Founded in 1989, the firm is 65% employee-owned. Strategic Investment Group Ventures owns the remaining 35%. LM Capital Group offers asset management services to corporations, public agencies, foundations, endowments, and other institutional investors. The firm offers several fixed-income investment strategies for clients, including Short Term, Intermediate, Core, and Opportunistic Core. All of its portfolios consist of about 50 securities consisting of treasuries, agencies, investment-grade corporate issues, and mortgage-backed securities. It relies heavily on its analysis of international political and monetary factors when investing.

Sage Advisory Services, Ltd. Co. was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. Sage Advisory Services, Ltd. Co. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm also provides portfolio risk evaluation and diagnostics; performance analytics; and financial and liability modeling services. It provides its services to corporate and retirement funds, financial institutions, foundations and endowments, healthcare institutions, public funds, Taft-Hartley funds, wrap programs and sub-advisory, and individuals. The firm manages client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages exchange traded funds and structured products for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe with a focus on the United States. It invests in index based exchange traded funds (ETFs) of all-cap companies, employing a fundamental analysis along with a top-down macro approach to create its equity portfolios. The firm benchmarks the performance of its various equity portfolios against the Standard & Poor 500 Index; the Russell 3000 Index; the Lehman Brothers Government Credit Intermediate Maturity Index; and the Lehman Brothers Municipal Blended 1–10 year Maturity Index. For fixed income, it invests in U.S. treasury and government agency securities; mortgage and asset backed securities; investment grade corporate and municipal securities; and high-grade international government securities, employing fundamental economic and quantitative security analysis to create its fixed income portfolios.

Oppenheimer Holdings specializes in wealth management, asset management, trust, and investment banking services for institutional and wealthy individual clients. (Private-client services -- about $62 billion in assets under management -- make up the bulk of sales.) Offerings include brokerage, annuities, and estate planning. Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. asset management group -- about $17 billion in assets under management -- covers the bases from research to alternative investments. Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. capital markets unit provides equities and debt market products and services. The formerly Toronto-based Canadian company rechartered as a US company in 2009, moving its headquarters to New York.

EZCORP, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, lends or provides credit services to individuals to meet their short-term cash needs. EZCORP, Inc. offers pawn loans, which are non recourse loans collateralized by tangible personal property, including jewelry, consumer electronics, tools, sporting goods, and musical instruments. EZCORP, Inc. also provides signature loans consisting of payday loans, installment loans, auto title loans, or fee-based credit services to customers seeking loans. In addition, EZCORP provides credit services, including advice and assistance to customers in obtaining loans from unaffiliated lenders. As of September 30, 2009, EZCORP, Inc. operated a total of 910 locations consisting of 369 the U.S. pawnshops, 62 pawnshops in Mexico, 477 the U.S. short-term loan stores, and 2 short-term loan stores in Canada. EZCORP, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board was founded in 1985 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to Wisconsin retirement system. It also manages accounts for state investment fund and other state trust funds, including injured patients and families compensation fund, state life insurance fund, local government property insurance fund, historical society endowment fund, and tuition trust fund (EdVest). The firm manages separate client focused equity and balanced funds for its clients. It also manages index funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe, with a focus on the United States. It typically invests in real estate, private equity, and natural resources to make its alternative investments. The firm invests in value stocks employing a fundamental research with a tactical asset allocation for its multi-asset investments. It invests in companies of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap to create its funds.

Acorn Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in seed stage, start-ups, series A or first round, series B or second round, and series C or third round investments in early stage companies. The firm does not invest in idea, later stage, mezzanine, and public companies. It seeks to invest in technology, Internet, and education sectors. In technology sector, the firm focuses on broadband, infrastructure, wireless, and software. In education sector, it focuses on enterprise and consumer. In Internet sector, the firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and retail. It prefers to invest in the United States. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $5 million per round. The funding requirement of more than $5 million is fulfilled along with other venture capital firms. It seeks to invest only in equity but can sometimes supplement with debt instruments but not only debt investments. The firm typically takes a Board seat in the portfolio company. It seeks to exit its investments within three to seven years through initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

Great Hill Partners, LLC was founded in 1999 when M/C Partners split into two separate firms, Great Hill Partners and M/C Ventures Partners. Great Hill Partners, LLC is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Great Hill Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage, mid stage, growth capital, buyouts, recapitalizations, PIPEs, go private, acquisitions, and industry consolidations in growth oriented private or public companies. It typically invests in business service, Internet, software, consumer services, financial technology, logistics, education, healthcare, media and communications, and transaction processing. The firm seeks to invest primarily in the United States but also considers Europe and Latin America for special situations. It invests between $50 million and $150 million per transaction in its portfolio companies. It invests in companies with valuations between $50 million and $500 million. However this range is smaller when the firm is consolidating acquisitions. It prefers to make both minority and control investments, with ownership between ten percent and 85 percent and usually over 30 percent.

Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corporation (Atalanta Capital), Atalanta Sosnoff Management Corporation (Atalanta Management), and ASCC Corporation, provides discretionary investment advisory, brokerage, and other related services to investment advisory clients. Atalanta Capital is a registered investment advisor that provides investment advisory and management services to institutional clients; and is the general partner and investment advisor of certain investment partnerships and mutual funds. Atalanta Management is also a registered investment advisor and a broker-dealer in securities that owns a seat; and is a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. It provides investment advisory and management services to individual and smaller institutional clients, and brokerage services to its clients and some of the clients of Atalanta Capital. ASCC performs investment advisory services for proprietary investment-related activities.

Ares Management LLC was founded in 1997 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in New York, New York and London, United Kingdom. Ares Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in managing assets in both the private equity and leveraged finance markets. It seeks to invest in assets across capital structures, from senior floating rate debt to common equity. The firm makes investments through its three subsidiaries: ARES Capital Management LLC, Ares Capital Markets Group, and Ares Private Equity Group. ARES Capital Management LLC specializes in providing finance to private middle market companies. Ares Capital Markets Group manages senior secured bank loans, high yield bonds, mezzanine, and other special situation investments. Ares Private Equity Group makes investments through Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund, L.P. and provides flexible, junior capital to middle market companies.

First Investors Corporation operates as a financial broker/dealer in the United States. It sells mutual fund and life insurance products. The company’s products include mutual funds, including stock, bond, money market, equity, income, and municipal bond funds; insurance and annuity products; retirement programs; pension and profit sharing plans; and college-funding programs. It serves individual and business customers. First Investors Corporation was formerly known as Financial Independence Founders and it changed its name January 1948. The company was founded in 1930 and is based in New York, New York. First Investors Corporation operates as a subsidiary of First Investors Consolidated Corporation.

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