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A member of the NASD and the SIPC, Smith, Moore & Co. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Clayton, Missouri. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. Smith, Moore was founded in 1913 by Jay Herndon Smith and Charles W. Moore.

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. provides investment advice. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, MI.

Dealerweb, Inc. develops platform that provides voice trading brokerage services. The company was founded on December 12, 1975 and si headquartered in New York, NY.

Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., Inc. (BFE) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded in 2008 by Benjamin Edwards IV and Cynthia Böhme. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Benjamin Edwards, Inc. BFE provides advice to a wide variety of clients. Their services are provided through various wrap fee programs.

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.

Fitch Ratings, Inc. is a global rating agency and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by John Knowles in 1913 as Fitch Publishing Co. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. Fitch Ratings seeks to provide independent and prospective credit opinions, research and data to the world's credit markets. Their approach is based on a foundation of local market experience that covers capital markets in over 150 countries. The firm's ratings analysis and rating decisions are based on established criteria, methodologies and ratings definitions which they apply in a consistent manner. Fitch Ratings provides coverage of the following markets: Economics, Banks, Insurance, Sovereigns, Corporates, Structured Finance, Public Finance – International, Public Finance – US, Infrastructure & Project, and Finance.

Founded in 1987, Guzman & Co. is a broker-dealer located in Coral Gables, Florida. The firm is a subsidiary of Guzman, Inc. Guzman & Co. is a fundamental research-driven firm. They believe that thorough investment decision-making begins with access to reliable information in a timely manner. The firm's research efforts provide deep, vertical coverage within focus industries, in-depth, high-quality reports and decisive, real-time opinions on breaking news that affects the companies and sectors covered. They provide their institutional investing client base with business and valuation opinions on select publicly-traded companies. Their research coverage focuses on cable operators, media and entertainment conglomerates (including Internet firms) and Spanish-language media companies.

Ernst & Young provides accounting services. Its services include auditing, accounting, tax and transaction services, assurance and advisory business, online transaction advisory and a wide range of financial services. The company was founded by Arthur Young and Alwin C. Ernst in 1881 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

BKD LLP engages in the provision of financial accounting, auditing, and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, tax, business transition services and wealth management. The company was founded by William Baird, Wade Kurtz and Claire Dobson in January 1923 and is headquartered in Springfield, MO.

Part of Truist Financial Corp., Truist Investment Services, Inc. provides brokerage services. The company is based in Atlanta, GA. The company was founded in 1985. Joseph Marberry Thompson has been the CEO of the company since 2014.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Strategic Advisors LLC, dba Strategic Wealth Management Group (SWMG), is an independent registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Lawrence May in 1999. SWMG provides investment advisory services to individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and corporations.

J. Team Financial, Inc. (TFS) is a registered investment adviser founded in 2005. Headquartered in Abilene, Texas, TFS provides personalized confidential financial planning and investment management to individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, registered investment companies and small businesses.

Charles Schwab Bank operates as a federally chartered savings bank. It offers checking accounts, savings accounts, and mortgage services. The company is headquartered in Reno, NV.

United Asset Strategies, Inc. (UAS) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Garden City, New York. The firm was founded by Lee DeLorenzo in 1992. UAS offers a broad range of money management and planning services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, partnerships and other business entities.

Cultivation Capital LLC (Cultivation Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Brian Matthews, Cliff Holekamp, Jim McKelvey, Kyle Welborn, and Peter Esparrago. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

GPS Strategy & Finance SA (formerly Futur Investment Managers SA) is an independent asset management firm headquartered in Paris, France. The firm provides asset management services to various clients.

Founded in 2009, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (MSSB) is a registered investment adviser, a registered broker-dealer, a registered futures commission merchant, and a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Headquartered in Purchase, New York, MSSB is one of the largest financial services firms in the US with branch offices in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The firm was initially owned by a joint venture company which was indirectly owned 65% by Morgan Stanley and 35% by Citigroup, Inc. On June 28, 2013, Morgan Stanley purchased Citi’s 35% interest in MSSB. As such, the firm is now a direct subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Holdings LLC and they are a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS).

Savant Capital LLC, do-business-as Savant Wealth Management (Savant), is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Rockford, Illinois. The firm was founded by Thomas Muldowney in 1986 and is a subsidiary of Savant Capital Holdings LLC, owned by SCMI, Inc. (formerly known as Savant Capital Management, Inc.). Savant offers investment management, financial planning, retirement planning, and family office services to financially established individuals, families, and businesses.