National Bank Financial provides brokerage services to consumer, corporate, government, and institutional clients in Canada. National Bank Financial Inc. offers sales and trading of fixed-income products, equities, and derivatives, and performs third-party clearing services for other financial institutions. National Bank Financial Inc. provides investment banking and corporate finance services as well. National Bank Financial Inc. retail advisory business serves individual investors through some 90 offices throughout Canada (with a concentration in Quebec), managing more than $50 billion on behalf of approximately 275,000 clients. National Bank Financial Inc. also has operations in the US and Europe. National Bank Financial is a subsidiary of National Bank of Canada.

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.

Stifel Financial Corp. serves individual, corporate, municipal, and institutional investors through about 200 offices in the US, with a concentration in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Stifel Financial Corp. also has three offices in Europe. Through subsidiaries Stifel Nicolaus (founded 1890), Century Securities Associates, and others, the company provides securities brokerage, investment products, and financial advice for private clients. Stifel also offers brokerage and mergers and acquisitions advisory services for corporate clients, underwrites corporate and municipal bonds, and provides research on US and European equities. Stifel merged with Thomas Weisel in 2010.

First Cash Financial Services, Inc. primarily operates pawn stores that lend money on the collateral of pledged personal property in the United States and Mexico. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. also engages in the retail of previously owned merchandise acquired through pawn forfeitures and purchased from the general public. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. pawn stores provide collateral consumer loans on pledged personal properties, such as jewelry, consumer electronics, tools, sporting goods, and musical instruments; consumer financial services, including credit services, check cashing, money orders, money transfers, and prepaid card products. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. also owns and operates kiosks inside convenience stores that offer credit services and check cashing. As of December 31, 2009, First Cash Financial Services owned and operated 383 pawn stores and 163 short-term loan stores, as well as 39 financial services kiosks. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Arlington, Texas.

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) invests mainly in information technology companies focused on the semiconductor, software, and consumer Internet sectors. It typically invests between $10 million to $15 million in start-up or early-stage firms and assists its portfolio companies with executive recruiting, forming strategic alliances, and financial and legal matters. An affiliate of Wells Fargo, NVP closed its 11th fund worth some $1.2 million in late 2009. It is the firm's largest fund to date. NVP has more than $3.7 billion of capital under management and has invested in more than 450 companies.

Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles (BME), a leading European stock exchange operator by trading volume, has holdings that include Spain's four stock exchanges: Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Valencia. Its services include public offerings and trading facilities for equities, fixed-income securities, and derivatives. Additionally, the company owns subsidiaries that provide clearing and settlement services. BME has been operating since 1856; the Bolsa de Madrid traces its roots back to the Middle Ages. The company's shareholders include several of Spain's largest banks, including Grupo Santander and its subsidiary, Banco Espanol de Crndito SA (Banesto).

Capricorn Management was formed by managing general partner Herbert "Pug" Winokur in 1987. Capricorn Management was born under the dollar sign. Capricorn Management company is a private equity firm that targets companies valued between $50 and $500 million and holds them for about four to eight years. It looks for undervalued investments with strong customer bases. Investors in the firm include endowments, financial institutions, corporate pension funds, and select families and individuals. Capricorn generally invests $3 million to $35 million per transaction. Portfolio companies include snack food company Mrs. Fields and incontinence products maker Whitestone.

Mesabi Trust was founded in 1919 and is based in New York, New York. Mesabi Trust (the Trust) conserves and protects the Trust Estate, and collects and distributes the income and proceeds there from to the Trust’s certificate holders. The principal assets of Mesabi Trust consist of two different interests in certain properties in the Mesabi Iron Range: Mesabi Trust’s interest as assignor in the Amended Assignment of Peters Lease and the Amended Assignment of Cloquet Lease, which together cover properties aggregating approximately 9,750 largely contiguous acres in St. Louis County, Minnesota (the Peters Lease Lands and the Cloquet Lease Lands, respectively), and Mesabi Trust’s ownership of the entire beneficial interest in the Mesabi Land Trust, which has a 20% interest as fee owner in the Peters Lease Lands and a 100% fee ownership in certain non-mineral-bearing lands adjacent to the Peters and Cloquet Lease Lands (the Mesabi Lease Lands, together with the Peters Lease Lands and the Cloquet Lease Lands, the Trust Estate).

Bidtimes' ultimate goal is to invest in and provide advice to growing companies in the UK. Diminishing earnings and continual financial losses led the company to sell the entirety of its remaining freehold property investments in 2006 and 2007. The performance of its previous investments -- in publicly traded real estate investor Innobox, electronics manufacturer SRS Technology Group, and Blue Chip Casinos -- ultimately led to this strategic decision. Bidtimes is actively searching for businesses and scouting for a reverse takeover opportunity that will relaunch the company.

Matrix Asset Management was formed in early 2010 to group the assets of Matrix, SEAMARK, and GrowthWorks under one umbrella. The combined companies operate offices across Canada and manage about $3 billion in assets. Matrix Asset Management strives to be the investment point-of-origin for its clients. Part mutual fund manager, part private equity firm, Matrix Asset Management is the holding company for SEAMARK Asset Management, which offers portfolio management services to institutional and high-net-worth individuals; and GrowthWorks, a venture capital firm and fund manager. Other holdings include Mavrix Fund Management, a mutual funds manager and subsidiary of GrowthWorks.

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