Thomas Weisel Partners company operates in four segments: investment banking, brokerage, equity research, and asset management. Focusing on the technology, industrial growth, health care, mining, and consumer products and services sectors, the company offers services including mergers and acquisition advisory, institutional sales, and wealth management. The firm also offers venture capital investing and other opportunities to affluent private investors and institutional clients. Thomas Weisel Partners was acquired by Stifel Financial for more than $300 million in 2010. Thomas Weisel is now a subsidiary of Stifel.

smac | partners - formerly known as Siemens Acceleration in Communications - is the ICT early stage venture capital investor based in Munich, Germany. smac | partners is one of the few venture capital companies with investment, management and exit experience in the US, China, India, Europe and Israel. Long-term studies show a significantly higher return from early-stage investments than from later-stage investments. Especially the early-stage investments in Europe have attractive valuations.However, early-stage investments require massive management attention and specific sector expertise from the investor. smac | partners has an impressive track record in leading entrepreneurs to success. The global ICT sector is a sizeable market environment in excess of € 2,000 billion and it is steadily growing. Even more important are the smaller innovation segments which allow start-ups to find an appropriate niche often show annual growth rates of 50% and more. The overall impact of the ICT sector on the European economy is substantial, as 50% of economic growth is attributed to it.

Intrepid Capital is here to help you face the sometimes frightening world of investing. Through subsidiary Intrepid Capital Management the company manages investments for institutional investors such as corporations, labor unions, foundations, and endowments, as well as wealthy individuals and families. Its products include small-cap and multi-cap equity, high-yield fixed-income, and balanced portfolios. The company invests in a variety of sectors including retail stores, consumer products, and sporting facilities. Chairman Forrest Travis founded Intrepid Capital in 1994 along with his son Mark, who is president and CEO of the firm.

United Planners' Financial Services wants to unite its clients with financial success. The securities broker/dealer provides brokerage, insurance, and investment advisory services to more than 300 independent registered investment advisors that offer such services to individual investors and small businesses across the US. United Planners also provides back-office, technology, and compliance support and training. Clearing services are offered through a pact with Pershing. Founded in 1987, United Planners was acquired by Pacific Life later that year. United Planners' Financial Services of America became independent when its management bought back Pacific Life's stake in 2007.

CompuCredit Holdings Corp. provides credit and related financial services and products to underserved consumer credit market, a market represented by credit risks that regulators classify as sub-prime, in the United States. CompuCredit Holdings Corporation operates in five segments: Credit Cards, Investments in Previously Charged-Off Receivables, Retail Micro-Loans, Auto Finance, and Internet Micro-Loans. The Credit Cards segment consists of credit card investment and servicing activities conducted with respect to receivables underlying accounts originated and portfolios purchased by the company. CompuCredit Holdings Corporation was formerly known as CompuCredit Corp. and changed its name to CompuCredit Holdings Corp. in June 2009. CompuCredit Holdings was founded in 1996 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC) is hoping to recycle the business savvy it applied to the aluminum manufacturing business and use it to generate returns in the telecommunications field. The private equity firm was launched in 1987 to invest in an aluminum smelter plant in Washington state. It now owns a number of manufacturing facilities, including Columbia Commercial Building Products (aluminum windows) and Specialty Chemical Products LLC (silica extraction from crushed glass). In recent years the firm has turned its attention to international telecom providers; those holdings include One Communications, THUS Group, and Magnet Networks (Internet, telephone, and video provider in Ireland).

The Blackstone Group, L.P. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York. The Blackstone Group L.P. (Blackstone) is a manager of private capital and provider of financial advisory services. The Company is an independent manager of private capital with assets under management of $98.2 billion, as of December 31, 2009. Blackstone provides a range of financial advisory services, including corporate and mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and reorganization and fund placement services. The Company operates in four segments: Private Equity, Real Estate, Credit and Marketable Alternatives, which consists of its management of funds of hedge funds, credit-oriented funds and separately managed accounts, CLOs and publicly-traded closed-end mutual funds, and Financial Advisory, which consists of its corporate and mergers and acquisitions advisory services, restructuring and reorganization advisory services and Park Hill Group, which provides fund placement services for alternative investment funds.

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.

United Financial Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for United Bank (the Bank). United Mutual Holding Company is a mutual holding company and owns 53.6% of United Financial Bancorp. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its main office in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and its 12 branch offices located in Feeding Hills, Holyoke, Huntington, Indian Orchard, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Springfield, Northampton and two offices in Westfield, Massachusetts, and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, as well as in home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, commercial and industrial loans, automobile loans, other consumer loans, and investment securities. During the year ended December 31, 2006, United Bank acquired Levine Financial Group.

Keepmoat plc, controls a group of companies engaged in building homes (not necessarily castles). Projects include regenerating older homes and neighborhoods, as well as building new houses. Subsidiaries (Keepmoat Homes, Bramall Construction, and Frank Haslam Milan) refurbish more than 40,000 homes a year in the UK, working with local authorities, housing associations, and other social landlords to provide affordable housing. Keepmoat Homes Limited is the group's primary private house building unit.

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