Pzena Investment Management, Inc., incorporated on May 8, 2007, operates its business through Pzena Investment Management, LLC. Pzena Investment Management, LLC is an investment management company. As of December 31, 2009, it managed assets in 13 investment strategies across a range of market capitalizations in both United States and non-United States capital markets. The Company constructs concentrated portfolios selected through a fundamental research process similar to the approach of a private equity investor. Its assets under management (AUM) were $14.3 billion at December 31, 2009. It managed money on behalf of institutions and high-net-worth individuals and acted as sub-investment adviser to a range of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-registered mutual funds and offshore funds.

Duke Street is a private equity firm specializing in acquisition, leveraged buyouts and buyins of established middle market companies, consolidation, turnaround, public to private transition, parent company distress, and buy and build investments. It does not invest in start-ups and early-stage companies. The firm prefers to invest in chemical; distribution; corporate services; business services and outsourcing; retail and consumer; food; industrial; healthcare; leisure; Biotechnology, Medical, Chemistry, New materials, and financial services. Within the business services and outsourcing sector, it focuses on public and private sector facilities management; white-collar engineering consultancy, particularly environmental; testing; outsourcing, particularly third party administration; waste management and recycling; and printing and packaging companies with strong intellectual property and significant service element. In the retail and consumer sector, the firm focuses on specialty retailers, chilled food manufacturers, and niche branded FMCG companies. Within the healthcare sector, it focuses on specialized healthcare service providers, producers of pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment manufacturers. In the leisure sector the firm focuses on health and fitness and sports companies, gaming, Continental European hotel groups, and niche tourism related companies.

ETCapital Limited was set up in 1992 as an investor in high growth businesses based in southern England. Since 1998, ETCapital has invested QTP, a specialist zero-stage technology fund, focused on the globally significant cluster of science based businesses around Cambridge, Oxford and London. prior to that it managed what is now the HSBC UK Enterprise Fund for East Anglia & the Home Counties investing in early stage businesses, both technology and non-technology, based in East Anglia and the northern Home Counties. In 2004, ET Capital took on the management of the residual investments of Cambridge Research & Innovation Limited, an early-stage technology fund also investing in the Cambridge cluster.

MCG Capital Corporation is a solutions-focused commercial finance company that provides capital and advisory services to middle-market companies throughout the United States. The Company is an internally managed, non-diversified, closed-end investment company. It conducts some of its activities through wholly owned, special-purpose financing subsidiaries. Its investment portfolio is composed primarily of middle-market companies in which it has made up to $75 million of debt and equity investments. Typically, these middle-market companies have $20 million to $200 million in annual revenue. As of December 31, 2009, it had debt and equity investments in 59 portfolio companies. Its diversified investment portfolio spans 30 industries. Approximately 40% of its portfolio is composed of investments in industries that consist less than 5% of its portfolio.

Aker ASA is a Norway-based industrial investment company engaged in active ownership. Its interests are concentrated on the areas of energy, environment, fisheries and marine biotechnology, and finance. The Company organizes its business activities in three sectors. The Industrial Holdings sector comprises ownership interests in Aker Solutions, Aker Drilling, Det norske oljeselskap, Aker Clean Carbon, and Aker BioMarine. The Financial Holdings sector comprises Aker Asset Management, which manages the hedge fund AAM Absolute Return Fund, and Converto Capital Management, an investment advisor to Converto Capital Fund. Converto Capital Fund holds interests in Aker Seafoods (65.9%), Aker Floating Production (76.2%), Aker Philadelphia Shipyard (50.3%), Bjorge (indirect 39.9%), and American Shipping Company (19.9%). Converto Capital Fund also controls 100% of Ocean Harvest. The Treasury sector manages Aker’s financial instruments: interest-bearing receivables, cash, and cash equivalents.

Monitor Clipper Partners, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Monitor Clipper Partners, Inc. is the private equity arm of the Monitor Group specializing in management buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth equity investments in middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the North America and Western Europe. It typically makes equity investments between $20 million and $100 million per transaction and can also make smaller or larger investments. The firm seeks to make control or minority investments.

RiskMetrics Group, Inc. provides risk management and corporate governance products and services to participants in the global financial markets. It operates in two segments, RiskMetrics and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The RiskMetrics segment provides multi-asset, position-based risk, and wealth management products and services. Its RiskManager mark-to-market risk system integrates consistently-modeled market data with analytical models and processing capabilities to address its clients’ risk reporting requirements. This segment’s clients license RiskManager as a secure, interactive Web-based application service or as an outsourced risk reporting service. It provides clients with solutions based on credit-event risk through its CreditManager application, as well as solutions for financial advisors at private banks through its WealthBench application. The ISS segment provides corporate governance and specialized financial research and analysis services to institutional investors and corporations. It offers an outsourced proxy research, voting, and vote reporting service to assist clients with their proxy voting responsibilities.

MarketAxess Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates an electronic trading platform that allows investment industry professionals to trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. multi-dealer trading platform allows its institutional investor clients to request executable bids or offers from its broker-dealer clients and execute trades with the broker-dealer of their choice. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. offers its broker-dealer clients a solution that enables them to reach its institutional investor clients for the distribution and trading of bonds. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. also provides its clients the ability to trade the United States high-grade corporate bonds, European high-grade corporate bonds, and emerging markets bonds, as well as crossover and high-yield bonds, agency bonds, and credit default swaps. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. DealerAxess trading service enables dealers to trade fixed-income securities and credit default swaps with each other on its platform. In addition, MarketAxess Holdings Inc. provides Corporate BondTicker, an information services product, which offers fixed-income market data, analytics, and compliance tools that help clients in making trading decisions; and Financial Information eXchange message management tools, connectivity solutions, and ancillary technology services that facilitate the electronic communication of order information between trading counterparties. Further, it offers Application Programming Interface services to broker-dealer clients for pre-trade, trade negotiation, and post-trade services for straight-through processing. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. serves institutional investor clients, including investment advisers, mutual funds, insurance companies, public and private pension funds, bank portfolios, broker-dealers, and hedge funds, as well as broker-dealers in fixed-income trading. MarketAxess Holdings was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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.

Quilter & Co. Limited company, which is part of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, provides investment management services to private clients, trusts, and charities. Quilter has nearly $6 billion ($10 billion) in assets under management and operates through 10 offices in the UK, Channel Islands, and Ireland. Its offerings include discretionary accounts and managed portfolios with a variety of investment strategies, as well as Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs), Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), and Personal Equity Plans (PEPs). Citigroup bought the company from Morgan Stanley in 2007. However, the two firms merged their wealth management units two years later.

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