BlueBay Asset Management was founded in 2001 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan and New York, New York. BlueBay Asset Management plc is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to institutions, corporations, Pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, white label funds, and high net worth individuals. It manages fixed income credit funds and structured products for its clients. The firm also manages separate client focused portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It also invests in emerging and alternative markets. The firm specializes in fixed income credit. It employs a combination of fundamental and technical analysis with a combination of top-down and bottom-up approach to make its investments.

Credit Solutions was established in 2003. Credit Solutions helps consumers dig their way out of debt. One of North America's largest for-profit debt management companies, Credit Solutions offers programs that enable people to lower their monthy bills and, in many cases, get out of debt in three years or less. It also offers a built-in savings plan to help families reach their long-term financial goals, with no home ownership or credit check required. Credit Solutions has more than $1.7 billion of unsecured debt under management for about 80,000 active clients.

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.

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).

TICC Capital Corp. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. TICC Capital Corp. (TICC) is non-diversified, closed-end investment company. TICC is a specialty finance company principally providing capital to primarily non-public, small and medium-sized, technology-related companies. Its investment objective is to maximize its portfolio’s total return, principally by investing in the debt and/or equity securities of technology-related companies. The Company’s primary focus is on seeking current income by investing in non-public debt securities. TICC’s debt investments may include bilateral loans (loans where it holds the entirety of a particular loan) and syndicated loans (those where multiple investors hold portions of that loan). The Company may also seek to provide its stockholders with long-term capital growth through the appreciation in the value of warrants or other equity instruments that it may receive when it makes debt investments, or equity investments. It may also invest in publicly traded debt and/or equity securities.

InnoCal could almost be short for "in or around California," which is where the venture capital firm focuses on investing in early- and expansion-stage information technology companies. The company tends to focus on businesses involved with enterprise software and hardware, semiconductors, wireless and Internet technologies, and broadband communications. The firm's criteria for investing, besides geography, includes strong management teams, exclusive proprietary technologies, and market-dominating potential. InnoCal generally invests between $1 million and $5 million per company, and it limits the number of investments it makes in order to focus its attention on developing strategies for portfolio companies.

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.

ECI Partners LLP was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Manchester, United Kingdom. ECI Partners LLP is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion and development capital, finance for acquisitions, management buyouts and buy-ins, institutional buyout, turnarounds, middle market, and refinancing deals. It does not invest in early-stage companies. The firm seeks to make investments in all sectors except property with a focus on consumer and leisure, support services, manufacturing, software, IT and communications services, healthcare, outsourcing, and business improvement. Within the support services sector it prefers to invest in document management education, environmental services, financial services, inspection services, media, recruitment, services benefiting from the aging population, specialist logistics, and white collar outsourcing. Within healthcare it focuses investments in healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, medical technology including devices and diagnostics, and healthcare IT. It primarily invests in unquoted and smaller quoted companies based in the United Kingdom or has substantial United Kingdom business. It also seeks to make investments in companies based in South Wales.

The Cypress Group L.L.C. firm owns stakes in companies in the automotive, financial services, manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries. Its portfolio includes holdings in about 10 firms, including Cooper-Standard Automotive, Republic National Cabinet, and Scottish Re Group Limited. Cypress Group is an active investor that often becomes involved in the day-to-day management of its portfolio companies. The firm has made more than $4 billion in investments since it was founded in 1989. One of its most well-known past investments includes Cinemark.

Since 1986, Stonebridge has focused exclusively on meeting the unique investment banking needs of middle market, emerging growth, healthcare and technology clients. During this period, the firm has originated and closed over $3.0 billion in private financings and advised on over 250 M&A and corporate advisory assignments. With one of the largest independent investment banking groups in Boston, Stonebridge is able to offer clients the creativity, technical skills and structuring expertise typically found only in large Wall Street investment banking firms. However, as a boutique firm with specific product and market areas of focus, Stonebridge is able to provide clients with a level of attention and responsiveness that distinguishes us from Stonebridge larger competitors.

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