The New York City Transitional Finance Authority (TFA) won't sell you the Brooklyn Bridge, but it will let you invest in repairs. The quasi-independent government agency sells municipal bonds to finance the Big Apple's capital improvement projects -- public buildings, roads, bridges, etc. The authority was created in 1997 to circumvent state constitutional limitations on the amount of debt the city could take on. With the authority to issue up to $11.5 billion in bonds, the agency proved to be even more useful than anticipated, selling $2 billion in bonds for recovery costs following the September 11 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center. The TFA's bond limit has since been raised to $13.5 billion.

United Planners' Financial Services wants to unite its clients with financial success. The securities broker/dealer provides brokerage, insurance, and investment advisory services to more than 300 independent registered investment advisors that offer such services to individual investors and small businesses across the US. United Planners also provides back-office, technology, and compliance support and training. Clearing services are offered through a pact with Pershing. Founded in 1987, United Planners was acquired by Pacific Life later that year. United Planners' Financial Services of America became independent when its management bought back Pacific Life's stake in 2007.

Highland Capital Partners was founded in 1988 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts with additional offices in Bethesda, Maryland; Geneva, Switzerland; Shanghai, China; and Menlo Park, California. Highland Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, later stage, growth stage, venture buyouts, spin-outs, and recapitalizations investments. The firm seeks to invest in the information technology, consumer, communications, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Within the information technology sector, it seeks to invest in Internet, digital media, new media, emerging media, e-commerce, online business, software, services, software-as-a-service, open source software, low-cost telesales, online marketing, payment systems, emerging broadband, interactive television, and media technologies. In the communications sector, the firm typically invests in networking and communications infrastructure, mobile, wireless technologies, telecom services, service opportunities, cable infrastructure, and semiconductor opportunities. Within the healthcare sector, it prefers to invest in medical technology, software, services, medical devices, and biotechnology.

BNP Paribas Asset Management has approximately E250 billion (more than $340 billion) in assets under management in products such as money market investments, equities, bonds and convertible securities, and structured and alternative investments. Institutional investors make up for more than half of the unit's customer base; its retail network and private banking clients account for most of the remainder. BNP Paribas Asset Management also offers its investment products through third-party providers. It has offices in more than two dozen countries, and has been looking to countries such as Brazil and China for growth. The firm is part of BNP Paribas Investment Partners.

Cowen Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Cowen and Company, represents the firm's investment banking and brokerage practice, which mainly entails strategic advisory and corporate finance services for small to midsized companies in the alternative energy, aerospace and defense, consumer goods, health care, media, technology, and real estate industries. Cowen Group, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; and San Francisco, California.

NEL Fund Managers Limited provides funding for small and medium-sized enterprises of northern England. NEL offers venture capital and unsecured loan and mezzanine capital through its two divisions, Evolve Finance and NEL Capital. Evolve specializes in debt funding (up to £250,000 per client), and Insight focuses on institutional venture capital (up to £500,000 per client). The company changed its name from Northern Enterprise Limited to NEL Fund Managers Limited in 2006. The company's Insight Capital division also underwent a change and was rebranded NEL Capital (Evolve Finance stayed the same).

HSBC Private Bank comprises the private banking operations of UK banking bigwig HSBC Holdings. A subsidiary of principal holding company, HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) and operating through several subsidiaries of its own, the company specializes in private banking and trustee services such as investment advisory and wealth and tax planning for wealthy individuals and families. Banking services include deposit products, debit and credit cards, lines of credit, loans, high-end residential mortgages and home equity loans, and other related services. HSBC Private Bank group also provides specialty advisory services to charities, foundations, media companies, and diamond and jewelry concerns.

Winmill & Co. manages three mutual funds and two closed-end funds (Foxby Corp. and Global Income Fund). Most of the assets of the company's Midas mutual fund are invested in gold, silver, and platinum bullion, or in firms involved in precious metals and natural resources mining, processing, and distribution. The Midas Special Fund focuses on stock of emerging growth companies and firms undergoing restructuring or liquidation. Winmill & Co. also administers a money market fund.

Credit Solutions was established in 2003. Credit Solutions helps consumers dig their way out of debt. One of North America's largest for-profit debt management companies, Credit Solutions offers programs that enable people to lower their monthy bills and, in many cases, get out of debt in three years or less. It also offers a built-in savings plan to help families reach their long-term financial goals, with no home ownership or credit check required. Credit Solutions has more than $1.7 billion of unsecured debt under management for about 80,000 active clients.

Associated Third Party Administrators was founded in 1994 and is based in Alameda, California. Associated Third Party Administrators Inc. operates as a subsidiary of United Benefits & Pension Services, Inc. Associated Third Party Administrators Inc. provides employee benefit plan administration services in the United States. It offers various administrative services for labor/management trust funds and public employee/employer benefit plans, including processing of employee benefit contributions; and overseeing the transfer of premiums to health maintenance organizations and insurance companies. The company’s services also include adjudication of hospital, surgical, medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision, disability, and other miscellaneous benefit claims; and customized record-keeping and reporting functions for ancillary employee benefit programs, such as apprenticeship, group legal, flex spending, training, dues, and labor/management funds. In addition, it offers pension plan administration, collective bargaining agreement administration, and health and welfare plan administration services, as well as financial services, such as general ledger reporting, operating expense schedules, budget and comparative statistics, and annual reporting and tax filing.

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