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.

The Cross-Harbour (Holdings) Limited, an investment holding company, operates motoring schools, tunnels, and an electronic toll collection system in Hong Kong. It offers driver training lessons for individual learners; and fleet training for operators from various commercial and public organizations by operating a fleet of training vehicles, including private cars, light goods vehicles, medium goods vehicles, motorcycles, buses, skid cars, and articulated vehicles. The company also operates the Western Harbour Tunnel located at West Kowloon reclamation area; and manages the Cross-Harbour Tunnel at Hunghom. In addition, it provides electronic toll clearing facilities in Hong Kong for 11 toll roads and tunnels; and global positioning system service that offers fleet management service to corporate customers, as well as develops a data exchange platform, On-Board Trucker Information System.

China Direct Industries, Inc. (China Direct Industries) manages a portfolio of Chinese entities. It also provides consulting services to Chinese businesses. The Company operates in three business segments: Magnesium, Basic Materials and Consulting. Magnesium segment produces, sells and distributes magnesium ingots, magnesium powders and magnesium scraps. Basic Materials segment sells and distributes a variety of products, including industrial grade synthetic chemicals, steel products, non ferrous metals, recycled materials, and industrial commodities. This segment also includes zinc ore mining property and zinc concentrate distribution businesses, which have not commenced operations. Consulting segment provides a suite of consulting services to United States public companies that operate primarily in China. Its wholly owned subsidiaries include CDI China, Inc. (CDI), CDII Trading, Inc., China Direct Investments, Inc. and International Magnesium Group, Inc.

Evergreen Investment Management was founded in 1932 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Malvern, Pennsylvania; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Richmond, Virginia. Evergreen Investment Management Co., LLC is an asset management arm of Wachovia Bank, NA. The firm provides its services to investment companies; corporations; pension and profit sharing plans; state and municipal government entities; individuals, including high net worth individuals; banking and thrift institutions; pooled investment vehicles; and charitable organizations. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages a family of mutual funds, hedge funds, and variable annuities for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in the alternative investments markets, typically limiting such investments to private equity, private real estate, commodities markets, and managed futures. For its equity investments, it typically invests in growth and value stocks of all-cap companies, including small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. For its small/mid cap growth portfolio, the firm makes investments in companies with market capitalizations below $6 billion. It benchmarks the performance of its enhanced index portfolio against the S&P 500 index.

James Brearley & Sons offers a wide portfolio of financial services including asset management services, online brokerage through its ICON service, individual savings accounts, options trading, and pension planning. James Brearley, an investor in cotton mill stocks, founded the company in 1919. James Brearley & Sons company owns and operates about 8 offices throughout the UK.

Pender Financial can drop some serious money on technology. The Canadian merchant bank invests in emerging growth companies, specifically British Columbia firms in high tech fields. Pender Financial Group has sunk about $6 million in what it considers undervalued companies that need some management guidance. One of its biggest money makers is ActiveState Software, which creates open-source software for the Perl, Python, and Tcl programming and scripting languages. Other investments include bio tech venture capitalist Bio FutureFund, high-end marine lighting firm Carmanah, and Web host Radiant Communications.

Lightspeed Venture Partners was founded in 1971 is based in Menlo Park, California. Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and expansion stage investments. The firm structures and participates in equity and debt financing for start-up and growth companies and also provides incubation services. In China, the firm seeks to invest in early stage and late stages businesses. It prefers to make investments in mobile, social media, commerce, gaming, consumer web services, datacenter infrastructure, enterprise automation, digital media and consumer electronics, communications infrastructure technologies, networking, wireless, internet media & commerce, internet and e-commerce, semiconductors, cleantech, and other services. In India, the firm seeks to invest in advertising & media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail. It primarily invests in the United States, Israel, China, and India. The firm seeks to makes investments not exceeding $20 million. The firm invests between $10 million to $25 million in growth stages in India. It invests between $2 million to $10 million in early stages in India.

The Adams Express Company was founded in 1840 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Adams Express Company (the Fund) is a closed-end investment company. The Fund is an internally managed fund, whose investment objectives are preservation of capital, the attainment of reasonable income from investments and an opportunity for capital appreciation. The Fund invests in various sectors, which includes consumer, energy, financial, healthcare, industrials, information technology, materials, telecom services and utilities. The Fund invests in common stocks and convertible securities, non-controlled affiliate, short-term investments and securities lending collateral.

Kim Eng Holdings is one of Southeast Asia's foremost brokerage houses. Kim Eng Holdings Limited provides securities trading and investment banking services such as IPO underwriting, corporate advisory, and financing. Kim Eng Holdings Limited also provides asset management services through KE Capital Partners, a joint venture with Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, as well as through associate firm Republic Investment Management. Subsidiary Emfore Capital Partners manages private equity funds. Kim Eng also performs stock research; its KE Live division specializes in event-driven strategies for retail investors. Kim Eng has a presence in eight countries in Asia (it entered Vietnam and India in 2007), in addition to sales offices in New York and London.

Legg Mason Investment Counsel provides trust and wealth management services for high-net-worth individuals and families and for institutional investors such as employee benefit plans. Legg Mason Investment company's investment strategy focuses on large cap and growth equities, fixed-income products of all investment grades and maturities, and balanced portfolios. It offers mutual funds managed by other units of parent company Legg Mason, as well as funds that it administers itself. Legg Mason Investment Counsel has offices in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia.

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