TRS was founded in 1939. Teachers Retirement System of The State of Illinois is a public pension benefit plan that provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for Illinois public school teachers, administrators, and personnel. Funded by contributions from members, employers, and the State of Illinois, as well as by investment income, TRS manages approximately $30 billion in assets. The system serves more than 350,000 members from all public schools except those in the city of Chicago. TRS is one of five state-funded retirement systems; the others are the State Universities Retirement System, the State Board of Investments, the State Employees' Retirement System, and the Judges Retirement System.

Mission Venture Management ministers to early-stage technology companies involved in software, information technology, enterprise applications, and infrastructure. The firm invests primarily in emerging companies in Southern California, providing them with capital and counsel. It usually serves as the lead investor and often takes a seat on the boards of the companies in which it invests, helping them to develop their management teams and to establish professional relationships. Typical initial investments range between $2 million and $10 million. Mission Ventures has some $500 million in capital under management. Portfolio companies have included Akonix Systems, CalAmp, and Entropic Communications.

Arsenal Capital Partners, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Shanghai, China. Arsenal Capital Partners, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, recapitalization, and growth equity investments in the middle market companies. The firm typically invests in information technology, healthcare, specialty industrial and financial services companies. Within healthcare, it focuses on manufacturing and service companies within pharmaceutical, medical devices, and healthcare services markets such as contract research, manufacturing, and testing services, medical and diagnostic devices and supplies, specialty distribution and logistics, alternative site care providers, healthcare information technology, and outsourced services to payors and providers. Within specialty industrial, the firm focuses on providers of specialty products and services across a range of sectors such as specialty chemicals and materials, aerospace and defense, transportation and logistics, outsourced industrial services, specialty packaging, and environmental products and services.

Founded in 1985, ALPS has some $240 billion of assets under administration. ALPS Holdings wants to make sure fund managers can attain peak performance by keeping their focus on their investments and letting ALPS handle the rest. Through various subsidiaries, the company performs a range of back-office functions for mutual funds, closed-end funds, hedge funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Its offerings encompass fund administration and accounting, shareholder servicing, and legal, marketing, tax, distribution, and transfer agency services. Clients include Cohen & Steers, Macquarie Group, and exchange-traded Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts (SPDR) sector funds.

Dowgate Capital plc, through its subsidiaries, provides financial advisory and stock broking services to the smaller companies in the United Kingdom. Dowgate Capital company’s services include corporate finance adviser, nominated adviser, PLUS Markets corporate adviser, official list sponsor, takeover code specialist, and corporate finance adviser to smaller quoted companies. Dowgate Capital also provides private client and corporate broking services.

Legg Mason, Inc. was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Legg Mason, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified group of global asset management firm serving individual and institutional investors worldwide. Its multi-affiliate business model provides clients with a spectrum of equity, fixed income, liquidity, and alternatives solutions, including mutual funds, college savings plans, variable annuities, and separately managed accounts. Legg Mason Company's affiliates operate with investment autonomy, with each affiliate pursuing its own unique investment philosophy and process, as well as maintaining its own investment culture. Legg Mason complements the investment expertise of its affiliates by providing distribution and client service, enabling affiliates to access new markets, new clients, and new opportunities. It also provides shared services, such as operations and technology, accounting, legal, compliance, and marketing, to allow the affiliates to maintain their full focus on delivering sustainable investment excellence.

George Mairs, Jr. founded the firm in 1931, and George Power joined in 1944. Mairs and Power's two flagship funds -- Mairs and Power Growth Fund (opened in 1958) and the Mairs and Power Balanced Fund (1961) -- have some $2 billion in assets under management. The firm also manages about $3 billion in assets for retail customers, benefits managers, and charitable foundations. Mairs and Power relies on a conservative investment strategy, where it seeks growth stocks that it holds for long periods of time. It invests heavily in companies based in the Midwest, where the firm is based, because of its familiarity with the region.

Charterhouse Group, Inc was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Charterhouse Group, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in buyout, buildup platform acquisitions, buy-and-build, growth capital financing, and recapitalization transactions. It seeks to invest in business services, telecommunication services, healthcare services, and consumer products and service sectors. Within the business service sector, the firm focuses on business process outsourcing including document management, benefit administration, billing, customer relationship management, and legal support; information management services including regulation, risk management, and compliance oriented models; logistics including non-asset based, brokerage models; marketing services including direct marketing and loyalty programs; Specialty Distribution; specialty maintenance, distribution, and repair; specialty staffing; energy services including asset-light, non-commodity price risk opportunities, and energy management and procurement services; vendor management including outsourced repair and maintenance; waste management, janitorial, and landscaping services; specialty maintenance and repair; transaction processing and information processing; specialty leasing; education; security and related service; telecommunication services; information management services including regulation, risk management, and compliance oriented models; specialty waste management; and transaction processing.

Established in 1980, General Atlantic has stakes in about 40 firms. Portfolio companies include AKQA,Lenovo Group, and ZAGAT Survey. General Atlantic helps little fish become bigger fish in the big pond called business. The private equity firm provides both capital and strategic support to public and private growth companies. With about $13 billion in capital under management, General Atlantic focuses its investments on such sectors as energy, financial services, health care, media, and technology. Typical investments range from $50 million to $500 million, and its average investment period lasts from five to seven years.

Ecofin is an investment management firm which specialises in the global utility, infrastructure, alternative energy and environmental sectors. The firm, which was founded in 1992, is based in London and has offices in New York, Hong Kong and Geneva. Ecofin is owned by its principals and professional staff. Its principal operating company, Ecofin Limited, is an English company which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA). Ecofin Limited is also registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an investment adviser.

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