Village Ventures is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focusing on the consumer media/retail and financial services sectors. Village Ventures strategy is to partner with leading entrepreneurs creating innovative products and solving complicated problems in those industries.When it comes to seed and early stage investing, village ventures believe that there is strength in numbers. True early stage firms are necessarily small, and therefore often lack the scale required to effectively support their entrepreneurs. Village Ventures has built a platform, which it offers to other seed and early stage firms, to provide for collaboration, co-investment and administrative cost sharing. This network is a powerful tool to expand village ventures reach and make us more effective partners for village ventures portfolio companies.

Kennet Partners Limited was founded in 1997 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Foster City, California. Kennet Partners Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in growth capital, divestitures, take-private transactions, recapitalizations, leveraged buyout, management buy-out, spinouts, management buy-ins, and acquisition financing. It prefers to invest in the technology, services, and digital media sectors. Within technology, the firm invests in enterprise software, information technology services and solutions, communication technologies, and semiconductor products. It typically invests in companies based in Europe and North America. The firm invests between $10 million and $20 million for growth investments and $20 million and $100 million for buyouts in companies with revenues of between $4 million and $50 million. It seeks to be a lead investor in its portfolio companies. The firm also co-invests with other investment partners.

Altin was founded in 1996 and it includes more than 30 underlying funds representing 10 diverse investment strategies. Altin began disclosing its portfolio holdings in 2009. The somewhat rare move toward transparency was made in the wake of the the global economic crisis, during which many investors withdrew from hedge funds. Altin is a closed-end investment firm that manages hedge funds. It concentrates on holding a stable portfolio that will reward investors with long-term capital appreciation. The funds it holds are drawn from the Asian, North American, and European markets. It operates through its Altin (Cayman) subsidiary in the Cayman Islands and trades on both the Swiss and London (AIM) exchanges.

Founded in 1999, Acorn Angels is an affiliate of business incubator Acorn Campus. Acorn Angels helps promising high-tech entrepreneurs spread their wings and fly. A group of Silicon Valley investors that includes CEOs and venture capitalists, Acorn Angels provides capital and business development support to early-stage companies. The group looks for start-ups with strong leadership and viable intellectual property; it also seeks companies formed around new ideas, or what it refers to as disruptive technologies. Target industries include communications, Internet infrastructure, fiber optics, and wireless communications. Investments have included Alliance Fiber Optic Products and CipherMax.

YFM Private Equity is a subsidiary of small and midsized business investor YFM Group. YFM Private Equity manages venture capital trusts (including the British Smaller Companies sister funds) that invest in a variety of UK businesses. The trusts provide financing for primarily early-stage technology companies but also more established businesses in other industries. YFM Private Equity typically invests up to £8 million and prefers to see business plans and exit strategies from target firms. YFM Private Equity's portfolio includes stakes in facilities manager Connaught, medical communications firm Fishawack, and gaming machine data manager Brulines.

Lightyear Capital and its affiliated investment funds specialize in providing buyout and growth capital to companies across the financial services industry. Founded in 2000, Lightyear Capital has managed approximately $3 billion in committed capital. With its Principals averaging over 25 years of experience across the financial services industry, Lightyear Capital is ideally positioned to respond to the challenges and opportunities of financial services investing. Lightyear Capital has fully invested The Lightyear Fund, L.P. and is currently investing Lightyear Fund II, L.P.

With a heritage dating from the 1960s, PineBridge Investments is an independent multi-product investment adviser with US $83 billion* in assets under management. PineBridge Investments is an investment arm of American International Group, Inc. It specializes in distressed investments. The firm provides a platform for customized portfolio construction and client based servicing. The firm manages a diversified product line of alternative investments including: private equity investments, fund of funds, small to mid-market buyout funds, hedge funds, real estate investment funds and fixed income strategies. The Alternative Investment Group's Private Equity program provides equity and mezzanine financing for private and public companies at different stages of development. PineBridge Investments is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Ontario, Canada; Tokyo, Japan; Tiajin, China; Houston; Texas; and Manila; Philippines.

UBS Financial Services represents the US business of UBS's Wealth Management Americas segment. The broker dealer offers an array of investment products and services to affluent clients with more than $250,000 to invest. Its offerings include banking services, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, insurance, estate planning, philanthropic advice, and access to alternative investments such as hedge funds; it even offers investment services for art lovers. UBS Financial Services company also administers employee stock option plans for corporations. UBS Financial Services has a network of some 8,000 financial advisors across the US serving more than two million customers. It has more than $600 billion of assets under management.

S3 Investment Company, Inc. operates as an investment banking advisory firm that offers U.S. corporate finance and investment banking services to private companies in China. The company specializes in providing alternative public offerings for private Chinese companies through the simultaneous listing on a U.S. or other stock market, and private investment in public equity financing. Its services help client companies to prepare, assist, and manage various stages of the process of a reverse merger into a publicly-traded shell, as well as in capital funding, a progression to a U.S. national market listing, and multiple registered follow-on offerings for additional growth capital.

Sprott Physical Gold Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end mutual fund trust. The Trust was created to invest and hold substantially all of its assets in physical gold bullion. The Trust seeks to provide an exchange-traded investment alternative for investors interested in holding physical gold bullion. The Trust invests primarily in long-term holdings of unencumbered, fully allocated, physical gold bullion and will not speculate with regard to short-term changes in gold prices. Sprott Asset Management LP (the Manager) is the manager and RBC Dexia Investor Services Trust (RBC Dexia), a trust company, is the trustee of the Trust. As of December 31, 2009, the Trust held 97% of its total net assets in physical gold bullion in London Good Delivery bar form. The Trust does not invest in gold certificates or other financial instruments that represent gold or that may be exchanged for gold.

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