A pension plan has existed for Ontario teachers since 1917. Today, the plan’s members include 175,000 teachers in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, 114,000 pensioners, and 69,000 inactive members. The plan has one of Canada’s largest payrolls with $4.4 billion in benefits paid to plan members, and $2.7 billion received in total contributions from teachers, the provincial government and designated employers in 2009.Before 1990, the plan was administered by the Ontario government and restricted to investing in non-marketable Province of Ontario debentures. In 1990, the government established the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board as a corporation overseen by a nine-member board.With $96.4 billion in net assets at December 31, 2009, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’) is the largest single-profession pension plan in Canada. An independent organization, it invests the pension fund’s assets and administers the pensions of 289,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario.

Value Line, Inc. was founded in 1931 and is based in New York, New York. Value Line, Inc. is a subsidiary of Arnold Bernhard & Co., Inc. Value Line, Inc. (Value Line) is principally engaged in the business of producing investment-related periodical publications and making available copyrighted data, including Value Line ranking system information and other information under agreements to third parties for use in selecting securities for third party marketed products, such as unit investment trusts, closed-end fund products and exchange traded funds, and providing investment management services to the Value Line Funds and other managed accounts. The Company is organized in two segments: Investment Periodicals, Related Publications and Copyright Data, and Investment Management. The investment-related periodicals offered by Value Line Publishing Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, cover investments, including stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities. As of April 30, 2009, the Company was the investment adviser for the Value Line Mutual Funds, which consisted of 14 mutual funds.

Carter Financial Management was founded in 1976 by company president Bill Carter (also no relation to President Carter nor his beer-branding brother Billy). Former US President Jimmy Carter doesn't have anything to do with Carter Financial Management, but Carter Financial Management has a lot to do with dead presidents (if not live ones). Carter Financial Management company offers asset management, tax, legal, and philanthropic services to high-net-worth individuals, as well as families, professionals, and business owners. Affiliate Carter Advisory Services performs financial planning services for estates worth $2 million to $100 million, while brokerage services are carried out by Raymond James Financial.

Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP"), based in Chicago, is one of the most experienced and successful private equity investment firms in the United States. MDP has raised over $18 billion of capital since its formation in 1992. Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts of private or publicly held companies, or divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of family-owned or closely held companies; balance sheet restructurings; acquisition financings; and growth capital investments in mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in basic industries, communications, consumer, financial services, healthcare, and real estate sectors. Within the basic industries sectors, it focuses on energy and power, paper, packaging and forest products, chemicals, building products, metals and mining, diversified industrial, natural resources, automotive, food, refining, and general manufacturing industries. In the communications sector, the firm invests in media including broadcast television, radio station groups, and publishing companies; wireless communications sector including mobile telephone operators, paging service providers, high-capacity data and voice transmission service providers, and satellite service providers; and wireline telecommunications including local exchange carriers, rural telephone operators, and cable television system operators.

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) invests mainly in information technology companies focused on the semiconductor, software, and consumer Internet sectors. It typically invests between $10 million to $15 million in start-up or early-stage firms and assists its portfolio companies with executive recruiting, forming strategic alliances, and financial and legal matters. An affiliate of Wells Fargo, NVP closed its 11th fund worth some $1.2 million in late 2009. It is the firm's largest fund to date. NVP has more than $3.7 billion of capital under management and has invested in more than 450 companies.

OppenheimerFunds Inc. was founded in 1960 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Rochester, New York and Centennial, Colorado. OppenheimerFunds, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, corporations and institutions. It also provides sub-advisory investment-management services. The firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm also manages mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp.

Winmill & Co. manages three mutual funds and two closed-end funds (Foxby Corp. and Global Income Fund). Most of the assets of the company's Midas mutual fund are invested in gold, silver, and platinum bullion, or in firms involved in precious metals and natural resources mining, processing, and distribution. The Midas Special Fund focuses on stock of emerging growth companies and firms undergoing restructuring or liquidation. Winmill & Co. also administers a money market fund.

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.

Tiger Resource Finance Plc is an Investment Fund focused on the Resource Sector. The company is listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market. Its mission is to invest in natural resource companies globally, capitalising on early entry level in mineral projects, and adding technical and management expertise where necessary. The company intends to be a unique player in the Mineral Resource Sector, offering investors the opportunity to invest in several well-managed and well-researched Mineral Resource projects.

NexTrade Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Clearwater, Florida. NexTrade Holdings, Inc., a financial technology firm, develops electronic trading systems for buyers and sellers. It offers technology solutions for futures and commodities exchange, currency exchange, matching and routing, options trading, index and ETF, and clearing systems, as well as for front-end interfaces and securities exchanges. NexTrade Holdings company provides transaction processing and software architecture. It serves various financial institutions, including online brokers, market makers, mutual funds, hedge funds, and traditional brokerage firms.

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