Boston Ventures Management, LLC was founded in 1983 with a simple premise, that deep knowledge of its industry sectors and a disciplined investment strategy focused on growing companies, will lead to differentiated returns. Through seven funds, and three decades, the Firm and its predecessor, Boston Ventures Management, LLC, have successfully executed on that strategy with over $2.6 billion of capital commitments. BV Investment Partners has acted as the lead investor in notable portfolio companies, including: Billboard Publications, Decision Resources, Marshall & Swift, Television Station Group, Vue Entertainment, and World Publications.

Henderson Investment Limited, through its subsidiaries, primarily invests in infrastructure projects in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The company is a subsidiary of Henderson Development Limited. Infrastructure The company's infrastructure business mainly comprises interests in Hangzhou Qianjiang Third Bridge and a highway in Maanshan City, Anhui Province. They are both located in the Yangtze River Delta. Associated Company - The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited: The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited supplies piped gas in Hong Kong. Its core businesses comprise production and distribution of gas, marketing of gas and gas appliances, and after-sales services. It serves approximately 1.6 million local customers throughout Hong Kong, Kowloon peninsula, some new towns in the New Territories, as well as North Lantau Island including the Hong Kong International Airport. It also operates water supply projects in Wujiang, Jiangsu province and in Wuhu, Anhui province, and manages an integrated water supply and wastewater joint venture in Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu province. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, the ECO Energy Company Limited, Hong Kong and China Gas has diversified into various green businesses including Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vehicle filling stations and the utilization of landfill gas. ECO is operating a total of five LPG filling stations, which are strategically located in Chai Wan, Mei Foo, Tuen Mun, West Kowloon and Wan Chai.

Gladstone Capital Corporation operates as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. The Company’s investment objective is to achieve a high level of current income by investing in debt securities, consisting primarily of senior notes, senior subordinated notes and junior subordinated notes, of established private businesses that are substantially owned by leveraged buyout funds, individual investors or are family owned businesses, with a particular focus on senior notes. In addition, it may acquire from others existing loans that meet this profile. It also seeks to provide its stockholders with long-term capital growth. Gladstone Management Corporation is the Company’s investment adviser. Gladstone Business Loan, LLC is the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary.

ICAP plc, the world's largest interdealer brokerage with more than $2 trillion in average daily volume, is a wholesale broker of OTC derivatives, money markets, and securities, focusing on foreign exchange, energy, credit, and equities markets. With operations in more than 30 countries, the firm is a major interdealer broker in US Treasury notes. Direct trade execution and processing are available to investment houses and major banks through the company's electronic trading services. Institutional clients include international, investment, and commercial banks. ICAP also has a joint venture with insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group.

Equity Ventures provides investment capital to companies looking to expand and for management buyouts and buyins. The firm acts as an investment advisor to the British Smaller Companies Venture Capital Trust, the British Smaller Technology Companies Venture Capital Trust, and as the fund manager of the HSBC UK Enterprise Fund for the South West. Equity Ventures has invested in a diversified array of customers including trailer manufacturer York Trailer, home builder Admiral Homes, and gaming operator London Clubs.

MicroFinancial Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialized commercial finance company that provides microticket equipment leasing and other financing services in the United States. MicroFinancial Incorporated provides financing alternatives, and leases and rents commercial equipment to start-up and established businesses for use in their daily operations. MicroFinancial Incorporated leases water coolers, security equipment, point-of-sale authorization systems, automotive repair equipment, restaurant equipment, advertising and display equipment, paging systems, and other business equipment. MicroFinancial Incorporated primarily sources its originations through a network of independent equipment vendors, sales organizations, and other dealer-based origination networks. MicroFinancial Incorporated was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Ampal-American Israel holds interests in half a dozen companies in the chemical, energy, real estate, telecommunications, and leisure industries. Ampal-American Israel Corporation prefers to invest in companies that initially grow in Israel, then expand abroad. Ampal-American Israel often exerts influence after acquiring stakes in companies. Previous investments include Gadot Chemical Tankers and Terminals, one of Israel's leading chemical shippers; East Mediterranean Gas Company, a natural gas exporter; and Bay Heart Limited, a shopping mall owner in Haifa, Israel's third-largest city. Chairman and CEO Yosef A. Maiman and his family own a majority of Ampal-American Israel.

Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is an operating subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is a private equity firm specializing in small and middle market transactions. The firm prefers to acquire businesses and assets from financially distressed sellers and through divestitures from large corporations. It seeks to invest in management buyouts, private company recapitalizations, corporate orphans, distressed debt, complex structural situations, special situations, partnerships with fundless sponsors and industry executives, corporate lift-outs, difficult or non-traditional deal situations, and asset pool purchases. The firm seeks to invest in specialty finance, retail, consumer and retail, financial services, healthcare services and facilities, and business services. It invests between $10 million and $250 million in companies having enterprise values of $30 million to $500 million. The firm makes control investments as a sole investor or co-investor in transactions.

Winmill & Co. manages three mutual funds and two closed-end funds (Foxby Corp. and Global Income Fund). Most of the assets of the company's Midas mutual fund are invested in gold, silver, and platinum bullion, or in firms involved in precious metals and natural resources mining, processing, and distribution. The Midas Special Fund focuses on stock of emerging growth companies and firms undergoing restructuring or liquidation. Winmill & Co. also administers a money market fund.

Aberdeen Development Capital PLC is an investment trust company. Aberdeen Company’s assets are invested in a diversified portfolio of unlisted securities spread across a range of industries within the United Kingdom. It is the investment policy of the Company to invest no more than 15% of its gross assets in other listed investment companies (including listed investment trusts). Aberdeen Company does not have any investments in other investment companies. As of May 31, 2009, the Company’s top 10 investments included Tennants Consolidated, Pilgrim Systems, Cash Bases, Brookhouse Holdings, IFC Holdings, Transys Projects, PLM Dollar Group, Oliver Kay Holdings, Enpure Holdings and TLA Holdings. Aberdeen Company's investment manager is Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited. In May 2010, Aberdeen Company disposed its two portfolio holdings, Homelux Nenplas Limited and Oliver Kay Holdings Limited. In April 2010, Aberdeen Company announced the disposal of portfolio company, Norson Holdings Limited.

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