Founded in 1989, the firm is 65% employee-owned. Strategic Investment Group Ventures owns the remaining 35%. LM Capital Group offers asset management services to corporations, public agencies, foundations, endowments, and other institutional investors. The firm offers several fixed-income investment strategies for clients, including Short Term, Intermediate, Core, and Opportunistic Core. All of its portfolios consist of about 50 securities consisting of treasuries, agencies, investment-grade corporate issues, and mortgage-backed securities. It relies heavily on its analysis of international political and monetary factors when investing.

Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank offers various products and services in capital markets, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking. Its Coverage and Investment Banking division monitors and develops corporate and financial institutions in France and internationally. This division’s operations comprise advisory services and equity financing operations, including mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, corporate equity derivatives, and loan syndication, as well as Islamic banking. The company’s Equity Brokerage and Derivatives division involves in the trading, sale, and arbitrage of equity derivatives, index derivatives, simple or complex structured products, warrants, certificates, and indexed products. Its Fixed Income Markets division offers standard and structured market products, including commodities, debt and credit markets, foreign exchange, interest rate derivatives, and treasury for corporate and financial institutions. The company’s Structured Finance division consists of originating, structuring, and financing operations involving large-scale exports and investments in France and internationally, backed by collateral security, as well as complex and structured loans.

Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corporation (Atalanta Capital), Atalanta Sosnoff Management Corporation (Atalanta Management), and ASCC Corporation, provides discretionary investment advisory, brokerage, and other related services to investment advisory clients. Atalanta Capital is a registered investment advisor that provides investment advisory and management services to institutional clients; and is the general partner and investment advisor of certain investment partnerships and mutual funds. Atalanta Management is also a registered investment advisor and a broker-dealer in securities that owns a seat; and is a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. It provides investment advisory and management services to individual and smaller institutional clients, and brokerage services to its clients and some of the clients of Atalanta Capital. ASCC performs investment advisory services for proprietary investment-related activities.

Nicholas Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialized consumer finance company. Nicholas Financial, Inc. engages in acquiring and servicing contracts for purchases of new and used automobiles and light trucks. Nicholas Financial, Inc. also makes direct loans and sells consumer-finance related products. In addition, Nicholas Financial, Inc. engages in developing, marketing, supporting, and updating industry-specific computer application software for small businesses located primarily in the Southeast United States. Nicholas Financial, Inc. operates 54 branch locations in the Southeast and the Mid-Western states. Nicholas Financial, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Clearwater, Florida.

Louis Dreyfus Commodities, one of the world’s leading commodity merchants and processors of agricultural products, has merchandised and traded bulk commodities in international markets since 1851. LDCommodities is ranked number one in world cotton merchandising and is one of the three largest producers of orange juice with a 15-percent share of the global market. The company is also a leader in the grains and oilseeds, sugar, coffee, rice, metals, freight and emerging financial trading markets.

Eight Peaks seeks out and invests in near start up and small companies that are in sectors exhibiting long term growth. The investments must have the potential and catalysts to generate asymmetric returns. Once invested, Eight Peaks assists the companies to realise their potentials. Returns are generated on exits, which can be IPOs or trade sales. Eight Peaks makes investments in all sectors including technology, energy and natural resources, specifically in businesses and opportunities with the potential for substantial asymmetric capital appreciation. The focus is primarily on high growth companies, although investments may be made in anticipation of receiving dividends.

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., through its affiliates, operates as an asset management company providing investment management services to mutual funds, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals in the United States. It provides advisory or subadvisory services to mutual funds. These funds are distributed to retail and institutional clients directly and through intermediaries, including independent investment advisors, retirement plan sponsors, broker-dealers, major fund marketplaces, and bank trust departments. Affiliated Managers Group company also offers investment products in various investment styles in the institutional distribution channel, including small, small/mid, mid, and large capitalization value and growth equity, and emerging markets. In addition, it offers quantitative, alternative, and fixed income products, and manages assets for foundations and endowments, defined benefit, and defined contribution plans for corporations and municipalities. Affiliated Managers Group provides investment management or customized investment counseling and fiduciary services.

ITEX Corporation was founded in 1901. ITEX Corporation, through its independent licensed broker and franchise network, operates an exchange for cashless business transactions (the ‘Marketplace’) in the United States and Canada. The company’s business services and payment systems enable member businesses (‘members’) to trade goods and services without exchanging cash. These products and services are instead exchanged for ITEX dollars which can only be redeemed in the Marketplace (ITEX dollars). It administers the Marketplace and acts as a third-party record-keeper for its members’ transactions. Marketplace Transactions The Marketplace provides a forum for members to purchase from and sell their products and services to other members using the currency ‘ITEX dollars’ instead of the U.S. dollars (USD). An ITEX dollar is an accounting unit used to record the value of transactions as determined by the members in the Marketplace. The company issues, on a case by case basis, ITEX dollar credit lines to certain members. Members with positive ITEX dollar account balances or those within their ITEX dollar credit line may use available ITEX dollars to purchase products or services from other members and may sell their products or services to other members. Those members with negative ITEX dollar account balances are obligated to sell their products or services to other Marketplace members to offset their negative account balance.

Co-chairman Lawrence Lawson III and Robert Barr, president of North American operations, founded the company in 1996. Lincoln International LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions advisory; private placements; fairness opinions; valuations; Initial Public Offerings (IPO); and financial restructuring services. Lincoln International is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Paris, France.

Banc of America Securities makes its marc as the investment banking arm of Bank of America. Operating as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the firm offers trading and brokerage services; securities underwriting; debt and equity research; and advice on public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and M&A deals. It has several offices in Australasia, Europe, and North America. The firm's client list includes corporations (including many Fortune 500 firms), institutional investors, and government entities. In a notorious deal that caused widespread ripple effects, Bank of America acquired troubled investment bank Merrill Lynch for some $50 billion in early 2009.

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