CITIC Pacific Limited was founded in 1990. CITIC Pacific Limited engages in the special steel manufacturing and iron ore mining operations primarily in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The company’s segments include Special Steel, Iron Ore Mining, Property, Aviation, Power Generation, Civil Infrastructure, Communications, and Marketing and Distribution. Special Steel CITIC Pacific Special Steel operates as a special steel manufacturer in China. Special Steel is used in a range of industries, including auto components, machinery manufacturing, transportation, energy, railways and shipping. The major products are bearing steel, gear steel, spring steel and seamless steel tubes. These are used in a range of different industries, including auto components, machinery manufacturing, oil, petrochemicals, transportation, energy, railways and shipping. The company’s three operating plants, Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel, Xin Yegang Steel and Shijiazhuang Steel, are ideally located to cover the main markets for special steel in eastern, central and northern China. Special steel refers to steel that has added or extra benefits, such as heat resistance, anti corrosion and anti fatigue. Categorised by shape, special steel includes bar steel, plate, strip steel, tube steel and wire steel. Customers: The company’s customers include Jiangsu Zhenda Seamless Tube; Pangang Group Chengdu Iron and Steel; Yangzhou Chengde Steel Tube; Dongfeng Motor; and Jiangxi Hongdu Steelworks. Iron Ore Mining The Sino Iron project is the most advanced magnetite development in Australia. CITIC Pacific has rights to two billion tonnes of resource.

Questar Capital wants to be a shining example of a financial services provider. Questar Capital Corporation offers a full range of investment products -- including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, and insurance -- via a network of more than 500 representatives throughout the country. Customers of Questar Capital can choose products from about 90 mutual fund companies, some 70 variable life and annuity companies, and 15 fee-based money managers. Insurance provider Allianz Life acquired Questar Capital in 2005, combined it with USAllianz Securities, and gave the combined entity the Questar Capital name.

MF Global gives its clients access to the world's marketplaces Monday through Friday (and weekends, too). MF Global Holdings Ltd. provides trade execution, clearing, and settlement services for cash, equity derivatives, commodities, and fixed-income products on more than 70 exchanges, as well as over the counter. MF Global Holdings Ltd. also makes markets for fixed-income instruments and conducts equity research. MF Global's clients include institutional and individual investors, corporations, professional traders, hedge funds, and asset managers. MF Global Holdings Ltd. handles an average of nearly five million contracts per day. MF Global has about a dozen offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Interactive Brokers Group serves investors who interact with world markets, focusing on the use of technology in securities trading. Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. does business through electronic market-maker Timber Hill, as well as its Interactive Brokers brokerage subsidiaries; it executes some 1 million trades daily in stocks, options, futures, foreign exchange, and corporate bonds. Customers may trade on about 80 exchanges and market centers worldwide. Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. caters to experienced individual and institutional investors. Large banks and brokerages can also provide the company's interface to their customers through a white-label arrangement. Founder and chairman Thomas Peterffy controls Interactive Brokers Group.

Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. was founded in 1988 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions of any size for its existing portfolio companies. It does not invest in turnarounds and venture capital. The firm prefers to invest in industrial distribution; infrastructure and industrial products with a focus on companies that manufacture products or provide services with applications in infrastructure-related industries; consumer products with a focus on consumer manufacturing, services, and food companies; and business and consumer services with a focus on specialty rental, healthcare services, information and document management, commercial and industrial services, facilities-based retail and entertainment, and personal care companies in the United States. It also seeks to invest in marketing services, business process outsourcing, education services, and financial services. For its consumer products investments, the firm does not invest in companies where end-market demand is subject to rapid changes in fashion.

Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices across United States. Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (HTGC) is a specialty finance company that provides debt and equity growth capital to technology-related companies at all stages of development from seed and emerging growth to expansion and established stages of development, which include select publicly listed companies and lower middle market companies. The Company primarily finances privately-held companies backed by venture capital and private equity firms and also may finance certain select publicly-traded companies that lack access to public capital or are sensitive to equity ownership dilution. HTGC sources its investments through its principal office located in Silicon Valley, as well as its additional offices in the Boston and Boulder.

Metro Pacific Investments Corporation operates as an investment and management company in the Philippines. It provides water and sewerage services in the area of West Metro Manila. The company also engages in the operation and maintenance of toll facilities; operation and management of hospitals, nursing schools, medical and chemical clinics, and/or laboratories; distribution and supply of electricity; and development, management, operation, and maintenance of Manila North Harbour. In addition, it involves in real estate investments and property development, as well as provides management services.

Silverfleet Capital Partners was founded in 1990. Silverfleet Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in middle market management buyouts, secondary buyouts, buyins, buy and build, and industry consolidation. It does not invest in development capital, minority shareholdings (unless as part of a consortium of investors), turnaround, or early stage financing. The firm seeks to invest in private companies operating in mature markets and going private transactions and supports its portfolio companies in product or geographic expansion organically or through acquisition. It prefers to invest in all sectors including industrial and commercial sectors with a focus on business and financial services, distribution, healthcare, leisure, consumer, and retail sectors. The firm primarily invests in Europe with a particular focus on the English, French, and German speaking countries and Nordic countries. It also invests in United States headquartered companies that either have or are developing significant activities in Europe. The firm typically invests in companies having enterprise value between €75 million ($97.25 million) and €500 million ($648.33 million).

Three Cities Research, Inc. was founded in 1976. Three Cities Research, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of medium sized business. The firm seeks to invest in transactions that involve a change of control in unexploited growth situations that can benefit from the infusion of substantial equity capital which can fund growth involving both internal expansion and acquisitions; under performing companies due to poor operating performance, excess leverage, or failed strategies; companies with poor operating management; and complicated transactions including strategic issues, legal complications, capital problems, operating issues, and shareholder or debt holder issues. It seeks to invest in industrial manufacturing, distribution, apparel, publishing, services, and retailing. The firm seeks to invest a minimum of $20 million in companies that have the potential of generating at least $15 million of operating income. It prefers to be an all-cash buyer in transactions of up to $100 million. The firm typically targets transactions that have values up to $200 million. It does not invest in high technology, natural resources, or regulated industries.

Fitch Ratings, one of the top three credit rating agencies in the world (alongside Moody's and Standard & Poor's), issues ratings for thousands of banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, corporations, and governments. With dual headquarters in New York and London and about 50 offices worldwide, Fitch Ratings engages in the politically charged business of rating the debt of nations; Fitch Ratings Inc. covers companies and governments in more than 90 nations. French holding company Fimalac owns 60% of Fitch Ratings; The Hearst Corporation owns the rest. Financial statistician John Knowles Fitch founded the company in 1913.

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