Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (Virtus) is a provider of investment management products and services to individuals and institutions. It operates a multi-manager investment management business, comprised of affiliated managers, each having its own distinct investment style, autonomous investment process and brand. Virtus provide the products in a number of forms and through multiple distribution channels. The retail products include open-end mutual funds, closed-end funds and separately managed accounts. The fund family of open-end funds is distributed primarily through intermediaries. Retail separately managed accounts are comprised of intermediary programs, sponsored and distributed by unaffiliated brokerage firms, and private client accounts, which are offerings to the high net-worth clients of the affiliated managers. The Company also manages institutional accounts for corporations, multi-employer retirement funds and foundations, endowments and special purpose funds.

Wingate Partners gets by on more than a wing and a prayer, rescuing lackluster manufacturing, distribution, and service businesses. The investment firm, founded in 1987, seeks long-term controlling stakes in US-based companies that are underperforming or are in transitional or out-of-favor industries. Targets typically have revenues of $50 million to $250 million and may or may not be profitable at the time of purchase. Wingate often invests between $25 million to $100 million per transaction and avoids financial services, media, high-tech, real estate, and certain other businesses. It typically invests in one or two companies a year.

Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management LLC was founded in May 1984 and is based in San Diego, California, with additional offices in New York, New York, and London, United Kingdom. It operates as a subsidiary of Allianz Global Investors of America LP. Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides advisory services to its clients. It caters to individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, union, foundations, endowments, and foreign entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, emerging, and alternative markets across the globe. It invests in growth and value stocks of ultra micro-cap, micro-cap, small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm invests in U.S. convertibles to make its alternative investments. It employs a combination of a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios.

Davidson Companies offers investment banking, asset management, and travel services through five subsidiaries. Davidson Companies flagship firm, D.A. Davidson & Co., was founded in 1935 and offers investment banking services such as merger and acquisition advisory, capital raising, institutional sales and trading, and fundamental research. Davidson Companies provides brokerage, trust, wealth management, and financial planning services for private clients through Davidson Trust Co. and Davidson Investment Advisors. Davidson Travel is a full-service travel agency. Davidson Companies has more than 50 offices in some 15 states, though it is mainly active in the Northwest.

Pond Venture Partners, known for its hands-on management style, was founded by chairman Charles Irving (based in Europe) and CEO Richard Irving (based in California). Pond Venture Partners invests in high-tech companies from both sides of the pond. The venture capital firm targets early-stage communications infrastructure companies based in Europe, including the UK. Pond Venture Partners is focused on funding startups developing networking hardware and software, optical components, and wireless products. Its portfolio includes chip technology manufacturer picoChip, digital content management products supplier SealedMedia, and software integrator Transitive Corporation.

Wheeler/Frost Associates is more than happy to roll out all sorts of investment advice. Wheeler/Frost Associates provides a variety of investment planning and management service. Wheeler/Frost Associates' offerings include portfolio management (including active and passive investment strategies), retirement planning, equity compensation consulting, and charitable giving optimization.

Franklin Resources, Inc. (Franklin) is an investment management company. The Company is a holding company that, together with its various subsidiaries (collectively, the Company), is referred to as Franklin Templeton Investments, a global investment management organization offering investment choices under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series, Bissett, Fiduciary and Darby brand names. In its primary business and operating segment, investment management and related services, it provides services to investment funds and institutional, high net-worth and separately managed accounts (collectively, its sponsored investment products) in the United States and internationally. In its secondary business and operating segment, banking/finance, it provides clients with select retail banking, private banking and consumer lending services through its bank subsidiaries.

President Joseph Shocken founded Broadmark Capital in 1987; since then the company has advised or invested in more than 150 deals worth some $1 billion. Broadmark Capital makes a big deal out of the little guy. The merchant bank provides financing and advisory services, including private placements of stock and mergers & acquisitions guidance, to emerging companies in the US and Europe. It also makes direct investments in firms. The company's typical deal ranges from $500,000 to more than $60 million. Targeted industries include life sciences and health care, technology, financial services, and communications.

AXA Rosenberg Group LLC is the specialist active global equity investment management firm within the AXA Investment Managers group. As of March 2010, the firm manages more than $62 billion in assets globally. The firm was founded in Orinda, California, in 1985 as Rosenberg Institutional Equity Management by Dr. Barr Rosenberg and a small team of colleagues who were confident that investment insights could be gained by combining statistical methods with detailed knowledge of company fundamentals. Quickly expanding globally, the firm opened offices in Tokyo, London and Singapore in the years that followed. The original Rosenberg group joined with AXA Investment Managers in 1999, becoming AXA Rosenberg. The company has continued to expand its presence in major financial markets globally and now has offices in Hong Kong, Toronto, Greenwich, and Sydney. AXA Rosenberg is a fundamental manager devoted to the rigorous, dispassionate analysis of data. The cornerstone of our investment philosophy is simple: investors can profit by purchasing stocks that have a distinct earnings advantage relative to their peers.

In-Q-Tel, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. In-Q-Tel, Inc. is a non-profit private equity and venture capital firm specializing in start-ups, early venture, mid venture, late-stage investments. The firm also provides bridge financing. It seeks to invest in research and development programs, emerging and established companies, universities and research labs. The firm makes investments in application software and analytics including software applications for enterprise, departmental, and individual users; software-based analytics to automate and support human analysis; tools to exploit text, multimedia, and geospatial-based data in native language and format; knowledge management and collaboration; search; categorization and publishing; application integration; visualization; translation; geospatial design; and simulation and modeling. Within bio, nano, and chemical technologies, it seeks to invest in the extraction and characterization of trace materials from the environment, the characterization of unknown bulk materials, the on-site determination of individual human traits for IC purposes, point-of-care medical technologies outside of a laboratory or clinical environment, tracking and/or authentication of both individuals and objects, and the enablement of new IC capabilities from advances in material science.

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