Compass Diversified Holdings was founded in 2005 and is based in Westport, Connecticut. Compass Diversified Holdings operates as a subsidiary of The Compass Group LLC. Compass Diversified Holdings (the Trust) acquires controlling interests in and actively manages businesses. The Trust’s manager is Compass Group Management LLC (CGM). As of December 31, 2009, the Company had six business segments: Compass AC Holdings, Inc. (ACI or Advanced Circuits), American Furniture Manufacturing, Inc. (AFM or American Furniture), Anodyne Medical Device, Inc. (Anodyne), Fox Factory, Inc. (Fox) HALO Branded Solutions, Inc. (HALO) and CBS Personnel Holdings, Inc. (CBS or CBS Personnel). In March 2010, the Company announced that its subsidiary, Advanced Circuits, acquired Circuit Express, Inc. In April 2010, the Company acquired Liberty Safe and Security Products, Inc.

ICAP plc, the world's largest interdealer brokerage with more than $2 trillion in average daily volume, is a wholesale broker of OTC derivatives, money markets, and securities, focusing on foreign exchange, energy, credit, and equities markets. With operations in more than 30 countries, the firm is a major interdealer broker in US Treasury notes. Direct trade execution and processing are available to investment houses and major banks through the company's electronic trading services. Institutional clients include international, investment, and commercial banks. ICAP also has a joint venture with insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group.

Scotia Capital was founded in 1999. Scotia Capital Inc. provides investment banking services to communications, media, technology, consumer products, real estate, forest products, infrastructure, industrial products, power, mining, and oil and gas sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placement, negotiation assistance, due diligence, and restructuring services. Additionally, it provides research, equity sales and trading, foreign exchange management, merchant banking, short-term funding, investment research, and structured leasing services.

Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC was founded in 1997 and is based in New York, New York. Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC is private equity firm specializing in leveraged acquisitions, growth financings, and recapitalizations in middle-market companies. It invests in industrial manufacturing, distribution, insurance services, healthcare services, industrial, energy, packaging, safety products, supply chain management, business and financial services, aerospace and defense products and services, rental businesses, and route-based services sectors. The firm seeks majority or control investment in its portfolio companies. It prefers to invest in industries or markets poised to benefit from economic changes, secular trends, regulatory changes or market dislocations. The fund typically invests in companies with EBITDA in the range of $20million to $80million.

Advent International Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Advent International Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth buyout, mid market, management buyouts, buyins, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. Within buyout funds, it invests in minority and majority recapitalizations, financing organic or acquisition-led growth, international expansion, and growth equity and capital transactions in established and developing markets. In established market buyout investments, the firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. It seeks to invest in business and financial services, retail and consumer, IT services and technology, media, and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and industrial sectors. Within business services, the firm focuses on back-office processing services, business process outsourcing, customer support services, facilities management, transport; distribution; and logistics, financial and database information services, food and catering, human resource services, professional advisory, transaction processing, and information technology services. In financial services, it focuses on securities brokerage and trading systems, payment and transaction processing, foreign exchange services, credit card issuance, insurance brokerage, banking, asset management, consumer credit, financial services BPO, and specialty finance.

Established in 1890, Suomi Mutual Life Assurance Company is the second oldest life insurance company in Finland. Suomi Mutual administers its customers' life insurance portfolio and related investments for the benefit of policyholders. Suomi Mutual has 300 000 owner customers. Suomi Mutual's insurance portfolio consists of insurance policies taken out before July 1, 1997. The portfolio also includes certain newer policies, such as group pension insurance, and capital redemption contracts for companies and corporations. Part of insurance portfolio transferred to Pohjola. At the beginning of 2005, an over EUR 1 billion insurance portfolio and around 135 000 insurance customers were transferred to Pohjola. Now Pohjola is part of the OP-Pohjola Group, the largest financial services group in Finland. The OP-Pohjola Group is Suomi Mutual's main cooperation partner.

S3 Investment Company, Inc. operates as an investment banking advisory firm that offers U.S. corporate finance and investment banking services to private companies in China. The company specializes in providing alternative public offerings for private Chinese companies through the simultaneous listing on a U.S. or other stock market, and private investment in public equity financing. Its services help client companies to prepare, assist, and manage various stages of the process of a reverse merger into a publicly-traded shell, as well as in capital funding, a progression to a U.S. national market listing, and multiple registered follow-on offerings for additional growth capital.

Dimensional Fund Advisors was founded in 1981 and is based in Texas, United States with additional offices in Chicago, California, Australia, London, and Canada. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP is an employee owned investment manager. The firm provides its services primarily to investment companies and mutual funds. It also provides its services to high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, and state or municipal government entities. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages equity and fixed income mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in real estate markets. It primarily invests in growth and value stocks of micro-cap, small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs a fundamental analysis to make its investments. For its fixed income securities, it invests in bonds, U.S. Treasury bills, and U.S. Government securities. The firm benchmarks the performance of its large-cap equity portfolios against the S&P 500 Index, Consumer Price Index, MSCI EAFE Index, and Dow Jones Wilshire 500 Index. It benchmarks the performance of its fixed income portfolios against the Long Term Government Bond Index.

Walker Crips Group plc provides securities brokerage, investment banking, and asset management services through subsidiaries. Walker Crips Stockbrokers offers trading, unit trust management, and related services. Walker Crips Financial Services provides individuals and businesses with financial advice, pension funds, unit trusts, insurance, and other investment vehicles. Keith, Bayley, Rogers & Co. is the company's corporate finance arm. London York Group offers pension and investment services. A new division, Walker Crips Structured Investments, opened in 2009. Walker Crips Group plc clients can work with a financial advisor or use the InvestorLink online system.

Multi Service was established in the late 1970s to provide credit cards to the trucking industry. The Multi Service card allows truckers to purchase fuel and oil at more than 3,100 truck stops across North America. Multi Service's transaction processing programs and specialized software help trucking companies control purchases, plan their budgets, and report fuel taxes. Multi Service has operations in Australia, the Netherlands, Mexico, and the US. Multi Service also provides fleet card services for small to midsized trucking companies, consolidated billing and reporting services for after-market parts, and processing services for trucking companies that utilize toll roads and tunnels in Europe.

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