The Pullman Group issues bonds secured by the future royalties of popular songs. The group garnered attention in 1997 when it launched "Bowie Bonds," which securitized future royalties of 300 David Bowie songs, including "Ziggy Stardust." Bonds have been issued for such artists as James Brown, the Isley Brothers, Motown hitmakers Holland-Dozier-Holland, and for TV and movie libraries. The Pullman Group also handles the sales and securitization of other intellectual properties such as trademarks and patents.

Gladstone Capital Corporation is a business development company and operates as a closed-end non-diversified management investment company. It invests in debt and equity securities of small and medium-sized private United States businesses. The company primarily invests in various categories of debt of private companies comprising senior notes, senior subordinated notes, and junior subordinated notes.

CME Group was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. CME Group Inc. offers access to all asset classes for futures products from a single electronic trading platform, and on trading floors in Chicago and New York City. The Company offers markets in futures and options on futures contracts based on the United States interest rate yield curve, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, metals and alternative investment products. Its products are traded through the CME Globex electronic trading platform, its open outcry auction markets in Chicago and New York City or through privately negotiated transactions that the Company clears. It serves the risk management and investment needs of customers around the globe. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had approximately 140 clearing firms. In April 2009, the Company acquired the Carvill Hurricane Index from Carvill America Inc. and renamed it the CME Hurricane Index.

Impact Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm. Impact Venture are a team of company builders that believes that pursuing one's goals is the most satisfying expression of human talent. Impact Venture seek to join entrepreneurs who share in this belief and in Impact Venture passion for innovation, opportunity and accomplishment. Impact Venture work relentlessly to offer strategic direction, recruit management and create partnerships. Drawing on Impact Venture extensive, nationwide network of corporate and financial relationships, Impact Venture provide our entrepreneurs with access to the resources needed to accelerate growth and achieve market dominance.

Founded in 1999, Acorn Angels is an affiliate of business incubator Acorn Campus. Acorn Angels helps promising high-tech entrepreneurs spread their wings and fly. A group of Silicon Valley investors that includes CEOs and venture capitalists, Acorn Angels provides capital and business development support to early-stage companies. The group looks for start-ups with strong leadership and viable intellectual property; it also seeks companies formed around new ideas, or what it refers to as disruptive technologies. Target industries include communications, Internet infrastructure, fiber optics, and wireless communications. Investments have included Alliance Fiber Optic Products and CipherMax.

Envision Capital Management, Inc. company manages customized short-term bond portfolios for individual investors, specializing in corporate bonds too small to get the attention of large, multi-billion dollar mutual funds. CEO Marilyn Cohen, who controls the company, personally manages investment portfolios for each one of Envision Capital's clients. She also authored "The Bond Bible", writes a column on bond investing for Forbes magazine, and pens a syndicated financial question and answer column.

Questar Capital wants to be a shining example of a financial services provider. Questar Capital Corporation offers a full range of investment products -- including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, and insurance -- via a network of more than 500 representatives throughout the country. Customers of Questar Capital can choose products from about 90 mutual fund companies, some 70 variable life and annuity companies, and 15 fee-based money managers. Insurance provider Allianz Life acquired Questar Capital in 2005, combined it with USAllianz Securities, and gave the combined entity the Questar Capital name.

Collins Stewart focuses on four main areas: advisory, corporate broking, securities, and wealth management. Collins Stewart plc research tool, Quest, is a proprietary online database and valuation model containing about 3,000 European, US, and Asian companies. Collins Stewart traces its roots to 1991. Collins Stewart plc demerged in 2006, and as a result Tullett Prebon also was formed. Following the demerger, Collins Stewart completed its acquisition of corporate finance advisory firm Hawkpoint. In 2010 Collins Stewart announced plans to grow again with the acquisition of independent wealth management firm Andersen Charnley.

Pantheon Ventures Ltd. is a principal investment firm specializing in private equity funds-of-funds investments. It invests in regional primary funds-of-funds; mature global secondary funds; customized separate account programs; creative research; and Pantheon International Participations. The firm typically invests in leveraged buyouts, early-stage or later-stage venture capital, and special situations, such as distressed debt, reorganization or turnaround, and mezzanine funds. It can occasionally invest in subordinated debt funds. The firm makes investments in Europe, United States, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Africa. In primary funds, it primarily invests in the United States, Europe, and Asia and in secondary funds, the firm invests globally. The firm seeks to invest in secondary acquisitions ranging from $500,000 in a single fund to over $1.5 billion in a portfolio acquisition.

Aberdeen Asset Management plc operates as an international investment management company that manages assets for both institutional and retail clients from offices around the world. Aberdeen Asset Management company offers both traditional and improved products, combined with customer support. Aberdeen Asset Management company also provides asset management services. Aberdeen Asset Management company operates in two segments: investment management division and property asset management division. Aberdeen Asset Management company’s investment management division manages equity and fixed interest securities. Its property asset management division manages direct property portfolios for institutions and pooled vehicles, as well as provides certain ancillary services. Investment Management Division Aberdeen Asset Management company’s investment management division manages equity and fixed interest securities. The fixed interest team covers five principal areas of operation: global, emerging markets, Asia, high yield, and U.K. institutional, which covers both investment grade and government bonds. The investment management division has been expanded by the acquisition and integration of Edinburgh Fund Managers Group plc (EFM), while the scale and focus of the property division was changed the sale of the activities carried on from the U.K. and Amsterdam offices.Aberdeen Asset Management institutional clients are pension funds, life assurance companies, banks, government agencies, charities and other financial institutions. Its institutional sales and client services teams are based primarily in the U.K., U.S., Singapore and Australia. Pooled Funds AAM company’s pooled funds include: U.K. Investment Trusts, U.K. Unit Trusts, OEICs, Dublin based UCITS, Luxembourg based SICAV, and Singapore Select fund. Aberdeen Global is the company’s range of Luxembourg-based funds. Aberdeen Global services clients and institutions in Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Latin America. Aberdeen Global is an umbrella fund that consists of a number of sub-funds covering investment objectives.

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