Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG) is a provider of retirement savings, investment and insurance products and services. PFG’s United States and international operations concentrate primarily on asset accumulation and asset management. In addition, it offers a range of individual and group life insurance, group health insurance, individual and group disability insurance and group dental and vision insurance. PFG primarily focus on small and medium-sized businesses providing an array of retirement and employee benefit solutions to meet the needs of the business, the business owner and their employees. PGF has four segments: U.S. Asset Accumulation, Global Asset Management, International Asset Management and Accumulation, and Life and Health Insurance.

Sprout Group is a venture capital and private equity investment firm focused on emerging technology companies from startups to management buyouts. The firm seeks to invest in sectors in healthcare technology (biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, laboratory infrastructure and technology, other healthcare investments), communications (components, equipment & software, service providers), and software (applications, infrastructure, electronic design automation). The firm frequently serves as the lead investor in its portfolio companies and serves on its company's Board of Directors. The Sprout Group is a venture capital affiliate of Credit Suisse First Boston. Sprout Group is no longer making new investments, but works actively with associated funds; New Leaf Ventures, which invests in Healthcare Technology, and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, which focuses on a broad range of equity investment opportunities.

Renta 4 Servicios de Inversion is a financial services company that provides investment and asset management at 56 branches across Spain. Seventy percent of its business is in brokerage services -- buying and selling securities and other financial investments. Renta 4 is the parent company of a number of subsidiaries, including Renta 4 Sociedad de Valores, Padinco Patrimonios, Renta 4 Gestora, Gerdinco Gestion, and Renta 4 Pensiones. The group debuted on the Madrid Stock Exchange in November 2007, and offered to buy rival brokerage Gaesco Holding Company in February 2008.

Multi Service was established in the late 1970s to provide credit cards to the trucking industry. The Multi Service card allows truckers to purchase fuel and oil at more than 3,100 truck stops across North America. Multi Service's transaction processing programs and specialized software help trucking companies control purchases, plan their budgets, and report fuel taxes. Multi Service has operations in Australia, the Netherlands, Mexico, and the US. Multi Service also provides fleet card services for small to midsized trucking companies, consolidated billing and reporting services for after-market parts, and processing services for trucking companies that utilize toll roads and tunnels in Europe.

Thompson Street Capital Partners was founded in 2000. Thompson Street Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm specializing in family businesses in transition, growth capital, recapitalizations, management buyouts, corporate divestitures, and take privates investments in middle market companies. The firm does not invest in start-up and early-stage companies. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the manufacturing, distribution, and services companies. The firm invests in niche manufacturers and value-added distributors, military and homeland security providers, business-to-business catalog companies, home healthcare distributors, clinical labs, and business process outsourcing providers. It invests in companies based in the North America region. The firm does not invest in the real estate sector. It seeks to invest between $7.5 million and $40 million in companies having revenues between $20 million and $200 million and EBITDA of $5 million and $15 million.

HIFX PLC was founded in 1998 and is based in Windsor, the United Kingdom. It has operations in Europe, North America, and Australasia. HiFX Plc was formerly known as HiFX Limited and changed its name to HiFX Plc in January 2004. HiFX Plc provides foreign exchange advisory services. It offers advisory services on identifying the nature of risks, foreign currency forecasting, and foreign currency exchange rates, as well as provides advisory services for foreign exchange structured products and managing surplus funds. The company also provides online and international money transfer services; news and information on various aspects of the currency markets, foreign exchange, emigrating, and overseas property; overseas property insurance services; and foreign exchange services for property purchase and emigration.

PSEG Resources wants to generate some capital resources for parent company Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), which provides electricity and natural gas to customers in New Jersey. PSEG company invests in primarily energy-related assets, including leveraged leases, real property, aircraft, and limited partnerships. PSEG Resources is holding off on new investments to concentrate on its existing portfolio, which includes some 45 separate investments and is worth approximately $3 billion. Its holdings include stakes in electric, nuclear, and gas generation and/or distribution stations.

Casa de Bolsa Finamex brings a variety of financial and investment services under a single roof. Formerly Grupo Financiero Finamex, the company provides brokerage and financial advice for individual and institutional investors from offices in Mexico and New York City. Casa de Bolsa Finamex operations include trading and administering variable and fixed-income securities, securities trading in capital markets, corporate financing, currency trading, and financial consultancy. Casa de Bolsa Finamex also operates investment companies. Casa de Bolsa Finamex was founded in 1974 and has been a US broker/dealer since 1992.

Eurazeo has a zeal for Euros. The private equity firm buys stakes in mid-sized and large companies in a wide variety of industries, including hospitality, equipment distribution, and property management. It participates in deals including going-private transactions, spin-offs, and secondary buyouts. Eurazeo usually takes a long-term, lead investor role with an initial investment of up to E100 million (about $142 million). It then actively participates in the strategic, financial, and operational management of its portfolio companies. Through majority-owned subsidiary ANF, the company also invests in real estate. Eurazeo owns interest in telecom company Sirti and hotel operator Accor, among others.

JCB Finance provides asset management and financial services for the UK construction and heavy machinery industries. The company's JCB Finance Asset Management segment sells or leases cars, access platforms, excavators, forklifts, loading shovels, and highway maintenance equipment, while its JCB Insurances Services branch issues insurance for the construction and industries sectors. In addition, the company's JCB Farm Finance unit provides farmers with combine harvesters, foragers, cultivation equipment, bailers, mowers, sprayers, trailers, and other related products. JCB Finance is owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland and farming equipment maker J C Bamford Excavators.

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