The Jones Financial Companies is the parent of Edward Jones, an investment brokerage network catering to individual investors. Serving some seven million clients, the "Wal-Mart of Wall Street" has thousands of offices (mainly in rural communities and suburbs) in all 50 states and Canada. Brokers preach a conservative buy-and-hold approach, offering relatively low-risk investment vehicles such as government bonds, blue-chip stocks, high-quality mutual funds, and annuities. The Jones Financial Companies, L.L.L.P. also sells insurance and engages in investment banking, underwriting and making markets for corporate securities and municipal bonds.

Renaissance Technologies was founded by Jim Simons, a former math professor at MIT and Harvard who, despite his relative anonymity and avoidance of the spotlight, ranks among the world's highest-paid hedge fund managers. After three decades at the helm of Renaissance, Simmons retired in 2010 and took on a new role as non-executive chairman. Complex mathematical theories and statistical methods are reborn as investment strategies at Renaissance Technologies. The quantitative hedge fund, which has more than $15 billion in assets under management in three funds, utilizes computer technical models to exploit mispricings in financial markets.

Collins Stewart has offices in New York City and San Francisco. Boutique investment banking firm Collins Stewart LLC (formerly C.E. Unterberg, Towbin) is the US arm of UK brokerage Collins Stewart plc. Serving more than 700 financial institutions and hedge funds, the company trades in and conducts research on US equities and derivatives. Collins Stewart LLC also manages IPOs for technology and health care companies, makes markets in American Depositary Receipts, and trades foreign stocks and currency. Its research division focuses on the technology, health care, defense, and energy sectors.

Founded in 1994, CommerceNet has been a trusted intermediary, conducting research and piloting programs that have advanced the commercial use of the Internet.CommerceNet sees dollar signs. The tech incubator provides seed money and takes stakes in companies that often are just a glimmer in their founders' eyes. It helps its target companies fund their ideas, collaborate with other Internet companies, and in general advance the commercial aspects of the Internet. The organization operates the Open Network for Commerce Exchange (ONCE), a business-to-business trading community. Funded companies include Webify Solutions (health care provider software) and SupplyFrame (supply chain software).

August Capital was founded in 1995 by Dave Marquardt and John Johnston. Seasoned veterans of the venture capital industry, Marquardt and Johnston formed August Capital to invest in companies differentiated by technical innovation and entrepreneurial excellence. Today, August Capital's six partners -- Marquardt, Johnston, Andy Rappaport, David Hornik, Vivek Mehra and Howard Hartenbaum -- have more than a century of combined venture and operational experience. Together they manage $1.3 billion and have invested in more than 75 companies across the technology spectrum.From its inception, August Capital has funded an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs who have built significant, long-term value across the full range of information technologies. The companies that August Capital's partners have backed represent an aggregate market capitalization of well over $250 billion, generate in excess of $75 billion in annual revenue and employ a quarter of a million people around the world. This success is a testament to the entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the fundamental technologies they have created. We are proud to have supported these entrepreneurs and their companies as they have grown and prospered.

Derbyshire First Investments Limited was founded in 1987 as the Derbyshire Enterprise Board Limited by the Derbyshire County Council. DFI is a joint owner with the Derby City Council of the Rosehill Business Centre, a small business incubator located in Derby. Derbyshire First Investments (DFI) provides business counseling and consulting to start-up and early-stage businesses. DFI company's investments typically range from £50,000 to £250,000 and are usually used to provide working capital, expenditure on capital equipment, refinance bank debt, or develop and market new products. DFI's investment activities are centered in Derby but extend to surrounding counties.

Integrated Asset Management Corp. (IAM) is a Canada-based alternative asset management company. The Company offers alternative asset management to institutional investors, pension funds, private clients and retail investors. The alternative asset classes the Company manages for investors include private corporate debt, real estate asset management, private equity, managed futures and retail alternative investments. On January 23, 2009, the Company incorporated OreReserve Asset Management Inc., a 51%-owned subsidiary. On October 1, 2009, Integrated Management Limited amalgamated with the Company. In February 2010, Integrated Asset Management Corp. and its wholly owned retail alternative investment subsidiary BluMont Capital Corporation, acquired Northern Rivers Capital Management Inc.

Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles (BME), a leading European stock exchange operator by trading volume, has holdings that include Spain's four stock exchanges: Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Valencia. Its services include public offerings and trading facilities for equities, fixed-income securities, and derivatives. Additionally, the company owns subsidiaries that provide clearing and settlement services. BME has been operating since 1856; the Bolsa de Madrid traces its roots back to the Middle Ages. The company's shareholders include several of Spain's largest banks, including Grupo Santander and its subsidiary, Banco Espanol de Crndito SA (Banesto).

Eaton Vance Corp. is engaged in managing investment funds and providing investment management and counseling services to high-net-worth individuals and institutions. The Company’s product line offers fund shareholders, retail managed account investors, institutional investors and high-net-worth clients a range of products and services designed and managed to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns over the long term. The equity products encompass a range of investment objectives, risk profiles, income levels and geographic representation. The income investment products cover a duration and credit quality range and encompass both taxable and tax-free investments. As of October 31, 2009, the Company had $154.9 billion in assets under management. In December 2008, Eaton Vance Corp. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Eaton Vance Management, has completed the acquisition of the Tax Advantaged Bond Strategies (TABS) business of M.D. Sass Investors Services.

Kennet Partners Limited was founded in 1997 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Foster City, California. Kennet Partners Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in growth capital, divestitures, take-private transactions, recapitalizations, leveraged buyout, management buy-out, spinouts, management buy-ins, and acquisition financing. It prefers to invest in the technology, services, and digital media sectors. Within technology, the firm invests in enterprise software, information technology services and solutions, communication technologies, and semiconductor products. It typically invests in companies based in Europe and North America. The firm invests between $10 million and $20 million for growth investments and $20 million and $100 million for buyouts in companies with revenues of between $4 million and $50 million. It seeks to be a lead investor in its portfolio companies. The firm also co-invests with other investment partners.

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