
The system, which was established by the state in 1921, serves public school educators in the Empire State, excluding New York City. Employees of New York State community colleges, boards of cooperative educational services, The State University of New York system, and some charter school employees have the option of participating, as well. The New York State Teachers' Retirement System, known as NYSTRS for short, provides retirement, death, and disability benefits to more than 280,000 public school teachers and administrators, as well as to some 140,000 retirees and beneficiaries. Eligible retirees are guaranteed monthly benefits payments for life.

Since 1982, Sierra has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world begin—and grow—successful technology companies. Sierra Ventures capital firm invests in early-stage technology companies, focusing on such sectors as telecommunications, software, semiconductors, security, storage, and Internet-related and mobile applications in North America, Europe, China, and India. Its initial investments typically range between $2 million and $25 million. Financial institutions, university endowments, pension funds, and high net-worth individual investors make up most of Sierra Ventures' investment partners.

Eurovestech Plc was founded in 2000 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Eurovestech plc is an investment company, which focuses on technology businesses. Eurovestech plc's subsidiaries include ToLuna plc (ToLuna), Knowledge Support Systems Limited (KSS Ltd) and KSS Retail Limited (KSS Retail). ToLuna is European provider of online panels and services to the market research industry. ToLuna operates and builds online panels, and designs and operates application services that enable research to be undertaken online. KSS Ltd is a provider of price optimization technology and services to the oil and gas sectors. KSS Retail is a provider of price optimization technology and services to the convenience store, grocery and chain drug sectors. Its other investments include Magenta Corporation Limited, D-Pharm Limited, ARKeX Limited, MIST Technologies SA and LogNet Information Systems plc. On June 18, 2008, the Company’s subsidiary ToLuna purchased the entire issued share capital of Common Knowledge Inc.

GAM Holding isn't afraid to gamble on risky bets. The asset management firm offers private clients, institutional investors, and intermediary clients such investment vehicles as equity, fixed income, private-label funds, and alternative investment funds, as well as portfolio management. GAM Holding was spun off in late 2009 from Swiss private banker Julius Baer. Now its own separate, public entity, GAM Holding comprises GAM, Swiss & Global Asset Management, and a 28% stake in Artio Global Investors. (Swiss & Global focuses on traditional investments, while GAM is known for alternative and absolute-return strategies, such as hedge funds). GAM Holding has assets under management of CHF$124 billion ($119 billion).

Sentinel Capital Partners, L.L.C. was founded in 1995 and is based in New York. Sentinel Capital Partners, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments in mature and lower middle market private and public companies. The firm seeks to invest in, management buyouts; recapitalizations; corporate divestitures; growth financings; industry consolidations; turnarounds; restructurings; special situations; and going private transactions. It prefers to invest in companies operating in the, outsourcing; consumer products; business and marketing services; consumer services; consumer discretionary; healthcare; consumer staples; materials; food and restaurants; outsourced manufacturing; franchising; distribution; outsourced manufacturing; and manufacturing sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in the United States and Canada. It invests up to $75 million in equity investments but prefers a range between $20 million and $50 million in companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $25 million and enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $250 million with minimum $6 million annual cash flows. It prefers to be a majority investor, but co-invests selectively, and takes a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

Second Avenue Partners Seattle-based venture capital firm specializes in early stage, high-tech companies with promise. It also helps if they are located in the Pacific Northwest. The firm's portfolio has about 10 such companies, including data management software provider Bocada, data miner Revenue Science, and broadband services provider Terabeam. Second Avenue Partners was founded by a quartet of high-tech success stories (including former executives from Microsoft and Starwave) in 2000.

Court Square Capital Partners was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New York, New York with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. Court Square Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm. The firm does not consider investments in the alcohol and tobacco, gambling, finance, real estate sectors, and start-up company sectors. It has a generalist approach though prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the building products, business services, chemicals, consumer products, food products and services, healthcare, manufacturing, industrials, media, technology and telecommunications, and transportation sectors in the United States. The firm does not invest globally from its New York and London offices. It typically invests between $50 million and $300 million in equity per transaction in companies with minimum enterprise values of $50 million to acquire a controlling interest.

CenterPoint Ventures was founded in 1996 and is based in Dallas, Texas with an additional office in Austin, Texas. CenterPoint Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start up, early stage, mid venture, and late venture investments. It typically invests in privately held companies developing information technology-based products for the firm’s target industries and markets. The firm also invests in communications infrastructure including wireless, enterprise software and business applications, semiconductors, hardware, and Internet-enabled business models. It does not invest in companies engaged in pure-science inventions and in mature markets. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in Texas and Southwest region. It typically invests between $5 million and $10 million with follow-on funding over two to three rounds per company. The firm invests at the first or second-round of venture capital financing and act as lead investor in the initial venture round. It invites co-investment on early-stage deals and syndicates larger, late-stage investments with co-investors and seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its investment within five years via an IPO, merger, or acquisition.

United Planners' Financial Services wants to unite its clients with financial success. The securities broker/dealer provides brokerage, insurance, and investment advisory services to more than 300 independent registered investment advisors that offer such services to individual investors and small businesses across the US. United Planners also provides back-office, technology, and compliance support and training. Clearing services are offered through a pact with Pershing. Founded in 1987, United Planners was acquired by Pacific Life later that year. United Planners' Financial Services of America became independent when its management bought back Pacific Life's stake in 2007.

Retail Decisions Limited issues fuel and pre-paid cards in several world markets and provides retailers and financial institutions with services including payment processing, fraud prevention, database development, and IT consulting. ReD operates in Australia, Europe, South Africa, and the US. It also has partnered operations in Japan, India, China, and in South America. Retail Decisions Limited works with banks, oil companies, e-commerce retailers, and telecommunications firms. Corporate customers include Wal-Mart, Tesco, Macy's, Shell, and Virgin Mobile. ReD was founded in 2000.
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