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UBS Financial Services, Inc. is a registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Weehawken, New Jersey. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UBS Americas Inc., ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG; NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. Founded in 1969, UBS Financial Services provides investment advisory services to individuals, banks, thrift institutions, mutual funds and other investment companies, pension and employee benefit plans, trusts, estates, charities, corporations and other business and government entities.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. It also offers investment banking and advice to high net worth investors, individuals, businesses and institutions. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Belle Haven Investments LP (Belle Haven) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Rye Brook, New York. Founded in 1991, the firm provides investment management services to individuals, high net-worth individuals and families, pension and profit-sharing plans, registered investment companies, registered investment advisors, charitable organizations, business organizations, religious organizations, hospitals, insurance companies, educational institutions and pooled investment fund. Belle Haven also provides investment management services as a portfolio manager to various wrap fee programs.

Security Capital Brokerage, Inc. (SCB) is an independent US brokerage firm which was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm provides brokerage services to their clients.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Artemis Capital Group, Inc. engages in financial and managerial activities. The private company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Robin L. Wiessmann.

PRWT Services, Inc. provides business process outsourcing services. The firm’s services include customer call centers, document processing, digital printing, payment processing, mail intake services, pick-pack and print fulfillment, managed print services and facilities management. The company was founded by Willie Johnson, Raymond A. Saulino, Paul Dandridge and William Turner in 1988 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Loop Capital Markets LLC is provider of a broad range of integrated capital solutions for corporate, governmental, and institutional entities. They serve clients in public and corporate finance, equity, taxable and tax-exempt securities sales and trading and municipal research. Since their founding in 1997, they have served as managing underwriter on financings, participated in corporate bond underwritings, served as an underwriter in IPO and other equity offerings, and earned a reputation as a dedicated, resourceful partner with new ideas and new avenues of distribution. Loop Capital Markets is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, They serve clients on a national basis.

Part of Tecomet, Inc., Greenwich Partners LLC is a company that provides financial and brokerage services. The company is based in Greenwich, CT. Greenwich Partners was acquired by Ultrexx, Inc. on February 20, 2001.

Bowdoin College is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational residential, undergraduate liberal arts institution founded in 1794. It is located in Brunswick, ME.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Founded in 2006, CastleOak Securities LP is a minority-owned broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Atlanta and Chicago. CastleOak engages in sales and trading, capital markets and financial advisory services. The firm offers expertise in primary and secondary market transactions and is structured to handle mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, valuations and general strategic assessments. Their clients range from Fortune 500 to middle-market corporations, institutional investors and financial sponsors. CastleOak is in partnership with Cantor Fitzgerald. They do not provide any internal research.

Painewebber & Co., Inc. provides stock brokerage and asset management services. The private company is based in Los Angeles and has subsidiaries in the United States. The American company was founded by Brent D. Williams.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is a regulatory organization that oversees the municipal securities market in the United States. The private company is based in Alexandria, VA. Nanette Lawson has been the CEO of the company since 2011. The board was established by Congress in 1975 to protect investors and promote a fair and efficient market for municipal securities. The board sets rules and standards for underwriters, dealers, and municipal advisors, and provides market transparency through its Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) system.

Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Co. provides insurance products and services. The firm offers personal insurance products including disability, accident, life, cancer, critical illness, hospital confinement, and limited benefit medical coverage. The company was founded by Edwin F. Averyt and J. Clifton Judy in 1937 and is headquartered in Columbia, SC

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Blaylock Beal Van LLC (BBV) is a full service minority-owned investment banking and financial services company headquartered in New York City. The firm was formerly known as Blaylock Robert Van LLC. In 2007, Blaylock Robert Van LLC was formed when Blaylock & Co., an investment bank founded in 1993 by Ronald E. Blaylock, and Robert Van Securities, a financial services firm founded in 1991 by Eric V. Standifer joined forces. In January 2014, Bernard B. Beal, Founder and CEO of M.R. Beal & Co., joined the firm as Chairman, and the firm was renamed Blaylock Beal Van LLC. BBV focuses on the execution of domestic and international equity securities and baskets. Their domestic equity services include listed trading, NASDAQ trading, program trading, direct market access, algorithmic and dark pool access and transition management. Their international equity services include 24 hour global trading, FIX-enabled direct market access and individual stocks and baskets. BBV implements trading strategies globally through a network of brokerage relationships in all European, Latin American and African markets. They specialize in direct execution and step-out trades of international equities. The firm's fixed-income unit focuses on the competitive, cost-effective trading of U.S. Treasury bills, notes, bonds and agency securities.

Founded in 1988, Sturdivant & Co., Inc. is a full service brokerage firm located in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Sturdivant & Co. The firm's trading department utilizes the latest technologies to provide clients with maximum efficiency and overall execution excellence for both listed and NASDAQ orders. Sturdivant is connected to many of the major FIX order routing networks including Bloomberg, ITG RouteNet, MacGregor, TradeWare and TNS, as well as the major ECNs. With electronic order routing, traders benefit from seamless and efficient connectivity to Sturdivant directly from their existing systems. The firm strives to tap as many sources of liquidity to ensure that their clients' orders are executed as efficiently as possible. For clients who want their orders executed with a Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) strategy, Sturdivant's trading systems allow them to enter orders in multiple ways such as slicing the order into the market on a percentage basis, as a percentage of volume, or slicing it into the market at various times during the day. The firm brings their clients closer to the market through their relationship with a premier, independent Direct Access broker allowing them to provide point-of-sale execution and real-time information. Sturdivant is a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. They can execute client orders on all the worldwide exchanges through their relationship with BNY ConvergEx Group and HSBC Securities (USA), Inc.

Briefing.com, Inc. provides market analysis information for individual and professional investors. It services include stock tracking, news summaries and market commentary. The firm provides content to partners like Charles Schwab, Reuters, MSN, Forbes and Yahoo! Finance. The company was founded in 1992 by Dick Green and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Founded by Len Zacks in 1978, Zacks Investment Research, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment research firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with an office in Irvine, California. The firm is principally owned by The Greenwood Trust. Zacks makes both short-term and long-term investment recommendations using the following investment styles: aggressive growth, growth/income, momentum, value, technicals and options. Zack Investment Research employs the Zacks Rank, a 100% a peerless stock rating system that is based on a quantitative model that includes the use of four factors including as earnings estimate revisions and earnings surprises. Stocks are classified into five groups, ranging from 'Strong Buy' to 'Strong Sell.' Zacks Rank is completely mathematical and focuses only on the math and whether the math predicts that a stock's price will rise. It is a short-term indicator of stock performance that is effective for 1 to 3 months. The Zacks Recommendation process begins with a new quantitative model that employs the Zacks Rank. The firm then utilizes qualitative insights to develop a unique recommendation based on a 6 month time horizon. Zacks Investment Research provides coverage primarily on the following sectors: (1) manufacturers of electrical components (2) photo optics/lasers (3) HPC computing platforms (4) manufacturers and distributors of textiles (5) information technology (6) independent oil and gas companies involved in the exploration, development and acquisition of crude oil and natural gas (6) providers of docking, manipulator and wafer probing interface products for semiconductor and ATE manufacturers (7) companies that design and manufacture oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers and protocol analyzers to test, measure and analyze electronic signals (8) manufacturers of branded toys, collectibles, hobby or infant products and (9) financial services companies.

University of Miami (Florida) is a private research university with students from around the world that is focused on teaching and learning, the discovery of new knowledge, and service to the South Florida region and beyond. The university was founded in 1925 and it is headquartered in Coral Gables, FL.