Informative Research Inc. is an information provider for lenders, brokers, and agents involved in the mortgage lending business. Informative Research helps mitigate the financial risk involved with mortgage lending by providing clients with credit reports on potential customers, and identifying fraudulent or invalid loan applications. Informative Research Inc. also offers flood zone determinations, including life of loan reports and portfolio monitoring, as well as automated valuation modeling, including property valuation reports and physical appraisal audits. Informative Research was founded in 1946.

Banca Fideuram was formed in 1992 and is based in Rome, Italy. As of January 18, 2007, Banca Fideuram S.p.A. was a subsidiary of Eurizon Financial Group S.p.A. Banca Fideuram S.p.A. now operates as subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo SpA. Banca Fideuram S.p.A. operates in the private banking industry in Italy and Europe. The bank and its subsidiaries provide mutual funds, life insurance policies, pension funds, certificates of deposit, and private banking services. It manages financial products that are distributed by its private bankers. The bank also provides banking facilities, including securities and mutual funds trading services, which are available online. As of September 30, 2004, the bank operated 89 branches and served approximately 727,000 customers.

Scale Venture Partners makes mid- to late-stage investments in businesses mostly in the hardware, software, semiconductor, networking, biotechnology, and health care industries. Scale Venture Partners has invested in such companies as Bellamax, Picolight, Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, and Dynavax Technologies. The firm typically makes an initial investment between $5 million to $15 million and then keeps capital on hand for companies to use as they grow. Bank of America had been the majority owner of the company, but decided to sell its stake in a shift away from venture capital.

F&C Asset Management one of the top asset managers in the UK and Europe. F&C Asset Management company has more than $100 billion in assets under management, more than one-third of which comes from insurance giant Friends Provident, which spun off the company to shareholders in 2009. F&C Asset Management primarily manages insurance and institutional pension funds. In addition to its Baronsmead brand of venture capital trusts, F&C Asset Management also offers corporate bonds, UK and European equities, and ethical funds. It serves institutional and private investors from offices located throughout Europe and the US.

CIBC Mellon was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in Calgary, Halifax, London, Montreal, and Vancouver. CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services Company is a 50-50 joint venture between Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Mellon Canada Holdings Company. CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services Company provides asset servicing, issuer, multicurrency accounting, information delivery, securities lending, and foreign exchange services in Canada. Its services include safekeeping, cash management and trade settlement, full service investment fund accounting, fund valuation and unit holder record keeping, transition management, pension fund administration and benefit payment, multinational, and securities lending and borrowing. The company also provides transfer agency, corporate trust, corporate actions, and employee share purchase plan services. CIBC Mellon Global Securities serves pension funds, investment funds, insurance companies, foreign insurance trusts, governments, corporations, foundations and endowments, and financial institutions.

Pacific Investment Management Company LLC was founded in 1971 and is based in New Port Beach, California with an additional office in New York City. Pacific Investment Management Company LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans, investment companies, and foreign clients. It also manages accounts for high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, universities, foundations, endowments, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in value stocks of companies. The firm invests in fixed income securities including governments, corporates, mortgages, asset backs, money market, and hedged international bonds while creating its portfolios. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a combination of bottom-up and top-down stock picking approaches while making its investments.

Herald Investment Management Limited was founded in December 1993 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Herald Investment Management Limited is an employee owned investment manager. It manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and alternative investments markets across the globe. It typically invests in companies operating in the technology, media, and communications industries. The firm uses a fundamental analysis to create its portfolios. It does not invest in pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies.

Highland Capital Partners was founded in 1988 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts with additional offices in Bethesda, Maryland; Geneva, Switzerland; Shanghai, China; and Menlo Park, California. Highland Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, later stage, growth stage, venture buyouts, spin-outs, and recapitalizations investments. The firm seeks to invest in the information technology, consumer, communications, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Within the information technology sector, it seeks to invest in Internet, digital media, new media, emerging media, e-commerce, online business, software, services, software-as-a-service, open source software, low-cost telesales, online marketing, payment systems, emerging broadband, interactive television, and media technologies. In the communications sector, the firm typically invests in networking and communications infrastructure, mobile, wireless technologies, telecom services, service opportunities, cable infrastructure, and semiconductor opportunities. Within the healthcare sector, it prefers to invest in medical technology, software, services, medical devices, and biotechnology.

The Capital Group Companies, Inc. founded in 1931, is quiet (it doesn't advertise or grant many interviews), stable (it prides itself on consistency and believes investment decisions should not be taken lightly), and faithful (most of its investments and its executives are long-term). Subsidiary Capital Research and Management manages The American Funds, a family of more than 30 mutual funds that ranks among the largest groups of mutual funds by assets in the US. Other Capital Group units offer mutual funds in Canada and Europe, and investment trusts in Japan.

U.S. Global Investors was founded in 1968 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. It also manages accounts for other pooled investment vehicles, individuals, and corporations. The firm manages family of equity and fixed income mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, gold, and natural resources markets across the globe. The firm invests in growth and core stocks to make its equity investments. For its fixed income securities, the firm invests in short and intermediate municipal debt, and U.S. government money market.

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