Franklin Resources, Inc. (Franklin) is an investment management company. The Company is a holding company that, together with its various subsidiaries (collectively, the Company), is referred to as Franklin Templeton Investments, a global investment management organization offering investment choices under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series, Bissett, Fiduciary and Darby brand names. In its primary business and operating segment, investment management and related services, it provides services to investment funds and institutional, high net-worth and separately managed accounts (collectively, its sponsored investment products) in the United States and internationally. In its secondary business and operating segment, banking/finance, it provides clients with select retail banking, private banking and consumer lending services through its bank subsidiaries.

CITIC Pacific Limited was founded in 1990. CITIC Pacific Limited engages in the special steel manufacturing and iron ore mining operations primarily in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The company’s segments include Special Steel, Iron Ore Mining, Property, Aviation, Power Generation, Civil Infrastructure, Communications, and Marketing and Distribution. Special Steel CITIC Pacific Special Steel operates as a special steel manufacturer in China. Special Steel is used in a range of industries, including auto components, machinery manufacturing, transportation, energy, railways and shipping. The major products are bearing steel, gear steel, spring steel and seamless steel tubes. These are used in a range of different industries, including auto components, machinery manufacturing, oil, petrochemicals, transportation, energy, railways and shipping. The company’s three operating plants, Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel, Xin Yegang Steel and Shijiazhuang Steel, are ideally located to cover the main markets for special steel in eastern, central and northern China. Special steel refers to steel that has added or extra benefits, such as heat resistance, anti corrosion and anti fatigue. Categorised by shape, special steel includes bar steel, plate, strip steel, tube steel and wire steel. Customers: The company’s customers include Jiangsu Zhenda Seamless Tube; Pangang Group Chengdu Iron and Steel; Yangzhou Chengde Steel Tube; Dongfeng Motor; and Jiangxi Hongdu Steelworks. Iron Ore Mining The Sino Iron project is the most advanced magnetite development in Australia. CITIC Pacific has rights to two billion tonnes of resource.

TradeWeb LLC operates as an online trading marketplace for fixed income, derivatives, and equities. The company offers trade execution, market data, and trade processing services, as well as a range of post-trade analytical services that enable clients to measure the benefits generated from electronic trading for trading strategies and compliance purposes. Its network connects the institutional clients, dealers, prime brokers, and electronic confirmation vendors for trade processing, as well as provides dealers and buy-side institutions with paperless trade allocations and confirmations. The company’s multi-dealer auction model links the trading desks of the fixed-income dealers with buy-side institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its network also includes AccountNet, a derivatives counterparty management tool, as well as the data warehouse for standing settlement instructions and OTC derivatives legal documentation.

Founded in 1993, Woodbridge Group, Inc. also offers capital raising and valuation services. Woodbridge operates in North America, Europe, Asia, Mexico, and Brazil. Woodbridge Group isn't in the construction business, but it does build bridges between commercial buyers and sellers. The mergers and acquisitions firm helps buyers determine strategic fits, search for potential acquisition candidates, extend offers, negotiate prices, and close deals. It helps sellers (typically companies with $5 million to $100 million in revenues) develop marketing collateral, then discreetly market and sell their businesses. It serves clients worldwide in the areas of manufacturing and distribution, services, retail, and technology.

Marlin Equity Partners, LLC was founded in 2005 and is based in El Segundo, California. Marlin Equity Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in corporate divestiture, carve-outs, extractions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, PIPES, and public-to-privates transactions. The firm also invests in special situations including bankruptcies, reorganization, debtor-in-possession financings, out of court restructurings, equity and debt recapitalizations, and operational turnarounds. It seeks to invest in middle market and mature companies and provides bridge financing. The firm typically invests in the technology, healthcare, consumer, services, manufacturing, distribution and logistics, aerospace and defense, and media sectors. Within technology, it focuses on software, hardware, payment and transaction processing and financial technology, telecommunications, and the Internet. Within healthcare, the firm focuses on healthcare technology and information technology, revenue cycle management, and services and outsourcing. Within consumer sector, it focuses on consumer products, ecommerce and direct marketing, footwear and apparel, food and beverage.

ING Investment Management Americas is all about the Benjamins. The unit of Dutch financial services giant ING Groep administers more than $220 billion for some 500 institutional investors in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Clients include corporations, pension funds, mutual funds, health care organizations, and insurance companies. The company also manages accounts for not-for-profit organizations inlcuding endowments and foundations, and religious institutions. ING Investment Management Americas employs a variety of investment styles such as growth and value equity, core fixed income, multi-asset strategies, and alternative investments including hedge funds and private equity.

The Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation was founded in 1954 and is based in New York, New York. The Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of companies as platform investments and as strategic add-ons for its subsidiaries. The firm seeks to invest in platform companies with transaction sizes between $50 million and $150 million and revenues of at least $50 million. It prefers to acquire 100 percent ownership interests. The firm may also acquire minority positions depending on the opportunity and sponsorship. It invests its own capital supplemented by bank debt.

GAMCO Investors, Inc., (GBL) is a provider of investment advisory services to mutual funds, institutional and private wealth management investors, and investment partnerships, principally in the United States. Through Gabelli & Company, Inc. (Gabelli & Company), it provides institutional research services to institutional clients and investment partnerships. It generally manages assets on a discretionary basis and invests in a variety of United States and international securities through various investment styles. Its revenues are based primarily on the firm’s levels of assets under management (AUM) and to a lesser extent, incentive fees associated with its various investment products. It also offers a series of investment partnership (performance fee-based) vehicles that provide a series of long-short investment opportunities, both market and sector specific opportunities, including offerings of non-market correlated investments in merger arbitrage, as well as a fixed income strategy.

Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is based in Overland Park, Kansas. Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. conducts business through its subsidiaries. The Company is engaged in providing investment management, investment product underwriting and distribution, and shareholder services administration to mutual funds and institutional and separately managed accounts. The Company operates its business through three distribution channels. Its retail products are distributed through its sales force of registered financial advisors (the Advisors channel) or through third-parties, such as other broker/dealers, registered investment advisors (including the retirement advisors of the Legend group of subsidiaries (Legend)) and various retirement platforms, (collectively, the Wholesale channel). It also markets its investment advisory services to institutional investors, either directly or through consultants (the Institutional channel). On July 15, 2009, the Company sold of its interest in its wholly owned subsidiary, Austin, Calvert & Flavin, Inc. (ACF).

DynaFund provides promising technology companies throughout the United States with the investment capital and active management support they need to grow and succeed. The DynaFund team members have extensive experience as company founders, technologists, financiers, strategic planners, marketers, legal advisors and venture capitalists. In addition, DynaFund provides critical competitive advantages to our portfolio companies by offering access to key engineering, manufacturing, and marketing resources in the U.S. and Asia through business networks established over DynaFund Ventures two decades of successful venture investing.

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