Standish Mellon Asset Management Company was founded in 1933 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC (SMAM) primarily provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans. It also manages accounts for pooled investment vehicles, corporations, high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, insurance reserves, nuclear decommissioning trusts, healthcare organizations, insurance companies, other taxable institutions, sub advised and commingled funds, taxable individuals & trusts, unions & Taft Hartley plans, corporate retirement plans, public funds, endowments, and foundations. The firm manages separate client-focused fixed income portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC also manages hedged fixed income portfolios. It invests in the fixed income markets across the globe. The firm selects the debt instruments on the basis of a quantitative and qualitative analysis with a top-down approach to create its debt portfolio mix. It invests in repurchase agreements, commercial papers, certificates of deposits, floating rate notes, treasuries, agencies, bank deposits, asset-backed securities, municipal bonds, corporate bonds, mortgage-backed securities, money market instruments, Guaranteed Investment Contracts (GICs), government instruments, Yankee bonds, futures, options, and swaps to create its debt portfolio mix.

Scotia Waterous (formerly Waterous & Co.) provides investment banking services to companies in the energy industry. The firm offers support for mergers & acquisitions and divestitures, private placements, and other corporate finance services. In 2005, The Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) acquired Waterous, combining Scotiabank's Scotia Capital division with the global financial counseling business of Waterous. Scotia Waterous owns and operates facilities in Canada, Latin America, Singapore, the UK, and the US. Scotia Waterous company maintains offices in Calgary, Houston, Denver, London, Latin America, Singapore, and Beijing.

Boom Securities (H.K.) Ltd. was founded in 1997. BOOM Securities (H.K.) Limited, is a fully licensed Broker / Dealer regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong and headquartered in Hong Kong. Boom Securities (H.K.) Ltd. is the first company to offer online trading in Asia, the Hong Kong-based firm provides access to most major exchanges located throughout the Asia/Pacific region and the US. Its inventory includes stocks, mutual funds, index funds, warrants, equity-linked notes, and currencies. Major investors in Boom Securities include William Hambrecht of WR Hambrecht Co., which is owned by JP Morgan Chase.

Founded in 1982 as a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley, the firm became independent in 1998. It has completed more than 80 transactions in its history; its current portfolio consists of about 10 firms. Mason Wells focuses its buyout efforts on middle-market firms in the Midwest that are involved in engineered products, specialty paper and packaging, and outsourced business services. Target companies typically have annual revenues ranging from $25 million to $250 million. Mason Wells prefers to be the lead investor and majority shareholder in its portfolio companies; it usually holds onto investments for four to seven years.

BFC Financial Corporation (BFC) is a diversified holding company. Its business activities consist of Real Estate and Other Activities and Financial Services Activities. BFC’s real estate and other business activities include four business segments: BFC Activities, Real Estate Operations, and Bluegreen’s two business segments; Bluegreen Resorts and Bluegreen Communities. The BFC Activities segment consists of BFC operations, its investment in Benihana, and the other operations. On November 16, 2009, the Company holds 52% interest in Bluegreen Corporation (Bluegreen).

Founded in 1981 as Citicorp's European private equity arm, CVC carried out its own buyout in 1993 and is now owned by its management. It has about 20 offices around the world. CVC Capital Partners is in the business of making other businesses its business. The private equity investor specializes in buyouts of firms in the UK, the US, Western Europe, Asia, and Australia. Its portfolio of more than 50 companies consists mainly of retail, manufacturing, and service firms. Holdings include UK department store chain Debenhams, US-based luggage maker Samsonite, and Japan-based restaurant chain operator Skylark. It acquired a 47.5% stake in Pilot Travel Centers (now Pilot Flying J) in 2008.

Incorporated in 1974, Temasek Holdings is an Asia investment company headquartered in Singapore. Supported by 12 affiliates and offices in Asia and Latin America, Temasek owns a diversified S$186 billion portfolio as at 31 March 2010, concentrated principally in Singapore, Asia and the emerging economies. Temasek's investment themes centre on Transforming Economies, Growing Middle Income Populations, Deepening Comparative Advantages and Emerging Champions. Its portfolio covers a broad spectrum of industries: financial services; telecommunications, media & technology; transportation & industrials; life sciences, consumer & real estate; energy & resources. Total shareholder return for Temasek since its inception in 1974 has been a healthy 17% compounded annually. It has a corporate credit rating of AAA/Aaa by rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's respectively.

IG Group Holdings plc was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. IG Group Holdings plc, through its subsidiaries, operates as a financial spread betting company. The company operates through two segments, Financial and Sport. The Financial segment offers contracts for difference (CFD), spread bets, and exchange traded futures on equities, equity indices, precious and base metals, soft commodities, exchange rates, interest rates, and other financial markets; and exchange traded options, CFDs, and spread bets on options on certain financial markets. This segment also provides financial binaries, including exchange traded and over the counter binary options, and fixed odds bets, as well as operates North American Derivatives Exchange, a CFTC regulated futures and options exchange. The Sport segment provides spread bets and fixed odds bets on sporting and other events, as well as operates an online casino. IG Group Holdings offers its products and services to retail customers, market professionals, and corporate entities in Europe, the Asia Pacific, and rest of the world.

Calamos Asset Management, Inc. (CAM) provides investment advisory services to individuals and institutional investors through open-end funds (the Funds), closed-end funds (the Closed-End Funds), separate accounts, offshore funds and partnerships. CAM operates and controls all of the business and affairs of Calamos Holdings LLC (Holdings). The Company’s clients include institutional and individual clients with long-term investment horizons. The Company makes its range of investment strategies and services available to its clients, directly and through intermediaries, by offering a range of investment products designed to suit their investment needs. The Company markets its investment strategies to its clients through a range of products designed to suit their individual investment needs. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company offered four types of investment products that fall into the categories of mutual funds and separate accounts.

Arcapita Bank B.S.C. was founded in 1997 and is based in Manama, Bahrain. Arcapita Bank B.S.C.(c) provides investment banking services to individuals and institutions in Bahrain and internationally. Arcapita Bank B.S.C. company invests in its own account and providing investment banking services in conformity with Islamic Shari’ah rules and principles. Arcapita offers corporate investment, real estate investment, asset-based investment, and venture capital management services.

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