Union painters who don't want to find themselves painted into a corner come retirement time probably need to know about IUPAT Industry Pension Fund. The pension fund is sponsored by and serves the members of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, or IUPAT. Union members include floor- and wall-covering installers; display workers; convention and show decorators; drywall finishers; and painters. Some 7,000 US and Canadian employers participate in the IUPAT Industry Pension Fund. The union, which represents more than 140,000 workers, is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

Innergex Power Income Fund was established in 1990 to manage Canadian hydroelectric power plants. Innergex Power Income Fund plans to merge with INE and convert from a fund to a corporation. Innergex Power Income Fund is an open-ended investment trust that owns stakes in 10 hydroelectric power plants (with a total installed capacity of about 330 MW) and two wind farms in Canada and the US. The power plants and wind farms are operated and managed by Innergex Renewable Energy (INE).

President, CEO, and chief investment officer Timothy Burt founded Cardinal Capital Management in 1992. Cardinal Capital Management, Inc firm offers wealthy individuals and institutional investors fee-based investment counseling and management services, specializing in separate accounts. The firm invests in Canadian, US, and international stocks and bonds and has more than $1 billion in assets under management.

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.

Founded in 1998, with significant backing from the bank community and from the global logistics industry, Bolero was created as a neutral, trusted third party to develop a comprehensive set of standards that would remove the barriers to global, cross-enterprise business. Bolero implements and enforces these standards in an open platform to enable paperless trading between buyers, sellers, logistics, banks, agencies and customs anywhere in the world, delivering transaction visibility, predictability, speed, accuracy and security.Building on this platform, Bolero delivers applications that enable the merging of the physical and Financial Supply Chains, allowing companies to fundamentally re-engineer the way that business is done and take advantage of electronic trading. Customers and their trade partners are rapidly deploying Bolero solutions delivering significant reductions in cost and working capital, increased visibility and improvements in operating efficiency.

Vestar Capital Partners is on a quest to invest. Specializing in management buyouts, growth capital investments, and recapitalizations, the firm targets middle-market firms (valued between $250 million and $3 billion) in the consumer products, financial services, media and communications, health care, and manufacturing sectors. It typically invests up to $700 million per transaction. An active, long-term investor that partners with the management of its portfolio companies, Vestar company oversees some $7 billion of committed equity capital on behalf of financial institutions, endowments, foundations, funds of funds, and public and private pension plans.

Part of BNP Paribas' Wealth and Asset Management Division, BNP Paribas Banque Privée, or BNP Paribas Private Bank, is the financial giant's private banking arm. (BNP Paribas Asset Management operations are also within the Wealth and Asset Management Division.) BNP Paribas Banque Privée provides personal wealth management services, including tax and estate planning, to financially blessed individuals around the world. Client assets under management total more than $120 billion (E100 billion). The company operates out of locations in more 20 countries. BNP Paribas Private Bank teamed with Insinger de Beaufort Holdings in 2008 by purchasing a minority interest in the Luxembourg private bank. The two companies plan to create a new Anglo-Dutch wealth manager.

KBW, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment bank specializing in the financial services industry in the United States and Europe. KBW, Inc. provides various investment banking services, including mergers and acquisitions and other strategic advisory services, equity and fixed income securities offerings, and mutual thrift conversions; and equity and fixed income sales and trading. KBW, Inc. also offers research services comprising fundamental and objective analysis that identifies investment opportunities and assists investor to make investment decisions; and asset management services consisting of investment management and other advisory services to institutional clients, private high net worth clients, and various investment vehicles. KBW, Inc. serves bank and thrift holding companies, banking and insurance companies, thrift institutions, broker-dealers, mortgage banks, asset management companies, mortgage and equity real estate investment trusts, consumer and specialty finance firms, financial processing companies, and securities exchanges. KBW, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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.

First Manhattan Co. was founded in 1964 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. First Manhattan Co. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to high net worth individuals. It also caters to individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, other pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages separate client-focused portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. It typically makes its equity investments in value stocks of companies. The firm employs a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolio. It uses in-house research to make its investments.

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