Welcome to LACERA, the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 directs us to administer defined retirement plan benefits for the employees of Los Angeles County and outside Districts. LACERA provides retirement, disability, and death benefits, as well as health care coverage for current and retired employees of Los Angeles County. In all, the organization oversees more than $35 billion in assets. Its operations are overseen by two boards, one that manages retirement benefits and one that manages LACERA's investments.

Tejas Securities Group, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary and a primary business operating unit of Tejas Incorporated (Pink Sheets: TEJS), a publicly traded holding company.Tejas Securities Group, Inc. is a registered Broker-Dealer offering brokerage and investment banking services. In addition to dealing with a broad product offering serving value-based institutional and retail investors, the firm specializes in the analysis of distressed and high yield corporate debt, high yield municipal bonds, mortgage-backed securities and special situation securities.

The United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds (the "Funds") is a group of five multi employer plans that provide health and pension benefits to retired coal miners and their eligible dependents. The Funds has been in existence since 1946. The Funds is headquartered in Washington D.C. and has Field Service Offices located in the coalfield areas of Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia. The Funds has approximately 200 employees, most of whom are located in the Washington, D.C. office. The Funds is separate and distinct from the United Mine Workers of America (“UMWA”) and the Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association, Inc. (“BCOA”).

Acacia Venture Partners picks small shrubs with hopes of developing them into blossoming trees. The venture capital firm focuses its investments on the health care industry. It supports early stage business services and health care services firms, and information technology developers that target the medical industry. Acacia typically invests at the seed and start-up stages of financing, but it also offers funding to more mature companies. Acacia Venture Partners' portfolio features companies that include CompHealth, AMERIGROUP, and physician office revenue management service, MDEverywhere, among others.

Catapult Venture Managers Limited was formed in 1999 and is based at Leicester, United Kingdom with an additional office at Birmingham, United Kingdom. Catapult Venture Managers Limited is a priavte equity and venture capital firm specializing in equity investments in all stages of the business lifecycle with a focus on start ups, early stage, development capital, management buy-outs, and management buyins in small and medium sized companies. It invests in healthcare, medical devices, environmental or green propositions, and support services. The firm primarily invests in companies based in the East Midlands region. It typically invests between £200,000 ($292,124) and £2 million ($2.92 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its investments within three years to five years. It takes a minority stake, can work with other investors, and can lead and be involved with investor syndicates.

Baydonhillfx started life in March 2000 as Currencies4Less concentrating on serving the Private Client market place and 2 years later the product offering was increased to include the International Mortgages and Car Finance divisions. This was followed by its successful admission to OFEX which was the junior market of the London Stock Exchange. With continued growth Currencies4Less became The 4Less Group plc and moved up to AIM, the Alternative Investment Market on the LSE, where we remain today. In 2006 the Group changed its name to Baydonhill plc and shortly after, with additional funding from Ekwienox FX Ltd. the Company expanded to include the Baydonhillfx Corporate Division offering international payment solutions with development of an online payment platform.

Established in 1979, Skandia UK is one of the the nation's top financial services groups. Skandia is controlled by South African financial services group Old Mutual. Skandia Life Assurance and related companies make up what's known as Skandia UK, the arm of Swedish insurance and investment firm Skandia serving the British Isles. Skandia UK offers medium- and high-net-worth clients a range of savings, investment, pension, and insurance products, which are sold through independent financial advisors (IFAs). Parent Skandia operates in more than 20 countries; its largest markets are the UK and Sweden.

JAFCO Ventures focuses its attention on the US and invests venture capital in development-stage information technology companies, generally as a secondary investor. Portfolio companies include systems integrator Infinera, online security services provider Voltage Security, broadband wireless services provider Aperto Networks, wireless software designer Devicescape Software, and semiconductor designer Xambala. With the advantages of its parent company, JAFCO Ventures utilizes financial professionals and advisers in Asia to forge relationships and partnerships with potential clients as well.

Scottish Equity Partners LLP was founded in 1997. Scottish Equity Partners LLP is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start up, early stage, mid and late venture, and growth capital financing. The firm prefers to invest in information technology, healthcare, life sciences, and energy related sectors. It seeks to invest in information technology sector with a focus on enterprise application software, enterprise network technologies focused on connectivity, security and mobility standards based communication technologies, semiconductors, displays, and novel new materials. In healthcare and life sciences sector, the firm includes enabling diagnostics, medical devices, specialty pharmaceuticals, as well as platform and enabling technologies, new therapeutics, novel research, and development technologies. In energy related sector, it primarily invests in oilfield technology, renewable energy, environmental technologies, and clean and green technology. In the renewable energy sector, the firm includes sources such as wind, wave, tidal, and solar energy. It also seeks to invest in equipment and services, distributed and mobile power technologies such as fuel cells, advanced batteries, energy storage, energy efficiency, and new materials.

Sarasin & Partners LLP is a London-based specialist investment management firm in which the local management are major shareholders. The firm employs over 170 people and manages approximately £9.8 billion. With a committed team of investment professionals in the foreground and a strong bank in the background, we aim to provide an unusual combination of successful investment performance and high service standards. Our objective is to be one of the most highly regarded investment managers for private clients and charities and to build the firm’s reputation as a distinctive, active manager in the institutional marketplace.Founded in 1841, Bank Sarasin today is one of Switzerland’s leading private banking institutions. Its success is based on trust, confidentiality, expertise and dedication, as well as on the sustainable development of asset management, its core business. The Sarasin group - headquartered in Basel, Switzerland - employs around 1,600 staff. In addition to its headquarters in Basel, the Bank has further offices in Geneva, Lugano and Zurich. Internationally, the Sarasin group has offices in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Bank Sarasin is a public limited company whose shares are listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange, SWX. Its majority shareholder, Rabobank, enjoys the highest qualification of credit status (AAA-rated) from prominent international rating agencies. Measured by its core capital, Rabobank is one of the world's top twenty financial institutions.

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