Management Limited was founded in 1881 and is based in Edinburgh, Midlothian. Martin Currie Investment Management Limited is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to financial institutions, charities, foundations, endowments, pension funds, family offices, government agencies, investment trusts, banking or thrift institutions, pooled investment vehicles, and corporations. It manages separate client focused equity portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity markets across the globe. The firm invests in growth oriented value stocks employing a thematic investment approach. It employs fundamental analysis with a combination of bottom-up and top-down stock picking approach to create its portfolios. The firm makes use of both internal and external research to make its investments. It operates as a subsidiary of Martin Currie Limited.

Fuse Capital (formerly Velocity Interactive Group) is hot for digital media and communications ventures. Focusing on early-stage growth companies, the venture capital firm is a long-term investor, providing up to $30 million per transaction. Its current portfolio consists of interests in some two dozen companies. The former Velocity Interactive was formed by the 2007 merger of venture capital firms Velocity and ComVentures; it changed its name in 2009. Fuse Capital has some $1.5 billion in capital under management, including former ComVentures funds.

NBGI Private Equity Limited is a private equity arm of NBG International Limited specializing in investments in small to medium sized businesses. It seeks to invest in management buyouts and buyins, institution led buyouts, growth capital, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. The firm does not invest in startups and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in consumer and leisure, manufactured, industrial and building products, and business and support services. It prefers to invest in the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests in a deal size between £5 million ($9.40 million) and £50 million ($94.09 million) with an equity investment between £2 million ($3.2 million) and £15 million ($24.05 million). It invests in private and public companies. The firm also invests in further rounds of financing for acquisition and growth in its portfolio companies.

ITEX Corporation was founded in 1901. ITEX Corporation, through its independent licensed broker and franchise network, operates an exchange for cashless business transactions (the ‘Marketplace’) in the United States and Canada. The company’s business services and payment systems enable member businesses (‘members’) to trade goods and services without exchanging cash. These products and services are instead exchanged for ITEX dollars which can only be redeemed in the Marketplace (ITEX dollars). It administers the Marketplace and acts as a third-party record-keeper for its members’ transactions. Marketplace Transactions The Marketplace provides a forum for members to purchase from and sell their products and services to other members using the currency ‘ITEX dollars’ instead of the U.S. dollars (USD). An ITEX dollar is an accounting unit used to record the value of transactions as determined by the members in the Marketplace. The company issues, on a case by case basis, ITEX dollar credit lines to certain members. Members with positive ITEX dollar account balances or those within their ITEX dollar credit line may use available ITEX dollars to purchase products or services from other members and may sell their products or services to other members. Those members with negative ITEX dollar account balances are obligated to sell their products or services to other Marketplace members to offset their negative account balance.

YFM Private Equity is a subsidiary of small and midsized business investor YFM Group. YFM Private Equity manages venture capital trusts (including the British Smaller Companies sister funds) that invest in a variety of UK businesses. The trusts provide financing for primarily early-stage technology companies but also more established businesses in other industries. YFM Private Equity typically invests up to £8 million and prefers to see business plans and exit strategies from target firms. YFM Private Equity's portfolio includes stakes in facilities manager Connaught, medical communications firm Fishawack, and gaming machine data manager Brulines.

Invesco Asset Management (doing business as Invesco Perpetual) provides asset management services -- primarily to customers in the UK. One of the largest fund managers in the country, the subsidiary of Invesco Ltd. oversees more than 40 funds that are invested in European, Asian, and international equities, including funds specifically invested in shares of companies in the UK, the US, Japan, and emerging markets. It also manages fixed-interest funds. Other products include ISAs, pensions, and offshore funds. Invesco Perpetual serves both private and institutional investors, as well as financial advisers.

Corporacion Financiera Alba SA is a Spain-based investment holding company. Corporacion Financiera Alba Company is engaged in the real estate sector and its activities include the acquisition, management, promotion and lease of non-residential and commercial properties located in Madrid and Barcelona. As of December 31, 2008, the Company’s properties had a combined floor area of approximately 82,000 square meters. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Alba Participaciones SA, the Company holds interests in such entities as Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA (ACS), Acerinox SA, Prosegur Compania de Seguridad SA, Clinica Baviera SA, Antevenio SA and Deya Capital SCR. In addition, the Company is a member of Grupo March.

New Enterprise Associates was founded in 1978 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices across United States, India, and China. New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in venture growth equity at all points of developments with a 60 percent focus on seed and start-up stage through IPO. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology sector with a focus on consumer internet, consumer mobile, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise services, communications, software and services, and electronics industries; healthcare sector with a focus on biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, healthcare services, and healthcare information technology industries; and energy technology. It invests across the world with a focus on United States, China, and India. The firm initially invests between $200,000 and $40 million in a company and typically sponsors subsequent finance rounds.

Sage Advisory Services, Ltd. Co. was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. Sage Advisory Services, Ltd. Co. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm also provides portfolio risk evaluation and diagnostics; performance analytics; and financial and liability modeling services. It provides its services to corporate and retirement funds, financial institutions, foundations and endowments, healthcare institutions, public funds, Taft-Hartley funds, wrap programs and sub-advisory, and individuals. The firm manages client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages exchange traded funds and structured products for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe with a focus on the United States. It invests in index based exchange traded funds (ETFs) of all-cap companies, employing a fundamental analysis along with a top-down macro approach to create its equity portfolios. The firm benchmarks the performance of its various equity portfolios against the Standard & Poor 500 Index; the Russell 3000 Index; the Lehman Brothers Government Credit Intermediate Maturity Index; and the Lehman Brothers Municipal Blended 1–10 year Maturity Index. For fixed income, it invests in U.S. treasury and government agency securities; mortgage and asset backed securities; investment grade corporate and municipal securities; and high-grade international government securities, employing fundamental economic and quantitative security analysis to create its fixed income portfolios.

Progress Investment Management Company was founded in 1990 and was under the wings of Bank of America for a time, but is independent after a management buyout. Progress Investment Management specializes in the management of emerging-markets managers, particularly those run by minorities or women; clients include such pension funds as CalPERS, whose manager-development program it manages. Progress Investment Management has approximately $6.4 billion in assets under management.

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