AllianceBernstein Holding L.P (AllianceBernstein) is a limited partnership company. AllianceBernstein Company provides research, diversified investment management and related services to a range of clients. It also provides distribution, shareholder servicing and administrative services to its sponsored mutual funds. AllianceBernstein Company offers a range of investment products and services to its clients, which include Institutional Services, Retail Services, Private Client Services and Bernstein Research Services. Its clients include institutional clients, such as unaffiliated corporate and public employee pension funds, endowment funds, domestic and foreign institutions and governments, and various affiliates; retail clients; including United States and offshore mutual funds, variable annuities, insurance products and sub-advisory relationships; private clients, including high-net-worth individuals, trusts and estates, charitable foundations, partnerships, private and family corporations, and other entities.

Heritage Partners wants to help companies keep their affairs all in the family. The investment firm specializes in acquisitions and equity-based recapitalizations of private family-owned businesses. Heritage Partners generally targets establilshed middle-market companies involved in manufacturing, distribution, health care, business services, and consumer goods with annual sales of at least $30 million. Through its trademarked "Private IPO," Heritage Partners makes a substantial equity investment in a company while allowing its owners to further build their business and maintain control. Portfolio companies include OneSource Distributors, REACH Air Medical Services, and manufacturers Centra and Saunders & Associates.

Founded in the 1920s to develop hydroelectric power, Power Corporation of Canada now generates cash, not electricity. Power Corporation of Canada is an investment holding company. As of December 31, 2009, the Company held 66.3% interest in Power Financial Corporation (Power Financial). Power Financial holds interests in the financial services industry, through its controlling interests in Great-West Lifeco Inc. (Lifeco) and IGM Financial Inc. (IGM). Power Financial also holds, together with the Frere group of Belgium, an interest in Pargesa Holding SA (Pargesa). As of December 31, 2009, Pargesa’s portfolio was composed of interests in various sectors, including primarily oil, gas and chemicals through Total S.A. (Total); energy and energy services through GDF Suez; water and waste services through Suez Environnement Company (Suez Environnement); industrial minerals through Imerys S.A. (Imerys); cement and building materials through Lafarge S.A. (Lafarge), and wines and spirits through Pernod Ricard S.A. (Pernod Ricard).

Berkery Noyes & Company was founded in 1980 and is based in New York City. The firm has offices in Newton, San Francisco, and Wiesbaden, Germany. Berkery, Noyes & Co., LLC is a boutique investment-banking firm. The firm focuses on providing merger and acquisition, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, recapitalizing, financing, and valuation advice to companies in information, publishing, and communications industries.

Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated was founded in 1940 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. As of May 10, 2010, Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated was taken private. The company was formerly known as Consolidated Mercantile Corporation and changed its name to Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated in October 1998. Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated does not have significant operations. Previously, the company involved in the manufacture and import of leather and fabric upholstered furniture; and manufacture and distribution of protective packaging products primarily in the United States.

Woodstock Financial Group offers up financial advice, but just don't expect to hear about hippie stock picks. Woodstock Financial Group, Inc., formerly Raike Financial Group, brokers support services for brokers. Founded in 1995, the company provides licensing, clearing, IT support, education, and various administrative services to a network of independent financial planners, insurance agents, and traditional and discount securities brokers. Woodstock handles a range of investment products, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, and life insurance. Online trading is offered through its Woodstock Discount Brokerage division. Founder and CEO William Raike owns about 80% of the company.

Skandia Forsakrings was founded in 1855 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. As of February 2006, Skandia Insurance Company, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Old Mutual plc. Skandia Insurance Company, Ltd. provides long-term savings products worldwide. Its product portfolio comprise unit linked assurance products, mutual funds, and traditional life assurance products, as well as provides online retail banking services. The company also sells protection and critical illness products that comprise healthcare and group insurance policies.

Criteria CaixaCorp is an investment group with holdings in financial and industrial companies. The company's core shareholder is "la Caixa"; it has been listed on the continuous market of the Spanish stock exchange since October 2007. Criteria has a firm commitment to international growth, active management of its portfolio within a framework of controlled risk, and boosting the growth, development and returns of the companies it invests in.The company is now a consolidated business reality and has set its sights on becoming a European benchmark for investment and development in companies which are leaders in their respective markets with proven capacity to create value and recurrent profitability. Criteria has a significant knowledge of the sectors in which it operates, a proven track record that affords a privileged position as an investment company, and experienced management teams. This is a goal towards which Criteria works day in day out and for which it is constantly identifying, analysing, studying and assessing new business and investment opportunities.

Financial Engines, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Financial Engines, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide independent, technology-enabled portfolio management services, investment advice, and retirement help to participants in employer-sponsored defined contribution plans, such as 401(k) plans. The company helps investors plan for retirement by offering personalized plans for saving and investing, as well as by providing assessments of retirement income needs and readiness. Its services include Professional Management, a discretionary managed account service designed for plan participants who want personalized and professional portfolio management services, investment advice, and retirement help from an independent investment advisor; Online Advice, a nondiscretionary Internet-based service that offers personalized advice to plan participants who wish to take an active role in personally managing their retirement portfolios; and Retirement Evaluation, a retirement readiness assessment provided to plan participants upon plan rollout.

General Finance Corporation was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California. General Finance Corporation (GFN) has two operating subsidiaries, Royal Wolf and Pac-Van, that leases and sells storage container products, modular buildings and mobile offices through 18 customer service centers (CSCs) in Australia, six CSCs in New Zealand and 26 branch locations across 18 states in the United States. As of June 30, 2009, the Company had 28,227 and 11,347 lease fleet units in the Asia-Pacific area and United States, respectively. The Company does business in two distinct, but related industries; modular space and mobile storage. Pac-Van leases and sells modular space products. In October 2008, the Company acquired Pac-Van, Inc., through a merger of Mobile Office Acquisition Corp., the parent company of Pac-Van, and GFN's wholly owned subsidiary GFN North America Corp.

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