (BVI) Ltd. In Fund Management Operations, through Hotung International Co Ltd. (“HIC”) one of Taiwan’s largest venture capital investment managers, currently manages and/or advises 8 funds globally and internationally. HIC, a value-added partner to our portfolio of companies, provides management and advisory services in respect of hundreds of investee companies.The Group’s investment portfolio is focused on key industry sectors that include semiconductor, LCD and communications etc. Over 65% of the Group’s portfolio investments are in the greater China region, while the rest is based in the US. Hotung Group was formerly known as Hotung Venture Capital Corp ("Hotung VC"). Hotung VC was founded by Tai Lung Capital Inc. (formally known as Tai Lung Corp.), Daiwa Corporate Investment Co., Ltd. (formally known as Daiwa SMBC Capital Co.,Ltd.) and Mega International Commercial Bank (formally known as Chiao Tung Commercial Bank Co Ltd) in June 1987. In 1997, as part of the restructuring exercise conducted for purposes of the Company's public offering, the venture capital fund management contracts were transferred from Hotung VC to Hotung International Co.,Ltd. and Hotung VC became purely a venture capital fund. Hotung Investment Holdings Ltd was incorporated in Bermuda on 5 March 1997.

Ashmore Group plc (Ashmore) is a United Kingdom-based company engaged in providing investment management services. The Company is a fund manager across six core investment themes, such as external debt, local currency, special situations, equity, corporate high yield and multi-strategy. The external debt theme comprises principally United States dollar and other hard currency denominated instruments, which may include derivatives, investing in mainly sovereign bonds. The local currency investment theme comprises local currency and local currency denominated debt instruments. The special situations theme comprises investments in debt and/or other instruments. The equity investment theme comprises public equity and equity-related securities. The corporate high yield investment theme comprises investments in corporate debt within emerging markets.

Inflexion, which was founded in 1999, has offices in London and Manchester. Inflexion flexes its muscles by nurturing growth companies. The private equity firm focuses on the buyout and development of small- to mid-market businesses and it typically invests from £15 million to £100 million ($24 million to $162 million). Inflexion gets involved with its portfolio companies and specializes in corporate finance, recovery, and consulting. The firm has made investments in various sectors from oil and gas to apparel. Recent investments include health care staffing firm Independent Clinical Services, subsea vehicle manufacturer SMD, clothing company Jack Wills, and industrial products firm Aspen Pumps.

Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. was founded in 1988 and is based in Denver, Colorado with an additional office in Phoenix, Arizona. As of 07/10/2001, GMB is a subsidiary of CoBiz Financial Inc. Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. (GMB) is an investment bank that offers financial advisory services to middle market companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placements of equity and debt, valuation and fairness opinion, and strategic financial advisory services. It caters to business services, construction, consumer, healthcare, and telecommunications industries.

Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. was founded in 1953. Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion financing, growth capital, management buyout, recapitalization, industry consolidation, corporate spinout, and early stage financing transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the technology and life sciences sectors. Within the technology sector, it invests in software as a service, technology enabled services, Internet/new media, financial services information technology, healthcare information technology with capital requirements of up to $25 million, and internet-based businesses. Within the life sciences sector, the firm invests in molecular and point-of-care diagnostics, medical devices, regenerative medicine, and specialty pharmaceuticals. It invests throughout United States and Canada. The firm primarily invests between $10 million and $25 million in growth equity financing and between $5 million and $10 million in early-stage financing. It typically invests in the capital structures including owner financed and bootstrapped companies, corporate division or business unit, and venture capital-backed seeking a growth partner.

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.

Leerink Swann LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Leerink Swann LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that offers financial advisory services to the healthcare industry. The firm offers private placements, initial public offerings, PIPEs, valuation and fairness opinions, due diligence, and mergers and acquisitions advisory services. Additionally, it provides institutional sales and trading management, cash management, company transformation, turnaround management, and marketing strategy development services.

Roark Capital Group was named after Howard Roark, the protagonist in Ayn Rand's classic The Fountainhead. For much of the book, Roark's unwavering commitment to his style of architecture put him at odds with the people in power and thus the people who influenced public opinion. While many of his peers altered their architectural designs to gain public approval and fame, Roark was always true to himself and his work, refusing to succumb to conventional wisdom. By the end of the book, the former architectural elite are exposed as frauds, and Howard Roark is discovered as a true visionary.Integrity, according to Ayn Rand, is commitment to one's own thinking and one's own mind. If a man sincerely believes a claim to be true, then he must hold to this belief even though society opposes him. He must think independently and form values that he never sacrifices. Howard Roark's life exemplified the true nature of this independence and integrity.Roark Capital Group's investment style and business philosophy is meant to emulate the life of Howard Roark. Roark Capital hope to invest in outstanding companies in partnership with exceptional operating executives, regardless of conventional wisdom or the latest trend. Further, Roark Capital Group will support its portfolio companies and its management partners, in good times and bad, as long as the fundamental long-term opportunity remains intact. In the end, this patient, independent approach, will generate superior risk adjusted investment returns for Roark Capital Group.

Williams Coal Seam Gas Trust (the "Trust"), incorporated in 1992, was formed to acquire and hold certain net profits interests (Royalty Interests) in proved natural gas properties located in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado. The only assets of the Trust, other than cash and temporary investments being held for the payment of expenses and liabilities and for distribution to Unitholders, are the Royalty Interests. The Trust will not terminate prior to January 1, 2003, except upon the affirmative vote of the holders of not less than 75% of the outstanding Units to liquidate the Trust.

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