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.

Wall Street Associates was formed in 1987 from the spinoff of California First Bank's investment advisor subsidiary and is now owned by its employees. Wall Street Associates was formed in 1987 from the spinoff of California First Bank's investment advisor subsidiary and is now owned by its employees.

Nuveen Investments was founded in 1898 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Nuveen Investments, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to public pension funds, university endowments, foundations, insurers, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional investors. It manages closed-end exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, and hedge funds for its clients. The firm also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth stocks of large-cap companies and value stocks of multi-cap companies with a focus on large-cap and small-cap companies. It in invests in national and state-specific municipal securities to make its fixed income investments.

MTS HEALTH PARTNERS, L.P. offers strategic advisory and capital raising services as well as private equity capital distinguished by unparalleled healthcare experience, senior level attention and a unique perspective as both an advisor as well as a principal. As an industry-focused merchant bank, MTS is free from the pressure to satisfy the competing institutional constituencies of a typical investment bank. The principals of MTS have spent their careers focused on the healthcare industry, with over 100 years of experience in acquiring, operating, advising, financing and selling healthcare companies. As such, MTS is uniquely positioned as the premier global healthcare-focused merchant bank.

Advanced Equities Financial Corp. was founded in 1999 by independent business owners and securities industry executives Keith Daubenspeck and Dwight Badger, whose entrepreneurial spirit led them to defy old-line traditions and convention by starting a different kind of firm. Advanced Equities soon became the pioneer in providing qualified high-net-worth individuals access to late-stage private equity offerings—opportunities previously available only to institutional investors. AEFC has developed a reputation for being led by entrepreneurs who want to help other entrepreneurs.Blazing a new trail in the world of private equity was followed by a singular approach to retail brokerage through the acquisition of First Allied Securities, Inc., which helped AEFC reinvent the independent advisor model. The First Allied model focuses on meeting the requirements of entrepreneurs with a deep understanding of their need for choices, providing access to opportunities in an ecosystem where initiative and autonomy reign supreme. AEFC made its first of many acquisitions in 2003 and by 2006 was named as the nation's No. 1 fastest growing brokerage firm by Inc. magazine.

Grotech Management Company was founded in 1984 by managing general partner Frank Adams. Grotech Ventures invests in early, expansion, and growth stage technology companies. The company focuses on long-term investments in communications, information technology, software, and Internet businesses. Grotech's portfolio of about 30 companies includes telecommunications equipment provider Aztek Networks, voice-over-IP company BroadSoft, and broadcasting technology developer ibiquity Digital Radio. Investments range from $500,000 to $5 million.

West Midlands Enterprise Ltd was founded in 1982 as a venture capital provider. 1986 saw the establishment of its consultancy arm, which initially served the UK but then branched out into mainland Europe and other parts of the world. Most recently, the company has established an IT consultancy and has hived down its UK economic development consultancy activities into a separate company, Consulting Inplace Limited.WM Enterprise* is a privately owned consultancy and fund manager. It delivers IT and business consultancy in the UK and economic and regional development consultancy internationally. Its fund management activities are concerned with the provision of venture capital, primarily to small and medium sized enterprises. WM Enterprise also provides management support and business services.

GenSpring Family Offices was founded in 1989 and is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Miami, Florida; Orlando, Florida; St. Petersburg, Florida; and Chevy Chase, Maryland. GenSpring Family Offices, LLC. operates as a subsidiary of GenSpring Holdings, Inc. GenSpring Family Offices, LLC is a privately owned multi-family office with approximately $5.88 billion in assets under management. It also provides estate and trust planning, tax planning, and philanthropy services to its clients. The firm provides its services to individuals, typically high net worth individuals; pension and profit sharing plans; pooled investment vehicles; charitable organizations, and corporations. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm also makes its investments in private equity and hedge funds.

Tejas Securities Group, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary and a primary business operating unit of Tejas Incorporated (Pink Sheets: TEJS), a publicly traded holding company.Tejas Securities Group, Inc. is a registered Broker-Dealer offering brokerage and investment banking services. In addition to dealing with a broad product offering serving value-based institutional and retail investors, the firm specializes in the analysis of distressed and high yield corporate debt, high yield municipal bonds, mortgage-backed securities and special situation securities.

Founded in 1988, JLL Partners is among the leading private equity investment firms in the country. JLL Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in balance sheet restructurings, buyouts, operational turnarounds, acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, industry consolidations, growth capital, and strategic co-investments. It invests in companies which are significantly over-leveraged; companies lacking committed sponsorship; companies requiring strategic and/or operational refocusing; companies in out-of-favor industries; businesses being divested from a larger corporate entity; and companies seeking a financial partner to pursue their strategies. The firm seeks to invest in manufacturing and services, financial services, healthcare and medical services, and building products. It seeks to take a majority stake in its portfolio companies.

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