Incorporated in 1974, Temasek Holdings is an Asia investment company headquartered in Singapore. Supported by 12 affiliates and offices in Asia and Latin America, Temasek owns a diversified S$186 billion portfolio as at 31 March 2010, concentrated principally in Singapore, Asia and the emerging economies. Temasek's investment themes centre on Transforming Economies, Growing Middle Income Populations, Deepening Comparative Advantages and Emerging Champions. Its portfolio covers a broad spectrum of industries: financial services; telecommunications, media & technology; transportation & industrials; life sciences, consumer & real estate; energy & resources. Total shareholder return for Temasek since its inception in 1974 has been a healthy 17% compounded annually. It has a corporate credit rating of AAA/Aaa by rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's respectively.

Cash America International, Inc. provides specialty financial services to individuals primarily in the United States and Mexico. Cash America International, Inc. operates in three segments: Pawn Lending, Cash Advance, and Check Cashing. The Pawn Lending segment offers pawn loans through its pawn lending locations, which operate under the names Cash America Pawn and SuperPawn in the United States, and Prenda Facil in Mexico. This segment also sells previously-owned merchandise acquired from customers who do not redeem their pawned goods, as well as sells items purchased from third-parties or customers. The Cash Advance segment offers unsecured cash advances in selected lending locations that are operated under the names Cash America Payday Advance and Cashland in the United States; and short-term cash advances over the Internet under the names CashNetUSA in the United States, QuickQuid in the United Kingdom, and DollarsDirect in the Canada and Australia. Cash America International, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

Augen Capital Corp., a merchant bank, specializes in financing of early-stage resource companies, as well as provision of tax-advantaged flow-through investments in resource sectors in Canada. Segments The company operates under two segments: Managed Products and Merchant Banking. The Managed Products (MP) segment consists of annual resource flow-through limited partnership offerings, and the Augen Resource Strategy mutual fund. The Merchant Banking (MB) segment consists of an investment portfolio of primarily emerging resource stocks. The MB segment provides financing and strategic management support to resource investee companies. Augen Resource Strategy Fund Augen Resource Strategy Fund, Inc. is a mutual fund corporation. The investment objective of the Fund is to provide long-term capital growth, by investing primarily in equity securities of senior and emerging Canadian resource companies. The Fund is also permitted to invest in fixed income and money market instruments. Merchant Banking Portfolios The company holds merchant banking portfolios directly in Augen Capital Corp. (Augen) and indirectly through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aumerco Limited, which primarily consist of listed Canadian resource companies whose principal business is resource exploration and development. Polar Bear Project: Augen established Polar Bear Exploration, Inc. (PBE), a private company, to acquire claims in the Hudson Bay/James Bay area of northern Ontario, south east of the coastal town of Pewanuck and south west of Polar Bear Provincial Park.

Atlantic Trust Group helps the fabulously wealthy stay that way. A subsidiary of mutual fund manager Invesco, Atlantic Trust Group company oversees more than $15 billion of assets under management for wealthy individuals and families, as well as institutional investors such as foundations and endowments. Atlantic Trust Group company offers investment management products and services such as financial counseling, equity and fixed-income investments, trust and custody services, and tax and estate planning. Atlantic Trust Company also provides access to alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity. Atlantic Trust has about a dozen offices in cities across the US.

Jasper Investments Limited is a holding company listed on the SGX since 1993 which principally invests in the offshore oil and gas drilling and services sector. Jasper’s principal subsidiary, Jasper Offshore, owns and operates oil rigs for deep sea drilling which are contracted out to oil and gas exploration and production companies.The major shareholders of Jasper include certain investment funds managed by Ashmore Investment Management Limited. Ashmore is a leading London-based emerging market fund specialist listed on the London Stock Exchange. Ashmore’s investments include fixed income, equity and special situations (incorporating distressed debt and private equity) and have extensive experience in the oil and gas businesses.

North Bridge Venture Partners (NBVP) focuses on early-stage companies involved in software, semiconductors, manufacturing, communications, and technology services. North Bridge Venture Partners, with locations on both coasts, commits as little as $100,000 to startups and often makes multi-million dollar investments in more established enterprises. Besides an infusion of cash, it also offers strategic and financial guidance and industry-specific knowledge. NBVP has invested in about 100 companies, providing financing to firms such as Phase Forward, Sonus Networks, and Voxware. Its current portfolio includes Crossbeam Systems, and Antenna Software. An affiliate, North Bridge Growth Equity, supplies funding for technology companies.

Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, sponsors, markets, and provides investment advisory and related services in the United States. Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. also provides underwriting, compliance, treasury, and fund administration services to mutual fund companies. Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. provides its services to various clients, including mutual funds, separate accounts, and private investment funds, as well as offers advisory services to institutional and individual investors. Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. distributes its products through financial intermediaries, including independent registered investment advisors, brokers, financial planners, investment consultants, and third party marketing firms. Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

FX Solutions, LLC was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Saddle River, New Jersey. As of February 5, 2008, FX Solutions, LLC operates as a subsidiary of City Index Holdings, Ltd. FX Solutions, LLC operates as an online foreign exchange brokerage company. It offers Global Trading System (GTS), a mobile Forex trading platform that provides trading and risk management services. FX Solutions company offers institutional services, including white label, introducing broker, institutional trading, and API solutions. It serves retail clients, white label partners, and institutional trading partners.

IG Group Holdings plc was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. IG Group Holdings plc, through its subsidiaries, operates as a financial spread betting company. The company operates through two segments, Financial and Sport. The Financial segment offers contracts for difference (CFD), spread bets, and exchange traded futures on equities, equity indices, precious and base metals, soft commodities, exchange rates, interest rates, and other financial markets; and exchange traded options, CFDs, and spread bets on options on certain financial markets. This segment also provides financial binaries, including exchange traded and over the counter binary options, and fixed odds bets, as well as operates North American Derivatives Exchange, a CFTC regulated futures and options exchange. The Sport segment provides spread bets and fixed odds bets on sporting and other events, as well as operates an online casino. IG Group Holdings offers its products and services to retail customers, market professionals, and corporate entities in Europe, the Asia Pacific, and rest of the world.

Founded in 1986, El Dorado Ventures (EDV) is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technologies and business models in emerging and high-growth markets, across a broad range of sectors including software, technology-enabled services, communications and emerging technology.El Dorado has a two-decade track record of successful early-stage technology investing, including early investments in Compellent Technologies, Cyras Systems, EarthLink, Efficient Networks, Novellus and NuSpeed Internet Systems. Numerous EDV portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired by major technology companies, including AT&T, Ciena, Cisco Systems, nVidia, Siemens and Texas Instruments.With more than $750 million in capital under management, EDV has a stable group of institutional investors, most of whom have invested with EDV for more than a decade. EDV's limited partners also include a select group of successful entrepreneurs and other technology luminaries, known as EDV's Technology Partner Network, who play an active role as strategic consultants to EDV and its portfolio companies.

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