Pershing marshals its forces in the service of securities clearing, execution, and settlement for broker/dealers and registered investment advisors worldwide. Pershing company deals in domestic and international equities, fixed-income products, options, annuities, and foreign exchange. Pershing also performs compliance support, custody, brokerage account reporting, and prime brokerage services, and offers programs that assist brokerages and investment advisors in supplying mutual funds, retirement planning, managed accounts, and other investment products and services to their clients. Pershing is a member of more than 60 exchanges.

Co-chairman Lawrence Lawson III and Robert Barr, president of North American operations, founded the company in 1996. Lincoln International LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions advisory; private placements; fairness opinions; valuations; Initial Public Offerings (IPO); and financial restructuring services. Lincoln International is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Paris, France.

SCM Advisors LLC was founded in 1989 and is based in San Francisco, California. SCM Advisors LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to foundations, endowments, corporations, multi-employer plans, private clients, high net worth individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, and structured financial products. It manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm invests in the growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. For its micro-cap equity portfolios, it invests in companies with market capitalization of $500 million and below. For its fixed income investments, the firm invests in tax advantaged bonds, government securities, investment grade corporate bonds, municipal bonds, mortgages, asset-backed securities, high yield securities, and non-U.S. bonds. It employs fundamental analysis with a combination of top down macro-economic analysis and bottom up issue research to create its portfolios.

Insight Investment is a leading global asset manager across liability driven investment, currency management, fixed income, absolute return, multi-asset and specialist investment strategies. Insight designs innovative investment solutions for their clients that have one objective in mind: meeting their specific needs. Insight aims to deliver consistent and repeatable performance by focusing only on those things we know we can do well. Located across the globe, our clients include pension funds, corporates, local authorities, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers, financial institutions and private individuals.

George Mairs, Jr. founded the firm in 1931, and George Power joined in 1944. Mairs and Power's two flagship funds -- Mairs and Power Growth Fund (opened in 1958) and the Mairs and Power Balanced Fund (1961) -- have some $2 billion in assets under management. The firm also manages about $3 billion in assets for retail customers, benefits managers, and charitable foundations. Mairs and Power relies on a conservative investment strategy, where it seeks growth stocks that it holds for long periods of time. It invests heavily in companies based in the Midwest, where the firm is based, because of its familiarity with the region.

Hong Kong-based Heritage International Holdings invests in commercial real estate, securities, media companies, and the gaming industry (including casinos in Macau and lottery-related businesses in China). Heritage International company also provides short-term financing to companies and individuals. It earns revenue from four primary sources: retail property rental income, interest income from lending money, dividend income from equity investments, and the sale of investments. Among Heritage International company's many holdings, it owns a stake in a lottery-related business (providing primarily lottery ticket sales and outdoor advertising) in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Wells Capital Management Incorporated was founded in 1996 and is based in San Francisco, California. Wells Capital Management Incorporated primarily provides its services to corporations and charitable organizations. It also manages accounts for high net worth individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, state or municipal government entities, and brokerage firms. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap equity portfolios for its clients. The firm employs a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its equity portfolios. It benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolio against the Russell 1000 Value Index, Russell 1000 Growth Index, Russell Mid Cap Growth Index, Russell 2500 Growth Index, Russell 2000 Value Index, and various other Russell Indices.

Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. was founded in 1988 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions of any size for its existing portfolio companies. It does not invest in turnarounds and venture capital. The firm prefers to invest in industrial distribution; infrastructure and industrial products with a focus on companies that manufacture products or provide services with applications in infrastructure-related industries; consumer products with a focus on consumer manufacturing, services, and food companies; and business and consumer services with a focus on specialty rental, healthcare services, information and document management, commercial and industrial services, facilities-based retail and entertainment, and personal care companies in the United States. It also seeks to invest in marketing services, business process outsourcing, education services, and financial services. For its consumer products investments, the firm does not invest in companies where end-market demand is subject to rapid changes in fashion.

OppenheimerFunds Inc. was founded in 1960 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Rochester, New York and Centennial, Colorado. OppenheimerFunds, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, corporations and institutions. It also provides sub-advisory investment-management services. The firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm also manages mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp.

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL or the Company) is a holding company listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 15 October 1956. GBL strives to stimulate and promote the growth of a valuable and balanced portfolio of industrial investments, focusing on a small number of major companies, operating in a diversified range of sectors, in which it is able to play its role as a strategic shareholder. The Company’s portfolio consists of four participations, namely Bertelsmann, Total, Suez and Imerys. TotalFina Elf formed by the successive consolidations of the Total, PetroFina and Elf Aquitaine groups, TotalFinaElf is a global oil and gas group and a major player in the chemicals sector. Activities TotalFina Elf is one of the major integrated oil companies. Its activities are based in more than 100 countries and cover the entire oil industry chain, from upstream - exploration, development and production of oil and gas – to downstream - refining and distribution of oil products and international trading of crude oil and refined oil products. TotalFina Elf is also an important operator in the chemicals industry. Upstream, TotalFina Elf’s hydrocarbon reserves amount to some 11.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Present in the liquefied natural gas industry, TotalFina Elf is also expanding its activities to related market segments such as gas distribution and electricity generation. Downstream, the group has a refining capacity of 2.3 million barrels a day and sales of 3.7 million barrels a day of refined products. TotalFinaElf has interests in 27 refineries and operates a network of some 16,700 service stations under the Total, Fina and Elf brands, primarily in Europe.

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