Dennis Ray Hammond

Part of The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc., Allmerica Property & Casualty Companies, Inc. writes property and casualty insurance. The company is based in Worcester, MA. Allmerica Property & Casualty Companies was acquired by The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. on July 16, 1997 for $814 million.

Essex Investment Management Co. LLC (Essex) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Michael Hazard and Joseph McNay in 1976. Essex provides investment management services on a discretionary basis to institutional clients, such as employee benefits plans, endowment funds, foundations, religious organizations, and mutual funds. The firm also provides investment management services to individuals (private clients), limited partnerships and limited liability companies.

American Century Investment Management, Inc. (ACIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm was founded by James E. Stowers, Jr. in 1958 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Century Cos., Inc. ACIM provides portfolio management services to financial advisors, individual investors and institutional clients.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Northleaf Capital Partners Ltd. (Northleaf Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Toronto with an additional office in Montreal.

Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC (CMIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP). The firm was formed in 2010 due to Ameriprise Financial Services' (AFS) acquisition of the long-term asset management business of Columbia Management Group (CMG) from Bank of America. AFS merged CMG's long-term asset management business with their subsidiary, RiverSource Investments LLC, under the name Columbia Management Investment Advisors. CMIA offers equity and fixed-income retail and institutional investment products for various types of clients.

Alight (US) LLC engages in providing human resource services. The company was founded by Edwin Hewitt and is headquartered in Lincolnshire, IL.

Northern Capital Management, Inc. (Northern Capital) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Spokane, Washington. The firm was founded by James K. Wilson in 1992 as Bergeron & Wilson, Inc. Northern Capital offers a full range of wealth management and investment advisory services to individual clients, families, corporations, and foundations.

Morningstar Research, Inc. Canada is Canada's leading investment fund research firm. They were formed in 1999 as the result of the acquisition of Portfolio Analytics and BellCharts Inc. by Chicago-based Morningstar Inc., the global investment firm in the US. They market the two most popular mutual fund software products, PALTrak and BellCharts and operate the Morningstar.ca web site. In addition, Morningstar Canada provides analysis and consulting services for investment management, fund performance evaluation and pension plan governance. They are located in Toronto.

Steadyhand Investment Management Ltd. (Steadyhand) is an independent, Canadian investment manager headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. The firm was founded by Thomas “Tom” Bradley and Neil Jensen in 2006. Steadyhand offers low-fee investment funds with clear-cut advice to various types of clients.

State Street Global Advisors Ltd. (SSgA) is a Canadian mutual fund manager headquartered in Montreal, Quebec with an additional office in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1991 and is a subsidiary of State Street Global Advisors International Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT). SSgA provides asset allocation models on a non-discretionary basis to investment advisers and other financial institutions. They also provide investment advice to pensions and profit-sharing plans.

Franklin Templeton Institutional LLC (FTI) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN). FTI provides investment advisory and portfolio management services under investment management agreements with clients in jurisdictions worldwide, which include registered open-end and closed-end funds and unregistered funds as well as to separate accounts.

Part of CI Financial Corp., Spectrum Investment Management Ltd. is a Canadian company that provides mutual fund management services. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. Spectrum Investment Management was acquired by CI Fund Management, Inc. from Sun Life Financial, Inc. on July 25, 2002.

Junior Achievement of Central Ontario educates young people about business. It focuses on work readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship, giving students the confidence and skills they need to become the next generation of business and community leaders. The company was founded by Horace A. Moses in 1919 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

FIAM LLC (do-business-as Fidelity Institutional Asset Management) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Smithfield, Rhode Island. The firm was founded in 2006 and formerly known as Pyramis Global Advisors LLC. They are wholly-owned by FIAM Holdings LLC, which in turn is owned by FMR LLC, aka Fidelity Investments. FIAM provides discretionary investment management services to institutional accounts. The firm also sub-advices funds or accounts for affiliated advisers and unaffiliated advisers.

Equity Investment Corp. (EIC) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1986 and formerly known as JFB Holdings Corp. EIC provides discretionary portfolio management for institutional and private investors through separate accounts.

Sidoti & Co. LLC (S&C) is a registered broker and equity research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Sidoti Holding Co. LLC and was founded in 1999. S&C provides research exclusively to institutional investors. The firm covers the following sectors: housing, retail, basic industries, technology, business services, capital goods, automotive, computer software, regional banking, telecommunications, entertainment, healthcare and consumer products. Their analysts conduct their own due diligence which includes visiting companies and meeting with operating and financial management. In addition, the firm's analysts focus on fundamentals, particularly cash flow from operations and EPS.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Marsh LLC provides insurance brokerage and risk management services. It offers risk management, risk consulting, insurance broking, alternative risk financing, and insurance program management services to businesses, government entities, organizations, and individuals. The company was founded by Henry W. Marsh and Donald R. McLennan in 1871 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Simon & Schuster, Inc. engages in the publication of fiction and non-fiction books. It offers a wide range of genres and formats for children and adults both audio and in print. The company was founded by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster in 1924 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morningstar, Inc. (Research) is the investment research arm of Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), an American financial services firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Joseph Mansueto in 1984 and provides independent portfolio information offering star ratings and analysis of managed funds. They also provide economic commentary and asset allocation information based on qualitative research.