Hanseatic Group's success may give the company a swelled hedge. The company's hedge fund management affiliate Hanseatic Management Services employs quantitative methods implemented in 1994 to indentify long-term investment opportunities in the stock market. Serving institutional investors, the company has large-cap, small-cap, and multicap strategies. The average client has more than $15 million invested with Hanseatic, which has a total of approximately $230 million of assets under management. The employee-owned firm hopes to grow the latter figure to $1 billion and beyond.

The Clearing Corporation (TCC) has no problem coming between buyers and sellers of over-the-counter traded derivatives (such as futures and options). As trades are continuously matched throughout the day, TCC substitutes itself as buyer and seller for the trade and thus guarantees the performance of every trade it accepts. The independent clearinghouse serves major dealers and participants in the worldwide derivatives market, most of which are stockholders. The company was formed in 1925 as The Board of Trade Clearing Corporation and became the first independent clearinghouse for futures markets in the US. TCC was bought by the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in 2009.

The Operating Engineers Funds are, in fact, for operating engineers not the kind who run trains, but those who operate other large machinery. Operating Engineers Funds company administers employee benefits, including pensions, health, welfare, vacation, and holiday benefit, for more than 35,000 active or retired members of the International Union of Operating Engineers (I.U.O.E.), Local 12, as well as their beneficiaries and dependents. The union consists of individuals in construction-related trades, including heavy equipment operators, soil testers, concrete pumpers, inspectors, and surveyors.

ORIX Capital Markets is the trading and asset management branch of ORIX USA Corporation, the US division of Japanese financial services giant ORIX Corporation. ORIX Capital Markets manages the group's securitized assets, bonds, leveraged loans, and other investments. After merging with affiliate ORIX Real Estate Capital, ORIX Capital Markets, LLC also finances, develops, and manages commercial real estate in the US and Canada. ORIX Capital Markets has more than $1 billion in assets under management, including collateralized debt obligations, mortgage-backed securities, and municipal securities.

CalSTRS can teach you a thing or two about saving for retirement. California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) manages and disburses retirement, survivor, and disability benefits for more than 800,000 California public school educators and their families. It also offers survivor and disability benefits. CalSTRS is the largest US teachers' retirement fund and one of the nation's largest public pension funds. It oversees some $150 billion in assets, which it invests in stocks, real estate, private equity, and other investment vehicles. The organization is run by a 12-member board, five of whom are appointed by California's governor.

Envision Capital Management, Inc. company manages customized short-term bond portfolios for individual investors, specializing in corporate bonds too small to get the attention of large, multi-billion dollar mutual funds. CEO Marilyn Cohen, who controls the company, personally manages investment portfolios for each one of Envision Capital's clients. She also authored "The Bond Bible", writes a column on bond investing for Forbes magazine, and pens a syndicated financial question and answer column.

ABC arbitrage knows the ABC's of arbitrage strategies in the global financial markets. It owns ABC arbitrage Asset Management, its principal subsidiary, which handles the company's trading activities and third-party portfolio management. The company employs quantitative investment techniques to take advantage of market turmoil or inefficiencies, such as when the same asset is traded at various prices on separate exchanges, or when a derivative has different maturity dates or is valued differently than its underlying asset. ABC arbitrage operates on more than 40 financial marketplaces; more than half of its transactions take place in the US, about a quarter in Europe.

As an investment company active since 1957, Cobepa has progressively developed into a well recognized actor in private equity. Cobepa success has been built on cobepa ability to invest in companies with long term growth perspectives and to accompany these companies in a spirit of partnership with their shareholders and efficient cooperation with their management. The quality and experience of cobepa teams, cobepa ability to arrange complex transactions and our aptitude to contribute actively to the definition of strategy, are the key contribution to the strengthening of the companies in which cobepa are shareholders.

KBC Peel Hunt Ltd. is one of the UK's top mid- and small-cap brokers; it offers a range of services including corporate finance and insurance advising, as well as traditional brokerage activities. KBC Peel Hunt Ltd. client list includes more than 130 small- to mid-sized firms in the UK and abroad. KBC Peel Hunt makes markets in more than 1,200 stocks. KBC Peel Hunt Ltd. holds the #2 spot among market makers in London, and has affiliates in Brussels, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Charles Peel and Christopher Holdsworth-Hunt founded the firm in 1989. Belgium-based KBC Bank and Insurance (now KBC Group) acquired the firm in 2001.

Guoco Group Limited, an investment holding company, provides principal investment, property development and investment, hospitality and leisure, and financial services. The company operates as a subsidiary of Guoline Overseas Limited. Principal Investment The company’s principal investment business includes equity and direct investments, as well as treasury operations. Its investment infrastructure includes synergistic analytical tools, risk management system, as well as management information system. Its treasury division focuses on global economic conditions, forex and interest rate trends, and strategic trading ideas. It also manages financial exposures of the company and hedging proposals. Property Development and Investment GuocoLand Limited (GLL) is the company’s property arm and operates in Singapore, China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. As of June 30, 2009, the company developed and sold 29 residential projects in Singapore, producing approximately 8,300 apartments and homes. In China, GLL has a land bank of approximately two million square metres in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Tianjin. In Malaysia, GLL has established an embedded property operation through its Malaysia subsidiary, GuocoLand (Malaysia) Berhad, with property development, property investment, as well as hotel and resort holdings business. Hospitality and Leisure Business GuocoLeisure Limited (GL) is the company’s subsidiary in the hospitality and leisure business. GL’s operating assets include the Guoman Hotels group (Guoman) and Clermont Leisure (U.K.) Limited (Clermont Leisure) in the United Kingdom and rights to a royalty stream from the production of oil and gas in the Bass Strait in Australia. Guoman owns, leases, or manages 37 hotels (8,400 rooms) in the United Kingdom under two brands, the international deluxe Guoman brand, which includes four Central London landmark hotels with approximately 2,300 rooms, and the four-star ‘Thistle’ brand in 33 properties with 6,100 rooms in London and the provinces. In the Asia Guoman manages two hotels in Malaysia under the Thistle brand standard. Clermont Leisure is a licensed casino operator in the United Kingdom.

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