Questar Capital wants to be a shining example of a financial services provider. Questar Capital Corporation offers a full range of investment products -- including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, and insurance -- via a network of more than 500 representatives throughout the country. Customers of Questar Capital can choose products from about 90 mutual fund companies, some 70 variable life and annuity companies, and 15 fee-based money managers. Insurance provider Allianz Life acquired Questar Capital in 2005, combined it with USAllianz Securities, and gave the combined entity the Questar Capital name.

MTS HEALTH PARTNERS, L.P. offers strategic advisory and capital raising services as well as private equity capital distinguished by unparalleled healthcare experience, senior level attention and a unique perspective as both an advisor as well as a principal. As an industry-focused merchant bank, MTS is free from the pressure to satisfy the competing institutional constituencies of a typical investment bank. The principals of MTS have spent their careers focused on the healthcare industry, with over 100 years of experience in acquiring, operating, advising, financing and selling healthcare companies. As such, MTS is uniquely positioned as the premier global healthcare-focused merchant bank.

Rutland Partners provides UK-based businesses with funding for acquisitions, restructurings, and expansions. Rutland typically targets underperforming companies that have underpinning assets (including market position, intellectual property, and physical assets) that can be capitalized upon. Rutland Partners company usually funds businesses that are valued from £20 million to £150 million. Past investments include pigments and coating manufacturer Wolstenholme Rink (sold to Altana), musical instruments leader The Music Group Limited, and health care database provider Advantage Healthcare Group.

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.

Janney Montgomery Scott offers a bevy of financial products and services through about 100 offices up and down the East Coast. One of the largest regional broker-dealers in the US, the firm offers fixed-income brokerage, equity research, wealth management, and retirement planning, and acts as a market maker for approximately 150 NASDAQ-listed stocks. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC also provides investment banking services such as public offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions support to emerging and middle-market companies. Janney has more than $13 billion of assets under management. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC was established in 1832 and acquired by The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company 150 years later.

Old Mutual plc provides life assurance, asset management, banking, and general insurance services in North America, Europe, southern Africa, Latin America, and Asia. U.K. and Offshore This business provides products that serve the needs of long-term investors in the U.K. and international offshore markets. Skandia Investment Solutions is an investment platform. This platform gives advisers and their customers access to Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), PEPs, and Collective Investment Accounts, which are provided by Skandia MultiFUNDS Limited. In addition, the platform offers an approved pension wrapper and U.K. and offshore life assurance bonds. Skandia Investment Management Ltd (SIML) is an asset management company. It provides multimanager funds created by Skandia Investment Group, the part of the Skandia group that specializes in investment research and the construction of multimanager funds. Skandia International is the company’s offshore and cross-border specialist, working in partnership with other Skandia and Old Mutual businesses. It includes Royal Skandia, Skandia Life Ireland, Old Mutual International, and Skandia Leben. Skandia U.K. Skandia U.K. focuses on long-term investments. It allows each customer to have a personalized and flexible investment portfolio, suited to their goals and risk appetite. The company provides tools for customers to analyse and construct the portfolio using open-architecture solutions which give access to approximately 1,000 funds from fund management companies, as well as manager-of-managers funds created both in-house and externally.

Commonwealth Bankshares was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for Bank of the Commonwealth (the Bank). The Bank operates four branches in Norfolk, six branches in Virginia Beach, four branches in Chesapeake, two branches in Portsmouth, one branch in Suffolk, one branch in Powells Point, North Carolina, one branch in Waves, North Carolina, one branch in Moyock, North Carolina and one branch in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Bank conducts all of the business operations of a typical independent, commercial bank, including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits, and the initiating of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. The Bank also offers other related services, such as home banking, trust, travelers’ checks, safe deposit, lock box, depositor transfer, customer note payment, collections, notary public, escrow, drive-in facility and other customary banking services.

Wells Fargo Advisors (formerly Wachovia Securities) is the securities brokerage arm of Wells Fargo & Company. Wells Fargo merged its brokerage with Wachovia Securities in 2009 after it acquired Wachovia. With more than $1 trillion worth of assets under management and more than 6 million client accounts, Wells Fargo Advisors offers a range of brokerage, asset management, and financial advisory services. Its Envision program tailors investment plans for mostly affluent clients. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC Capital Markets unit performs investment banking services.

Castle Harlan, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York. Castle Harlan, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, divestitures under duress, restructurings, turnarounds, workouts, bankruptcies, mature and development capital in middle market companies. The firm will not consider investments in heavily regulated companies. It typically invests in companies based in North America and Europe. The firm invests in transactions with a minimum value of $50 million. It prefers to hold controlling positions in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its portfolio companies through a strategic sale or public offerings.

The Fidelity Global Group is an international asset-based investment firm that provides credit facilities to a variety industries through its subsidiaries. Fidelity Global provides development funding for communications, metals, mining, and chemical companies for both the private and government sectors internationally. It offers credit services and loans for refiners of nonferrous metal, such as aluminum, brass, copper, magnesium, and zinc, to purchase new equipment or expand operations. Fidelity Global company also offers loans to companies that are credit-challenged on a per project basis. Fidelity Global Group usually gets a percentage of the profits from those projects.

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