Wells Fargo Advisors (formerly Wachovia Securities) is the securities brokerage arm of Wells Fargo & Company. Wells Fargo merged its brokerage with Wachovia Securities in 2009 after it acquired Wachovia. With more than $1 trillion worth of assets under management and more than 6 million client accounts, Wells Fargo Advisors offers a range of brokerage, asset management, and financial advisory services. Its Envision program tailors investment plans for mostly affluent clients. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC Capital Markets unit performs investment banking services.

Established in 1980, General Atlantic has stakes in about 40 firms. Portfolio companies include AKQA,Lenovo Group, and ZAGAT Survey. General Atlantic helps little fish become bigger fish in the big pond called business. The private equity firm provides both capital and strategic support to public and private growth companies. With about $13 billion in capital under management, General Atlantic focuses its investments on such sectors as energy, financial services, health care, media, and technology. Typical investments range from $50 million to $500 million, and its average investment period lasts from five to seven years.

iStar Financial Inc. operates as a finance company focusing on the commercial real estate industry. iStar Financial Inc. provides custom-tailored financing to high-end private and corporate owners of real estate. iStar Financial Inc. financing products include senior and mezzanine real estate debt, senior and mezzanine corporate capital, corporate net lease financing, and equity. iStar Financial Inc. also involves in corporate tenant leasing business, which provides capital to corporations and others who control facilities leased primarily to single creditworthy customers. As of December 31, 2008, iStar Financial owned 362 office, industrial, entertainment, hotel, and retail facilities in 39 states. iStar Financial Inc. qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. iStar Financial Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in New York, New York.

IP Group plc was founded in 2001 and is based in London, United Kingdom. IP Group plc is a principal investment firm specializing in commercializing intellectual property. It seeks to invest in the life sciences and physical sciences sectors. IP Group plc provides seed capital financing to spin out companies from the universities. It also provides support for its university partners' intellectual property commercialization activities, as well as in the identification of intellectual property and in return takes equity positions in its portfolio companies.

Suffolk Life Group plc was founded in 1971 and is based in Ipswich, the United Kingdom. As of May 6, 2008, Suffolk Life Group Plc operates as a subsidiary of Legal & General Retail Investments (Holdings) Ltd. Suffolk Life Group Plc provides and administrates specialist pension products in the United Kingdom. It offers various self invested personal pensions (SIPPs), including deed poll SIPPs and trust based SIPPs. The company deals in various assets with specialization in the purchase and management of various properties, such as football stadiums, zoos, airfields, gyms, fishing lakes, and town squares as part of the SIPP portfolio. It also provides pensions and investment administration services.

New Horizons Venture Capital, one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s premier venture capital firms, invests in early stage firms with unique models that deliver high value-added, differentiated services while generating longer-term, sustainable earnings. New Horizons aims to serve as a long-term, value-added partner to its portfolio companies. This long-term relationship is reinforced by extensive on-going strategic, financial, and operational support. New Horizons, with its sister leveraged buy-out firm Capitol Partners, manages $200 million in assets.

Essex Woodlands Health Ventures was founded in 1985 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in New York, New York, The Woodlands, Texas, and London, United Kingdom. Essex Woodlands Health Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in the healthcare sectors. The firm typically invests across all stages of company development including early stage, late stage, growth equity, and PIPE transactions. In the healthcare sector it seeks to invest in drug, device and service companies, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, medical devices, healthcare services, managed care, and health information technology. The firm prefers to invest in companies throughout the world including east coast, west coast, and mid-west of United States with a focus on North America, Europe, and Asia. It typically invests growth capital in mature companies having revenues between $20 million and $100 million.

Alerion Capital Group, LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona with an additional office in Salt Lake City, Utah. Alerion Capital Group, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in later-stage and middle-market companies whose owners wish to fully or partially liquefy their positions. The firm prefers to invest in recapitalizations, management buyouts, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, strategic acquisition, industry consolidation, growth capital transactions, and pursue divestments of non-core subsidiaries. It also invests in companies that will significantly benefit from strategic refocusing or operating improvements. The firm typically invests in hardware and devices, electronics, instrumentation, semiconductor, business technology services, and technology enabled services (non-technology industry). It also invests in software with a focus on software as a service (SaaS); outsourcing with a focus on offshore manufacturing, development and services; security technologies with a focus on software and homeland security; and communications with a focus on wireless, convergence, and social networking. The firm usually invests in companies based in Southwest, Mountain West, and Pacific.

Second Avenue Partners Seattle-based venture capital firm specializes in early stage, high-tech companies with promise. It also helps if they are located in the Pacific Northwest. The firm's portfolio has about 10 such companies, including data management software provider Bocada, data miner Revenue Science, and broadband services provider Terabeam. Second Avenue Partners was founded by a quartet of high-tech success stories (including former executives from Microsoft and Starwave) in 2000.

Founded in 1992 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Investors Capital Corporation (ICC) is the dually-registered, premier independent broker dealer of publicly-traded Investors Capital Holdings, Ltd. (AMEX: ICH). ICC is a full-service firm that, today, supports the ongoing needs of practically any type of business model: independent registered representative, independent registered investment advisor, or OSJ.Investors Capital Corporation partners with nearly 700 registered representatives nationwide. We take great pride in providing them with the concierge-level service, superior back-office support, full financial planning and brokerage capabilities, practice management and marketing expertise, powerful technology, superb advisory platform, and complete range of financial products and services they need to achieve true independence and help them exceed the expectations of their clients.

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