Securities America provides a little financial security for the land of the free and the home of the brave. Operating through various subsidiaries, Securities America Financial Corporation distributes mutual funds and provides retirement planning and wealth management services through a network of nearly 2,000 independent financial advisors, as well as through financial institutions such as banks. Other products offered include stocks, bonds, options, and certificates of deposit. Securities America Financial Corporation also offers insurance and annuities from an array of providers. A subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Securities America has some $13 billion in assets under management; both firms were spun off from American Express in 2005.

Gleacher & Company (formerly Broadpoint Gleacher Securities Group) provides investment banking, debt capital markets services, and equity research to institutional clients in the US and Europe. Subsidiary DESCAP sells and trades mortgage-related and asset-backed securities. FA Technology Ventures provides venture capital to high-tech US firms. In 2009 Broadpoint Securities acquired Gleacher Partners, a firm best known for its M&A advisory practice, and added Gleacher to its name. Gleacher & Company, Inc. officially changed its name to Gleacher & Company the following year.

Raymond James is a diversified financial services holding company with subsidiaries engaged primarily in investment and financial planning, in addition to investment banking and asset management. Raymond James & Associates, Inc. performs trade execution, securities processing, equity research, and investment banking services for institutional clients in North America and Europe. The unit also offers clearing services to fellow Raymond James Financial subsidiary, Raymond James Financial Services. Planning Corporation of America, a wholly owned subsidiary of RJA, sells insurance and annuities.

GIP was founded in 2006 as a joint venture between Credit Suisse and General Electric. It is owned and managed by affiliates of the two companies. Global Infrastructure Management gives its investments the power to grow. Doing business as Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the company is a private equity firm that makes infrastructure-focused investments in the power and utilities, energy, air transport, water/wastewater, and transportation sectors. Its portfolio consists of about a dozen companies, most of which are located in North America and the UK. The firm typically makes long-term investments; its partners sit on the boards of, and work with management at, its portfolio companies.

Innergex Power Income Fund was established in 1990 to manage Canadian hydroelectric power plants. Innergex Power Income Fund plans to merge with INE and convert from a fund to a corporation. Innergex Power Income Fund is an open-ended investment trust that owns stakes in 10 hydroelectric power plants (with a total installed capacity of about 330 MW) and two wind farms in Canada and the US. The power plants and wind farms are operated and managed by Innergex Renewable Energy (INE).

Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. was founded in 1995. Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in special situation investments in middle-market companies in the form of buyouts, debt restructurings, asset consolidations, and growth capital. The firm invests in a variety of industries. It typically invests in companies based in United States and Israel. The firm prefers to invest between $20 million and $75 million in its portfolio companies, but it considers smaller and larger investments. It invests in companies experiencing financial stress, legal problems or operational challenges; businesses or assets whose value has been impacted by discrete events (e.g., a shareholder dispute, product recall, or cyclical downturn); and businesses or assets involved in bankruptcy proceedings. In Israel, the firm seeks to invest in water, renewable energy, and homeland security technology companies.

Shenzhen Expressway Company Limited was established on 30 December 1996. It is principally engaged in the investment, construction, operation and management of toll highways and roads. The Company aims at enhancing the ability of wealth creation by improving the quality of operation, obtaining reasonable returns through providing high-quality service to the society, and achieving satisfaction of customers, employees, shareholders and related parties by balancing their interests, so as to foster the Company’s sustainable development. Currently, the Company will maintain its market orientation, focus on the expressway industry, actively explore and engage in new investments in the industry for a synergistic growth in both its scale and efficiency.

PSEG Resources wants to generate some capital resources for parent company Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), which provides electricity and natural gas to customers in New Jersey. PSEG company invests in primarily energy-related assets, including leveraged leases, real property, aircraft, and limited partnerships. PSEG Resources is holding off on new investments to concentrate on its existing portfolio, which includes some 45 separate investments and is worth approximately $3 billion. Its holdings include stakes in electric, nuclear, and gas generation and/or distribution stations.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board was founded in 1985 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to Wisconsin retirement system. It also manages accounts for state investment fund and other state trust funds, including injured patients and families compensation fund, state life insurance fund, local government property insurance fund, historical society endowment fund, and tuition trust fund (EdVest). The firm manages separate client focused equity and balanced funds for its clients. It also manages index funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe, with a focus on the United States. It typically invests in real estate, private equity, and natural resources to make its alternative investments. The firm invests in value stocks employing a fundamental research with a tactical asset allocation for its multi-asset investments. It invests in companies of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap to create its funds.

The Patriarch platform is a vertically integrated distressed private equity firm with robust in-house operational turnaround expertise. Patriarch Partners, LLC ("Patriarch"), founded in 2000, was built upon a proprietary patented financial model designed to manage and monetize the distressed portfolios of financial institutions. Patriarch has since evolved into a global investment firm that concentrates on direct investments in distressed businesses, managing funds with over $7 billion of equity and secured loan assets with equity investments in more than 70 companies, and controlling interests in approximately two-thirds of these.Patriarch focuses on the acquisition of undervalued companies where time, capital and sound strategy can rescue a business and restore value, preserving jobs in America and around the world while simultaneously providing demonstrated returns to investors. Patriarch believes that making money and making the world a better place are not mutually exclusive concepts. The firm offers a peerless approach that combines innovative financial models, restructuring techniques and the operational expertise necessary to rebuild businesses facing complex circumstances.Challenging conditions often mean the need to improve operations from the ground up; the situations require equal concentration and adeptness between financial engineering and operational execution. An expanded global reach is critical and Patriarch has acquired manufacturing facilities in nations where lower labor costs can help U.S. companies compete in the competitive global economy, Patriarch Partners Management Group, established in 2005, is a team of seasoned and connected global professionals strategically placed among portfolio companies to fortify management and to unearth and implement necessary efficiencies, new technologies and unique strategies.

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