CalPERS was established in 1932 and is based in Sacramento, California with additional offices in San Francisco, California; Glendale, California; San Bernardino, California; San Diego, California; San Jose, California; Orange, California; and Fresno, California. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is a state owned investment manager. The firm provides a variety of retirement and health benefit programs and services, and administers other programs dedicated to protecting the financial security of its members. It also provides administrative support services; real estate asset management; real estate acquisitions and mortgage management; external management services; corporate relations; and internal research services. The firm provides its services to public employees, retirees, and families. It manages equity, fixed income, alternative portfolios, and hedge funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, private equity, fixed income, and hedging markets of the United States and across the globe. It also invests in cash equivalents and real estate. The firm invests in emerging markets and small-cap companies for its externally and internally managed equity portfolios. It makes its domestic fixed income investments in investment grade securities that are rated at least Baa3 by Moody’s or BBB- by S&P or Fitch Ratings. For its global fixed income investments, the firm invests in securities with a minimum rating of Ba3 by Moody’s or BB- by S&P or Fitch Ratings. It specializes in private equity financing making partnership, direct, and fund-of-funds investments.

Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. From turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance. Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in communications, internet, software, and services across business and consumer targets. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition's partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.

Fitch Ratings, one of the top three credit rating agencies in the world (alongside Moody's and Standard & Poor's), issues ratings for thousands of banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, corporations, and governments. With dual headquarters in New York and London and about 50 offices worldwide, Fitch Ratings engages in the politically charged business of rating the debt of nations; Fitch Ratings Inc. covers companies and governments in more than 90 nations. French holding company Fimalac owns 60% of Fitch Ratings; The Hearst Corporation owns the rest. Financial statistician John Knowles Fitch founded the company in 1913.

Hanseatic Group's success may give the company a swelled hedge. The company's hedge fund management affiliate Hanseatic Management Services employs quantitative methods implemented in 1994 to indentify long-term investment opportunities in the stock market. Serving institutional investors, the company has large-cap, small-cap, and multicap strategies. The average client has more than $15 million invested with Hanseatic, which has a total of approximately $230 million of assets under management. The employee-owned firm hopes to grow the latter figure to $1 billion and beyond.

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.

Mediobanca S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, provides lending and investment banking services in Italy and internationally. Segments The company operates in three segments that include Corporate and Investment Banking, Principal Investing, and Retail and Private Banking. Corporate and Investment Banking The company’s corporate and investment banking products and services include lending and structured finance comprising corporate lending, leasing, export finance, subsidies and other funding assistance, and credit analysis and rating advisory; capital market services consisting of equity capital markets, equities and derivatives trading, securities, debt capital markets and securitization, credit products sale, funding, ALM, treasury and fixed income derivatives, proprietary trading, and equity portfolio; and advisory services related to strategic objectives, extraordinary financing, liabilities restructuring, corporate restructuring, company valuations, relations with authorities. Principal Investing Principal Investing includes minority/majority stakes in listed/unlisted corporates of medium/large size which the company invests in with a view to assist them in their plans for growth over the medium term.

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.

DBRS Limited issues credit ratings for corporate, financial, and government bonds throughout the world. Canada's largest credit rating agency, DBRS also operates in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. In the US, DBRS is one of the 10 official Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (NRSROs) approved by the SEC; about a dozen European nations have granted the company External Credit Assessment Institution (ECAI) status. DBRS maintains ratings on more than 43,000 companies. DBRS uses a variety of quantitative methodologies based on the various industries and markets it covers. Chairman and owner Walter Schroeder founded the company in 1976.

United Financial Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for United Bank (the Bank). United Mutual Holding Company is a mutual holding company and owns 53.6% of United Financial Bancorp. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its main office in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and its 12 branch offices located in Feeding Hills, Holyoke, Huntington, Indian Orchard, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Springfield, Northampton and two offices in Westfield, Massachusetts, and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, as well as in home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, commercial and industrial loans, automobile loans, other consumer loans, and investment securities. During the year ended December 31, 2006, United Bank acquired Levine Financial Group.

Rothschild North America was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York. It has over 40 offices in 30 countries. Rothschild North America Inc. is the U.S. arm of the Rothschild financial services group. Rothschild North America Inc. provides corporate and resource banking, treasury, fund management, private banking, and trust services to governments, corporations, and individuals. The company also provides investment banking services, which includes corporate advisory, public and private, mergers and acquisitions, divestments, privatizations, bid defenses, capital raisings, strategic alliances, project finance, and underwriting of international equity offerings.

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