Guinness Peat Group plc is an investment holding company with a diversified range of strategic interests in a number of businesses, mainly in Europe and Australasia. GPG is listed on the London, Australian and New Zealand Stock Exchanges. As at 31 December 2009, it had a market capitalisation of approximately £584 million. Shareholders’ Funds at the same date were £867 million. GPG’s successful track record spans investments in various sectors including financial services, textiles and thread manufacture, food processing, building services, property development and fruit and produce distribution. GPG’s investment portfolio covers a spread of investments and is widely diversified both geographically and sectorially. GPG has a small but experienced group of prudent and professional executives operating with strong teamwork and close communication, which has been a proven formula for achieving steady growth in the value of shareholders’ funds.

Casa de Bolsa Finamex brings a variety of financial and investment services under a single roof. Formerly Grupo Financiero Finamex, the company provides brokerage and financial advice for individual and institutional investors from offices in Mexico and New York City. Casa de Bolsa Finamex operations include trading and administering variable and fixed-income securities, securities trading in capital markets, corporate financing, currency trading, and financial consultancy. Casa de Bolsa Finamex also operates investment companies. Casa de Bolsa Finamex was founded in 1974 and has been a US broker/dealer since 1992.

Engemann Asset Management was founded in 1969 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Los Angeles, California. Engemann Asset Management is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. It also caters to individuals, high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and balanced portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm invests in value and growth stocks of micro cap, small cap, mid cap, and large cap companies with market capitalization of over $10 billion. It employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. The firm benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolio against the Russell 1000 Growth Index and Russell 2000 Growth Index. It operates as a subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.

Terra Nova Financial Group wants to serve investors in a hurry to do some stock trading. Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. was founded in the 1990s as a traditional retail brokerage offering insurance and other investment products. Today, Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. has shifted its attention toward its proprietary software for direct-access trading. Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. technology platform provides real-time quotes and trading tools for active online investors, semi-professional traders, and institutional portfolio managers. Terra Nova Financial, LLC, the company's broker/dealer subsidiary, handles online trading for more than 3,000 customer accounts. In 2010 Lightspeed Financial, Inc. agreed to acquire Terra Nova Financial, LLC for nearly $27 million.

KBC Peel Hunt Ltd. is one of the UK's top mid- and small-cap brokers; it offers a range of services including corporate finance and insurance advising, as well as traditional brokerage activities. KBC Peel Hunt Ltd. client list includes more than 130 small- to mid-sized firms in the UK and abroad. KBC Peel Hunt makes markets in more than 1,200 stocks. KBC Peel Hunt Ltd. holds the #2 spot among market makers in London, and has affiliates in Brussels, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Charles Peel and Christopher Holdsworth-Hunt founded the firm in 1989. Belgium-based KBC Bank and Insurance (now KBC Group) acquired the firm in 2001.

ETCapital Limited was set up in 1992 as an investor in high growth businesses based in southern England. Since 1998, ETCapital has invested QTP, a specialist zero-stage technology fund, focused on the globally significant cluster of science based businesses around Cambridge, Oxford and London. prior to that it managed what is now the HSBC UK Enterprise Fund for East Anglia & the Home Counties investing in early stage businesses, both technology and non-technology, based in East Anglia and the northern Home Counties. In 2004, ET Capital took on the management of the residual investments of Cambridge Research & Innovation Limited, an early-stage technology fund also investing in the Cambridge cluster.

Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with additional offices in Paris, France and Quebec City, Canada. Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec is a private equity firm specializing in private equity and real estate investments. The firm also manages the funds contributed to the Québec Pension Plan. The firm’s private equity investments invest in development capital, buyouts, mezzanine, small and medium sized enterprises, and technology venture capital funds. It prefers to invest in manufacturing, distribution, financial services, natural resources, energy, infrastructure, media and telecommunication services. In the manufacturing sector the firm invests in printing, automotive, packaging and plastics, aeronautics, agribusiness, and electronic components. The firm’s distribution investments include health care, outsourcing, logistics, leisure, and retail. Energy and infrastructure investments include electricity, pipelines, oil and gas, transport, health care, water distribution, and other services. Its natural resource investments include mines and metals, pulp, and paper.The firm’s media investments include publishing, entertainment, and cable distribution. Telecommunication investments include data transmission, wireless, satellite, and other types of communication. Financial services include financial institutions and services. The firm seeks to invest in companies seeking financing of $2 million or more. The firm acts as a lead or a co-investor. It structures its investments in the form of equity or debt investments or both. Equity investments are structured in the form of common or preferred shares and convertible or participating debentures. The firm can provide senior debt, high-yield, mezzanine, short-term bridge, term, and subordinated loans. It prefers to be a board member in its portfolio companies. The firm’s real estate investments invest in debt and equity products. It prefers to invest in office buildings and business parks, retail properties, industrial properties, hotels, residential properties, and senior residences. It typically invests Canada, United States, Western Europe, and Brazil.

Highland Capital Management, L.P. is a SEC-registered investment adviser with approximately $24 billion of assets under management. It is one of the largest global alternative fixed income managers, specializing in bank loans, high yield credit, distressed debt, structured products, real assets, and long-short equities, with a global geographic reach. Highland's diversified client base includes public pension plans, foundations and endowments, corporations, financial institutions, fund of funds, governments, high net worth individuals, and mutual fund investors. To best meet the different goals of these investors, Highland offers a variety of product types, including credit funds, private equity-style funds, managed separate accounts, hedge funds, retail mutual funds, and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). Highland Capital is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and maintains offices in New York, London and Singapore.

Luxor Industrial Corp. was founded in 1979. Luxor Industrial Corporation manufactures and markets the Interlocking Bridging System (IBS2000). IBS2000 The IBS2000 controls bounce and vibration in floors. A row of IBS interlocks all the joists together, resulting in a stiff floor assembly - performing floor with increased span. Luxor Architectural Details are crafted from selected western Red Cedar or Douglas Fir timbers. In addition to a range of standard sizes and products the company manufactures custom sizes and patterns. The company manufactures various wood products, including survey stakes, conventional bridging, rainscreen, fireplace and door mantles, prefabricated window and door openings, as well as specialty products for the natural resource sector. The company offers specialty cutting services, such as multi-ripping, customripping, custom cutting, and precision end trimming. Subsidiaries Western Interlok Systems Ltd., the company’s wholly owned subsidiary (WIS), manufactures and distributes a patented engineered bridging system. These products are distributed to building material distributors located in Canada and the United States of America. J.E.J. Holdings Inc., the company’s wholly owned subsidiary (JEJ), holds a worldwide license under patent applications in the United States of America and Canada, to manufacture, market and distribute an engineered bridging system utilized in the building construction industry. JEJ has licensed the North American rights to western Interlok Systems Ltd. Eastern Brake Alert Systems Ltd., the company’s 75% owned subsidiary (EBAS), has acquired the North American manufacturing and marketing rights for an air-brake warning system for the trucking industry.

The Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation was founded in 1954 and is based in New York, New York. The Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of companies as platform investments and as strategic add-ons for its subsidiaries. The firm seeks to invest in platform companies with transaction sizes between $50 million and $150 million and revenues of at least $50 million. It prefers to acquire 100 percent ownership interests. The firm may also acquire minority positions depending on the opportunity and sponsorship. It invests its own capital supplemented by bank debt.

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