Established in London in 1997 as a subsidiary of US-based bond manager PIMCO, PIMCO Europe offers a variety of account services, institutional, and individual investment funds. Typical investors hail from corporate pension plans, foundations, endowments, public retirement plans, and corporate treasury departments, among others. PIMCO Europe has some E105 billion (approximately $140 billion) in assets under management. PIMCO is one of several investment management arms of German insurer Allianz. PIMCO Europe provides fixed-income management services to clients in the UK and Europe.

Harry Clark founded Willdan Financial Services in 1988. Willdan Financial Services offers financial and business consulting services to more than 600 cities, counties, housing and state agencies, port authorities, and school districts in nearly 40 states. Willdan Financial specializes in the planning and implementation of taxes and compliance services for municipal bonds. Willdan Financial also offers utility rate analysis, user fee studies, and annexation studies. It operates offices in California, Arizona, Florida, Maryland, New York, and Texas.

Nicholas Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialized consumer finance company. Nicholas Financial, Inc. engages in acquiring and servicing contracts for purchases of new and used automobiles and light trucks. Nicholas Financial, Inc. also makes direct loans and sells consumer-finance related products. In addition, Nicholas Financial, Inc. engages in developing, marketing, supporting, and updating industry-specific computer application software for small businesses located primarily in the Southeast United States. Nicholas Financial, Inc. operates 54 branch locations in the Southeast and the Mid-Western states. Nicholas Financial, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Clearwater, Florida.

Hershey Trust Company was founded in 1905 and is based in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Hershey Trust Company operates as a subsidiary of Milton Hershey School Trust. Hershey Trust Company operates as a trust company. Hershey Trust company provides investment, financial planning, and administrative solutions to individual and institutional investors. Hershey Trust also manages real estate properties, including farmhouses and modern ranch homes in secluded country settings, as well as apartments and Cape Cod style homes in Hershey.

Savvy investors and securities professionals use the online services of BondsOnline Group, Inc. - BondsOnline® and PreferredsOnline™ - for information, education and direction in making bond and fixed income investment decisions. From tracking bond prices and bond market news, to searching for preferred stocks and convertible preferred stocks, to self directed education, active personal advice and bond trading, BondsOnline is your source. Get real time prices of over 15,000 current bond offerings, for US corporate bonds, municipal bonds, Treasury bonds, STRIPS and CDs. Get historical prices, descriptive data, and reorganization data on over 3.5 million securities covering all global markets with BondsOnline Quotes and Data. Rely on the Internet's only complete, and updated, database of over 3,500 North American preferred stocks and convertible preferred stocks to help your buy / sell / hold decision. Useful tools such as a daily US Treasury yield curve and corporate yield spreads for all grades of US Corporate bonds help in your decision process. And, on top of all of this, we provide articles, databases, newsletters, bond value calculators, books and other products for the fixed income investor.

Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and known as the PHLX for short) might think so. Founded in 1790, the exchange claims seniority status over the larger New York Stock Exchange. The PHLX provides electronic and hybrid floor-based trading of equities, options, and futures trading, as well as clearing services. The exchange trades some 7,000 stocks and 2,600 equity options. In 2008 The Nasdaq OMX Group bought the PHLX from a group of investors including Citadel Investment Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse (USA), Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and UBS for some $695 million. The exchange is now part of the Nasdaq Transaction Services US Group.

Inflexion, which was founded in 1999, has offices in London and Manchester. Inflexion flexes its muscles by nurturing growth companies. The private equity firm focuses on the buyout and development of small- to mid-market businesses and it typically invests from £15 million to £100 million ($24 million to $162 million). Inflexion gets involved with its portfolio companies and specializes in corporate finance, recovery, and consulting. The firm has made investments in various sectors from oil and gas to apparel. Recent investments include health care staffing firm Independent Clinical Services, subsea vehicle manufacturer SMD, clothing company Jack Wills, and industrial products firm Aspen Pumps.

Sealaska Corporation was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Juneau, Alaska. Sealaska Corporation operates as a landowner with surface lands and subsurface lands in the southeast Alaska. Sealaska Corporation company also engages in harvesting and marketing wood products for hardwood outdoor furniture in the Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest. In addition, it invests in construction and manufacturing aggregates, plastics injection molding, environmental consulting, machining and prototyping, logistics, financial, and information technology markets.

Gemina was established in 1961, under the name of Compagnia Generale Alimentare S.r.l., as a holding company operating in the food sector. During the 1970's, the company took on its current name and started operating as an industrial holding company, and in 1981 was listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. During the '80s, the company launched an investment program in the financial and merchant-banking sectors. In 1996, the company started progressively reducing its financial sector investments, which were no longer considered strategic, and redirected its energies, mainly focusing on the industrial sector. In March 1997, Gemina's partial division, with the establishment of the beneficiary HdP, started gaining effectiveness. Indeed, the shareholdings in the industrial companies present in Gemina's investment portfolio were transferred to HdP. Gemina then concluded the divestment of its financial assets, direct to acquire, by launching, in the second half of 1998, a new investment program:significant quotas of shareholdings in companies, operating in well-established businesses and capable of ensuring a suitable level of soundness to the company portfolio and in medium/small sized companies operating in the production of goods and services and with good development prospects. Starting from 2000 Gemina focuses its activities on directing and controlling its subsidiaries. In the same period Gemina takes part in the privatization of ADR (managing company of Roma’s airports) and develops its core business in the area of airports’ infrastructures. In the meantime Gemina divests its shareholdings in the other subsidiaries and today it holds the 95,76% of ADR shares’ capital that is the most important asset of Gemina’s group.

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.

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