Established in 1979, Fisher Investments is a private money management firm serving Fortune 500 companies, foundations, and endowments, as well as wealthy individuals with at least $500,000 to invest. The firm is active in the US and in the UK, where it operates through subsidiary Fisher Wealth Management. In Germany, Fisher does business through its joint-venture affiliate, Greener Fisher Investments. At the helm of Fisher Investments is founder, CEO, and chief investment officer Ken Fisher, who has authored several books on investing and has written the "Portfolio Strategy" column for Forbes magazine for more than 20 years.

PEAK6 Investments, L.P. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Peak6 Investment, LP, an online stock and option broker, provides options trading, risk management, and hedge fund services. It also operates a news network that provides market analysis, trading floor interviews, trading strategies, education, and news feeds regarding options. In addition, the company operates a Website that provides information about the stock market, as well as enables to trade in real stocks under real market conditions with fake money.

Avenir Group invests in small and midsized companies and helps build those companies by providing management services and analysis, as well as business and administrative consulting. The firm prefers to invest in family businesses, threshold companies, and US divestments of international corporations. Avenir's portfolio includes such manufacturing companies as Proline Billiards (billiard tables), Nichols & Stone (wood furniture), and Westminster Ceramics (ceramic tile).

Ameritrans Capital Corporation was founded in 1979 and is based in New York, New York. Ameritrans Capital Corporation (Ameritrans) is a closed-end investment company, which makes loans and investments with the goal of generating both current income and capital appreciation. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Elk Associates Funding Corporation (Elk), the Company makes loans to finance the acquisition and operation of small businesses as permitted by the United States Small Business Administration (the SBA) Regulation. Elk was organized primarily to provide long-term loans to businesses eligible for investments (Small Business Concerns) by small business investment companies (SBICs). Ameritrans makes loans, which have primarily been secured by real estate mortgages, senior corporate loans and equity investments which have been in income producing real estate properties, or in real estate construction projects. It operates in five segments: Corporate Loans, Commercial Loans, Life Insurance Settlements, Equity Investments and Taxicab Medallion Finance.

MF Global gives its clients access to the world's marketplaces Monday through Friday (and weekends, too). MF Global Holdings Ltd. provides trade execution, clearing, and settlement services for cash, equity derivatives, commodities, and fixed-income products on more than 70 exchanges, as well as over the counter. MF Global Holdings Ltd. also makes markets for fixed-income instruments and conducts equity research. MF Global's clients include institutional and individual investors, corporations, professional traders, hedge funds, and asset managers. MF Global Holdings Ltd. handles an average of nearly five million contracts per day. MF Global has about a dozen offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Munder Capital Management was founded in 1985 and is based in Birmingham, Michigan with an additional office in Boston, Massachusetts. Munder Capital Management is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to individuals. It also caters to high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, other pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations and state or municipal government entities. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages equity mutual funds for its clients. It invests the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also makes investments in REITs. It primarily invests in growth and value stocks of micro-cap. small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap companies. The firm employs combination a fundamental and quantitative analysis along with bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments.

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.

Baker Capital, founded in 1995, is a New York-based private equity firm with $ 1.5 billion under management. Baker Capital invests in growth companies at all stages of development in both Europe and North America. The partners of Baker Capital have extensive private equity and operational experience, allowing the firm to provide its portfolio companies with not only capital but also strategic thinking and relationships.

River Cities Capital Funds was founded in 1994 and has over $300 million under management. River Cities Capital Funds invests mostly in middle stage companies located in the Midwest and Southeast. River Cities Capital Funds invests venture capital in companies engaged primarily in technology, health care, and consumer and business services in the Midwest and Southeastern US. Portfolio companies include online book distributor Atomic Dog Publishing and software developer Manta Media, and online data recovery provider EVault. Investment partners include Austin Ventures, Fifth Third Bancorp, and Finova.

Heritage Partners wants to help companies keep their affairs all in the family. The investment firm specializes in acquisitions and equity-based recapitalizations of private family-owned businesses. Heritage Partners generally targets establilshed middle-market companies involved in manufacturing, distribution, health care, business services, and consumer goods with annual sales of at least $30 million. Through its trademarked "Private IPO," Heritage Partners makes a substantial equity investment in a company while allowing its owners to further build their business and maintain control. Portfolio companies include OneSource Distributors, REACH Air Medical Services, and manufacturers Centra and Saunders & Associates.

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