Ohio Public Employees Retirement System was founded in 1935 and is based in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Public Employees Retirement System is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefit programs to its clients. It primarily provides its services to public employees, retirees, and beneficiaries. The firm manages pension funds and principal investment funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in the alternative investments markets, typically limiting such investments to private equity, including venture capital; real estate; currency markets; derivatives; hedge fund-of funds; and commodities. It also invests in exchange traded funds and ADRs while making its investments. For its equity investments, the firm typically invests in the large-cap and small-cap companies. It also invests in warrants, initial public offerings, and preferred securities. For its fixed income investments, the firm typically invests in investment-grade securities, high yield debt, treasury inflation protected securities, corporate bonds, government bonds, short-term securities. It also makes limited partnership investments. The firm seeks to commit between $5 million and $15 million per partnership and has a net internal rate of return target of 20%.

Old Mutual (US) Holdings is the holding company for a group of about 20 asset management boutiques collectively known as Old Mutual Asset Management (US), or OMAM (US). The firm's multi-manager structure allows it to offer more than 100 different investment strategies across a range of asset classes, from domestic and international equities to fixed-income and alternative investments. Its offerings include retirement plans, mutual funds, trust services, and separately managed accounts. OMAM (US) and its affiliates have some $260 billion of assets under management for institutional and high-net-worth investors.

Old Mutual plc provides life assurance, asset management, banking, and general insurance services in North America, Europe, southern Africa, Latin America, and Asia. U.K. and Offshore This business provides products that serve the needs of long-term investors in the U.K. and international offshore markets. Skandia Investment Solutions is an investment platform. This platform gives advisers and their customers access to Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), PEPs, and Collective Investment Accounts, which are provided by Skandia MultiFUNDS Limited. In addition, the platform offers an approved pension wrapper and U.K. and offshore life assurance bonds. Skandia Investment Management Ltd (SIML) is an asset management company. It provides multimanager funds created by Skandia Investment Group, the part of the Skandia group that specializes in investment research and the construction of multimanager funds. Skandia International is the company’s offshore and cross-border specialist, working in partnership with other Skandia and Old Mutual businesses. It includes Royal Skandia, Skandia Life Ireland, Old Mutual International, and Skandia Leben. Skandia U.K. Skandia U.K. focuses on long-term investments. It allows each customer to have a personalized and flexible investment portfolio, suited to their goals and risk appetite. The company provides tools for customers to analyse and construct the portfolio using open-architecture solutions which give access to approximately 1,000 funds from fund management companies, as well as manager-of-managers funds created both in-house and externally.

A pension plan has existed for Ontario teachers since 1917. Today, the plan’s members include 175,000 teachers in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, 114,000 pensioners, and 69,000 inactive members. The plan has one of Canada’s largest payrolls with $4.4 billion in benefits paid to plan members, and $2.7 billion received in total contributions from teachers, the provincial government and designated employers in 2009.Before 1990, the plan was administered by the Ontario government and restricted to investing in non-marketable Province of Ontario debentures. In 1990, the government established the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board as a corporation overseen by a nine-member board.With $96.4 billion in net assets at December 31, 2009, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’) is the largest single-profession pension plan in Canada. An independent organization, it invests the pension fund’s assets and administers the pensions of 289,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario.

The Operating Engineers Funds are, in fact, for operating engineers not the kind who run trains, but those who operate other large machinery. Operating Engineers Funds company administers employee benefits, including pensions, health, welfare, vacation, and holiday benefit, for more than 35,000 active or retired members of the International Union of Operating Engineers (I.U.O.E.), Local 12, as well as their beneficiaries and dependents. The union consists of individuals in construction-related trades, including heavy equipment operators, soil testers, concrete pumpers, inspectors, and surveyors.

OppenheimerFunds Inc. was founded in 1960 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Rochester, New York and Centennial, Colorado. OppenheimerFunds, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, corporations and institutions. It also provides sub-advisory investment-management services. The firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm also manages mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp.

Opus Investment Management, Inc was founded in 1993 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts. Opus Investment Management, Inc. is an asset management arm of The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. The firm primarily provides its services to corporations. It also caters to pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, traditional and alternative insurance entities, corporate retirement funds and benefit programs, public retirement funds, foundations and endowments, and mutual funds. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages a family of mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. For its fixed income securities, the firm invests in government bonds, treasury inflation-protected securities, AAA rated bonds, AA rated bonds, A rated bonds, BBB rated bonds, BB rated bonds, B rated bonds, and CCC rated bonds. It employs a fundamental analysis with a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments. The firm benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Index and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Index.

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.

Pantheon Ventures Ltd. is a principal investment firm specializing in private equity funds-of-funds investments. It invests in regional primary funds-of-funds; mature global secondary funds; customized separate account programs; creative research; and Pantheon International Participations. The firm typically invests in leveraged buyouts, early-stage or later-stage venture capital, and special situations, such as distressed debt, reorganization or turnaround, and mezzanine funds. It can occasionally invest in subordinated debt funds. The firm makes investments in Europe, United States, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Africa. In primary funds, it primarily invests in the United States, Europe, and Asia and in secondary funds, the firm invests globally. The firm seeks to invest in secondary acquisitions ranging from $500,000 in a single fund to over $1.5 billion in a portfolio acquisition.

Park Row offers its clients financial advice and services through a number of divisions, both in person and via the Internet or special seminars. It has independent financial advisers (IFAs) as well as independent mortgage advisers, and also provides wealth management services to corporate and private clients. Group companies include Park Row Associates, Park Row Associates (Mortgages), and Park Row Conveyancing. Park Row is a subsidiary of Royal Liver Assurance. In 2007 the parent company combined its sales team with Park Row's independent financial advisers who now also distribute Royal Liver products.

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