Terra Nova Financial Group wants to serve investors in a hurry to do some stock trading. Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. was founded in the 1990s as a traditional retail brokerage offering insurance and other investment products. Today, Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. has shifted its attention toward its proprietary software for direct-access trading. Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. technology platform provides real-time quotes and trading tools for active online investors, semi-professional traders, and institutional portfolio managers. Terra Nova Financial, LLC, the company's broker/dealer subsidiary, handles online trading for more than 3,000 customer accounts. In 2010 Lightspeed Financial, Inc. agreed to acquire Terra Nova Financial, LLC for nearly $27 million.

Chairman William "Beau" Duncan founded Duncan-Hurst Capital Management, L.P. in 1990 and continues to control it. Duncan-Hurst Capital Management has more than $620 million of assets under management. Duncan-Hurst Capital Management specializes in growth equity investments. Duncan-Hurst Capital Management company administers about a half dozen funds, primarily for institutional investors. A minimum investment is around $5 million for institutional investors and around $25,000 for customers investing in Duncan-Hurst's Aggressive Growth Fund. Its investments consist mostly of small- and mid-cap companies.

Incubic is a venture fund investing in high-tech startups. Incubic focus is seed investments, although Incubic do invest in late-stage companies. Incubic believe business is built on excellence and trust. Incubic are helpful to entrepreneurs because ultimately what is good for the business is good for its founders and investors. Having been entrepreneurs, Incubic understand management challenges, and can provide a balanced view to help you make sound decisions. Incubic also share Incubic experience as advisors to entrepreneurs. Incubic have access to an extensive network of professional resources to be helpful. There would be no fees/compensation until substantial advisory services are required.

TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage services and technology-based financial services in the United States. TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation offers common and preferred stock, American depository receipts, exchange traded funds, option trades, futures and foreign exchange trades, trading on mutual funds and fixed income securities, margin lending, and cash management services.TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation client offerings comprise TD AMERITRADE for self-directed retail investors; TD AMERITRADE Institutional that provides brokerage and custody services; trading platforms that enables research and analysis; a suite of education products and services for stock, option, foreign exchange, futures, mutual fund, and fixed-income investors; Amerivest, an online advisory service that develops portfolios of exchange-traded funds to help long-term investors pursue their financial goals; and TD AMERITRADE Corporate Services, which offers self-directed brokerage services to employees and executives of corporations.TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation also provides services, such as trade execution, clearing, trustee, and trust-related services; and cash sweep products through third-party banking relationships. TD AMERITRADE Holding offers its products and services to retail investors, traders, financial planners, and institutions through the Internet, a network of retail branches, wireless telephone or personal digital assistant, interactive voice response, and independent registered advisors via telephone. TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

CEO Thomas Harlan founded Emergent Technologies in 1989. Emergent Technologies turns business into a science, and vice versa. The venture capital firm focuses on institutional and university-based biotechnology discoveries, generally originating at The University of Oklahoma, The University of Texas, and Texas Tech , and turns them into companies. Emergent Technologies provides more than financial support; it also brings management, marketing, licensing, and other offerings to its nascent charges. Emergent Technologies company looks for protectable intellectual property, previous research grants, and new technology with applications across many markets.

CME Group was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. CME Group Inc. offers access to all asset classes for futures products from a single electronic trading platform, and on trading floors in Chicago and New York City. The Company offers markets in futures and options on futures contracts based on the United States interest rate yield curve, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, metals and alternative investment products. Its products are traded through the CME Globex electronic trading platform, its open outcry auction markets in Chicago and New York City or through privately negotiated transactions that the Company clears. It serves the risk management and investment needs of customers around the globe. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had approximately 140 clearing firms. In April 2009, the Company acquired the Carvill Hurricane Index from Carvill America Inc. and renamed it the CME Hurricane Index.

School Employees Retirement System of Ohio was formed in 1937 and is based in Columbus, Ohio. School Employees Retirement System of Ohio (SERS) provides pension, survivor, disability, and post-retirement health care benefits active and retired non-teaching public school employees of Ohio. As a limited partner, School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is a public pension fund with $8 billion in assets under management. The fund engages in the following alternative investment strategies: buyouts/corporate finance, international private equity, and venture capital. It has a net internal rate of return target of the S&P 500 + 3%. The fund allocates 1% to 5% of its total assets to alternative investments.

Asset Acceptance Capital tries to help creditors accept the things they cannot change and to have the courage to pay off the debt they can. Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. buys portfolios of written-off consumer debt (credit cards, consumer loans, utilities) at a deep discount, then attempts to collect on them. About half of the value of its portfolio is made up of Visa, MasterCard, and Discover card receivables. Asset Acceptance Capital focuses on debt in the primary, secondary, and tertiary markets, which means between one and three collection agencies have already had a go at them; these portfolios are often the cheapest to acquire but are the hardest to collect on. Tertiary accounts make up about half of its portfolio.

Jerusalem Venture Partners was founded in 1993 and is based in Jerusalem, Israel. Jerusalem Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and startup investments. The firm prefers to invest in enterprise software and media technologies including gaming and virtual worlds, mobile media, software and hardware applications, internet advertising, semiconductors and innovative materials, and communications and networking sectors. It typically invests in companies based in North America, Europe, Israel and Asia.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York. The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) is a boutique investment bank that provides financial services to media and information companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisition; debt and equity financing; valuation; and strategic consulting services. JEGI caters to media, information technology, marketing, communications, advertising, and publishing sectors. Its clientele include CNET, Dow Jones, Hearst, Jupitermedia, Nielsen Media, Pearson, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Corporation, United Business Media, Abry Partners, Frontenac Company, Housatonic Partners, Pfingsten Partners, Seaport Capital, Warburg Pincus, and Wicks Group of Companies.

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