vCap Investments LLC company was founded as Alexander Securities in 1998 by David Granzotti, who launched the company's first hedge fund the following year. vCap Investments is an asset management firm that specializes in four areas: asset management for clients who need investment and financial planning; the private client group, through which is focuses on high-net-worth clients; alternative investments, such as hedge funds; and capital introductions, best described as introducing hedge fund managers to investors. It also offers futures and currency trading.

Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress) is a global alternative asset manager that raises, invests and manages private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Fund investors provide the capital for these funds, which it invests and manages on their behalf. Fortress earns management fees based on the size of its funds, incentive income based on the performance of its funds. Its offering of alternative investment products includes private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Hedge funds allow periodic contributions and redemptions of capital by investors and make relatively shorter-term, more liquid investments. Hybrid funds share certain of the characteristics of both private equity and hedge funds. It refers to these investment products, collectively, as the Fortress Funds. As of December 31, 2009, it managed alternative assets in three core businesses: Private Equity, Liquid Hedge Funds and Hybrid Funds.

POCKET CARD CO., LTD. is the Tokyo-based financial services. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. provides credit cards, smart cards, loans, leasing, life insurance, and travel services to customers through roughly 200 automated terminals and staffed locations across Japan. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. sells its services through former parent MYCAL Group's SATY and VIVRE fashion and food stores, but is rapidly expanding via non-MYCAL outlets. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. credit cards are accepted at MasterCard locations in Japan and abroad. Sanyo Shinpan Finance Co. owns more than 50% of POCKET CARD's common stock; ITOCHU Finance Corp. is its second largest shareholder.

Ashmore Group plc (Ashmore) is a United Kingdom-based company engaged in providing investment management services. The Company is a fund manager across six core investment themes, such as external debt, local currency, special situations, equity, corporate high yield and multi-strategy. The external debt theme comprises principally United States dollar and other hard currency denominated instruments, which may include derivatives, investing in mainly sovereign bonds. The local currency investment theme comprises local currency and local currency denominated debt instruments. The special situations theme comprises investments in debt and/or other instruments. The equity investment theme comprises public equity and equity-related securities. The corporate high yield investment theme comprises investments in corporate debt within emerging markets.

Prime Active Capital plc (PAC) targets and acquires companies where value can be achieved through improving and reinvigorating management teams, debt/equity re-structuring, market re-positioning and cash flow enhancement. Acquired companies shall seek organic and acquisition growth for their own businesses with the support of the PAC management team. The PAC management team has extensive experience in major capital market transactions, debt/equity re-structuring and corporate turnarounds. The company is quoted on the London AIM market and the Dublin IEX market.

H.I.G. Capital was founded in 1993 and is based in Miami, Florida with additional offices across the United States and Europe. H.I.G. Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed or startups, early, mid, and late stage; management and leveraged buyouts; add on acquisitions; mature businesses; industry consolidation; corporate divestitures; recapitalization transactions; turnarounds; growth or development capital; distressed credits and shares; and public to private transactions of small and middle market companies. It also invests in underperforming businesses. The firm does not invest in industries that are highly cyclical or capital intensive. It primarily invests in small and medium sized companies in the manufacturing, business services, specialty chemicals, promotional products, plastic molding, consumer products, oil recycling and water filtration, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical manufacturing services sectors. The firm typically makes investments ranging between €2 million ($3 million) to €100 million ($150.27 million). It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Europe. The firm seeks to invest in companies with revenues up to $500 million; enterprise value between $50 million and $500 million; and an EBITDA between $5 million and $150 million. It invests in the form of equity and debt.

Government of Singapore Investment Corporation was founded in 1981 and is based in Singapore with additional offices in South Korea, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, and China. Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Pte Ltd. (GIC) is a sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Singapore. The firm manages foreign exchange reserves of the Government of Singapore. It invests in the public and private equity, real estate, fixed income, and alternative markets including foreign exchange, commodity, and money markets across the globe. The firm invests through its subsidiaries GIC Asset Management Pte Ltd., GIC Real Estate Pte Ltd., and GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd.

Muscatine Foods (formerly Varied Investments, Inc.) heard what you were sayin'. Muscatine Foods' name now better reflects what it does -- the Muscatine, Iowa-based company invests in various midwestern ag businesses. Among the units owned by the holding company are the Grain Processing Corporation (GPC), Kent Feeds (which also owns animal food maker Evergreen Mills), and Blue Seal Feeds. Muscatine's Precision Foods has acquired Connecticut-based hot beverage manufacturer Alternative Channels. Muscatine Foods is owned by the families of GPRC founders Gage Kent and S.G. Stein.

Domini Social Investments is an investment firm with a focus on socially and environmentally responsible investments. Through investment vehicles including: the Domini Social Equity Fund, the Domini Social Bond Fund, and the Domini Money Market Account, the firm manages nearly $2 billion in investor capital and invests it in community economic development. Domini also offers investment consultancy and portfolio management assistance. The firm was founded by CEO Amy Domini in 1989 to address a growing number of investors unwilling to invest in certain companies, such as tobacco and defense contractors.

BinckBank (formerly Binck) provides online brokerage services to customers in The Netherlands and Belgium. Some 70,000 private customers trade on its Web site, which offers access to all major global financial markets. BinckBank N.V. also provides professional services to banks and professional asset managers; it sold its propietary bond trading operations in 2007. Dutch trading specialist AOT (Amsterdan Options Traders) merged with BinckBank and established holding company Binck in 2004; two years later Binck and BinckBank merged into a single company. BinckBank plans to expand its operations into France.

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