Newton Investment Management Limited was founded in 1978 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Leeds, United Kingdom and Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Newton Investment Management Limited operates as a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Newton Investment Management Limited (NIM) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to pension funds, charities, institutions, corporations, and private individuals. The firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios for its clients. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe. It typically invests in growth stocks of small-cap companies employing a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments. The firm also makes socially responsible investments. It benchmarks the performance of its index against the FTSE and MSCI indices.

Abraxus Investments plc company seeks to invest in renewable energy, namely wind farms, primarily in Central and Eastern Europe where it sees strong development opportunities. Abraxus was formerly focused on commercial real estate in the same regions, but changed course in mid-2009 as property markets around the world turned sour. That year, the company set up a subsidiary in Romania to locate and develop investment opportunities. Abraxus has been in a bit of corporate limbo as it seeks to find its niche. In 2005, dissident shareholders attempted to oust Abraxus five board members, citing the company's poor performance. The coup was later overturned.

Dowgate Capital plc, through its subsidiaries, provides financial advisory and stock broking services to the smaller companies in the United Kingdom. Dowgate Capital company’s services include corporate finance adviser, nominated adviser, PLUS Markets corporate adviser, official list sponsor, takeover code specialist, and corporate finance adviser to smaller quoted companies. Dowgate Capital also provides private client and corporate broking services.

The Blackstone Group, L.P. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York. The Blackstone Group L.P. (Blackstone) is a manager of private capital and provider of financial advisory services. The Company is an independent manager of private capital with assets under management of $98.2 billion, as of December 31, 2009. Blackstone provides a range of financial advisory services, including corporate and mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and reorganization and fund placement services. The Company operates in four segments: Private Equity, Real Estate, Credit and Marketable Alternatives, which consists of its management of funds of hedge funds, credit-oriented funds and separately managed accounts, CLOs and publicly-traded closed-end mutual funds, and Financial Advisory, which consists of its corporate and mergers and acquisitions advisory services, restructuring and reorganization advisory services and Park Hill Group, which provides fund placement services for alternative investment funds.

The Clearing Corporation (TCC) has no problem coming between buyers and sellers of over-the-counter traded derivatives (such as futures and options). As trades are continuously matched throughout the day, TCC substitutes itself as buyer and seller for the trade and thus guarantees the performance of every trade it accepts. The independent clearinghouse serves major dealers and participants in the worldwide derivatives market, most of which are stockholders. The company was formed in 1925 as The Board of Trade Clearing Corporation and became the first independent clearinghouse for futures markets in the US. TCC was bought by the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in 2009.

JMP Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment banking, asset management, and corporate credit management company in the United States. JMP Group Inc. provides various investment banking products and services, such as capital raising, mergers and acquisitions transaction, and other strategic advisory services to corporate clients. JMP Group Inc. also offers sales and trading, and related brokerage services to institutional investors; and proprietary equity research in six industries, including business services, consumer, financial services, healthcare, real estate, and technology industries. In addition, JMP Group Inc. provides asset management products and services to institutional investors, high net-worth individuals; and involves in the management of collateralized loan obligations. JMP Group Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia.

Government of Singapore Investment Corporation was founded in 1981 and is based in Singapore with additional offices in South Korea, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, and China. Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Pte Ltd. (GIC) is a sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Singapore. The firm manages foreign exchange reserves of the Government of Singapore. It invests in the public and private equity, real estate, fixed income, and alternative markets including foreign exchange, commodity, and money markets across the globe. The firm invests through its subsidiaries GIC Asset Management Pte Ltd., GIC Real Estate Pte Ltd., and GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd.

Gluskin Sheff + Associates was founded in 1984 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm also provides wealth management services. It provides its services to high net worth investors, including entrepreneurs, professionals, family trusts, private charitable foundations, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations , corporations, and estates. The firm also manages accounts for institutions. It manages equity and balanced portfolios and mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe. It also invests in fixed income and alternative markets. The firm primarily invests in value, income, and growth stocks employing a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock approach. It also invests in income trusts, hedge funds, and fixed income.

Austin Ventures has corralled themselves a heapin' helpin' of a whole different breed -- the nerd herd. The venture capital firm offers funding mainly to software, computer hardware, semiconductor, communications, and business services startups. Focused on investment opportunities in the Southwest (and still with a heavy Texas concentration despite looking outward), Austin Ventures typically invests from $100,000 to $20 million per transaction, usually holds its investments long-term, and almost always takes a seat on the acquired firm's board. Austin Ventures also assists clients in hiring management, setting up compensation plans, and going public.

Founded in 1982 as a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley, the firm became independent in 1998. It has completed more than 80 transactions in its history; its current portfolio consists of about 10 firms. Mason Wells focuses its buyout efforts on middle-market firms in the Midwest that are involved in engineered products, specialty paper and packaging, and outsourced business services. Target companies typically have annual revenues ranging from $25 million to $250 million. Mason Wells prefers to be the lead investor and majority shareholder in its portfolio companies; it usually holds onto investments for four to seven years.

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