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Guggenheim Securities LLC is a SEC-registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Links Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Guggenheim Partners LLC. Guggenheim Securities’ specializations include the sales and trading of fixed-income securities and sophisticated structured products. The firm offers in-depth analysis and expert execution of trading opportunities to large institutional investors and asset originators. They offer sales and trading services relating to a wide range of instruments.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is the investment bank and brokerage subsidiary of CFS CF & Co. I Holdings LP, which is owned by Cantor Fitzgerald LP in the US. The firm was founded by Bernie Gerald Cantor and John Fitzgerald in 1945. Headquartered in New York City, Cantor Fitzgerald offers clients a global, multi-asset prime brokerage platform with a focus on the quality middle market.

Part of Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley DW, Inc. is a broker/dealer. The company is based in Purchase, NY.

Founded in 1999 by the late Thomas Watson, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (JMS) is a full-service financial services firm and registered broker/dealer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm is a subsidiary of Independence Square Properties LLC, itself a subsidiary of Penn Mutual Insurance Co. Their ultimate parent is Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. JMS is a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm provides comprehensive financial advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional investors. Their primary coverage verticals include the consumer, technology, financials and infrastructure sectors.

Royal Bank of Canada (New York Branch) operates as national commercial bank. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Clinton Group, Inc. is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by George E. Hall in 1991 and is a subsidiary of Madison Avenue Capital Holdings, Inc., which is owned by CGI Holdings, Inc. Clinton Group serves as investment manager primarily for an offshore private investment fund, as well as pools of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), collateralized bond obligations (CBOs) and other structured products for which the the firm as collateral manager.

VB Capital Management AG is a Swiss private investment firm that specializes in fixed income and equities portfolio management. The private company is based in Zurich, Switzerland and was founded in 2018. The Swiss company also provides operational support, managerial advisory, and corporate finance solutions to the companies they invest in. The company acts as an investment manager to a select number of elite clients and are regulated by SOFIT, a self-regulatory organization recognized and supervised by FINMA. Alejandro Gonzalez Ribadeneira has been the CEO of the company since 2019.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Oppenheimer-Broker) is the global full-service brokerage division of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an investment boutique headquartered in New York City with additional offices nationwide. Founded in 1975, the firm is owned directly by Viner Finance Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (NYSE: OPY). Oppenheimer-Broker offers a full array of brokerage services to retail, institutional, and corporate clients.

JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc. (JPMIM) is a global, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 as the result of Chase Manhattan's purchase of Robert Fleming Holdings and the subsequent merger of Chase and JPMorgan. In January 2010, JPMorgan Investment Advisors merged into JP Morgan Investment Management. JPMIM is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). The firm primarily provides investment advisory services to both US and non-US institutional and retail clients.

Hilltop Securities, Inc. (dba HilltopSecurities) is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1946 as Southwest Securities, Inc. and they a subsidiary of Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC. Hilltop Securities provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients.

ICBA Securities Corp. provides investment banking services. The private company is based in Memphis, TN. The CEO of the company is Jim Reber.

Part of Stifel Financial Corp., First Empire Securities, Inc. is a company that provides investment brokerage services. The company is based in Hauppauge, NY.

InspereX LLC is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Thomas S. Rickets and Joe Rickard in 1999 as Incapital LLC. They are a subsidiary of InpereX Holdings LLC. InspereX provides market participants cloud-tech tools and market-linked product education to better execute their trading strategies and manage their portfolios.

StoneX Financial, Inc. (SFI) is a registered broker-dealer firm headquartered in Winter Park, Florida. The firm was founded in 1998 and formerly known as INTL FCStone Securities, Inc. and as INTL FCStone Financial, Inc. They are a subsidiary of StoneX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNEX). SFI provides institutional clients with a complete suite of equity trading services to help them find liquidity with best execution and end-to-end clearing. The firm specializes in delivering speed, accuracy and execution quality to their customers in illiquid and complex markets.

Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network LLC (WFAFN) is a SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 2001, the firm is a subsidiary of Wachovia Securities Financial Holdings LLC and is a non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC), a financial holding company and bank holding company created in 1852. WFAFN provides advisory services to individuals, pension or profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates or charitable organizations, corporations or other business entities, governmental entities and educational institutions, as well as banks or thrift institutions. The firm also sponsors several wrap fee advisory programs.

David R. Rahn & Associates, Inc., do-business-as Avalon Capital Management (Avalon), is a wealth management firm and registered investment advisor headquartered in Redwood City, California. The firm was founded in 1992 by David Rahn, Clara Basile and William Oberman. Avalon offers investment management services to their clients composed of individual clients and families, most of whom are high net-worth individuals.

Founded in 2008, Odeon Capital Group LLC is an independent full-service broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides advice and execution on fundamental value and catalyst-driven situations through sales and trading, research, investment banking and asset management services. Odeon Capital Group provides services related to fixed-income securities including corporate securities, ABS, RMBS, Auction Rate securities and other structured products. The firm serves institutional clients. Odeon Capital Group is a member of FINRA, the SIPC and the MSRB. Odeon Capital Group has expertise in both traditional and esoteric assets. The firm has placed both large and small volume transactions in every asset class. They seek to maximize value for their clients through in-depth analyses of sectors, asset classes and individual securities that are hard to value or trade. The firm's Structured Products and Corporate Groups focus on institutional sales, trading and analytics of secondary structured products, esoteric assets and special situations.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

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.

Federal Home Loan Bank System provides funds to financial institutions for home mortgage and small business. It offers member with reliable source of funding for housing finance, community lending and asset-liability management as well as liquidity for members’ short-term needs. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Academy Securities, Inc. is a military veteran and disabled veteran owned and operated investment bank and broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2009 by former US Naval Officer Chance Mims. It specializes in Equity & Debt Capital Markets, Public Finance, Investment Banking, and Institutional Agency Trading: Equity and Fixed Income. Academy Securities offers research sales and sales trading agency execution services to institutional clients including corporations, mutual funds, hedge funds, endowments, foundations, state agencies, registered investment advisors and pension funds. They maintain equity & fixed income trading desks in New York, Chicago, San Diego, and Chapel Hill.

San Francisco Employees' Retirement System (SFERS) is a pension fund management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1922 and is owned by the City & Country of San Francisco. SFERS administers two benefit programs for active and retired members: a Pension Plan (defined benefit plan) and a 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan (defined contribution plan).

Seelaus Asset Management LLC (Seelaus AM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chatham, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Patrick L. Smith in 2009 and is owned by R. Seelaus & Co., Inc. Seelaus AM designs customized investment strategies for corporations, high-net-worth individuals, financial advisors, family offices, pension plans, foundations and other institutional investors.

Callan LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Edwin Callan and Edgar Barksdale in 1973 as Callan Associates, Inc. They are wholly-owned by Callan Holdings, Inc., which is owned by the company’s employees or their trusts. Callan provides tailored advice primarily to institutional investors supported by proprietary research, database, and ongoing fiduciary education.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Alaska Retirement Management Board (ARMB) is a state-owned pension fund management firm headquartered in in Juneau, Alaska. The Board was founded by the Legislature in 2005, upon the dissolution of the Alaska State Pension Investment Board. ARMB assumed fiduciary responsibility for the assets of the state's retirement systems which has assigned by the Alaska Legislature. The systems and plans for which the ARMB manages and invests fund are: Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), Teachers' Retirement System (TRS), Judicial Retirement System (JRS), National Guard/Naval Militia Retirement System (NGNMRS), Alaska Supplemental Annuity Plan (SBS-AP), Deferred Compensation Plan (DCP), and Defined Contribution Retirement Plan (DCR).

California State Automobile Association operates as a not-for-profit motor club. The firm provides emergency roadside assistance and auto insurance services. Its coverage options include bodily injury liability, medical payment, uninsured/under-insured motorist, property damage liability, comprehensive coverage, collision coverage, personal injury protection, automobile death benefits, new car added protection and rental reimbursement. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA.