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.

NBGI Private Equity Limited is a private equity arm of NBG International Limited specializing in investments in small to medium sized businesses. It seeks to invest in management buyouts and buyins, institution led buyouts, growth capital, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. The firm does not invest in startups and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in consumer and leisure, manufactured, industrial and building products, and business and support services. It prefers to invest in the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests in a deal size between £5 million ($9.40 million) and £50 million ($94.09 million) with an equity investment between £2 million ($3.2 million) and £15 million ($24.05 million). It invests in private and public companies. The firm also invests in further rounds of financing for acquisition and growth in its portfolio companies.

Sandler O'Neill was founded in 1988. Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. is an investment banking firm that provides financial advisory, balance sheet management, brokerage, and research services. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, capital raising, stock conversion and demutualization, fairness opinions, and leveraged buyout services. Additionally, it provides business planning, interest rate risk management, equity research, and securities sales and trading services.

Haas Wheat & Partners is a Dallas-based private investment firm specializing in strategic equity investments and leveraged buyouts of middle market companies. Since 1984, the Firm has compiled an impressive track record investing in both private and public companies including such notable successes as Dr Pepper Company, The Seven-Up Company, A&W Brands, AMN Healthcare Services, Nebraska Book Company, and Sybron International Corporation. The Firm’s investments have been of varying sizes and have included both minority and control equity positions.

Founded in 1997, Global Forex Trading company is a division of Global Futures & Forex Ltd. Specializing in online foreign exchange (forex) trading, the company provides software, tools, and resources for retail and institutional traders to enter the forex trading market. Global Forex Trading company's DealBook software functions as a trading platform providing order entry, market analysis, real-time currency prices, and news services. Global Forex Trading company also offers mobile and Web versions of its software.

ABRY Partners, LLC was co-founded in 1989 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. ABRY Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in late stage; total buy-outs of financial investors, families, publicly-traded or strategic owners; acquisition roll-ups, platform acquisitions; leveraged buyouts; industry consolidations; add-on acquisitions; mezzanine, recapitalizations, turnaround; and growth capital investments. It prefers to invest in media, communication, business services, education, entertainment, healthcare services, information services, and online media industries with a focus on television and radio broadcasting, cable television, business-to-business, magazine publishing, newsletter publishing, conventions/trade shows, for-profit training, couponing, monitoring services, telephone companies, communications towers, consumer magazine publishing, recorded music libraries, proprietary database providers, wireless communications, and in-store advertising. The firm typically invests between $25 million and $150 million of equity in case of the private equity fund or between $15 million and $50 million of mezzanine/senior equity capital in its portfolio companies.

The General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of The United Methodist Church (GBOPHB) supervises and administers pension, retirement, investment, health care, disability, and death benefit plans for more than 74,000 church clergy, lay employees, and their families. Formed in 1908, the not-for-profit GBOPHB manages more than $16 billion in assets and is the nation's largest faith-based pension funds. GBOPHB focuses on socially responsible investing (SRI) and has taken an activist stance in addressing major corporations about such issues as global vendor standards, employee wages, and genetically modified foods.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.(KKR) was founded in 1976 and is based at New York, New York with additional offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is a private equity and mezzanine investment firm specializing in acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, and mezzanine investments in large cap companies. The firm will consider investments in all industries, with a focus on infrastructure. It seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm’s average investment horizon is five years and more. It exits its investments through initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and sales to strategic buyers. The firm holds a controlling interest in its portfolio companies after they go public.

Established in 1979, Skandia UK is one of the the nation's top financial services groups. Skandia is controlled by South African financial services group Old Mutual. Skandia Life Assurance and related companies make up what's known as Skandia UK, the arm of Swedish insurance and investment firm Skandia serving the British Isles. Skandia UK offers medium- and high-net-worth clients a range of savings, investment, pension, and insurance products, which are sold through independent financial advisors (IFAs). Parent Skandia operates in more than 20 countries; its largest markets are the UK and Sweden.

Opus Investment Management, Inc was founded in 1993 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts. Opus Investment Management, Inc. is an asset management arm of The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. The firm primarily provides its services to corporations. It also caters to pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, traditional and alternative insurance entities, corporate retirement funds and benefit programs, public retirement funds, foundations and endowments, and mutual funds. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages a family of mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. For its fixed income securities, the firm invests in government bonds, treasury inflation-protected securities, AAA rated bonds, AA rated bonds, A rated bonds, BBB rated bonds, BB rated bonds, B rated bonds, and CCC rated bonds. It employs a fundamental analysis with a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments. The firm benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Index and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Index.

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