NYSE Euronext, through its subsidiaries, provides securities listing, trading, market data products, and software and technology services worldwide. The company offers products and services in cash equities, futures, options, swaps, exchange-traded products, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions to issuers, investors, financial institutions, and market participants. It operates NYSE, the New York Stock Exchange, which lists various debt and equity structured products, such as capital securities, mandatory convertibles, and repackaged securities; and NYSE Arca, an electronic exchange for equities, exchange traded funds, exchange traded notes, exchange-traded vehicles, certificates, and options. The company also operates Euronext that lists various securities, including domestic and international equity securities, convertible bonds, warrants, trackers, and debt securities, including corporate and government bonds. In addition, it operates NYSE Liffe that trades futures and options contracts; NYSE Arca Europe, which offers electronic, low latency trading platform for blue chip stocks; NYSE Alternext operates its European markets for emerging growth companies; NYSE Amex, which lists various classes of companies that are qualified for listing on NYSE; NYSE Liffe US that trades full and mini-sized gold and silver futures and options on futures contracts; and SmartPool, a European dark pool dedicated to the execution of institutional order flow.

Aeon Credit Service (Asia) was the first non-bank credit card issuer in Hong Kong, and today it is one of its largest. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited provides about 850,000 cardholders with more than 30 different house, affinity, and corporate cards under the American Express, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa, and UnionPay brands. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited also offers personal loans, cash advances, and insurance, but credit cards account for about 70% of its total revenues. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) operates in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited is part of Japanese retail and financial giant AEON CO.

Established in 1923 by Governor Gifford Pinchot, the system has grown to manage more than $35 billion in assets. Employees of the Keystone State can rest assured the Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System (SERS) is keeping a keen eye on their currency. SERS administers the statewide retirement and pension benefits fund for Pennsylvania's public employees. Serving more than 210,000 members, SERS is funded by a combination of employee contributions, employer contributions, and investment earnings. In addition to managing retirement accounts, the system provides retirees with health insurance.

GS Capital Partners V, L.P. specializes in investments in mature companies, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth investments to fund acquisitions or expansions. The fund prefers to invest $50 million or less in Chinese private businesses and participates in ownership reorganization in Chinese state-owned enterprises with investments above $200 million each.

Since 1984, Onex has acquired and built great businesses as a private equity investor. Onex Corporation (Onex) is an investment firm. The Company focuses on investing its active ownership approach of acquiring and building businesses in partnership with management teams. Onex invests through Onex Partners, its private equity platform. Onex also invests through ONCAP, its mid-market private equity platform, Onex Real Estate Partners and Onex Credit Partners. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had invested approximately $7.5 billion. As December 31, 2009, it had completed more than 260 acquisitions. In October 2009, the Company sold its interest in Celestica Inc. In August 2009, it sold its interest in Emergency Medical Services Corporation (EMSC). In April 2009, it also sold its interest in Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund. During the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company acquired Tropicana Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.

Pender Financial can drop some serious money on technology. The Canadian merchant bank invests in emerging growth companies, specifically British Columbia firms in high tech fields. Pender Financial Group has sunk about $6 million in what it considers undervalued companies that need some management guidance. One of its biggest money makers is ActiveState Software, which creates open-source software for the Perl, Python, and Tcl programming and scripting languages. Other investments include bio tech venture capitalist Bio FutureFund, high-end marine lighting firm Carmanah, and Web host Radiant Communications.

Founded in 1969, Macquarie employs more than 14,600 people in approximately 70 office locations in 28 countries. Macquarie Group Limited (MGL) acts as a non-operating holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it provides banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. The Company operates in five operating groups and two operating divisions, which include Macquarie Securities Group, Macquarie Capital, Macquarie Funds Group, Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities, Corporate and Asset Finance Division, Real Estate Banking Division, Banking and Financial Services Group and Corporate. Effective November 30, 2009, the Company acquired Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller (FPK). Effective December 31, 2009, MGL acquired Blackmont Capital Inc. from CI Financial Corp. In January 2010, the Company acquired Delaware Management Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries (Delaware Investments) from Lincoln National Corporation. In January 2010, the Company announced the launch of Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund.

Federated Investors, Inc. (Federated), together with its consolidated subsidiaries, is a provider of investment management products and related financial services. The Company sponsors, markets and provides investment-related services to various investment products, including mutual funds and Separate Accounts (which include separately managed accounts, institutional accounts, sub-advised funds and other managed products). Federated provided investment advisory services to 145 Federated-sponsored funds (the Federated Funds) as of December 31, 2009. Federated markets these funds to banks, broker/dealers and other financial intermediaries. Of the 145 Federated Funds, as of December 31, 2009, Federated’s investment advisory subsidiaries managed 50 money market funds totaling $281.5 billion in assets, 47 fixed-income funds with $28.4 billion in assets and 48 equity funds with $21.0 billion in assets.

Alta Berkeley LLP is a venture capital firm that targets information technology, communications, and life science startups, primarily in Europe and Israel. It has raised six funds and has invested in more than 100 businesses since 1982. Invested companies (both past and present) include analogue semiconductor designer Elantec Semiconductors, digital consumer semiconductor manufacturer Frontier Silicon, clinical software designer Araccel, imaging systems provider Camero, and wireless devices technology manufacturer Cambridge Positioning Systems.

Deutsche Bank began operations in Russia in 1881, opened its first bank branch there in 1972, and founded the subsidiary in 1998. The company, known as Deutsche Bank Moscow, serves domestic and foreign individual, corporate, and government clients in Russia and the other former Soviet republics, offering corporate banking services (finance, advisory, sales, transaction) and private asset management. Customers have included Gazprom (through Gazprombank), Norilsk Nickel, Aeroflot, and Enel SpA. It also works the IPO market, helping VTB Bank go public in 2007; the deal was the world's largest public offering that year.

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