Stone Point Capital is a private equity firm that has been making investments in the global financial services industry for more than twenty years. Led by Charles A. Davis, Stephen Friedman, Meryl D. Hartzband and James D. Carey, Stone Point have an extensive track record of investing throughout various financial services industries. Stone Point has raised and managed four private equity funds – the Trident Funds – with aggregate committed capital of $5.4 billion. In addition to the capital invested and committed by the Trident Funds, since 2001 Stone Point have secured approximately $4.5 billion of additional equity co-investments and commitments. Stone Point team of more than thirty investment professionals and senior advisors has a long and successful record of making private equity investments and managing businesses in the financial services industry.

Kobren Insight Management Inc. (KIM) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, typically high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, and corporations. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios and mutual funds. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm employs quantitative analysis for creating its portfolio. It also invests in external mutual funds that invest in real estate, high yield bonds, and inflation-linked bonds and employ merger arbitrage and long/short strategies. The firm employs a combination of in-house and external research to make its investments. Kobren Insight Management is based in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts with additional offices in Longboat Key, Florida and Lincoln, Nebraska. Kobren Insight Management, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of E*Trade Wealth Management, Inc.

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.

Capital Institutional Services, Inc. (CAPIS) was founded in 1977 to provide a different – and better – way of delivering trade and research services to institutional investors. Our idea was to offer exceptional trade execution while providing access to independent, third-party research. The institutional brokerage firm provides agency-only trading and independent investment research to fund managers, broker-dealers, and plan sponsors Capital Institutional Services, Inc. provides trading in exchange- and OTC-listed securities, offering block, international, direct access, and electronic trading. Capital Institutional Services, Inc. also handles fixed income trades and provides a number of research products. Don Potts founded CAPIS in 1977.

Ares Capital Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia. Ares Capital Corporation (Ares Capital) is a specialty finance company, which is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. Ares Capital's investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. It invests in United States middle-market companies. It invests primarily in first and second lien senior loans and mezzanine debt, which in some cases includes an equity component like warrants. First and second lien senior loans generally are senior debt instruments that rank ahead of subordinated debt of a given portfolio company. Its investments have ranged between $10 million and $100 million each, although the investment sizes may be more or less than the targeted range. The Company’s investment adviser is Ares Capital Management LLC. In April 2010, Ares Capital Corporation completed its merger with Allied Capital Corporation.

Wellington Management Company was founded in 1928 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Wellington Management Company, LLP is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans. It also manages accounts for investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, corporations, state or municipal government entities, endowments, foundations, health care, religious institutions and trusts. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages a family of equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets across the globe. It also invests in the currency and commodities markets and commingled funds. For its equity portfolios, the firm invests in growth and value stocks of large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap companies. For its fixed income portfolios, the firm manages multi-currency, investment-grade, and sector specific portfolios. It typically invests corporate bonds, mortgage-backed securities, emerging market securities, and municipal bonds with short-term and intermediate-term maturity.

Sequoia Capital nurtures the seeds that grow into the giants of the tech industry. The venture capital firm, which backed little acorns such as Apple, Oracle, Yahoo!, and Cisco Systems, fertilizes some of Silicon Valley's most promising seedlings. Other notable investments have included Web search engine Google, content management software maker Agile, and Internet darling YouTube. Investing up to $50 million per transaction, Sequoia Capital has funded more than 300 companies in the US, China, India, and Israel. Globally it manages nearly $10 billion in funds.

Winmill & Co. manages three mutual funds and two closed-end funds (Foxby Corp. and Global Income Fund). Most of the assets of the company's Midas mutual fund are invested in gold, silver, and platinum bullion, or in firms involved in precious metals and natural resources mining, processing, and distribution. The Midas Special Fund focuses on stock of emerging growth companies and firms undergoing restructuring or liquidation. Winmill & Co. also administers a money market fund.

Research Corporation Technologies in Tucson, Ariz., is a technology investment and management company that provides early-stage funding and development for promising biomedical companies and technologies. RCT focuses on technology investments with origins from universities and research institutions worldwide. Founded in 1987, the company carries on a vision chartered in 1912 by Frederick Gardner Cottrell, a university professor and inventor who championed the transfer of academic innovation to commercial use. RCT has assets of more than $200 million to advance technology development through venture investment, partnerships and special licensing programs.To support these programs, RCT has staff in its corporate office in Tucson, Ariz., and on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. RCT also has an affiliate company in the United Kingdom, Cambridge Research Biolventures (CRB), and an alliance with Start-Up Australia in Sydney.RCT employs investment professionals with expertise in the life sciences, development of medical devices and therapeutics, and financial management. RCT professionals support all technology development activities, including managing and coordinating new company formation, filing patent applications and infringement protection, negotiating licenses and other agreements, patents and literature searches and marketing support.RCT's unparalleled experience and expertise, as well as its financial resources and partnerships, make a powerful combination that gives important new companies and technologies their best chance for commercial success.

Frazier & Company was founded in 1991. Frazier & Company provides venture and growth equity capital through its Frazier Healthcare Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures units. The former provides early-stage capital to companies in the biopharma, medical devices, and healthcare services sectors, while the latter funds companies in such markets as wireless technology, software, and networking. The companies in which Frazier Healthcare primarily invests in major health care hubs in California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Washington. Combined, the firms have more than $1.3 billion under management.

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