Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG) is a provider of retirement savings, investment and insurance products and services. PFG’s United States and international operations concentrate primarily on asset accumulation and asset management. In addition, it offers a range of individual and group life insurance, group health insurance, individual and group disability insurance and group dental and vision insurance. PFG primarily focus on small and medium-sized businesses providing an array of retirement and employee benefit solutions to meet the needs of the business, the business owner and their employees. PGF has four segments: U.S. Asset Accumulation, Global Asset Management, International Asset Management and Accumulation, and Life and Health Insurance.

Founded in 1912 as Corrugated-Fibre Box Company, LDI is owned by chairman Andre Lacy and his family. LDI, Ltd company deals in clothing, motorcycle parts, and auto paints and supplies. It owns Tucker Rocky Distributing, a distributor of aftermarket parts, apparel, and accessories for the power sports industry. It sells more than 100,000 items for street and off-road motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles internationally through seven distribution centers across the US. LDI also owns FinishMaster, which distributes auto paint and coatings. LDI maintains an investment portfolio for funding other investments.

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.

Cordova Ventures was founded in 1989 and is based at Alpharetta, Georgia. Cordova Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in privately-held companies at varying stages of development, including seed and start-up, early-stage and later-stage growth, and small to medium size buyout. The firm focuses on companies in the information technology, communications, financial services, healthcare services, telecommunications, industrial technologies, and real estate development equity financing. It seeks to invest in United States based companies, but prefers companies located in the Southeast. The firm typical participates as the minority investor with typical investments ranging from $1 million to $5 million. It prefers to invest in companies with proprietary technology. The firm seeks to exit its investments within 5 years through acquisition and IPO.

Guardian Capital Group Limited (Guardian) is a diversified financial services company which operates in the investment management and financial services industry.. It serves the needs of clients in different sectors of the financial services market through its four operating businesses. Guardian ’s operating business, Guardian Capital Inc (GCI), is an institutional investment counsellor. Based in Toronto, GCI provides institutional investment management services to clients that include pension plan sponsors, open and closed-end mutual funds, operating and endowment funds, and retail managed asset programs. GCI has a broad range of products among Canadian institutional investment managers spanning Canadian and foreign equity, fixed-income, and balanced portfolio mandates. Guardian Capital Advisors Inc (GCA) provides investment and asset management services to high net worth clients, foundations and endowment funds. Over the past several years, GCA has created a comprehensive global investment management platform to provide clients with sophisticated separate account management. In addition, GCA has launched ETFolios, an Internet- based service utilizing exchange-traded funds to create tailored investment portfolios for clients. GCA has also established a national presence through offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa. Alexandria Bancorp Limited (Alexandria) is a non-Canadian entity that operates an international bank, trust and corporate services and investment management business. Guardian has a majority interest in a fourth operating business, Worldsource Wealth Management Inc (WWM), which operates a mutual fund dealer and a securities dealer.

Sage Advisory Services, Ltd. Co. was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. Sage Advisory Services, Ltd. Co. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm also provides portfolio risk evaluation and diagnostics; performance analytics; and financial and liability modeling services. It provides its services to corporate and retirement funds, financial institutions, foundations and endowments, healthcare institutions, public funds, Taft-Hartley funds, wrap programs and sub-advisory, and individuals. The firm manages client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages exchange traded funds and structured products for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe with a focus on the United States. It invests in index based exchange traded funds (ETFs) of all-cap companies, employing a fundamental analysis along with a top-down macro approach to create its equity portfolios. The firm benchmarks the performance of its various equity portfolios against the Standard & Poor 500 Index; the Russell 3000 Index; the Lehman Brothers Government Credit Intermediate Maturity Index; and the Lehman Brothers Municipal Blended 1–10 year Maturity Index. For fixed income, it invests in U.S. treasury and government agency securities; mortgage and asset backed securities; investment grade corporate and municipal securities; and high-grade international government securities, employing fundamental economic and quantitative security analysis to create its fixed income portfolios.

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.

WH Ireland is aiming at providing financial services to more countries than just Ireland or the UK. WH Ireland Group PLC offers customers stockbroker services, investment management consulting, and corporate financial planning products. WH Ireland Group PLC corporate finance segment assists businesses with a wide array of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, flotations, and fund raisings, while the company's Fitel Nominees Ltd subsidiary holds stocks and shares for the customer inside a safe depository. With $1.5 billion under management, WH Ireland owns and operates facilities throughout the UK and Australia.

SWS Group, Inc. was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Southwest Securities hopes stock prices go northeast. The primary subsidiary of SWS Group provides securities clearing and brokerage services to retail and institutional clients in more than 30 states, Canada, and Europe. Accounting for nearly three-quarters of SWS Group's revenues, the unit offers private client brokerage services, as well as retail managed accounts and insurance, through more than 20 offices in Texas, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. It also performs securities underwriting, securities lending, and public finance activities for institutional customers. In addition, SWS Group owns a bank, which is called Southwest Securities, FSB.

Landmark Global Financial Corporation operates as an investment company. The company invests in companies that are participating in potentially high growth markets. Its portfolio includes companies in the fields of health, consumer marketing and media. Portfolio Investments The company, within the Investment Segment, also has an interest in various companies: Serica Energy Corporation is an international oil and gas exploration and production company with projects in various locales such as, Indonesia, the UK North Sea and Spain. Fifth Window Media, Inc. (FWMI) is in the process of developing an internet based advertising product. The company is a party to a letter of intent whereby the company would own a portion of FWMI and would provide management services. MedX Health Corp. is a medical technology company that develops, manufactures and distributes phototherapy devices that are FDA approved. The company also has 8% interest in Salumatics, Inc. Salumatics, Inc.: Salumatics, Inc. provides software and related services to the health care business, primarily in the area of health record management. Salumatics has resale agreements with major providers of Electronic Health Record software and also sells its own internally developed software.

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