The Perishable Specialist, Inc. (P.S.I.) serves as a licensed customs broker, helping its clients cut through the maze of red tape strung up by such agencies as the US Customs Service, the Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration. Services offered by P.S.I. include US customs clearance, duty drawback, binding rulings, USDA/PPQ inspection, FDA filing, fumigation, and transportation arrangement. It also provides import consultation, protest of customs challenges, and petitions and mitigations to protect against customs penalties and liquidated damages claims. The Perishable Specialist company is owned by the Ramos family.

A pension plan has existed for Ontario teachers since 1917. Today, the plan’s members include 175,000 teachers in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, 114,000 pensioners, and 69,000 inactive members. The plan has one of Canada’s largest payrolls with $4.4 billion in benefits paid to plan members, and $2.7 billion received in total contributions from teachers, the provincial government and designated employers in 2009.Before 1990, the plan was administered by the Ontario government and restricted to investing in non-marketable Province of Ontario debentures. In 1990, the government established the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board as a corporation overseen by a nine-member board.With $96.4 billion in net assets at December 31, 2009, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’) is the largest single-profession pension plan in Canada. An independent organization, it invests the pension fund’s assets and administers the pensions of 289,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario.

Unified Financial Services, Inc., a holding company, provides financial products and services in the United States. It offers back-office and shareholder services for the assets of third-party mutual fund families, as well as its affiliated series funds, including mutual fund distribution services. In addition, the fund manages and administers 401(k) and other ERISA-directed assets, and wealth for individuals through portfolio management and a suite of family-office services. As of December 31, 2003, it provided mutual fund services, transfer agency, fund accounting, administration, and distribution services to 31 mutual fund families consisting of 176 portfolios. As of the above date, the fund provided trust and retirement services to approximately 1,800 clients. Unified Financial was organized in 1989 as Unified Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Unified Financial Services, Inc. in 1997. The fund is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky.

Founded by Paul Singer in 1977, Elliott Associates is one of the oldest hedge funds under continuous management. Elliott means action: Hedge fund firm Elliott Management takes an activist approach to investing, frequently amassing significant but minority stakes in distressed or underperforming companies and attempting to foment change. Elliott Management Corporation company manages hedge funds Elliott Associates and Elliott International, which together manage more than $16 billion of capital for large institutional investors and wealthy individuals. Elliott Associates invests in corporate, real estate, and sovereign debt (most famously with its 1995 $20 million investment in Peru), with investments in North America, Asia, and Europe.

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.

PSG Solutions Plc company owns stakes in real estate, manufacturing, and technology companies. Its primary holding is PSG Franchising, which (through some 80 franchised offices) provides private searches and reports for residential properties throughout England and Wales. It also owns Audiotel International, which makes surveillance equipment, and specialist packaging company Moore & Buckle. PSG Franchising cut workers and closed offices when the UK's Home Information Packs (HIPs) system was abolished in 2010; it was among the nation's leading providers of HIPs. Investment company Southwind controls the company and has offered to buy it outright.

Lightspeed Venture Partners was founded in 1971 is based in Menlo Park, California. Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and expansion stage investments. The firm structures and participates in equity and debt financing for start-up and growth companies and also provides incubation services. In China, the firm seeks to invest in early stage and late stages businesses. It prefers to make investments in mobile, social media, commerce, gaming, consumer web services, datacenter infrastructure, enterprise automation, digital media and consumer electronics, communications infrastructure technologies, networking, wireless, internet media & commerce, internet and e-commerce, semiconductors, cleantech, and other services. In India, the firm seeks to invest in advertising & media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail. It primarily invests in the United States, Israel, China, and India. The firm seeks to makes investments not exceeding $20 million. The firm invests between $10 million to $25 million in growth stages in India. It invests between $2 million to $10 million in early stages in India.

Thrivent Investment Management nonetheless has significance to Lutherans. The company is the securities brokerage and financial advisory subsidiary of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, which provides financial and insurance products and services to nearly 3 million members. Thrivent Investment Management offers full and discount brokerage services, mutual funds, and education funding products such as 529 plans. Customers can work with a financial adviser or manage their accounts and place trades by phone or online.

New Enterprise Associates was founded in 1978 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices across United States, India, and China. New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in venture growth equity at all points of developments with a 60 percent focus on seed and start-up stage through IPO. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology sector with a focus on consumer internet, consumer mobile, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise services, communications, software and services, and electronics industries; healthcare sector with a focus on biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, healthcare services, and healthcare information technology industries; and energy technology. It invests across the world with a focus on United States, China, and India. The firm initially invests between $200,000 and $40 million in a company and typically sponsors subsequent finance rounds.

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.

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