Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank offers various products and services in capital markets, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking. Its Coverage and Investment Banking division monitors and develops corporate and financial institutions in France and internationally. This division’s operations comprise advisory services and equity financing operations, including mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, corporate equity derivatives, and loan syndication, as well as Islamic banking. The company’s Equity Brokerage and Derivatives division involves in the trading, sale, and arbitrage of equity derivatives, index derivatives, simple or complex structured products, warrants, certificates, and indexed products. Its Fixed Income Markets division offers standard and structured market products, including commodities, debt and credit markets, foreign exchange, interest rate derivatives, and treasury for corporate and financial institutions. The company’s Structured Finance division consists of originating, structuring, and financing operations involving large-scale exports and investments in France and internationally, backed by collateral security, as well as complex and structured loans.

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.

IG Group Holdings plc was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. IG Group Holdings plc, through its subsidiaries, operates as a financial spread betting company. The company operates through two segments, Financial and Sport. The Financial segment offers contracts for difference (CFD), spread bets, and exchange traded futures on equities, equity indices, precious and base metals, soft commodities, exchange rates, interest rates, and other financial markets; and exchange traded options, CFDs, and spread bets on options on certain financial markets. This segment also provides financial binaries, including exchange traded and over the counter binary options, and fixed odds bets, as well as operates North American Derivatives Exchange, a CFTC regulated futures and options exchange. The Sport segment provides spread bets and fixed odds bets on sporting and other events, as well as operates an online casino. IG Group Holdings offers its products and services to retail customers, market professionals, and corporate entities in Europe, the Asia Pacific, and rest of the world.

Guoco Group Limited, an investment holding company, provides principal investment, property development and investment, hospitality and leisure, and financial services. The company operates as a subsidiary of Guoline Overseas Limited. Principal Investment The company’s principal investment business includes equity and direct investments, as well as treasury operations. Its investment infrastructure includes synergistic analytical tools, risk management system, as well as management information system. Its treasury division focuses on global economic conditions, forex and interest rate trends, and strategic trading ideas. It also manages financial exposures of the company and hedging proposals. Property Development and Investment GuocoLand Limited (GLL) is the company’s property arm and operates in Singapore, China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. As of June 30, 2009, the company developed and sold 29 residential projects in Singapore, producing approximately 8,300 apartments and homes. In China, GLL has a land bank of approximately two million square metres in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Tianjin. In Malaysia, GLL has established an embedded property operation through its Malaysia subsidiary, GuocoLand (Malaysia) Berhad, with property development, property investment, as well as hotel and resort holdings business. Hospitality and Leisure Business GuocoLeisure Limited (GL) is the company’s subsidiary in the hospitality and leisure business. GL’s operating assets include the Guoman Hotels group (Guoman) and Clermont Leisure (U.K.) Limited (Clermont Leisure) in the United Kingdom and rights to a royalty stream from the production of oil and gas in the Bass Strait in Australia. Guoman owns, leases, or manages 37 hotels (8,400 rooms) in the United Kingdom under two brands, the international deluxe Guoman brand, which includes four Central London landmark hotels with approximately 2,300 rooms, and the four-star ‘Thistle’ brand in 33 properties with 6,100 rooms in London and the provinces. In the Asia Guoman manages two hotels in Malaysia under the Thistle brand standard. Clermont Leisure is a licensed casino operator in the United Kingdom.

Founded in 1932, Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. is unrelated to investment bank Duff & Phelps Corporation. Duff & Phelps Investment Management manages mutual funds, closed-end funds, and institutional accounts with investments real estate investment trusts (REITs) -- its specialty -- global utilities and infrastructure stocks, large-cap equities, and investment-grade fixed-income products. Clients include individual investors, corporations, retirement funds, endowments, and not-for-profits. A subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, the company has approximately $6 billion in assets under management. Both Duff & Phelps and Virtus (formerly Phoenix Investment Partners) were spun off from The Phoenix Companies in 2008.

The Veritas Capital was founded by president Robert McKeon in 1992. The Veritas Capital is a private-equity firm that invests in established companies through buyouts, growth capital investments, and leveraged recapitalizations. The Veritas Capital focuses on public and private middle-market companies in the aerospace and defense, government services, telecommunications, and specialty manufacturing industries. Its current portfolio includes holdings in government contractors McNeil Technologies and Vangent, and electronic components manufacturer Aeroflex, which filed to go public in 2010.

MCG Capital Corporation is a solutions-focused commercial finance company that provides capital and advisory services to middle-market companies throughout the United States. The Company is an internally managed, non-diversified, closed-end investment company. It conducts some of its activities through wholly owned, special-purpose financing subsidiaries. Its investment portfolio is composed primarily of middle-market companies in which it has made up to $75 million of debt and equity investments. Typically, these middle-market companies have $20 million to $200 million in annual revenue. As of December 31, 2009, it had debt and equity investments in 59 portfolio companies. Its diversified investment portfolio spans 30 industries. Approximately 40% of its portfolio is composed of investments in industries that consist less than 5% of its portfolio.

BlueBay Asset Management was founded in 2001 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan and New York, New York. BlueBay Asset Management plc is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to institutions, corporations, Pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, white label funds, and high net worth individuals. It manages fixed income credit funds and structured products for its clients. The firm also manages separate client focused portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It also invests in emerging and alternative markets. The firm specializes in fixed income credit. It employs a combination of fundamental and technical analysis with a combination of top-down and bottom-up approach to make its investments.

New South Wales Treasury was established in 1983 as the central financing authority for its namesake state's public sector. New South Wales Treasury, popularly known as TCorp, provides lending services and financial management services to the public sector of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state. The organization's customers include highway and railroad authorities, utilities, parks, hospitals, and other health care facilities. The institution also sells New South Wales Treasury bonds to individual investors.

Quest Capital seeks investments in first mortgage loans secured by single-family residences, apartments, condominiums, social housing, and nursing and retirement facilities in Canada. Quest Capital Corp. previously was an asset-based lender to companies in the mining and oil and gas industries, but sold those operations in 2007 and converted to a mortgage investment company. Quest Capital Corp., however, halted new loan production the following year as it waited out the rough economy. Some vestiges of Quest Capital's former incarnation remain in its much smaller commercial real estate and natural resource lending activities.

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