optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. provides brokerage and education services in the United States and internationally. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. offers Internet-based options, stock, bond, mutual fund, and futures brokerage services to retail customers. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. brokerage platform delivers various trading tools, which allow retail and professional investors to identify, analyze, and execute a range of investment strategies. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. also offers a range of education products and services, which covers various financial products, including stock, market analysis, options, foreign exchange, and financial planning. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Terra Nova Financial Group wants to serve investors in a hurry to do some stock trading. Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. was founded in the 1990s as a traditional retail brokerage offering insurance and other investment products. Today, Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. has shifted its attention toward its proprietary software for direct-access trading. Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. technology platform provides real-time quotes and trading tools for active online investors, semi-professional traders, and institutional portfolio managers. Terra Nova Financial, LLC, the company's broker/dealer subsidiary, handles online trading for more than 3,000 customer accounts. In 2010 Lightspeed Financial, Inc. agreed to acquire Terra Nova Financial, LLC for nearly $27 million.

BFC Financial Corporation (BFC) is a diversified holding company. Its business activities consist of Real Estate and Other Activities and Financial Services Activities. BFC’s real estate and other business activities include four business segments: BFC Activities, Real Estate Operations, and Bluegreen’s two business segments; Bluegreen Resorts and Bluegreen Communities. The BFC Activities segment consists of BFC operations, its investment in Benihana, and the other operations. On November 16, 2009, the Company holds 52% interest in Bluegreen Corporation (Bluegreen).

First Republic Bank was founded in 1985 as First Republic Bancorp Inc. and changed its name to First Republic Bank in September 1997. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of September 21, 2007, First Republic Bank operates as a subsidiary of BofA Merrill Lynch. First Republic Bank provides private banking, private business banking, investment management, brokerage, trust services, and real estate lending services in California, Nevada, and New York. It provides private business banking services to accounting firms, architecture and design, art and antique dealers, business management firms, business partnerships, entertainment/media, family offices, financial services, hedge funds, independent schools, investment firms, law firms, medical firms, non-profit organizations, private equity funds/firms, property management firms, and venture capital firms.First Republic Bank company also provides private wealth management services, including asset allocation, trust administration, custody, asset management, brokerage, private placements, fixed income management, financial and estate planning, alternative investments, socially responsible investing, and multi-cap equity and management services. First Republic Bank also offers residential lending products, such as single family mortgages, vacation home mortgages, co-op and condominium loans, home equity lines of credit, bridge loans, and construction-to-permanent loans; commercial lending, including apartment building, mixed-use building, commercial real estate, and site-acquisition and construction loans; and personal lending, such as stock/bond secured loans, unsecured loans, overdraft lines of credit, letters of credit, partner capital lines, aircraft and yacht financing. The company’s deposit services comprise ATM rebate checking, money market checking, money market savings, passbook savings, and certificates of deposit.

MTN Capital Partners is a private investment firm that focuses on middle-market companies valued at less than $100 million. It targets profitable and rapidly growing firms, but also considers those that are unprofitable or are up for auction. Often investing along side other firms, MTN typically seeks out opportunities in the specialty retail, consumer products, media, automotive, and manufacturing sectors. Some of the firm's co-investments/co-sponsorships include New Jersey high-end grocery store chain Kings Super Markets and Canada-based custom footwear maker The Orthotic Group.

Sutter Hill Ventures has financed technology-based start-ups and assisted entrepreneurs in building market-leading companies since 1964. Through our decades of experience, Sutter Hill have developed strong industry networks, considerable operating and venture capital experience, and an understanding of the challenges that early-stage and high-growth companies face. Sutter Hill offer expertise in developing business strategy and partnerships, building management teams, and financing companies in both public and private markets.Sutter Hill Ventures are experienced operating executives who love building companies. Sutter Hill approach is straightforward. Sutter Hill have a collegial and uncomplicated operating style that is direct and results-driven. Sutter Hill work as a team to respond quickly to new investment proposals and to Sutter Hill portfolio companies' needs. Once sutter hill invest in a company, sutter hill bring to bear sutter hill bring to bear sutter hill time, expertise, and extensive industry networks to help these companies succeed. Building companies is sutter top priority and sutter favorite occupation.

Securities broker Siam City Securities (SCS) opens its doors to both the domestic and foreign investor. A subsidiary of Thailand's Siam City Bank, SCS provides securities brokerage and trading for the Stock Exchange of Thailand as well as underwriting and investment advisory services. Siam City Securities Co., Ltd. brokerage activities include cash and credit balance accounts and Internet trading operations. Siam City Securities Co., Ltd. steers its trading efforts toward investments in government and state enterprise securities, private company debt, and other equities. Meanwhile, SCS offers investment advice about securities value and trading, while it underwrites common shares, debentures, and warrants (among others) for its clients.

Auriga Partners was founded in May, 1998 and is based at Paris, France. Auriga Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage companies. It prefers to invest in the information technology, industrial technology, and life sciences sectors. The firm primarily invests in the European Union, with a minor focus on North America, France, and Israel. It typically invests between €0.5 million ($0.74 million) and €8 million ($11.87 million) in its portfolio companies. For investments outside France, the firm participates in the funding along with its extensive global network of local venture capitalists.

Nova Capital Management Ltd. was founded in 2002 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Essex, Connecticut. Nova Capital Management Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in financing acquisitions, turnaround, and middle market transactions. It seeks to invest in underperforming and under-managed portfolio companies run by private equity and venture capital firms. The firm also invests in the secondary direct market. It invests across all industrial and commercial sectors. The firm typically acquires or manages holdings in portfolios of companies based in the United Kingdom, United States, and Western Europe with a transactional value of between £20 million ($39.84 million) and above £200 million ($398.42 million). It invests in companies that comprise a minimum of three businesses with value and risk diversification.

Silentpoint PLC is an investment company which is actively managed and is not constrained by any requirement to track indices or conform to investment fashion. It focuses principally on equity investments without constraint of market capitalisation or balance of industry group weightings.At the core of our investments are holdings in companies where we believe there is fundamental under valuation and scope for share price appreciation. Historically, the company has been heavily weighted to the junior oil and mining sector.

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