U.S. Global Investors was founded in 1968 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. It also manages accounts for other pooled investment vehicles, individuals, and corporations. The firm manages family of equity and fixed income mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, gold, and natural resources markets across the globe. The firm invests in growth and core stocks to make its equity investments. For its fixed income securities, the firm invests in short and intermediate municipal debt, and U.S. government money market.

A premier private equity firm base in Kansas City, Missouri with substantial resources available for investment. Since its inception in 1996 Tech Investments has significantly out performed the market with annual returns exceeding 30%. Tech Investments focus is on finding proprietary investments within the manufacturing micro-cap market. Tech Investments delivers value to tech investments members and management team through the execution of tech investments disciplined operational model. Tech funds have invested in precision manufacturing businesses within the aerospace, automotive, rail, medical, energy, cable, plastics and printing industries.

iD Ventures America, LLC (formerly known as Acer Technology Ventures America, LLC) is a venture capital business unit of iD SoftCapital Group, a group established by Acer founder Stan Shih and former Acer senior management to offer consulting services, and asset and venture fund management. Our mission at iD Ventures America is to facilitate the Intellectual Development of the New Economy through venture investing.iD Ventures America has been active in the venture community since 1998. Currently we have a total of $385 million under management with $85 million in active investments through our latest funds: iD6 Fund established in 2005; iD8 Fund established in 2008; and our most recent fund, iD5 Annex Fund. These funds are invested by Acer and other private investors. Our former funds, comprised of $300 million, have been fully invested into North America and Asia based companies: The Acer Technology Venture Fund and IP Fund One. ATVF and IPF One are invested by Acer affiliated companies and executives, as well as external institutional limited partners.

Founded in 2007, MFCA is externally advised and managed by Muni Capital Management. Muni Funding Company of America (MFCA) has a special bond with municipalities and non-profits. A specialty finance company, MFCA makes direct and indirect acquisitions of mortgage-secured debt, mainly mortgage revenue bonds, which are tax-exempt bonds issued by municipal (and other) organizations that help subsidize below-market mortgage interest rates for first-time homebuyers. The company also invests in similar tax-exempt obligations of non-profit organizations in the educational, health care, philanthropic, and housing sectors.

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.

Weeden & Co. works to weed out information so it can provide clients with institutional equities trading, fixed income sales and trading, and research services. Weeden & Co. LP specializes in difficult-to-execute transactions, serving some 1,500 institutional clients. Weeden's research division, which includes The Leuthold Group, produces a variety of analytical reports on equity and fixed-income markets. Research affiliates cover such sectors as technology, health care, biotechnology, and REITs. Brothers Frank and Norman Weeden founded the company in 1922, and the company has been employee-owned (more than 80%) since 1986. Weeden & Co. LP has offices in Boston; Chicago; Greenwich, Connecticut; Minneapolis; and San Francisco.

IP Group plc was founded in 2001 and is based in London, United Kingdom. IP Group plc is a principal investment firm specializing in commercializing intellectual property. It seeks to invest in the life sciences and physical sciences sectors. IP Group plc provides seed capital financing to spin out companies from the universities. It also provides support for its university partners' intellectual property commercialization activities, as well as in the identification of intellectual property and in return takes equity positions in its portfolio companies.

Managing partners Alan E. Goldberg and Robert D. Lindsay founded Lindsay Goldberg in 2001. Currently, the firm has about 80 companies in its portfolio. Growing businesses that want to bring in additional capital may choose to add Goldberg Lindsay & Co. (Lindsay Goldberg) to their ownership rosters. The private equity firm targets family-owned businesses and entrepreneurships in various industries for long-term investment. Often remaining in investments for 10 to 20 years, Lindsay Goldberg typically partners with management by installing board members at companies its invests in. Through various affiliates, the firm has a national presence in the US, as well as in Germany and Norway.

Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida S.A. was founded in 1981. Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida S.A. operates as a private pension fund administrator in the Republic of Chile. The company’s services include the collection and management of contributions made by affiliates; investments of affiliate’s contributions in pension funds; provide life and disability benefits for affiliates; and provide a senior pension for affiliates. Services of collection and management of contributions made by affiliates The services regarding collection and management provided by the company are referred to mandatory contributions, as well as voluntary contributions made by its affiliates. The company collects monthly mandatory contributions that are withheld from the salaries of its affiliates by their employers and those contributions from its self-employed affiliates. Those monthly contributions are credited into each affiliate’s individual capitalization account. In the case of dependent workers, each employer must provide to the company a monthly payroll listing all its employees who are affiliates of it, identifying the payments being made on behalf of each employee for pension contributions, both mandatory and voluntary. Self-employed workers prepare and submit their own payrolls.

Dinamia Capital Privado, Sociedad de Capital Riesgo, S.A. is a Spain-based holding company. Dinamia Capital Privado SCR SA is engaged in private equity, which consists of the acquisition and sells of equity investments in unlisted companies with the ultimate goal of generating capital gains over the medium to long term. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s investments portfolio included Gestion Integral Novolux Internacional SL, The Beauty Bell Chain SL, High Tech Hotels & Resorts SA, Enfasis Billing & Marketing Services SL, Saint German Grupo de Inversiones SL, Colegios Laude SL, Hortus Mundi SL, TBBC Helena Investments SL, Limestone Spain SL, Miser SL, Leucorodia SL, Ronda Corporate SL and Helena Debtco, among others. In addition, the Company is 16.71%-owned by Ventos SA.

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