Soleil Securities Group, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Stillwater, Minnesota; Tampa, Florida; and San Francisco, California. Soleil Securities Group, Inc. is an equity research firm specializing in fundamental and strategy and policy research. The firm provides macro-economic and Washington policy research comprising of real-time, proprietary insights on the investment implications in Washington. It focuses on the growth sectors of the economy including basic materials, capital goods, consumer, energy, financials, healthcare, media, special situations, technology, telecommunications, and utilities sectors. The firm offers its clients real time information and intelligence regarding stock price movements, published research, indications of interest, overhang issues, liquidity, and road show feedback through electronic execution products. It offers institutional sales, trading, and corporate services. The firm caters to institutional and corporate clients.

Foresight, which was founded in 1984 by Bernard Fairman and Peter English, manages four capital trusts and owns more than £90 million under management. Foresight Group, formerly Foresight Venture Partners, provides venture capital primarily to technology companies. Its portfolio includes companies involved in manufacturing, IT services, environmental, retail, and communications. The group's investments include nanoscale engineering company Oxonica, retail payment systems designer Nomad, generator services provider Ozone, investment bank software designer BlueCurve, and telephone and energy services supplier Telecom plus.

Raymond James is a diversified financial services holding company with subsidiaries engaged primarily in investment and financial planning, in addition to investment banking and asset management. Raymond James & Associates, Inc. performs trade execution, securities processing, equity research, and investment banking services for institutional clients in North America and Europe. The unit also offers clearing services to fellow Raymond James Financial subsidiary, Raymond James Financial Services. Planning Corporation of America, a wholly owned subsidiary of RJA, sells insurance and annuities.

Trident Capital, Inc. was founded in 1993. Trident Capital, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage growth capital and expansion stage companies and participates in buyout, spinout, recapitalization, and middle market transactions. It focuses its investment on healthcare services, clean tech, Internet, business services, information services, software including technology-leveraged outsourcing and processing for healthcare and insurance, communication and wireless, payment and transaction processing, innovation management, marketing and sales, and enterprise software and services for security, communications, and mobility. Within clean tech sector, the firm seeks to invest in solar, energy storage, fuel cells, green building materials, water, and carbon sequestration.

Fiske Plc is a UK agency brokerage firm serving private clients; Fiske also is seeing growth in its institutional investor business. The company also offers corporate financial advising. In June 2002 the company acquired investment bank Ionian Group Ltd. The unit, which does business as Ionian Investment Management, serves corporate, institutional, and private investment clients. Jove Investment Trust controlled nearly 20% of Fiske, but reduced its stake in 2004.

Octopus' tentacles extend as far as its asset management customers wish. Octopus Asset Management offers venture capital trusts and enterprise investment products (Eureka Fund) for customers in the UK. Other offerings include enterprise investment schemes, which offer customer tax savings. Trusts under management include the Bioscience, Eclipse, and Phoenix Venture Capital Trusts.

Frontenac Company was founded in 1971. Frontenac believes in the power of the people -- powerful people, that is. The private equity firm utilizes an investment strategy dubbed "CEO1ST", in which it matches one of its roster of already successful executives with high-potential companies. The company targets private midsized firms, typically family-owned companies worth up to $250 million. It invests in industries including financial services, business services, health care, publishing, and consumer goods. It participates in MBOs and expansion capital investments and holds its interest stakes for the long term. Frontenac has more than 200 investments under its belt and more than $1 billion in capital under management.

Commonwealth Bankshares was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for Bank of the Commonwealth (the Bank). The Bank operates four branches in Norfolk, six branches in Virginia Beach, four branches in Chesapeake, two branches in Portsmouth, one branch in Suffolk, one branch in Powells Point, North Carolina, one branch in Waves, North Carolina, one branch in Moyock, North Carolina and one branch in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Bank conducts all of the business operations of a typical independent, commercial bank, including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits, and the initiating of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. The Bank also offers other related services, such as home banking, trust, travelers’ checks, safe deposit, lock box, depositor transfer, customer note payment, collections, notary public, escrow, drive-in facility and other customary banking services.

Kim Eng Holdings is one of Southeast Asia's foremost brokerage houses. Kim Eng Holdings Limited provides securities trading and investment banking services such as IPO underwriting, corporate advisory, and financing. Kim Eng Holdings Limited also provides asset management services through KE Capital Partners, a joint venture with Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, as well as through associate firm Republic Investment Management. Subsidiary Emfore Capital Partners manages private equity funds. Kim Eng also performs stock research; its KE Live division specializes in event-driven strategies for retail investors. Kim Eng has a presence in eight countries in Asia (it entered Vietnam and India in 2007), in addition to sales offices in New York and London.

Palladium Equity Partners, LLC was founded in 1997. Palladium Equity Partners, LLC is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm primarily invests in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate spinouts, growth financings, and restructurings. It also invests in late venture companies and may invest in mature businesses. The firm typically invests in business services, financial services, consumer and retail, food, beverage, and restaurants, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, media and entertainment, and telecommunication companies. In the business services sector, it focuses on business process outsourcing; transaction processing; and engineering services. Within the financial services sector, the firm invests in transactional services; money transfer; consumer and specialty finance; and casualty, life, and health insurance; and financial services targeting underserved segments.

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