Octopus' tentacles extend as far as its asset management customers wish. Octopus Asset Management offers venture capital trusts and enterprise investment products (Eureka Fund) for customers in the UK. Other offerings include enterprise investment schemes, which offer customer tax savings. Trusts under management include the Bioscience, Eclipse, and Phoenix Venture Capital Trusts.

North Castle is a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on consumer-driven product and service businesses that benefit from two long-term trends: (i) "Healthy Living" or the desire to live healthier, longer and more active lives, and (ii) the "Aging" of the Baby Boomer generation, which is expected to foster strong growth in segments of the consumer industry. These predictable and irreversible trends are fueling consumer interest and significant growth in our target markets. North Castle makes control private equity investments in consumer-driven product and service companies located in North America, with enterprise values ranging from $50 million to $500 million. Our target markets often include industries that are highly fragmented providing opportunities to build market leaders and create value through leveraged buyouts, growth capital infusions and strategic acquisitions.North Castle is a hands-on, value-added investor. We utilize our cumulative knowledge and network, which results from our industry focus, to partner with management and entrepreneurs to create market-leading companies. The strength of our focused approach yields significant benefits to our partners and portfolio companies. North Castle is led by a seasoned team of managing directors, who have spent more than 10 years working together, and are supported by six additional investment professionals. In addition, North Castle has sixteen outside operating advisors that provide relevant experience in North Castle's areas of focus, actively participate in management of the portfolio and supplement North Castle's operating and sourcing capabilities. This unique mix of senior resources differentiates North Castle and gives it a distinct competitive advantage in developing and generating new opportunities for its portfolio companies.

RBC Capital Markets is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Royal Bank of Canada and the leading debt and equity underwriter in the Great White North. As the only Canadian bank designated as a primary dealer in the US, RBC Capital Markets offers mergers and acquisitions support, securities trading and research, foreign exchange, infrastructure finance, and advisory services. It serves a number of industries, including aerospace, media, mining, energy, health care, forest products, transportation, and the public sector. Almost half of its business comes from the US. The firm has some 75 offices mainly in North America, but also in major cities in Australia, Brazil, Dubai, Europe, Asia, and South Africa.

Infinity Capital Group, Inc. is a business development company specializing in venture capital and mezzanine investments. The firm prefers to make growth capital, late venture, emerging growth, mezzanine capital, and expansion financing investments in special situations. It seeks to invest in three distinct groups of emerging growth companies: publicly traded companies whose market for securities are thinly traded; publicly traded companies that have non-marginable securities and seek expansion or mezzanine capital to implement growth strategies executable within 12 to 24 months; and private companies seeking expansion or mezzanine financing and wishing to access the equity capital markets within the next 12 months. It prefers to invest in companies that are seeking to trade publicly through a reverse merger with an existing publicly traded company as well as small public traded companies seeking private investment (PIPE) financing. The firm does not restrict its investment to any single industry or sector. It typically invests in companies with minimum operating history of two years and annual revenues in excess of $1 million.

Founded in 1998, with significant backing from the bank community and from the global logistics industry, Bolero was created as a neutral, trusted third party to develop a comprehensive set of standards that would remove the barriers to global, cross-enterprise business. Bolero implements and enforces these standards in an open platform to enable paperless trading between buyers, sellers, logistics, banks, agencies and customs anywhere in the world, delivering transaction visibility, predictability, speed, accuracy and security.Building on this platform, Bolero delivers applications that enable the merging of the physical and Financial Supply Chains, allowing companies to fundamentally re-engineer the way that business is done and take advantage of electronic trading. Customers and their trade partners are rapidly deploying Bolero solutions delivering significant reductions in cost and working capital, increased visibility and improvements in operating efficiency.

Dollar Financial Corp. provides retail financial services to unbanked and under-banked consumers. Dollar Financial Corp. offers cash checking, single-payment consumer loans, longer-term installment loans, electronic tax filing, bill payment, foreign currency exchange, pawnbroking, debit cards and gift cards, photo ID, prepaid local and long-distance phone services, gold buying services, and legal document processing. Dollar Financial Corp. provides its services through its stores, which operate under the names of Money Mart, The Money Shop, Loan Mart, Insta-Cheques, The Check Cashing Store, American Payday Loans, American Check Casher, Check Casher, Payday Loans, Cash Advance, Cash Advance USA, and We The People. As of June 30, 2009, Dollar Financial Corp. had a network of 1,206 stores, including 1,031 company-operated financial services stores and 175 franchised and agent locations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Poland. Dollar Financial Corp., formerly known as DFG Holdings, Inc., was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.

Henderson Group plc is engaged in the provision of investment management services. Henderson Global Investors (Henderson) is an investment manager, operating throughout Europe and with operations in North America and Asia. It manages a range of actively managed investment products for institutional and retail investors, across multiple asset classes, including equities, fixed income, property and private equity. Its subsidiaries include Henderson Global Group Limited, Henderson Administration Limited, Henderson Alternative Investment Advisor Limited, Henderson Equity Partners Limited, Henderson Fund Management Plc and Henderson Holdings Limited. On 9 April 2009, the Company acquired New Star Asset Management Group PLC.

Dimensional Fund Advisors was founded in 1981 and is based in Texas, United States with additional offices in Chicago, California, Australia, London, and Canada. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP is an employee owned investment manager. The firm provides its services primarily to investment companies and mutual funds. It also provides its services to high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, and state or municipal government entities. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages equity and fixed income mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in real estate markets. It primarily invests in growth and value stocks of micro-cap, small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs a fundamental analysis to make its investments. For its fixed income securities, it invests in bonds, U.S. Treasury bills, and U.S. Government securities. The firm benchmarks the performance of its large-cap equity portfolios against the S&P 500 Index, Consumer Price Index, MSCI EAFE Index, and Dow Jones Wilshire 500 Index. It benchmarks the performance of its fixed income portfolios against the Long Term Government Bond Index.

Avesco Group was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Crawley, the United Kingdom. Avesco Group plc, through its subsidiaries, provides various services to the corporate presentation, entertainment, and broadcast markets. It offers audio visual equipment and services to the live events, broadcast, and entertainment industries. The company also provides technical support for conferences, sports, music, corporate events, and television programmes. In addition, it offers broadcast services supplying broadcast equipment, systems, services, and television studio facilities. Avesco Group enables its clients to improve brand profile, launch products, stage live events, and entertain audiences. It has operations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.

Founded in 1981 as Citicorp's European private equity arm, CVC carried out its own buyout in 1993 and is now owned by its management. It has about 20 offices around the world. CVC Capital Partners is in the business of making other businesses its business. The private equity investor specializes in buyouts of firms in the UK, the US, Western Europe, Asia, and Australia. Its portfolio of more than 50 companies consists mainly of retail, manufacturing, and service firms. Holdings include UK department store chain Debenhams, US-based luggage maker Samsonite, and Japan-based restaurant chain operator Skylark. It acquired a 47.5% stake in Pilot Travel Centers (now Pilot Flying J) in 2008.

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