Terry McDaniel & Company provides tailored investment counseling and portfolio management services for individuals, charitable foundations, and employee benefit plans. The investment advisory firm, which was founded in 1985, has more than $400 million in assets under management. Terry McDaniel & Company focuses on equity investing, but also invests in some fixed-income securities. It concentrates on companies that offer essential products and services, and it invests in them long term.

Founded in 1974, the firm has more than $400 million under management. Affiliate Walden Israel invests in high tech ventures in that country. WaldenVC is not dreaming of a world in harmony with nature, but a world in harmony with technology. The venture capital firm focuses primarily on digital media companies, as well as software and information services concerns. WaldenVC typically invests $5 million to $10 million, and does not limit its involvement to any particular stage of a company's development. Current and past investments include BlueLithium (online advertising), Terayon, and Savage Beast (digital music).

Ares Capital Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia. Ares Capital Corporation (Ares Capital) is a specialty finance company, which is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. Ares Capital's investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. It invests in United States middle-market companies. It invests primarily in first and second lien senior loans and mezzanine debt, which in some cases includes an equity component like warrants. First and second lien senior loans generally are senior debt instruments that rank ahead of subordinated debt of a given portfolio company. Its investments have ranged between $10 million and $100 million each, although the investment sizes may be more or less than the targeted range. The Company’s investment adviser is Ares Capital Management LLC. In April 2010, Ares Capital Corporation completed its merger with Allied Capital Corporation.

World Acceptance Corporation engages in small-loan consumer finance business. It offers short-term small loans, medium-term larger loans, related credit insurance, and ancillary products and services, as well as loans standardized by amount and maturity. World Acceptance Corporation also offers income tax return preparation services and access to refund anticipation loans. In addition, World Acceptance Corporation markets and sells credit life, credit accident and health, credit property, and unemployment insurance products; markets automobile club memberships to its borrowers; and reinsures credit insurance. Further, World Acceptance Corporation, through its subsidiary, ParaData Financial Systems, provides data processing systems; and markets computer software and related services to financial services companies. World Acceptance Corporation serves individuals with limited access to consumer credit from banks, savings and loans, other consumer finance businesses, and credit card lenders. As of March 31, 2009, the company has 944 offices in South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mexico. World Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina.

Scotia Capital was founded in 1999. Scotia Capital Inc. provides investment banking services to communications, media, technology, consumer products, real estate, forest products, infrastructure, industrial products, power, mining, and oil and gas sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placement, negotiation assistance, due diligence, and restructuring services. Additionally, it provides research, equity sales and trading, foreign exchange management, merchant banking, short-term funding, investment research, and structured leasing services.

Borsa Italiana S.p.A. was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy. As of October 1, 2007, Borsa Italiana S.p.A. is a subsidiary of London Stock Exchange plc. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. regulates, develops, and manages the Italian equities markets, the Italian Derivatives market, the Securitised Derivatives market, the electronic Fixed Income market, the electronic ETFs and ETCs market, and the Electronic Market where closed-end funds are traded. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. company also operates an after hours market where financial instruments are traded after the close of the daily market. It offers listing, post trading and custody, information, training, and information technologies services.

Cavendish Corporate Finance LLP was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Cavendish Corporate Finance Limited (CCFL) provides financial advisory services to private companies, public enterprises, and financial institutions. The firm offers mergers and acquisition, valuation, deal negotiation and structuring, and due diligence advisory services. Additionally, it provides assistance in buyer identification, risk assessment, operational planning, and benchmarking services. The firm caters to construction, consumer and retail, leisure, healthcare, paper and packaging, and telecommunications and media industries. Its clientele includes GET Group plc, YORK Novenco, Hale Hamilton, U-POL Products Limited, JJ Barker Ltd, and Canterbury Foods Group plc.

Capital Institutional Services, Inc. (CAPIS) was founded in 1977 to provide a different – and better – way of delivering trade and research services to institutional investors. Our idea was to offer exceptional trade execution while providing access to independent, third-party research. The institutional brokerage firm provides agency-only trading and independent investment research to fund managers, broker-dealers, and plan sponsors Capital Institutional Services, Inc. provides trading in exchange- and OTC-listed securities, offering block, international, direct access, and electronic trading. Capital Institutional Services, Inc. also handles fixed income trades and provides a number of research products. Don Potts founded CAPIS in 1977.

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.

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.

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