First Savings Financial Group, Inc. (First Savings Financial Group) is a holding company for First Savings Bank, F.S.B. (the Bank). The Bank operates as a community-oriented financial institution offering traditional financial services to consumers and businesses in its primary market area. The Bank attracts deposits from the general public and uses those funds to originate residential mortgage loans, commercial mortgage loans and commercial business loans. The Bank also originates residential and commercial construction loans, multi-family loans, land and land development loans, and consumer loans. The Bank conducts its lending and deposit activities primarily with individuals and small businesses in its primary market area. On September 30, 2009, the Bank acquired Community First Bank (Community First).

Founded in 1981 as Citicorp's European private equity arm, CVC carried out its own buyout in 1993 and is now owned by its management. It has about 20 offices around the world. CVC Capital Partners is in the business of making other businesses its business. The private equity investor specializes in buyouts of firms in the UK, the US, Western Europe, Asia, and Australia. Its portfolio of more than 50 companies consists mainly of retail, manufacturing, and service firms. Holdings include UK department store chain Debenhams, US-based luggage maker Samsonite, and Japan-based restaurant chain operator Skylark. It acquired a 47.5% stake in Pilot Travel Centers (now Pilot Flying J) in 2008.

RBS Card Services (formerly RBS National Bank) is the credit card unit of Citizens Financial Group, the US banking arm of UK-based financial services giant Royal Bank of Scotland Group. RBS Card Services offers MasterCard Platinum credit card products to consumers and businesses through Citizens Bank and Charter One Bank branches, as well as via direct marketing and the Internet. The cards offer supplemental benefits such as auto rental insurance, emergency roadside assistance, and other related purchase protection products. RBS Card Services also sells payment insurance.

Banca Intermobiliare di Investimenti e Gestioni S.p.A. was founded in 1981 and is based in Turin, Italy. Banca Intermobiliare di Investimenti e Gestioni S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, provides various private banking services in Italy and internationally. It offers a range of asset management services, including discretionary accounts, mutual funds, and SICAVs, as well as alternative investment funds or hedge funds. The company also engages in the trading of Italian and foreign securities, derivatives, and currencies; and securities placing through mandates or participation in underwriting and/or placing syndicates. In addition, Banca Intermobiliare provides personal financial advisory services that offer clients with constant updates on the correspondence of their investment goals and asset allocation; and insurance brokerage services. Further, the company involves in the restructuring of groups, placing assets in management holdings/funds, intellectual property management, and the conveyance and protection of assets through instruments, such as trusts. Its lending services comprise lines of credit for stock market transactions or to provide flexible liquidity; mortgage loans for real-estate investments; loans related to the structuring of corporate debt or aimed at facilitating generational transition; and performance bonds, as well as project financing and syndicated loans.

Teacher Retirement System of Texas was founded in 1937 and is based in Austin, Texas. Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a retirement plan sponsor. The firm provides retirement and related benefits for those employed by the public schools, colleges, and universities supported by the State of Texas. It also provides a health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm makes its investments in the public equity markets across the globe and in the public fixed income and alternative markets of the United States. It also invests in exchange trade funds, closed-ended funds, REITs, and private placement equity-linked notes. The firm invests in stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies with a minimum market capitalization of $50 million. Through its equity portfolio, it also invests in preferred stocks, convertible bonds, rights, warrants, units, and depository receipts that trade publicly pursuant to Rule 144A of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It employs a mix of active and passive strategies to create its equity portfolio mix. The firm benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolios against the MSCI AC World Index, Russell 1000 Growth Index, Russell 1000 Value Index, Russell 2000 Index, MSCI EAFE Index, and MSCI EM Index.

Sprout Group is a venture capital and private equity investment firm focused on emerging technology companies from startups to management buyouts. The firm seeks to invest in sectors in healthcare technology (biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, laboratory infrastructure and technology, other healthcare investments), communications (components, equipment & software, service providers), and software (applications, infrastructure, electronic design automation). The firm frequently serves as the lead investor in its portfolio companies and serves on its company's Board of Directors. The Sprout Group is a venture capital affiliate of Credit Suisse First Boston. Sprout Group is no longer making new investments, but works actively with associated funds; New Leaf Ventures, which invests in Healthcare Technology, and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, which focuses on a broad range of equity investment opportunities.

Detwiler, Mitchell & Co. performs brokerage, wealth management, and equities research services through various subsidiaries. Subsidiary Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton & Graves handles institutional research (specializing in the communications, manufacturing, software, and semiconductor industries), as well as wealth management and brokerage services for high-net-worth individuals. Detwiler Fenton & Co. DMC Financial Services division, including its James Mitchell & Co. subsidiary, provides insurance, annuities, retirement products, and mutual funds. Messrs. Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton, and Graves own a majority of the company.

Matrix Asset Management was formed in early 2010 to group the assets of Matrix, SEAMARK, and GrowthWorks under one umbrella. The combined companies operate offices across Canada and manage about $3 billion in assets. Matrix Asset Management strives to be the investment point-of-origin for its clients. Part mutual fund manager, part private equity firm, Matrix Asset Management is the holding company for SEAMARK Asset Management, which offers portfolio management services to institutional and high-net-worth individuals; and GrowthWorks, a venture capital firm and fund manager. Other holdings include Mavrix Fund Management, a mutual funds manager and subsidiary of GrowthWorks.

Artemis Investment Management was established in 1997 by Mark Tyndall, John Dodd, Derek Stuart, and Lindsay Whitelaw, who maintain executive positions with the company. Artemis Investment Management offers unit trusts (similar to US mutual funds), hedge funds, institutional investment portfolios, and a venture capital trust. Artemis Investment Management company serves private and institutional investors in the UK; however, it does offer limited products and services to investors in other parts of Europe. It has some $10 billion ($16 billion) of assets under management. US-based Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) acquired a majority of the firm in 2010; Artemis' management retained a stake.

MSouth Equity Partners was founded in 2007 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. MSouth Equity Partners is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions, management buyouts, and recapitalization of lower middle-market companies. The firm invests in distribution, niche manufacturing, and business services companies. It seeks to invest in companies based in the southern United States. The firm typically invests in companies with revenues between $25 million and $150 million and transactions valued between $25 million and $125 million.

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