Communications Equity Associates was founded in 1973 by CEO Rick Michaels. Communications Equity Associates (CEA) provides investment banking, merchant banking, and private equity services to global companies in the communications, entertainment, and media industries. Communications Equity Associates company offers mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, divestment, and fund-raising services from 10 offices in the US and Europe. Its private equity division manages a family of funds with more than $1 billion under management. CEA has completed more than 900 transactions, most of which are cross-border arrangements. Customers have included such big names as AT&T, IBM, EDS, and Siemens.

Baroda Ventures is a Los Angeles based venture capital firm founded in 1998 by philanthropist and technology entrepreneur David C. Bohnett, the founder of GeoCities, an Internet-based media company, publicly traded on NASDAQ and subsequently acquired by Yahoo! Baroda Ventures focused on early stage venture investments (Seed and Series A) in the consumer internet, SaaS, and digital media industries ranging from $100K to $5M with a particular focus on Los Angeles and Southern California based companies. Baroda Ventures love working side-by-side with scrappy entrepreneurs who are passionate about building lasting businesses. Baroda Ventures love working side-by-side with scrappy entrepreneurs who are passionate about building lasting businesses. Baroda Ventures believe in the power of well designed products.

White River Capital is a holding company that specializes in auto finance. Subsidiary Coast Credit offers subprime auto financing in more than 20 states. Visa International Service Association acquires the subprime receivables from franchise and independent auto dealers. Another unit, Union Acceptance, oversees a portfolio of non-prime automobile receivables. In 2005 UAC was bankrupt and stockholders were looking for a way to squeak out value in their investment. The shareholders agreed to exchange UAC for shares of White River. After the swap White River bought the similar, yet more successful, Coast Credit. The holding-company-hat-trick allowed UAC to carry its business forward even after it declared bankruptcy in 2002.

West Midlands Enterprise Ltd was founded in 1982 as a venture capital provider. 1986 saw the establishment of its consultancy arm, which initially served the UK but then branched out into mainland Europe and other parts of the world. Most recently, the company has established an IT consultancy and has hived down its UK economic development consultancy activities into a separate company, Consulting Inplace Limited.WM Enterprise* is a privately owned consultancy and fund manager. It delivers IT and business consultancy in the UK and economic and regional development consultancy internationally. Its fund management activities are concerned with the provision of venture capital, primarily to small and medium sized enterprises. WM Enterprise also provides management support and business services.

Novak Biddle Venture Partners was established in 1997 to provide equity financing and assistance to the management of young, information technology companies. NBVP is backed by a number of the country’s most prestigious limited partners, and has over $580 million under management. Novak Biddle Venture seek investment opportunities where the combination of ideas, dollars, experience, and relationships can create long-term, sustainable value. While Novak believe that the vast majority of business plans Novak receive have many of the makings of viable companies, Novak are looking for additional key features in the businesses in which Novak invest.

JatoTech Ventures is a venture capital company specializing in technology startups. JatoTech Ventures company typically invests $500,000 to $3 million initially and between $5 million and $8 million over the life of its partner companies. The firm looks for those businesses that are creating new markets with the their products and services focusing its resources toward early stage investing. To better provide its portfolio companies with a full range of services, JatoTech limits the size of its portfolio. Wireless communications technology developer Bandspeed is one of JatoTech's holdings.

PGGM provides income protection for everyone in the healthcare and social work sector. PGGM aims to be a committed, dependable, responsible and ethical partner for all employees, offering income-protection products and services that perfectly meet their needs. PGGM also administers collective pension schemes for the healthcare and social work sector. As a cooperative, PGGM is a non-profit organisation that enables its members to derive maximum benefit from all its products and services. PGGM’s largest client is Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn, which has pension assets of around 80 billion euros. Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn determines policy and PGGM manages its assets and administers its pension scheme.

Virgin Money offers savings and investment vehicles such as individual savings accounts, pension plans, unit trusts, and deposit accounts. It also offers personal loans and home, car, life, pet, and travel insurance. Virgin Money has launched a successful credit card, with services reaching into Australia and South Africa. In 2010 it bought small UK private bank Church House Trust as a platform to offer retail banking. Virgin Money is looking to the US for expansion as well. Also in 2010 US billionaire Wilbur Ross (through WL Ross) arranged to acquire a 21% stake in the company for some $100 million ($152 million). A unit of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, Virgin Money was founded in 1995.

Founded in 1991 by former investment banking director Charles Montanaro, the firm has investments in such companies as Care UK, Chloride, Holidaybreak plc, and Northgate plc. Montanaro manages more than E1 billion in funds. Montanaro Investment Managers prefers the little guy over the elite. The independent fund manager seeks out well-managed small companies in niche markets in the UK and Europe to make long-term investments in. Most of its clients are financial institutions, including insurance companies and pension funds. It launched its first investment trust in 1995; the Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC is currently listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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.

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