Nomura Securities International has its eye on fixed income, and we're not talking Social Security. The US-based division of Nomura Holdings, a top Japanese brokerage, provides securities research and trading, asset management, and capital markets services to individual, institutional, corporate, and government clients. Nomura Securities International, Inc. is a leading seller of Japanese equities in the US. Nomura Securities International, Inc. fixed income division underwrites and trades government bonds and derivatives. Nomura Securities International, Inc. ceased trading mortgage-related securities in 2007. Nomura Securities International opened its first US office in New York in 1927, and has expanded its reach to entail all of North and South America.

Sanford C. Bernstein, a unit of AllianceBernstein (formerly Alliance Capital Management), was founded by the late Sanford Bernstein in 1967 to manage the discretionary accounts of the wealthy; it has some $70 billion of assets under management for affluent families, as well as pension funds and corporate investors. Sanford Bernstein's hallmark, however, is the fundamental company and industry research and securities valuation it performs for institutional clients. Sanford C. Bernstein company is active mainly in the US, where it maintains some 20 offices.

Deutsche Bank began operations in Russia in 1881, opened its first bank branch there in 1972, and founded the subsidiary in 1998. The company, known as Deutsche Bank Moscow, serves domestic and foreign individual, corporate, and government clients in Russia and the other former Soviet republics, offering corporate banking services (finance, advisory, sales, transaction) and private asset management. Customers have included Gazprom (through Gazprombank), Norilsk Nickel, Aeroflot, and Enel SpA. It also works the IPO market, helping VTB Bank go public in 2007; the deal was the world's largest public offering that year.

Clerical Medical targets the practical and economical, helping to make sure their retirement years are more paradisiacal than ascetical. Clerical Medical, which started out serving clergy members and physicians, today provides middle-class professionals and other clients from all walks of life with tools to build their nest eggs. The company's products include group and individual pension plans and other investment products, such as life insurance, offshore investment funds, and a variety of bonds (flexible growth, income, and others); it has more than $39 billion under management. Clerical Medical is a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group.

Globis Capital Partners was created in 1999 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Globis Capital Partners is the venture capital and private equity investment arm of Globis Corporation. It specializes in early stage, growth capital, later stage, incubation, mezzanine, corporate spin-offs and management buyouts. The firm prefers to invest in the service, technology, and IT industries. It primarily invests in Japan but exceptions are made where the Japan subsidiary is incorporated in Japan and operates with autonomy from the parent company. The firm typically invests between ¥1 million ($.01 million) to ¥ 1.8 billion ($18.78 million) in its portfolio companies. It generally does not invest in seed stage companies.

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. was founded in April 1995 and is based in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices across United States; Asia; and Europe. Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. is the private equity arm of Oaktree Capital Group, LLC specializing in marketable securities and private investments. The firm’s marketable securities investments include high yield bonds, convertible securities, high-income convertibles, European high yield bonds, and international convertibles. Within high yield bonds, it purchases only debt of solvent United States and Canadian corporations and emphasize senior, cash-paying securities, and thorough diversification. The firm eschews emerging nation debt sector and does not shift adroitly from sector to sector. It invests in senior secured and second lien debt, syndicated mezzanine transactions, senior bank loans, and high yield bonds and concentrates on below-investment-grade syndicated loans. Within convertible securities, the firm focuses on United States, international, and high income convertibles with short maturities. Its private investments strategies include distressed debt, emerging market equities, real estate management, private equity, mezzanine financing, and power infrastructure. In senior bank debt, it focuses primarily on United States dollar-denominated loans secured by first priority liens in performing companies within the United States and Canada.

Julius Baer Gruppe AG company provides private banking and investment advisory services to wealthy individuals and asset managers around the world. Operating through key subsidiary Bank Julius Baer and other units, the company is the largest independent private bankers among the traditional Swiss banking guard. Julius Baer has some 40 offices in many of the world's financial centers, from Dubai to Tokyo. In 2009 the company split itself up, separating its private banking and asset management operations. It spun off GAM Holding and its stake in advisory firm Artio Global Investors to focus on its core private banking business.

Dubai Holding has its fingers in a lot of pies -- hospitality, real estate, financial services, telecom, media, health care, and more. The company has a portfolio of seven main corporations (including hotelier Jumeirah Group) that span across 13 industries. Each main corporation has its own subsidiaries, giving Dubai Holding interests in about 250 companies in the UAE. Dubai Holding is primarily involved in funding development, whether it's building a 3 billion sq. ft. theme park (Dubailand) or a 30 million sq. ft. research park (DuBiotech, owned by TECOM Investments). Dubai Holding is ultimately controlled by the emirate's ruler, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Domini Social Investments is an investment firm with a focus on socially and environmentally responsible investments. Through investment vehicles including: the Domini Social Equity Fund, the Domini Social Bond Fund, and the Domini Money Market Account, the firm manages nearly $2 billion in investor capital and invests it in community economic development. Domini also offers investment consultancy and portfolio management assistance. The firm was founded by CEO Amy Domini in 1989 to address a growing number of investors unwilling to invest in certain companies, such as tobacco and defense contractors.

Delphi Ventures was founded in 1988 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Delphi Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed early stage, and PIPE investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare companies with a focus on medical devices and biotechnology. Within medical devices, it invests in cardiovascular medicine, orthopedics, gynecology, minimally invasive surgery, urology, neurovascular medicine, and next-generation diagnostics. Within biotechnology, the firm typically invests after a company has either generated early human clinical data or completed preclinical efficacy and toxicity studies. It prefers to invest in companies that are discovering new ways to treat life-threatening diseases and designing new devices to make surgery less traumatic and treatments more precise. The firm primarily invests between $500,000 million and $12 million.

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