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.

The main aim of the El Oro Group since 1938 has been to increase the asset value of the shares in issue whilst continually increasing dividends. El Oro is a collective investment vehicle and seeks to be competitive with similar investment funds. To achieve this aim, the Board restructured the El Oro Mining and Exploration Company plc to allow El Oro Ltd to be subject to a tax regime that puts it on a par with other investment vehicles such as unit and investment trusts.El Oro Ltd is the El Oro Group holding company, registered in Guernsey with its shares listed on the Official List of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange [Ticker – ELX]. El Oro became the holding company for the El Oro Group by way of a scheme of arrangement under section 899 of the Companies Act during March 2009 as approved by the Scheme Stockholders and sanctioned by the Court.

The Catalyst Group wants to be a catalyst for your investment needs. The Catalyst group provides investment banking services (mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and corporate partnering) and specializes in midsized companies in the information technology and telecommunications industries. Some of the companies the group has assisted in past transactions include Ericsson (integration into the French market), SSA Global Technologies (European expansion), Peritus Software Services (provided financial advice), and Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Lucent; evaluated strategic partners).

Impax Group plc company provides investment banking and asset management services to the environmental infrastructure and technology sectors. Its target clientele includes businesses in alternative energy, waste management, and waste treatment. Impax Asset Management has more than $1.5 billion under management in such funds as Impax Environmental Markets; it is the UK's largest green investment fund. Impax Capital Corporation provides venture capital services for Impax Asset Management.

Evercore Partners Inc. (Evercore), incorporated on July 20, 2005, is an independent investment banking advisory firms in the world based on the dollar volume of announced worldwide merger and acquisition (M&A). The Company provides advisory services to multinational corporations on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, financings and other strategic corporate transactions. Evercore also includes an Investment Management business through which it manages institutional assets for institutional investors, provide wealth management services for net-worth individuals, provide specialized investment management, independent fiduciary and trustee services to employee benefit plans of large corporations and manage private equity funds.The Company operates in two business segments: Advisory and Investment Management. In April 2010, the Company announced that the acquisition of MJC Associates, a commercial real estate advisory boutique.

Knight Capital Group performs electronic and voice-activated trade execution services for US and foreign stocks, as well as futures, options, foreign exchange, and fixed income products, through subsidiaries such as Knight Equity Markets, Knight Capital Markets, Knight Direct, Hotspot, and Knight BondPoint. Active in the US, the UK, and Hong Kong, Knight Capital Group, Inc. executes approximately four billion trades per day. Customers include brokerages, investment banks, institutional investors, private wealth managers, and corporate issuers of securities. Knight Capital Group, Inc. was formerly known as Knight Trading Group, Inc. and changed its name to Knight Capital Group, Inc. in May 2005. Knight Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Butterfield Bank (UK) Limited was founded in 1938 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Butterfield Bank (UK) Limited operates as a subsidiary of Bank Butterfield & Son Ltd. Butterfield Bank (UK) Limited provides private banking services for individuals, intermediaries, and corporate and institutional clients in the United Kingdom. The company offers lending, investment management, financial planning, foreign exchange, and pension services, as well as treasury operations. Its services also include fixed term deposits, commercial and residential mortgages, development and refurbishment loans, probate loans, and derivatives.

Heritage Partners wants to help companies keep their affairs all in the family. The investment firm specializes in acquisitions and equity-based recapitalizations of private family-owned businesses. Heritage Partners generally targets establilshed middle-market companies involved in manufacturing, distribution, health care, business services, and consumer goods with annual sales of at least $30 million. Through its trademarked "Private IPO," Heritage Partners makes a substantial equity investment in a company while allowing its owners to further build their business and maintain control. Portfolio companies include OneSource Distributors, REACH Air Medical Services, and manufacturers Centra and Saunders & Associates.

Stonington Partners is a New York based private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under management on behalf of public and corporate pension funds, private endowments and other financial institutions. Stonington Partners was formed in 1994 out of a desire of its Partners to establish an independent entity following a decade of managing the investment activities of Merrill Lynch Capital Partners, Inc. (MLCP), which had $1.6 billion of equity capital under management.Stonington focuses on identifying attractive investments in middle market companies with values between $50 million and $500 million. Stonington typically invests from $25 million to $150 million of equity per company either at the initial acquisition, or over time through add-on investments. While receptive to opportunities in across industries, Stonington focuses on sectors in which its team has proven expertise.Stonington’s investment professionals have over 90 years of cumulative private equity experience that were gained through Stonington Partners and their prior affiliation with MLCP. These experiences cover the past 20+ years of private equity investing through various market cycles. In addition to their roles with the portfolio investments made through Stonington Partners, stonington investment professionals played direct roles in over 20 investments of MLCP.

Red Rock Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based venture capital investment partnership specializing in seed and early- stage information technology investments. The general partners, Robert G. Todd, Curtis (Kip) Myers, Peter Dumanian and Laura Brege have extensive backgrounds as operating managers, entrepreneurs, founders and venture capital investors. Their record in successfully founding and/or financing high-technology companies has created substantial market value and investor returns for the past 20 years. Red Rock currently manages $220 million in committed capital.

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