Alliance Trust was founded in 1888 and is based in Dundee, United Kingdom. Alliance Trust PLC is a publicly owned investment manager with approximately £2.87 billion ($5.64 billion) in assets under management. The firm also provides pensions and ISA/PEP services to its clients. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, and real estate markets across the globe. It employs a combination of a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to create it portfolio mix. The firm makes its fixed income investments in government and corporate bonds. It does not benchmark the performance of its portfolios against any specific index. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments.

Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in middle market buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth stage transactions. Within recapitalization and buyouts, the firm seeks to invest in small to medium sized companies and focuses on leveraged acquisitions of corporate subsidiaries, recapitalizations of founder-owned and operated entities, and management-led acquisitions of independent companies. It typically invests in healthcare industry with a focus on specialty distribution including alternate site (non-hospital) and pharmaceutical niches; provider and payor outsourcing including contract management, staffing, utilization and disease management, billing, collections, and other financial service providers.

Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown is part of the Private Wealth Management segment of German giant Deutsche Bank. The company provides a range of advisory, brokerage, and investment services to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individual investors, as well as institutional and corporate clients in the US. For corporate clients, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown provides cash management, foreign exchange, investment consulting, custody, and prime brokerage services. The company also administers employee stock and stock option purchase plans. It has more than 15 US offices and approximately $43 billion of assets under control.

Quilvest SA was founded in 1915 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg with additional offices in Paris, France; New York, New York; and London, United Kingdom. Quilvest SA is a public investment firm specializing in private equity investments and wealth management. It makes private equity investments through its subsidiary Quilvest Private Equity. The firm offers wealth management services through its subsidiaries Banque Privee Quilvest, Quilvest Switzerland and Quilvest Dubai Ltd.

AWD Holding AG was founded in 1988 and is based in Hanover, Germany. AWD Holding AG operates as a subsidiary of Swiss Life Beteiligungs GmbH. AWD Holding AG, together with its subsidiaries, provides independent advice and financial planning services. It primarily advises private customers with various aspects of financial planning and retirement provision. The company’s advisory services cover various product categories, such as unit-linked products, investment funds, life insurance products, mortgages and financing, private health insurance, property and accident insurance, and property and tax-optimized products. It sells its products and services in the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and central and Eastern Europe. AWD Holding AG was formerly known as Allgemeiner Wirtschaftsdienst.

Brown Shipley to make sure it doesn't just float away again. The private bank serves wealthy individuals and institutional investors in the UK. Brown Shipley focuses on investment management, self-directed pension plans, financial planning, and banking services such as foreign currency accounts, money market deposit accounts, and credit cards with travel, insurance, and concierge benefits. The firm is also noted for its IFDS (formerly Solus) family of funds. Brown Shipley is the UK arm of KBC Group's KBL European Private Bankers unit (KBL epb), which provides private banking services in seven other nations.

Informative Research Inc. is an information provider for lenders, brokers, and agents involved in the mortgage lending business. Informative Research helps mitigate the financial risk involved with mortgage lending by providing clients with credit reports on potential customers, and identifying fraudulent or invalid loan applications. Informative Research Inc. also offers flood zone determinations, including life of loan reports and portfolio monitoring, as well as automated valuation modeling, including property valuation reports and physical appraisal audits. Informative Research was founded in 1946.

Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated investment bank serving institutional, corporate, government, and high-net-worth individuals. The company operates in two segments, Institutional Securities and Wealth and Asset Management. The Institutional Securities segment provides financial advisory and capital raising services, and sales and trading for users and suppliers of capital. This segment’s products and services include trading in commodities; credit products, including investment-grade debt securities and credit derivatives; equity securities and equity derivatives; foreign exchange services; fund-linked products; index arbitrage and other program-trading activities; interest rate products; leveraged finance, including high-yield and distressed debt and noninvestment grade loans; life insurance finance and risk solutions; margin lending; market making in securities and options; matched book activities; money market instruments; prime services; proprietary trading; real estate activities; risk arbitrage; securities lending; securities, futures, and options clearing services; and structured products, including asset-backed securities.

SagePoint Financial was formed as AIG Financial Advisors in 2005 from the combination of three of the broker-dealer subsidiaries of insurance giant American International Group (AIG): Sentra Securities, Spelman & Co., and SunAmerica Securities. Part of AIG Retirement Services, SagePoint sells products and services including retirement and estate planning, securities trading, and insurance. SagePoint Financial, Inc. oversees around $27 billion in account assets. SagePoint Financial, Inc. serves both short- and long-term investors through a nationwide network of some 2,300 independent financial advisors, who receive technology, business development, and training support from SagePoint.

Home BancShares, Inc. (HBI) is a bank holding company. Home BancShares Company is primarily engaged in providing a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers through its wholly owned community bank subsidiary, Centennial Bank (the Bank). Home BancShares Company is engaged in providing a range of commercial and retail banking and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals and municipalities. The Bank has locations in central Arkansas, north central Arkansas, southern Arkansas, the Florida Keys and southwestern Florida. As of December 31, 2009, it conducted business through 45 Arkansas branches located in central Arkansas, two branches in north central Arkansas, two branches in southern Arkansas, nine branches in the Florida Keys and three branches in southwestern Florida. In March 2010, Home BancShares, Inc. and Centennial Bank announced that the bank has assumed substantially all deposits and purchased certain assets of Key West Bank.

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