Acuity Ventures is a Silicon Valley based family of venture capital funds that provides investment capital and strategic and operational guidance to early stage and emerging growth companies. The latest fund, Acuity Ventures III, L.P. is currently investing. The fund provides capital through convertible preferred debt, direct equity investments and other investment participations.Acuity strives to incubate qualified companies with financing facilities and access to important alliances in order to position these companies for profitable growth and liquidity exit. Acuity maintains alliances with other capital sources and its high net worth, as well as strategic consulting and advisory firms that specialize in high-technology startups.

POCKET CARD CO., LTD. is the Tokyo-based financial services. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. provides credit cards, smart cards, loans, leasing, life insurance, and travel services to customers through roughly 200 automated terminals and staffed locations across Japan. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. sells its services through former parent MYCAL Group's SATY and VIVRE fashion and food stores, but is rapidly expanding via non-MYCAL outlets. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. credit cards are accepted at MasterCard locations in Japan and abroad. Sanyo Shinpan Finance Co. owns more than 50% of POCKET CARD's common stock; ITOCHU Finance Corp. is its second largest shareholder.

Ohio Public Employees Retirement System was founded in 1935 and is based in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Public Employees Retirement System is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefit programs to its clients. It primarily provides its services to public employees, retirees, and beneficiaries. The firm manages pension funds and principal investment funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in the alternative investments markets, typically limiting such investments to private equity, including venture capital; real estate; currency markets; derivatives; hedge fund-of funds; and commodities. It also invests in exchange traded funds and ADRs while making its investments. For its equity investments, the firm typically invests in the large-cap and small-cap companies. It also invests in warrants, initial public offerings, and preferred securities. For its fixed income investments, the firm typically invests in investment-grade securities, high yield debt, treasury inflation protected securities, corporate bonds, government bonds, short-term securities. It also makes limited partnership investments. The firm seeks to commit between $5 million and $15 million per partnership and has a net internal rate of return target of 20%.

St. James's Place plc, through its subsidiaries, provides financial and wealth management services in the United Kingdom. It offers pensions, protection, and investment products; unit trust investment products, including ISAs and PEPs; and financial products, such as annuities, mortgages, and stakeholder pensions from third party providers. The company, formerly known as St. James's Place Capital plc, was founded in 1977 and changed its name to St. James's Place plc in May 2006. The company is headquartered in Cirencester, the United Kingdom.

GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Bedminster, New Jersey. GAIN Capital Holdings provides over-the-counter foreign exchange (forex) services to active self-directed retail traders (more than 90% of its client base) and through as financial intermediaries such as broker-dealers and futures commission merchants. GAIN Capital Holdings company's FOREXTrader platform provides online trading tools and educational resources to help individual investors participate in forex trading online. Dealing in more than 40 currencies, GAIN Capital serves clients from more than 140 countries; more than half its customers are outside the US.

Hotung Investment Holdings Ltd, a venture capital firm with operations in Taiwan, the US and China, was incorporated in March 1997 and has been listed on the Main Board of SGX-ST since August 1997. It is the first and only Taiwan venture capital firm listed on the Singapore Exchange. The Group's two business divisions are Venture Capital Investment and Fund Management Operation. In Venture Capital Investment Business, it works through its 3 subsidiaries, Hotung Venture Capital, Daitung Development and Investment and Huitung Investments (BVI) Ltd. In Fund Management Operations, through Hotung International Co Ltd. (“HIC”) one of Taiwan’s largest venture capital investment managers, currently manages and/or advises 8 funds globally and internationally. HIC, a value-added partner to our portfolio of companies, provides management and advisory services in respect of hundreds of investee companies.The Group’s investment portfolio is focused on key industry sectors that include semiconductor, LCD and communications etc. Over 65% of the Group’s portfolio investments are in the greater China region, while the rest is based in the US. Hotung Group was formerly known as Hotung Venture Capital Corp ("Hotung VC"). Hotung VC was founded by Tai Lung Capital Inc. (formally known as Tai Lung Corp.), Daiwa Corporate Investment Co., Ltd. (formally known as Daiwa SMBC Capital Co.,Ltd.) and Mega International Commercial Bank (formally known as Chiao Tung Commercial Bank Co Ltd) in June 1987. In 1997, as part of the restructuring exercise conducted for purposes of the Company's public offering, the venture capital fund management contracts were transferred from Hotung VC to Hotung International Co.,Ltd. and Hotung VC became purely a venture capital fund. Hotung Investment Holdings Ltd was incorporated in Bermuda on 5 March 1997.

AXA Rosenberg Group LLC is the specialist active global equity investment management firm within the AXA Investment Managers group. As of March 2010, the firm manages more than $62 billion in assets globally. The firm was founded in Orinda, California, in 1985 as Rosenberg Institutional Equity Management by Dr. Barr Rosenberg and a small team of colleagues who were confident that investment insights could be gained by combining statistical methods with detailed knowledge of company fundamentals. Quickly expanding globally, the firm opened offices in Tokyo, London and Singapore in the years that followed. The original Rosenberg group joined with AXA Investment Managers in 1999, becoming AXA Rosenberg. The company has continued to expand its presence in major financial markets globally and now has offices in Hong Kong, Toronto, Greenwich, and Sydney. AXA Rosenberg is a fundamental manager devoted to the rigorous, dispassionate analysis of data. The cornerstone of our investment philosophy is simple: investors can profit by purchasing stocks that have a distinct earnings advantage relative to their peers.

World Acceptance Corporation engages in small-loan consumer finance business. It offers short-term small loans, medium-term larger loans, related credit insurance, and ancillary products and services, as well as loans standardized by amount and maturity. World Acceptance Corporation also offers income tax return preparation services and access to refund anticipation loans. In addition, World Acceptance Corporation markets and sells credit life, credit accident and health, credit property, and unemployment insurance products; markets automobile club memberships to its borrowers; and reinsures credit insurance. Further, World Acceptance Corporation, through its subsidiary, ParaData Financial Systems, provides data processing systems; and markets computer software and related services to financial services companies. World Acceptance Corporation serves individuals with limited access to consumer credit from banks, savings and loans, other consumer finance businesses, and credit card lenders. As of March 31, 2009, the company has 944 offices in South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mexico. World Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina.

Bain Capital was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Bain Capital, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, start up, early to late stage, growth capital, emerging growth, corporate divestitures, spin offs, management buyouts, industry consolidations, and family/founder situations. It focuses its investments in information technology, including information data, software, hardware, and Internet; communications, including telecommunications, broadcasting, and media; healthcare, including devices and equipment, distribution and information, providers, and other medical products; industrial and manufacturing including, automotive, steel and non-ferrous metals, industrial equipment, engineered components, and business services. The firm also seeks to invest in retail and consumer products including, traditional retailers, on-line merchandising, consumer products, food and restaurants, and consumer services and finance including banking, credit cards, insurance, mortgage, brokerage, exchanges, transaction processing infrastructure and software, and information.

Borsa Italiana S.p.A. was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy. As of October 1, 2007, Borsa Italiana S.p.A. is a subsidiary of London Stock Exchange plc. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. regulates, develops, and manages the Italian equities markets, the Italian Derivatives market, the Securitised Derivatives market, the electronic Fixed Income market, the electronic ETFs and ETCs market, and the Electronic Market where closed-end funds are traded. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. company also operates an after hours market where financial instruments are traded after the close of the daily market. It offers listing, post trading and custody, information, training, and information technologies services.

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