POCKET CARD CO., LTD. is the Tokyo-based financial services. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. provides credit cards, smart cards, loans, leasing, life insurance, and travel services to customers through roughly 200 automated terminals and staffed locations across Japan. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. sells its services through former parent MYCAL Group's SATY and VIVRE fashion and food stores, but is rapidly expanding via non-MYCAL outlets. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. credit cards are accepted at MasterCard locations in Japan and abroad. Sanyo Shinpan Finance Co. owns more than 50% of POCKET CARD's common stock; ITOCHU Finance Corp. is its second largest shareholder.

The Goldfarb Corporation is an investment holding company. The Goldfarb Corporation Company’s operations reside entirely in Canada. Its long-term investments comprise long-term floating-rate notes (MAV 2) (formerly non-bank, asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP)), and are designated as held for trading. As of December 31, 2009, short-term investments consisted of redeemable guaranteed investment certificates (GICs) with original maturities of 365 days or less bearing interest at rates ranging 0.3% to 0.7%.

Research Corporation Technologies in Tucson, Ariz., is a technology investment and management company that provides early-stage funding and development for promising biomedical companies and technologies. RCT focuses on technology investments with origins from universities and research institutions worldwide. Founded in 1987, the company carries on a vision chartered in 1912 by Frederick Gardner Cottrell, a university professor and inventor who championed the transfer of academic innovation to commercial use. RCT has assets of more than $200 million to advance technology development through venture investment, partnerships and special licensing programs.To support these programs, RCT has staff in its corporate office in Tucson, Ariz., and on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. RCT also has an affiliate company in the United Kingdom, Cambridge Research Biolventures (CRB), and an alliance with Start-Up Australia in Sydney.RCT employs investment professionals with expertise in the life sciences, development of medical devices and therapeutics, and financial management. RCT professionals support all technology development activities, including managing and coordinating new company formation, filing patent applications and infringement protection, negotiating licenses and other agreements, patents and literature searches and marketing support.RCT's unparalleled experience and expertise, as well as its financial resources and partnerships, make a powerful combination that gives important new companies and technologies their best chance for commercial success.

Redbus Group (Redbus) is a UK based acquisition vehicle, which seeks to acquire small cap. businesses or business assets that require restructuring or re-financing and return them to profitability. Its roots are in the media business though it does not operate exclusively in this sector. Redbus came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of the largest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold for $23 million to Helkon Media AG.The key management, all from investment banking or professional backgrounds remained with Redbus Group after this transaction and segued Redbus’ focus towards acquiring media businesses and assets that were either undervalued, in distress or in need of restructuring. Employing an entrepreneurial yet disciplined approach, Redbus, either in partnership with other financial institutions or alone, is constantly looking for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.The combination of Redbus’ intricate understanding of the corporate debt and securities market and its experience of managing businesses is both unusual and increasingly relevant in today’s financial markets. Redbus was the fastest growing company in the UK in 2003 and ranked number one in the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100. Redbus Group is a UK based private company and the main operating vehicle of Simon Franks who is both the company’s chairman and largest single shareholder.

Julius Baer Gruppe AG company provides private banking and investment advisory services to wealthy individuals and asset managers around the world. Operating through key subsidiary Bank Julius Baer and other units, the company is the largest independent private bankers among the traditional Swiss banking guard. Julius Baer has some 40 offices in many of the world's financial centers, from Dubai to Tokyo. In 2009 the company split itself up, separating its private banking and asset management operations. It spun off GAM Holding and its stake in advisory firm Artio Global Investors to focus on its core private banking business.

Hirtle, Callaghan & Co., Inc. provides investment management services for endowments, foundations, pension funds, health care organizations, and wealthy families, and takes pride in its assemblage of independent chief investment officers. Its services include global investment strategies, risk management, and access to alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity. Founded in 1988, Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. has more than $17 billion in assets under management. The company has six US offices.

Global holding company Dubai World focuses on the strategic growth areas of Transport & Logistics, Drydocks & Maritime, Urban Development, Investment & Financial Services. Dubai World portfolio contains some of the world’s leading companies in their industries, including Drydocks World, Economic Zones World, Istithmar World, Nakheel and majority ownership of DP World.Dubai World has embarked on a process to streamline the Group and its core activities. This will allow us to move forward with greater efficiency. Dubai World committed to investment in the long term and generating value for dubai world shareholder, the Government of Dubai, with a corporate philosophy in line with the vision set for Dubai by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai, based on sustainability, best ethical practices and integrity.

Fuse Capital (formerly Velocity Interactive Group) is hot for digital media and communications ventures. Focusing on early-stage growth companies, the venture capital firm is a long-term investor, providing up to $30 million per transaction. Its current portfolio consists of interests in some two dozen companies. The former Velocity Interactive was formed by the 2007 merger of venture capital firms Velocity and ComVentures; it changed its name in 2009. Fuse Capital has some $1.5 billion in capital under management, including former ComVentures funds.

RFE Investment Partners was founded in 1979. RFE Investment Partners is a private equity firm specializing in acquisition of smaller middle market companies. The firm typically invests in platform and add-on acquisitions, management led buyouts, and recapitalizations. It does not invest in turnaround situations and businesses whose products or services are subject to a substantial risk of rapid technological obsolescence. The firm prefers to invest in business services, niche manufacturing, and healthcare service sectors. It typically makes equity investments between $5 million and $30 million in companies with at least $5 million of annual cash flow. The firm seeks to hold a majority ownership position in the portfolio companies. It prefers to be a lead investor however the firm can also invest in transactions led by another equity group or as part of a syndicate.

Counsel Corporation seeks to acquire real estate and controlling stakes in a variety of established companies with stable management and growth prospects. It targets the real estate, communications, consumer goods, and other sectors in Canada and the US. Counsel Corporation company owns C2 Global Technologies and Fleetwood Fine Furniture, which manufactures custom case goods for upscale hotels. Counsel's real estate holdings throughout Canada include more than a dozen retail properties that contain more than 1 million sq. ft. of leasable space. Its private equity arm, Knights Bridge Capital Corporation, makes investments up to $10 million in small and mid-market companies in North America.

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