Union painters who don't want to find themselves painted into a corner come retirement time probably need to know about IUPAT Industry Pension Fund. The pension fund is sponsored by and serves the members of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, or IUPAT. Union members include floor- and wall-covering installers; display workers; convention and show decorators; drywall finishers; and painters. Some 7,000 US and Canadian employers participate in the IUPAT Industry Pension Fund. The union, which represents more than 140,000 workers, is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

Hanover Acceptances Group serves as a holding company for four operating companies in the real estate, manufacturing, agribusiness, and venture capital sectors. Its Fresh Capital segment leads the investment capital charge for the group, while the Dorrington branch acts as its chief residential and commercial property development and investment unit, primarily in greater London. Its Gerber unit, along with Gerber's Emig subsidiary, counts as one of Europe's largest juice and juice drinks suppliers. Finally, African Realty Trust operates as a citrus fruit grower in southern Africa.

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. was founded in April 1995 and is based in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices across United States; Asia; and Europe. Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. is the private equity arm of Oaktree Capital Group, LLC specializing in marketable securities and private investments. The firm’s marketable securities investments include high yield bonds, convertible securities, high-income convertibles, European high yield bonds, and international convertibles. Within high yield bonds, it purchases only debt of solvent United States and Canadian corporations and emphasize senior, cash-paying securities, and thorough diversification. The firm eschews emerging nation debt sector and does not shift adroitly from sector to sector. It invests in senior secured and second lien debt, syndicated mezzanine transactions, senior bank loans, and high yield bonds and concentrates on below-investment-grade syndicated loans. Within convertible securities, the firm focuses on United States, international, and high income convertibles with short maturities. Its private investments strategies include distressed debt, emerging market equities, real estate management, private equity, mezzanine financing, and power infrastructure. In senior bank debt, it focuses primarily on United States dollar-denominated loans secured by first priority liens in performing companies within the United States and Canada.

Kline Hawkes & Co. was founded in 1994 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Kline Hawkes & Co. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market and expansion stage companies. It invests in buyouts, growth capital, and change of control situations. The firm prefers to invest in information technology with a focus on telecommunications, information technology infrastructure, hardware infrastructure, enterprise software; healthcare with a focus on healthcare services and home healthcare; and industrial and business services companies with a focus on business process outsourcing including billing, logistics, staffing, aerospace and defense, environmental, and industrial manufacturing. The firm seeks to in companies based in United States with a focus on Southern California. It typically invests in companies with revenues between $2 million and $75 million. The firm invests between $5 million and $10 million, but will consider investments up to $15 million with buyouts or in change of control situations.

First Eagle Investment Management, LLC was founded in 1803 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan. First Eagle Investment Management, LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to high net worth individuals, investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, corporations, foundations, endowments, major retirement programs, state or municipal government entities. It manages client-focused equity portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds and foreign and domestic hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and alternative markets across the globe. The firm invests in value stocks of companies. It employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolio.

Delta Capital was founded by Don Mundie in 1992. Delta Capital makes venture capital investments in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Delta Capital company invests in mostly early and expansion-stage companies in industries including health care, information and industrial technology, supply chain logistics, business services, and energy technology. It manages some $90 million in assets on behalf of institutional and high net worth individuals. Some of its investments include enterprise software provider Metatomix, and medical diagnostics company Atherotech.

Kim Eng Holdings is one of Southeast Asia's foremost brokerage houses. Kim Eng Holdings Limited provides securities trading and investment banking services such as IPO underwriting, corporate advisory, and financing. Kim Eng Holdings Limited also provides asset management services through KE Capital Partners, a joint venture with Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, as well as through associate firm Republic Investment Management. Subsidiary Emfore Capital Partners manages private equity funds. Kim Eng also performs stock research; its KE Live division specializes in event-driven strategies for retail investors. Kim Eng has a presence in eight countries in Asia (it entered Vietnam and India in 2007), in addition to sales offices in New York and London.

Cognetas LLP was founded in 1989 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Frankfurt, Germany; Milan, Italy; and Paris, France. Cognetas LLP is a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, buy-ins, public to private transactions, and restructurings of mid-cap mid-market companies. The firm primarily focuses on consumer, industrial, business services, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Within the consumer sector it seeks to invest in the leisure, retail, household and consumer goods, and food and drink sectors. In the industrial sector, the firm’s investments include building materials, automotive, manufacturing, and chemical sectors. Its investment in the financial services sectors includes outsourced financial services, insurance, and financing companies. Within business services sector, the firm prefers to invest in outsourced services, logistics and transportation, facilities management, and other business services. In the healthcare sector, the firm prefers to invest in the healthcare services and equipment sectors.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board was founded in 1985 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to Wisconsin retirement system. It also manages accounts for state investment fund and other state trust funds, including injured patients and families compensation fund, state life insurance fund, local government property insurance fund, historical society endowment fund, and tuition trust fund (EdVest). The firm manages separate client focused equity and balanced funds for its clients. It also manages index funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe, with a focus on the United States. It typically invests in real estate, private equity, and natural resources to make its alternative investments. The firm invests in value stocks employing a fundamental research with a tactical asset allocation for its multi-asset investments. It invests in companies of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap to create its funds.

Incapital is a securities and investment banking firm with offices in Chicago, Boca Raton and London*. Incapital underwrites and distributes fixed income securities and structured notes through more than 900 broker-dealers, banks and institutional accounts in the U.S., Europe and Asia. With a diverse range of new issue and secondary market offerings, Incapital specializes in U.S. Agency securities, corporate notes, Certificates of Deposit (CDs), Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs), municipal bonds, and structured notes and CDs. Incapital also provides resources for financial advisors and investors to create income-producing portfolios and notes linked to a wide range of asset classes. Incapital is the leading distributor of corporate bonds designed for individual investors. Since 2000, over $200 billion of new issue corporate and U.S. Agency securities have been issued through retail note programs. Incapital has been recognized by Institutional Investor Magazine as an e-Finance top 40 firm five times in the last seven years.

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