Ohio Public Employees Retirement System was founded in 1935 and is based in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Public Employees Retirement System is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefit programs to its clients. It primarily provides its services to public employees, retirees, and beneficiaries. The firm manages pension funds and principal investment funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in the alternative investments markets, typically limiting such investments to private equity, including venture capital; real estate; currency markets; derivatives; hedge fund-of funds; and commodities. It also invests in exchange traded funds and ADRs while making its investments. For its equity investments, the firm typically invests in the large-cap and small-cap companies. It also invests in warrants, initial public offerings, and preferred securities. For its fixed income investments, the firm typically invests in investment-grade securities, high yield debt, treasury inflation protected securities, corporate bonds, government bonds, short-term securities. It also makes limited partnership investments. The firm seeks to commit between $5 million and $15 million per partnership and has a net internal rate of return target of 20%.

Arsenal Capital Partners, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Shanghai, China. Arsenal Capital Partners, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, recapitalization, and growth equity investments in the middle market companies. The firm typically invests in information technology, healthcare, specialty industrial and financial services companies. Within healthcare, it focuses on manufacturing and service companies within pharmaceutical, medical devices, and healthcare services markets such as contract research, manufacturing, and testing services, medical and diagnostic devices and supplies, specialty distribution and logistics, alternative site care providers, healthcare information technology, and outsourced services to payors and providers. Within specialty industrial, the firm focuses on providers of specialty products and services across a range of sectors such as specialty chemicals and materials, aerospace and defense, transportation and logistics, outsourced industrial services, specialty packaging, and environmental products and services.

Novastar Financial, Inc. was founded in 1996. NovaStar Financial, Inc. holds non-conforming residential mortgage securities. The company's majority owned subsidiary, StreetLinks National Appraisal Services LLC, is a residential mortgage appraisal management company. Advent Financial Services LLC (Advent), a majority owned subsidiary of the company, provides access to tailored banking accounts, small dollar banking products and related services to meet the needs of low and moderate income level individuals. The company’s portfolio of mortgage securities includes interest-only, prepayment penalty, and overcollateralization securities retained from its securitizations of nonconforming, and single-family residential mortgage loans. Its portfolio of mortgage securities also includes subordinated mortgage securities retained from its securitizations and subordinated home equity loan asset-backed securities (ABS) purchased from other ABS issuers.

Founded in 1965, A-Mark has grown into a full service precious metals trading company offering a wide array of products and services. A-Mark products include gold, silver, platinum and palladium for storage and delivery in the form of coins, bars, wafers and grain. A-Mark services include financing, leasing, consignment, hedging and a variety of customized financial programs. A-Mark are an official distributor for many Government Mints throughout the world including The Royal Canadian Mint, The South African Mint, The Australian (Perth) Mint and an Authorized Purchaser for the US Mint. A-Mark makes an active two way market from our trading center in Santa Monica, California, Monday through Friday from 5:20 am to 5:00 pm, Pacific Time, even while many major world commodity markets are closed. A-Mark Precious Metals a leader in precious metals with the largest precious metals dealer network in North America, serving customers on six continents. A-Mark clients include coin and metal dealers, investors, collectors, mines, manufacturers, refiners, jewelers, investment advisors, merchants, commodity brokerage houses and central banks.

Lightyear Capital and its affiliated investment funds specialize in providing buyout and growth capital to companies across the financial services industry. Founded in 2000, Lightyear Capital has managed approximately $3 billion in committed capital. With its Principals averaging over 25 years of experience across the financial services industry, Lightyear Capital is ideally positioned to respond to the challenges and opportunities of financial services investing. Lightyear Capital has fully invested The Lightyear Fund, L.P. and is currently investing Lightyear Fund II, L.P.

Cavendish Corporate Finance LLP was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Cavendish Corporate Finance Limited (CCFL) provides financial advisory services to private companies, public enterprises, and financial institutions. The firm offers mergers and acquisition, valuation, deal negotiation and structuring, and due diligence advisory services. Additionally, it provides assistance in buyer identification, risk assessment, operational planning, and benchmarking services. The firm caters to construction, consumer and retail, leisure, healthcare, paper and packaging, and telecommunications and media industries. Its clientele includes GET Group plc, YORK Novenco, Hale Hamilton, U-POL Products Limited, JJ Barker Ltd, and Canterbury Foods Group plc.

Bridgepoint Capital Limited was founded in 1996 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Bridgepoint Capital Limited is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, buy-in, growth, middle market, consolidation, and public-to-private transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in all sectors including companies engaged in the consumer, financial services, healthcare, media and technology, support services, industrials, business services, and transport industries. Within the business services sector the firm prefers to invest in professional services and business process outsourcing, property and facility services, testing, inspection and certification, equipment rental and asset outsourcing, and transport services and infrastructure. Within the consumer industry investments are sought in companies engaged in food and drink, travel and hospitality, health and fitness, entertainment, specialist retail, leisure, FMCG, pubs and restaurants, and consumer goods. Additionally, the firm seeks to invest in retail turnaround situations or where a consumer brand is capable of further rollout. It seeks to invest in sub-prime lending, independent financial advisers, insurance broking, fund management, support services, consumer and specialist finance, financial infrastructure, technology and services, and wealth and asset management within the financial services sector.

Founded in 1889, Bank of Bermuda was bought by British banking giant HSBC in 2004. The Bank of Bermuda Limited provides fund administration, trust, custody, asset management, and banking services globally. The bank operates through four divisions: Global Fund Services, Private Client Services, Corporate Banking, and Community Banking. The Global Fund Services division provides fund administration products, banking, and global custody services, including hedge funds, emerging market funds, funds of funds, and private equity funds to investment industry. The Private Client Services division provides private trust and investment services to high net worth individuals and families. The Corporate Banking division provides cash management services to offshore insurance management companies, multinational corporations, and local Bermuda-based companies.

RJD Partners Limited was founded in 2001. RJD Partners hopes to provide a nice return. The private equity firm invests in midsized UK companies on behalf of its third-party funds. It participates in buyouts, capital injections, and restructurings, targeting companies valued between £10 million to £75 million (between $15 million and $125 million). RJD Partners takes an active role in its investments, helping them to grow organically and via their own acquisitions. Portfolio holdings include companies in the business services, health care, IT, leisure, and financial services sectors.

TM Capital was founded in 1989. TM Capital provides investment and merchant banking services including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, financing, and advisory services. It also reviews and defends against unsolicited takeover attempts, provides fairness opinions and valuations, arranges private financing and financial restructurings, and occasionally participates in private equity investments.

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