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Barings LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded in 1940, the firm is direct subsidiary of MM Asset Management Holding LLC and their ultimate parent is Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (MassMutual). MassMutual?s affiliated companies include financial services companies that provide investment management services and individual protection insurance to clients worldwide. Barings provides a broad range of investment advisory and management services to institutional clients, registered investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of securities underwriting and investment services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Wellspring Capital Management LLC (Wellspring Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Greg Feldman and Martin Davis. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Deutsche Bank AG provides financial and banking services. It also offers commercial and investment banking services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AIP LLC (American Industrial Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in New York City, New York.

BDO USA LLP operates as an accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping firm. It offers advisory; audit and assurance; digital; and tax services. The company was founded by Maximillian L. Seidman in 1910 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Jacobs Financial Group, Inc., FS Investments, Inc. is a company that provides surety services. The company is based in Charleston, WV. FS Investments was acquired by NELX, Inc. on June 05, 2001.

Wells Fargo Capital Finance (UK) Ltd. provides comprehensive asset based lending, technology finance and supply chain finance. It delivers bespoke funding structures to a spectrum of mid to large corporate. Wells Fargo Capital Finance works with public and private UK based companies, in addition to US and Canadian businesses, and multinational businesses with operations in the UK, Western Europe, the US, Canada, and beyond. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of Lone Star Americas Acquisitions LLC, LStar Capital is an alternative investment manager. The company is based in Dallas, TX.

Tailwind Advisors LLC (Tailwind Advisors) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by Jeff R. Dillard, Stewart Henderson and Mark Page. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

Crestline Management LP (Crestline) is an independent, SEC-registered institutional alternative investment management firm headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. They maintain affiliate offices in New York, London, Toronto and Tokyo. The firm was founded by Douglas Bratton in 1997. Crestline provides investment management services on a discretionary basis to private pooled investment funds and private managed accounts. The firm has fund clients that focus on opportunistic investments and credit-related investments and fund clients that focus on hedge fund investments.

BTG Pactual (United States) is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BTG Pactual SA, the largest independent investment bank in Latin America. BTG Pactual began their equity brokerage business in 2003. The firm provides sales and trading services across a variety of asset classes in both local and international markets. Their services include customized execution, DMA algorithms and a dedicated execution platform for equities and ETD products. The firm also offers an electronic trading platform that provides clients with both a tool for their BM&F Bovespa trades and the ability to customize and enhance trade execution. BTG Pactual offers a range of products, securities transactions and services through their Sales & Trading teams in fixed-income, currencies and commodities (FICC) and through their equities teams in Brazil, Latin America and international markets. The firm's Sales & Trading teams also provide high quality execution across the various market segments, as well as products including equities cash and derivatives, FX and interest rate derivatives, swap products, money markets and credit trading (sovereign and corporate debt). BTG Pactual's Sales & Trading teams work closely with the firm's product specialists to offer structured and tailored products in Brazilian FX, FI and credit markets.

Kitano Capital LLC provides investment advisory services. The company was founded by Ellis Short and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Cl Life & Annuity Insurance Co. is an American company that provides insurance products for retirement assets, with a focus on stable growth, tax deferral, and income planning. The company is based in Fort Worth, TX. The company's mission is to offer competitive products that meet the financial goals of policyholders, investing in assets to generate strong returns and secure their future. Cl Life is an affiliate of Crestline Investors, Inc., an institutional investment management firm with approximately $15.40 billion in assets under management. Cl Life & Annuity Insurance was acquired by Crestline Investors, Inc. on August 11, 2022.

Gravity Investments LLC offers a backtesting tool called gsphere that allows users to systematize and test their portfolio strategies. The tool enables unbiased multi-period backtesting, which helps users be confident in the delivery of performance. The American company also provides guidance on using true diversification portfolio optimization to grow assets under management. Gravity Investments regularly analyzes its investment processes and uses a gold standard of strategy backtesting that has automated a walk forward out of sample multi-period backtest. The private company emphasizes the importance of portfolio diversification, which applies not just to investments but to the investment process itself. The company caters to institutional investors and highlights the advantages of portfolio diversification for this group.

Great American Group LLC provides financial services. Its services include asset disposition and auction solutions, advisory and valuation services, capital investment, and real estate advisory services for an extensive array of companies. The company was founded by Gary Mintz and Andrew Gumaer and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, CA.

Caltius Private Equity Partners (Caltius Private Equity Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Caltius Capital Management LLC founded in 1999 by Garrick Ahn, Michael J. Morgan and Jim B. Upchurch. The firm headquarters in Los Angeles, California.