Scotia Waterous (formerly Waterous & Co.) provides investment banking services to companies in the energy industry. The firm offers support for mergers & acquisitions and divestitures, private placements, and other corporate finance services. In 2005, The Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) acquired Waterous, combining Scotiabank's Scotia Capital division with the global financial counseling business of Waterous. Scotia Waterous owns and operates facilities in Canada, Latin America, Singapore, the UK, and the US. Scotia Waterous company maintains offices in Calgary, Houston, Denver, London, Latin America, Singapore, and Beijing.

Evergreen Investment Management was founded in 1932 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Malvern, Pennsylvania; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Richmond, Virginia. Evergreen Investment Management Co., LLC is an asset management arm of Wachovia Bank, NA. The firm provides its services to investment companies; corporations; pension and profit sharing plans; state and municipal government entities; individuals, including high net worth individuals; banking and thrift institutions; pooled investment vehicles; and charitable organizations. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages a family of mutual funds, hedge funds, and variable annuities for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in the alternative investments markets, typically limiting such investments to private equity, private real estate, commodities markets, and managed futures. For its equity investments, it typically invests in growth and value stocks of all-cap companies, including small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. For its small/mid cap growth portfolio, the firm makes investments in companies with market capitalizations below $6 billion. It benchmarks the performance of its enhanced index portfolio against the S&P 500 index.

NGP Capital Resources Company was founded in 2004 and is based at Houston, Texas. It is a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management. NGP Capital Resources Company is a financial services company, which invests in debt securities of small and mid-size private energy companies. It is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company (BDC). A focus area for its investments in the energy industry is domestic upstream businesses that produces, develops, acquires and explores for oil and natural gas (E&P) companies. The Company’s investments range in size from $10 million to $50 million. Its investments consist of debt instruments, including senior and subordinated loans combined in one facility, sometimes with an equity or property-based participation right component, and subordinated loans, sometimes with equity components. The Company also invests in preferred stock and other equity securities on a stand-alone basis.

Hotbed works to match investors with alternative investments such as private equity, commercial property, and hedge funds. And it doesn't stop there. Once it has matched an investor with potential business opportunity, it monitors the progress of the relationship, offers financial counseling, and also guides the member companies' strategy. For companies seeking cash, Hotbed works with companies needing between £1 million to £7.5 million. It has assisted such UK companies as care homes group Mimosa Healthcare, medical technology manufacturer Sphere Medical, and shopping center Downham Market.

American Century Companies, Inc. was founded in 1958 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri. American Century Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides investment advisory, management, and administrative services for American Century mutual funds. It administers fixed income, value, quantitative, U.S growth, and international growth funds. The company's brokerage services offer investors access to mutual funds from other firms. American Century Companies, Inc. was formerly known as Twentieth Century Companies, Inc.

Renaissance Technologies was founded by Jim Simons, a former math professor at MIT and Harvard who, despite his relative anonymity and avoidance of the spotlight, ranks among the world's highest-paid hedge fund managers. After three decades at the helm of Renaissance, Simmons retired in 2010 and took on a new role as non-executive chairman. Complex mathematical theories and statistical methods are reborn as investment strategies at Renaissance Technologies. The quantitative hedge fund, which has more than $15 billion in assets under management in three funds, utilizes computer technical models to exploit mispricings in financial markets.

Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation provides agricultural real estate and rural housing mortgage loans in the secondary market in the United States. Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation engages in purchasing eligible loans directly from lenders; providing advances against eligible loans by purchasing obligations secured by those loans; securitizing assets and guaranteeing securities representing interests in pools of eligible loans; and issuing long-term standby purchase commitments for eligible loans. Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation also purchases portfolios of newly originated and seasoned loans, mortgage loans secured by first liens on agricultural real estate, fixed- and adjustable rate loans, and loans to finance electrification and telecommunications systems in rural areas. Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation was founded in 1987 and is based in Washington, D.C.

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.

NVM Private Equity Limited is an independently-owned firm of venture capital managers with over 20 years experience of investing in UK businesses. We manage five investment funds, four of which are Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and our funds under management exceed £186 million. NVM is a generalist investor specialising in making equity investments between £2 million and £10 million in UK unquoted companies. Established in 1988, NVM is owned by its employees following a management buy-out from the Aberdeen Group in December 2003.

Battery Management, which was founded in 1983, manages more than $3 billion in committed capital; notable past investments include Akamai Technologies, Allegiance Telecom, Focal Communications, and Chordiant Software. Battery Management gives emerging technology companies the juice they need to keep running. A venture capital firm specializing in such high-tech fields as communications, software, and e-commerce, the company has invested in more than 200 businesses around the world. It invests as little as several hundred thousand dollars to seed small ventures on up to $100 million for late-stage expansion; it also takes equity stakes in companies through its private equity operations.

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