Dimensional Fund Advisors was founded in 1981 and is based in Texas, United States with additional offices in Chicago, California, Australia, London, and Canada. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP is an employee owned investment manager. The firm provides its services primarily to investment companies and mutual funds. It also provides its services to high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, and state or municipal government entities. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages equity and fixed income mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in real estate markets. It primarily invests in growth and value stocks of micro-cap, small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs a fundamental analysis to make its investments. For its fixed income securities, it invests in bonds, U.S. Treasury bills, and U.S. Government securities. The firm benchmarks the performance of its large-cap equity portfolios against the S&P 500 Index, Consumer Price Index, MSCI EAFE Index, and Dow Jones Wilshire 500 Index. It benchmarks the performance of its fixed income portfolios against the Long Term Government Bond Index.

Wendel Investissement SA invests in the industrial and service, and health sectors. The company supports entrepreneurial teams by monitoring operations on a regular basis, helps define ambitious strategies, and provides the financing needed to ensure the success of the companies in which it has invested. The company principally invests in a relatively limited number of significant equity holdings in industry, such as products and systems for electrical installations, automotive components and systems, industrial abrasives, oil exploration and real estate; services, such as conformity assessment and certification, classified advertising and multimedia services, IT services and consulting, telecommunications; and healthcare, such as medical diagnostics, food quality testing, allergy laboratory. Industry Legrand Group: The Legrand Group is a global specialist in products and systems for electrical installations and information networks in residential properties, service facilities and industry. The Group offers various solutions, integrating: the distribution of electrical energy and of data; remote control systems and connections; security systems for people and property; solutions for buildings and industrial processes.

Dundee Corporation is a Canadian asset management company. The Company’s core focus is in the areas of wealth management, real estate and resources. Third-party asset management activities are carried out by Ned Goodman Investment Counsel Limited (Ned Goodman Investment Counsel or NGIC), and by Dundee Real Estate Asset Management (DREAM), the asset management division of Dundee Realty Corporation (Dundee Realty), a subsidiary of the Company. Dundee Corporation also owns and manages its own direct investments in these core focus areas, through ownership of both publicly listed and private companies. The Company’s investment in wealth management is conducted primarily through its subsidiary, DundeeWealth Inc. (DundeeWealth), as well as through operations carried out in Bermuda and in the Cayman Islands. Real estate operations are carried out through the Company’s investment in Dundee Realty.

Liontrust Asset Management PLC (Liontrust) is an investment holding company. Liontrust provides portfolio management services, which are targeted primarily at professional investors and advisers. It manages unit trusts, individual savings accounts, offshore funds, absolute return funds, pooled pension funds, and segregated institutional accounts. The Company’s subsidiaries include Liontrust Investment Funds Limited, Liontrust Investment Services Limited, Liontrust European Investment Services Limited, Liontrust International (Guernsey) Limited, and Liontrust International (North America) Inc.

SOFTBANK CORP. is a Japan-based company engaged in the telecommunications and Internet business. The Company operates in six business segments. The Mobile Communications segment provides cellular phone services and sells attached cellular phone terminals. The Broadband and Infrastructure segment provides high-speed Internet access services, Internet protocol (IP) phone services and contents. The Fixed Communication segment provides fixed communication service. The Internet Culture segment is engaged in the Internet advertising, the broadband portal and the auction businesses. The Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) segment sells personal computers (PCs), peripheral devices and software for PC use, as well as provides business-to-business and business-to-customer e-commerce services. The Others segment is involved in the provision of technology services, the media marketing and the overseas fund business.

Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is based in Overland Park, Kansas. Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. conducts business through its subsidiaries. The Company is engaged in providing investment management, investment product underwriting and distribution, and shareholder services administration to mutual funds and institutional and separately managed accounts. The Company operates its business through three distribution channels. Its retail products are distributed through its sales force of registered financial advisors (the Advisors channel) or through third-parties, such as other broker/dealers, registered investment advisors (including the retirement advisors of the Legend group of subsidiaries (Legend)) and various retirement platforms, (collectively, the Wholesale channel). It also markets its investment advisory services to institutional investors, either directly or through consultants (the Institutional channel). On July 15, 2009, the Company sold of its interest in its wholly owned subsidiary, Austin, Calvert & Flavin, Inc. (ACF).

Home BancShares, Inc. (HBI) is a bank holding company. Home BancShares Company is primarily engaged in providing a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers through its wholly owned community bank subsidiary, Centennial Bank (the Bank). Home BancShares Company is engaged in providing a range of commercial and retail banking and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals and municipalities. The Bank has locations in central Arkansas, north central Arkansas, southern Arkansas, the Florida Keys and southwestern Florida. As of December 31, 2009, it conducted business through 45 Arkansas branches located in central Arkansas, two branches in north central Arkansas, two branches in southern Arkansas, nine branches in the Florida Keys and three branches in southwestern Florida. In March 2010, Home BancShares, Inc. and Centennial Bank announced that the bank has assumed substantially all deposits and purchased certain assets of Key West Bank.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. was founded in 1818 and has offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., formerly known as Brown Brothers & Co., is a private bank, provides commercial banking, investment management, brokerage, and trust services to private companies and individuals. It also performs merger advisory, foreign exchange, custody services, commercial banking, and corporate financing services.

Acorn Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in seed stage, start-ups, series A or first round, series B or second round, and series C or third round investments in early stage companies. The firm does not invest in idea, later stage, mezzanine, and public companies. It seeks to invest in technology, Internet, and education sectors. In technology sector, the firm focuses on broadband, infrastructure, wireless, and software. In education sector, it focuses on enterprise and consumer. In Internet sector, the firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and retail. It prefers to invest in the United States. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $5 million per round. The funding requirement of more than $5 million is fulfilled along with other venture capital firms. It seeks to invest only in equity but can sometimes supplement with debt instruments but not only debt investments. The firm typically takes a Board seat in the portfolio company. It seeks to exit its investments within three to seven years through initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

The Ziegler Companies, Inc. was founded in 1902 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The Ziegler Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides financial services in the United States. It operates in two segments, Capital Markets and Investment Services. The Capital Markets segment underwrites fixed income securities to finance senior living and healthcare providers, religious institutions, private schools, and alternative energy projects. It also offers risk management and financial advisory, merger and acquisition advisory, health care consulting, and corporate and public finance services. This segment provides its services to not-for-profit corporations, municipalities, and for-profit business corporations in the healthcare and alternative energy industries. The Investment Services segment offers investment advisory services to institutional and individual clients; and financial products and financial planning services, including equity and fixed-income securities, mutual funds, real estate investment trusts, affiliated and non-affiliated alternative investments, annuities, insurance products, and portfolio management services to retail and institutional clients through its retail branch distribution network.

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