CapitalSource, Inc., a specialized finance company, provides various financial products to small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. CapitalSource Inc. operates through three divisions: Corporate Finance, Healthcare and Specialty Finance, and Structured Finance. The Corporate Finance division provides senior and mezzanine loans to businesses backed by private equity sponsors. The Healthcare and Specialty Finance division offers asset-based revolving lines of credit, first mortgage loans, and senior and mezzanine loans to healthcare businesses and other companies. The Structured Finance division provides commercial and residential real estate lending, and asset-based lending to finance companies. CapitalSource Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Berkshire) is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities. The most important of these are insurance businesses conducted on both a primary basis and a reinsurance basis. Berkshire also owns and operates a large number of other businesses engaged in a variety of activities. Berkshire’s insurance and reinsurance business activities are conducted through approximately 70 domestic and foreign-based insurance entities. Berkshire’s insurance businesses provide insurance and reinsurance of property and casualty risks world-wide and also reinsure life, accident and health risks world-wide. Berkshire’s insurance underwriting operations are comprised of sub-groups: GEICO and its subsidiaries, General Re and its subsidiaries, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group and Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group. On February 12, 2010, the Company acquired all of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF).

Invesco Asset Management (doing business as Invesco Perpetual) provides asset management services -- primarily to customers in the UK. One of the largest fund managers in the country, the subsidiary of Invesco Ltd. oversees more than 40 funds that are invested in European, Asian, and international equities, including funds specifically invested in shares of companies in the UK, the US, Japan, and emerging markets. It also manages fixed-interest funds. Other products include ISAs, pensions, and offshore funds. Invesco Perpetual serves both private and institutional investors, as well as financial advisers.

The Bessemer Group manages more than $55 billion in assets for wealthy individuals and families with more than $10 million to invest. Main subsidiary Bessemer Trust administers portfolios with holdings in domestic and international equities and bonds, as well as such alternative assets as hedge funds, real estate, and private equity funds of funds. The group also provides trust, custody, tax and estate planning, strategic philanthropy, and financial advisory services. The group has some 15 US offices in addition to locations in London and the Cayman Islands.

Edward Jones serves nearly 7 million investors and we have more offices than any other investment firm in America. Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. attribute a great deal of our success to our principles and personal, long-term approach to investing. The principal subsidiary of The Jones Financial Companies, retail brokerage Edward D. Jones & Co. (better known by trade name Edward Jones) operates more than 10,000 branch offices located throughout the US, many in small towns or suburbs; Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. operates another 600 offices in Canada. Edward Jones, which advocates a conservative investment strategy, sells securities and insurance products and distributes mutual funds to more than seven million retail clients. Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. investment banking practice underwrites corporate and municipal bonds.

Golden Gate Capital was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Golden Gate Capital is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate extractions, distressed, bankruptcy acquisitions, public-to-private transactions, consolidations, build-ups, and growth equity investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology sectors with a focus on semiconductors, electronics, software, information technology services, financial services, security, media, consumer products, and retail. Within semiconductors, it focuses on specialty device and semiconductor equipment businesses. In electronics, the firm invests in hardware and electronics manufacturing and related services. Within financial services, it focuses on specialty finance, insurance, and outsourcing businesses. In consumer and retail, the firm prefers to invest in consumer products, specialty retail, direct marketing, and restaurants.

Founded in 1936, Russell manages approximately $180 billion in assets on behalf of clients such as pension plans, endowments, foundations, and corporations, including AT&T, Boeing, and Coca-Cola. No longer Frank Russell's company (it's a subsidiary of Northwestern Mutual), Russell Investments (previously Frank Russell Company) provides investment services to institutional clients in more than 40 countries. Russell Investments company is best known for lending its name to equity indices, such as the Russell 2000 and others in the US, the UK (the FTSE indices), and Japan. It offers more than 400 multi-manager investment funds, as well as separate accounts.

Dubai Holding has its fingers in a lot of pies -- hospitality, real estate, financial services, telecom, media, health care, and more. The company has a portfolio of seven main corporations (including hotelier Jumeirah Group) that span across 13 industries. Each main corporation has its own subsidiaries, giving Dubai Holding interests in about 250 companies in the UAE. Dubai Holding is primarily involved in funding development, whether it's building a 3 billion sq. ft. theme park (Dubailand) or a 30 million sq. ft. research park (DuBiotech, owned by TECOM Investments). Dubai Holding is ultimately controlled by the emirate's ruler, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing B.V. was founded in 1998 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with additional offices in Breda, the Netherlands; London, the United Kingdom; Frankfurt, Germany; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Singapore, Singapore; and Beijing, China. BNY Mellon Asset Servicing B.V. operates as a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon. BNY Mellon Asset Servicing B.V. provides custody and custody-related services to institutional investors in the Netherlands and internationally. The company’s custody services include safekeeping, settlement, cash management, income collection, tax reclamation, corporate actions, online reporting, foreign exchange, proxy voting, and market information. Its custody-related services include investment accounting, regulatory reporting, compliance monitoring, performance measurement and investment analytics, transition management, commission recapture, securities lending, multinational reporting, asset pooling, derivatives processing and transaction cost analysis, OTC derivative valuation, and trustee and depositary services.BNY Mellon Asset Servicing B.V. company offers securities lending auction services, which is delivered via its auction platform, i-BID. It serves various types of financial institutions, including asset management companies, insurance companies, banks, and investment funds management companies, as well as pension funds. BNY Mellon Asset Servicing B.V. has strategic partnerships with ABN AMRO Asset Management, CIBC Mellon, Dreyfus, Eagle Investment System Corp, Mellon Institutional Asset Management, and Mellon Global Investments. It was formerly known as ABN AMRO Mellon Global Securities Services B.V.

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.

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