Nomura Holdings is the parent company of Nomura Securities, Japan's leading investment bank and brokerage house. Nomura Holdings, Inc. performs trading, equity and bond underwriting, research, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services. Nomura Holdings, Inc. also makes private equity and venture capital investments. Nomura's largest segment is domestic retail, which provides investment consulting and brokerage services to consumers in its home market. Nomura Holdings, Inc. asset management segment manages more than �25 trillion (more than $225 billion) on behalf of its clients. Nomura Holdings has operations in more than 30 countries. Nomura Securities International is the company's US trading and investment banking unit.

Nomura Securities International has its eye on fixed income, and we're not talking Social Security. The US-based division of Nomura Holdings, a top Japanese brokerage, provides securities research and trading, asset management, and capital markets services to individual, institutional, corporate, and government clients. Nomura Securities International, Inc. is a leading seller of Japanese equities in the US. Nomura Securities International, Inc. fixed income division underwrites and trades government bonds and derivatives. Nomura Securities International, Inc. ceased trading mortgage-related securities in 2007. Nomura Securities International opened its first US office in New York in 1927, and has expanded its reach to entail all of North and South America.

optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. provides brokerage and education services in the United States and internationally. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. offers Internet-based options, stock, bond, mutual fund, and futures brokerage services to retail customers. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. brokerage platform delivers various trading tools, which allow retail and professional investors to identify, analyze, and execute a range of investment strategies. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. also offers a range of education products and services, which covers various financial products, including stock, market analysis, options, foreign exchange, and financial planning. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

ORIX Capital Markets is the trading and asset management branch of ORIX USA Corporation, the US division of Japanese financial services giant ORIX Corporation. ORIX Capital Markets manages the group's securitized assets, bonds, leveraged loans, and other investments. After merging with affiliate ORIX Real Estate Capital, ORIX Capital Markets, LLC also finances, develops, and manages commercial real estate in the US and Canada. ORIX Capital Markets has more than $1 billion in assets under management, including collateralized debt obligations, mortgage-backed securities, and municipal securities.

Primerica, Inc. provides financial products and services. It offers term life, auto and home owners, and long term care insurance, as well as pre-paid legal services. Primerica, Inc. also provides debt consolidation loans, mutual fund investments, variable annuities, and home mortgage loans, as well as financial needs analysis. Primerica acts as a distributor for Citigroup products, including debt consolidation loans from Citibank and mortgage loans from CitiMortgage. Primerica, Inc. also sells unaffiliated policies such as annuities from MetLife and mutual fund investments from Legg Mason and AGF. Primerica, Inc. markets its products through a network of more than 100,000 sales representatives. Primerica, Inc. was a subsidiary of Citigroup until it was spun-off in a $320 million IPO in 2010. Primerica, Inc. serves its clients in the United States, Canada, the Puerto Rico, and Spain. Primerica, Inc. was formerly known as American Can Company. Primerica, Inc. was founded in 1901 and is based in Duluth, Georgia.

Quest Capital seeks investments in first mortgage loans secured by single-family residences, apartments, condominiums, social housing, and nursing and retirement facilities in Canada. Quest Capital Corp. previously was an asset-based lender to companies in the mining and oil and gas industries, but sold those operations in 2007 and converted to a mortgage investment company. Quest Capital Corp., however, halted new loan production the following year as it waited out the rough economy. Some vestiges of Quest Capital's former incarnation remain in its much smaller commercial real estate and natural resource lending activities.

Questar Capital wants to be a shining example of a financial services provider. Questar Capital Corporation offers a full range of investment products -- including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, and insurance -- via a network of more than 500 representatives throughout the country. Customers of Questar Capital can choose products from about 90 mutual fund companies, some 70 variable life and annuity companies, and 15 fee-based money managers. Insurance provider Allianz Life acquired Questar Capital in 2005, combined it with USAllianz Securities, and gave the combined entity the Questar Capital name.

Ragenomics makes financial sense to many investors in the Pacific Northwest. A division of Wells Fargo Investments, an affiliate of banking giant Wells Fargo, Ragen MacKenzie provides securities brokerage and portfolio management services to wealthy individuals and institutional clients. Ragen MacKenzie Group, Inc. provides investment advice featuring research on about 30 companies headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, as well as selected national stocks. Ragen MacKenzie Group, Inc., which has nearly 10 offices in Washington and Oregon, boasts expertise in aerospace, forest products, technology, and about a dozen other industries.

Raymond James is a diversified financial services holding company with subsidiaries engaged primarily in investment and financial planning, in addition to investment banking and asset management. Raymond James & Associates, Inc. performs trade execution, securities processing, equity research, and investment banking services for institutional clients in North America and Europe. The unit also offers clearing services to fellow Raymond James Financial subsidiary, Raymond James Financial Services. Planning Corporation of America, a wholly owned subsidiary of RJA, sells insurance and annuities.

Renta 4 Servicios de Inversion is a financial services company that provides investment and asset management at 56 branches across Spain. Seventy percent of its business is in brokerage services -- buying and selling securities and other financial investments. Renta 4 is the parent company of a number of subsidiaries, including Renta 4 Sociedad de Valores, Padinco Patrimonios, Renta 4 Gestora, Gerdinco Gestion, and Renta 4 Pensiones. The group debuted on the Madrid Stock Exchange in November 2007, and offered to buy rival brokerage Gaesco Holding Company in February 2008.

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