Established in 1890, Suomi Mutual Life Assurance Company is the second oldest life insurance company in Finland. Suomi Mutual administers its customers' life insurance portfolio and related investments for the benefit of policyholders. Suomi Mutual has 300 000 owner customers. Suomi Mutual's insurance portfolio consists of insurance policies taken out before July 1, 1997. The portfolio also includes certain newer policies, such as group pension insurance, and capital redemption contracts for companies and corporations. Part of insurance portfolio transferred to Pohjola. At the beginning of 2005, an over EUR 1 billion insurance portfolio and around 135 000 insurance customers were transferred to Pohjola. Now Pohjola is part of the OP-Pohjola Group, the largest financial services group in Finland. The OP-Pohjola Group is Suomi Mutual's main cooperation partner.

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.

LaunchCyte LLC creates life sciences companies. Since LaunchCyte founding in 2000, LaunchCyte have created six companies that offer unique technologies and products to improve healthcare and the human condition. LaunchCyte search for the most exciting technologies from leading research universities and form companies to commercialize the innovations. At their base, LaunchCyte companies have platform technologies that solve problems relating to a particular disease state or method of improving diagnosis, drug development, or clinical trials. As the core technologies evolve, LaunchCyte often branch out into other applications where there is a market need for LaunchCyte solutions.

Since Western Selection P.L.C. is an investment company, it has no employees and out-sources all finance, administration and company secretarial tasks to City Group P.L.C., a company in which it has a 48.6% interest. Western holds substantial stakes in a number of U.K. small-cap growth companies (the strategic portfolio), and maintains a portfolio of U.K. and international blue-chip companies (the general portfolio) to smooth out the performance of small-cap holdings.The directors of Western believe that the company's strategic portfolio has the greatest potential for growth. As the risk associated with these strategic investments is correspondingly greater, the company maintains a general portfolio to generate an increasing income stream, covering overheads and the dividend payment. The composition of the general portfolio is designed to generate a more predictable income stream than that of the strategic portfolio. The general portfolio comprises holdings in blue-chip companies, with investment concentrated in the industry sectors perceived as having the greatest potential for long-term growth. Therefore although the general portfolio can be considered lower risk, via this sector-based or "themed" investment strategy, it has the potential to generate above average returns.

The Perishable Specialist, Inc. (P.S.I.) serves as a licensed customs broker, helping its clients cut through the maze of red tape strung up by such agencies as the US Customs Service, the Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration. Services offered by P.S.I. include US customs clearance, duty drawback, binding rulings, USDA/PPQ inspection, FDA filing, fumigation, and transportation arrangement. It also provides import consultation, protest of customs challenges, and petitions and mitigations to protect against customs penalties and liquidated damages claims. The Perishable Specialist company is owned by the Ramos family.

Detwiler, Mitchell & Co. performs brokerage, wealth management, and equities research services through various subsidiaries. Subsidiary Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton & Graves handles institutional research (specializing in the communications, manufacturing, software, and semiconductor industries), as well as wealth management and brokerage services for high-net-worth individuals. Detwiler Fenton & Co. DMC Financial Services division, including its James Mitchell & Co. subsidiary, provides insurance, annuities, retirement products, and mutual funds. Messrs. Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton, and Graves own a majority of the company.

Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. From turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance. Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in communications, internet, software, and services across business and consumer targets. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition's partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.

Founded in 1989, the firm is 65% employee-owned. Strategic Investment Group Ventures owns the remaining 35%. LM Capital Group offers asset management services to corporations, public agencies, foundations, endowments, and other institutional investors. The firm offers several fixed-income investment strategies for clients, including Short Term, Intermediate, Core, and Opportunistic Core. All of its portfolios consist of about 50 securities consisting of treasuries, agencies, investment-grade corporate issues, and mortgage-backed securities. It relies heavily on its analysis of international political and monetary factors when investing.

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.

ACOM Co., Ltd. provides a variety of financial services, namely consumer loans, credit cards, installment sales financing, and loan guarantee products. ACOM Co., Ltd. subsidiaries include investment firm AC Ventures and unsecured loan provider EASY BUY in Thailand. ACOM expanded upon its long relationship with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) in 2008 when it became a consolidated subsidiary of MUFG. The move was a way for ACOM to strengthen is consumer loan and guarantee business. As a result of the merger ACOM dissolved its RELATES call center subsidiary.

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