Augen Capital Corp., a merchant bank, specializes in financing of early-stage resource companies, as well as provision of tax-advantaged flow-through investments in resource sectors in Canada. Segments The company operates under two segments: Managed Products and Merchant Banking. The Managed Products (MP) segment consists of annual resource flow-through limited partnership offerings, and the Augen Resource Strategy mutual fund. The Merchant Banking (MB) segment consists of an investment portfolio of primarily emerging resource stocks. The MB segment provides financing and strategic management support to resource investee companies. Augen Resource Strategy Fund Augen Resource Strategy Fund, Inc. is a mutual fund corporation. The investment objective of the Fund is to provide long-term capital growth, by investing primarily in equity securities of senior and emerging Canadian resource companies. The Fund is also permitted to invest in fixed income and money market instruments. Merchant Banking Portfolios The company holds merchant banking portfolios directly in Augen Capital Corp. (Augen) and indirectly through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aumerco Limited, which primarily consist of listed Canadian resource companies whose principal business is resource exploration and development. Polar Bear Project: Augen established Polar Bear Exploration, Inc. (PBE), a private company, to acquire claims in the Hudson Bay/James Bay area of northern Ontario, south east of the coastal town of Pewanuck and south west of Polar Bear Provincial Park.

VIEL & Cie was founded in 1920 and is based in Paris, France. VIEL & Cie, through its subsidiaries, provides interdealer broking, online trading, and private banking solutions to institutional and retail investors. The company offers financial products, such as money market products, interest rate and credit derivatives, bonds, interest rate futures and index futures currency options, and equity derivatives; and commodity-related products, such as precious metals, energy products, and pulp and paper. It also operates in the over-the-counter markets and regulated markets in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In addition, the company offers online broking services; online trading, account maintenance, custodial, and private asset management services for private investors; a trading platform for asset management centres; and back office and order transmission services.

Renta 4 Servicios de Inversion is a financial services company that provides investment and asset management at 56 branches across Spain. Seventy percent of its business is in brokerage services -- buying and selling securities and other financial investments. Renta 4 is the parent company of a number of subsidiaries, including Renta 4 Sociedad de Valores, Padinco Patrimonios, Renta 4 Gestora, Gerdinco Gestion, and Renta 4 Pensiones. The group debuted on the Madrid Stock Exchange in November 2007, and offered to buy rival brokerage Gaesco Holding Company in February 2008.

Candover Investments plc is a United Kingdom-based investment company. The principal activity of the Company is to invest in private equity transactions. It invests in buyouts across Europe via funds managed by its wholly owned subsidiary, Candover Partners Limited. The activities of its principal subsidiary, Candover Partners Limited, are to raise, invest and manage, on behalf of third parties, private equity funds (the Candover Funds), alongside which the Company makes co-investments. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s 10 largest investments included Expro International, Stork, Parques Reunidos, Alma Consulting Group, Ontex, Qioptiq, Equity Trust, Eurotax Glass’s, Capital Safety Group and Innovia Films. During the year ended December 31, 2009, Candover Partners Limited purchased Bearstead Holding Sarl, which owns a 100% interest in Bosting Holding Sarl.

Since 1998, Selby Ventures has been investing in passionate entrepreneurs who want to build the next generation of category defining companies. The firm invests through all stages of a company's growth, focusing primarily in the Digital Media, IT/Communications, and Sustainable Technology industries.

Kim Eng Holdings is one of Southeast Asia's foremost brokerage houses. Kim Eng Holdings Limited provides securities trading and investment banking services such as IPO underwriting, corporate advisory, and financing. Kim Eng Holdings Limited also provides asset management services through KE Capital Partners, a joint venture with Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, as well as through associate firm Republic Investment Management. Subsidiary Emfore Capital Partners manages private equity funds. Kim Eng also performs stock research; its KE Live division specializes in event-driven strategies for retail investors. Kim Eng has a presence in eight countries in Asia (it entered Vietnam and India in 2007), in addition to sales offices in New York and London.

The Baxi Partnership Trust was set up as an employee benefit trust (EBT) by Philip Baxendale and his cousin Joan Caselton in 1983 when they sold their gas-boiler manufacturing company to the trust for only one tenth of its value; a massive gift to the employees. The aim of the EBT was to enable the employees of the boiler manufacturing company to keep the company independent and to share in the wealth they had helped to create. Over the next 16 years the company grew to £200m sales and was highly productive and profitable.

Redbus Group (Redbus) is a UK based acquisition vehicle, which seeks to acquire small cap. businesses or business assets that require restructuring or re-financing and return them to profitability. Its roots are in the media business though it does not operate exclusively in this sector. Redbus came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of the largest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold for $23 million to Helkon Media AG.The key management, all from investment banking or professional backgrounds remained with Redbus Group after this transaction and segued Redbus’ focus towards acquiring media businesses and assets that were either undervalued, in distress or in need of restructuring. Employing an entrepreneurial yet disciplined approach, Redbus, either in partnership with other financial institutions or alone, is constantly looking for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.The combination of Redbus’ intricate understanding of the corporate debt and securities market and its experience of managing businesses is both unusual and increasingly relevant in today’s financial markets. Redbus was the fastest growing company in the UK in 2003 and ranked number one in the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100. Redbus Group is a UK based private company and the main operating vehicle of Simon Franks who is both the company’s chairman and largest single shareholder.

Institutional Venture Partners was founded in 1980 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in San Francisco, California. Institutional Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in later stage companies, small-cap public companies, and growth equity. The firm seeks to invest in industry rollups, founder liquidity, and select public market transactions. It generally invests in information technology and media companies with a focus on internet and digital media, enterprise information technology, travel, communications, wireless, software, infrastructure, and technology-enabled services. The firm invests in companies based in the United States. It invests in private companies having revenues greater than $10 million.

Guthrie GTS Limited is a Singapore-based investment holding company. The Company operates in three segments: Property, which includes investment and management of retail and commercial properties, as well as development of residential properties for sale; Engineering, which involves undertaking of engineering contracts, and Leisure, which includes investment in and operation of hotels. The Company’s immediate holding company is GA 1821 Pte. Ltd. and ultimate holding company is Dornier Profits Ltd. The Company’s subsidiaries include Craig Development Pte Ltd, which is engaged in property investment; GTS Detico Co. Ltd, which is engaged in hotel operations; Guthrie (Anshan) Pte Ltd, which is engaged in investment holding; Guthrie Cathay Pte Ltd, which is engaged in property investment, and Guthrie Changi Development Pte Ltd, which is engaged in property development and investment.

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