CalSTRS can teach you a thing or two about saving for retirement. California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) manages and disburses retirement, survivor, and disability benefits for more than 800,000 California public school educators and their families. It also offers survivor and disability benefits. CalSTRS is the largest US teachers' retirement fund and one of the nation's largest public pension funds. It oversees some $150 billion in assets, which it invests in stocks, real estate, private equity, and other investment vehicles. The organization is run by a 12-member board, five of whom are appointed by California's governor.

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) is a demutualized and integrated securities and derivatives exchange. It has three segments: securities market, which provides listing, trading, clearing, account maintenance, and corporate action and price information services for the securities market; derivatives market, which provides trading, clearing and price information services for the derivatives market, and other operations, which provides other services. Its securities products include bonds, debentures and loan stocks; business trusts; equities; exchange traded funds; global depository receipts; infrastructure funds; real estate investment trusts and warrants. Its derivatives products include short-term and long-term interest rate futures and options on futures; equity index futures and options on futures; structured warrants, and certificates. It operates an over-the-counter clearing facility, SGX AsiaClear. On June 30, 2008, SGX acquired Singapore Commodity Exchange Limited.

Cabot Square Capital was founded in 1996. Cabot Square Capital invests capital in small and mid-sized companies in growing markets in the UK and Western Europe. It also specializes in startup business and companies in a state of expansion or turnaround. The firm currently offers customers its Cabot Square Capital Partners II, with some $200 million ($320 million) of committed capital, and its third fund, CS Capital Partners III, with approximately $300 million ($480 million) of committed capital. The firm typically takes majority control positions in its acquisitions and sees its role as a value-added partner.

Hanseatic Group's success may give the company a swelled hedge. The company's hedge fund management affiliate Hanseatic Management Services employs quantitative methods implemented in 1994 to indentify long-term investment opportunities in the stock market. Serving institutional investors, the company has large-cap, small-cap, and multicap strategies. The average client has more than $15 million invested with Hanseatic, which has a total of approximately $230 million of assets under management. The employee-owned firm hopes to grow the latter figure to $1 billion and beyond.

Abingworth Management Limited was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Menlo Park, California; Waltham, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; and Cambridge, United Kingdom. Abingworth Management Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in early and late-stage venture financing, growth equity, expansion capital, VIPE, and acquisition financing. The firm also provides financing for recapitalizations, build-ups, and growth buyouts. The firm also seeks to invest in undervalued public companies. It invests in healthcare services and information technology with a focus on providers, payors, specialty services, software, and related services and on life sciences with a focus on specialty pharmaceuticals, medical products and devices, lab instrumentation, and consumables. The firm also invests in platform and enabling technologies, healthcare services, biomedical, biotechnology, and companies developing therapeutics.

Herald Investment Management Limited was founded in December 1993 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Herald Investment Management Limited is an employee owned investment manager. It manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and alternative investments markets across the globe. It typically invests in companies operating in the technology, media, and communications industries. The firm uses a fundamental analysis to create its portfolios. It does not invest in pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies.

Hotbed works to match investors with alternative investments such as private equity, commercial property, and hedge funds. And it doesn't stop there. Once it has matched an investor with potential business opportunity, it monitors the progress of the relationship, offers financial counseling, and also guides the member companies' strategy. For companies seeking cash, Hotbed works with companies needing between £1 million to £7.5 million. It has assisted such UK companies as care homes group Mimosa Healthcare, medical technology manufacturer Sphere Medical, and shopping center Downham Market.

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.

EZCORP, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, lends or provides credit services to individuals to meet their short-term cash needs. EZCORP, Inc. offers pawn loans, which are non recourse loans collateralized by tangible personal property, including jewelry, consumer electronics, tools, sporting goods, and musical instruments. EZCORP, Inc. also provides signature loans consisting of payday loans, installment loans, auto title loans, or fee-based credit services to customers seeking loans. In addition, EZCORP provides credit services, including advice and assistance to customers in obtaining loans from unaffiliated lenders. As of September 30, 2009, EZCORP, Inc. operated a total of 910 locations consisting of 369 the U.S. pawnshops, 62 pawnshops in Mexico, 477 the U.S. short-term loan stores, and 2 short-term loan stores in Canada. EZCORP, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

European Investment Bank (EIB) is the financial backbone of the European Union (EU). Led by finance ministers from EU countries, the bank makes loans for trans-European enterprise and infrastructure projects, focusing on less-developed EU countries. About 90% of the loans go to projects located within the EU; major loan categories are transportation and energy. The bank also offers development aid to some non-European countries. The EIB owns a majority of the European Investment Fund (EIF), which invests in venture capital funds and debt financing for small businesses in the EU.

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