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Oberweis Asset Management, Inc. (Oberweis) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Lisle, Illinois. The firm was founded by James D. Oberweis in 1989 to seek market inefficiencies in equities globally. Oberweis offers their active geographically focused strategies to institutional and individual investors through separately managed accounts (SMAs) and their own proprietary mutual fund family.

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.

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

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.

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.

Biuro Informacji Kredytowej SA engages in the provision of banking services. It offers corporate banking services, banks and credit unions, public administration, and other services. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland.

Citi Ventures Inc. (Citi Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary founded in 2007 by Deborah C. Hopkins. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bank Pocztowy SA is a universal bank engages in the provision of financial services in post offices and branches across the country. Its services include personal accounts, withdrawals and payment on account, deposits, loans, credit cards, savings account, insurance, electronic banking, and investments. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

PKO BP Bankowy PTE SA is the wholly-owned investment and pension fund management subsidiary of Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA (WSE: PKO) in Poland. The firm was founded in 2003 and formerly known as Bankowy PTE SA. Headquartered in Warsaw, they manage the PKO BP Bankowy OFE pension fund which operates as a second pillar within the pension system.

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).

PKO Zycie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczen SA provides insurance services. It also offers investment plans. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

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

RCP Advisors LLC (RCP Advisors) is a private equity subsidiary of P10 Holdings, Inc. founded in 2001 by William Souder, Jeff Patrick Gehl, Thomas Patrick Danis Jr., Charlie Keydel Huebner and Timothy Jerome Danis. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

Cozad Asset Management, Inc. (Cozad) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. Founded in 1972, Cozad provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, charitable foundations and organizations, municipal retirement plans, corporations, investment companies and retirement plans.

Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC (Kovitz) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. In January 2016, the firm underwent an organizational change to carry on the advisory business of its predecessor, Kovitz Investment Group LLC, which was founded in October 2003, after their owners left Rothschild Investment Corp. They are now direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Focus Operating LLC, ultimately held by Focus Financial Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: FOCS). Kovitz provides investment management, wealth management, and financial planning services to individual and institutional clients. Their institutional clients include endowments, employee benefit (ERISA) plans, corporations, and other entities.

Northern Trust Investments, Inc. (Investment Management) (NTI-IM) is the asset management division of Northern Trust Investments, Inc., ultimately held by Northern Trust Corp. (NASDAQGS: NTRS), a multi-bank holding company that was established in 1889. The firm was founded in 1988 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. NTI-IM provides a wide range of discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory and sub-advisory services to individual and institutional clients.

Takoni Sp zoo is a private company located in Poland that prioritizes the production of high-quality products while maintaining a minimal level of costs. The Polish company has a significant advantage in the market due to its combination of this principle with years of experience and a base of proven suppliers. The company's clients include leaders in various industries such as automotive, railway, marine, household appliances, water infrastructure, and more. The company specializes in the production of technical products made of PU/PUR, which is used wherever machines or devices are subject to high mechanical and dynamic stresses such as bending, compression, twisting, friction, and rapid wear due to abrasion. A significant part of the company's production consists of molded bicomponent products, which are a combination of rubber with metal, plastic, polyurethane, or cord reinforcement.

PKO Bank Polski SA Niederlassung Deutschland provides corporate banking products and services. It offers current and auxiliary accounts, non-cash domestic and international transactions, investing surplus funds in automatic overnight and negotiated deposits, liquidity management services, trade finance products, treasury products, as well as short, medium, and long-term financing. The company is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights is a leading anti-poverty organization that works to advance human rights and promote human dignity by providing services and promoting solutions to achieve a more just society. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL, and has subsidiaries in the United States and abroad. The organization provides a comprehensive array of services in the areas of safety, health, housing, education, economic opportunity, and justice, as well as leads state and national policy efforts to create systemic change. Heartland Alliance's social impact research center conducts research that helps leaders create change and advance real-world solutions to poverty.

Braintree Payment Solutions LLC provides online platform for merchant payment processing. It offers businesses with an online merchant account and payment gateway to accept credit card payments. Its customers range from startups in garages to not-for-profits and largest online retailers. The company was founded by Bryan Johnson on October 13, 2006 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Anchor Bolt Capital LP (Anchor Bolt) is a hedge fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of Anchor Bolt Capital LLC. Anchor Bolt serves as the investment manager for and provides discretionary investment advisory services to various private investment funds and separately managed accounts.

Winona Capital Management LLC (Winona Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2003 by Laird Koldyke and Luke Reese. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

SpotHero, Inc. provides mobile applications and website for drivers to find reserve parking spot. The company was founded by Mark Lawrence, Jeremy Smith and Lawrence Kiss in 2011 and is headquartered Chicago, IL.

Founded in 2001, Quantitative Services Group LLC (QSG) is a research firm located in Naperville, Illinois. The firm is a subsidiary of Markit Group Holdings Ltd. They seek to leverage the latest technology, construction techniques and specialty data to provide institutional investors a variety of global stock selection models focused on outperformance. QSG's Value Momentum Model provides a balanced approach to stock selection within the U.S. market. This model favors stocks with strong earnings quality, good valuation, strong balance sheets, positive momentum, and good earnings growth. The Value Momentum Model's approach is best for investors seeking broad exposure to a variety of proven stock selection methods and a core approach portfolio construction. The model is applied across all market-caps, investment styles and asset classes. The firm's Relative Value Model includes themes of price multiples, profitability, earnings expectations, intrinsic value and financial strength. This model is designed to avoid value traps, augment sector-relative and industry-relative viewpoints and provide a consistent source of value. QSG's Price Momentum Model provides a powerful, consistent 1- to 3-month investment signal. This model leverages put and call options and trading volume information to reduce the inherent risk-seeking nature of momentum-based strategies. The firm's GARP Model identifies growth stocks with strong value characteristics. The model consists of a proprietary combination of long-term earnings growth and relative value signals. It employs first-order partial correlation to create a blend of sustainable earnings growth and current cheapness. This model is best for strategies targeting stocks that demonstrate high long-term growth potential and the sustainability to realize that potential. QSG's Deep Value Model is a proven approach to selecting undervalued stocks across the broad US market. The Deep Value Model is designed to select future out performers over the next 9 to 12 months. The firm's Deep Value Model uses free-cash-flow, dividend yield and asset turnover to identify stocks that are currently trading at a deep discount to their intrinsic value. The Deep Value model provides discriminatory power for both long-only and long-short strategies and compliments more short term-oriented momentum and growth strategies. QSG's Earnings Momentum Model uses a proprietary search algorithm to combine analyst forecasts with the company's past earnings strength, along with several indicators of future earnings potential. The Earnings Momentum model has consistently outperformed in both pre- and post- Regulation FD environments. Utilizing a unique k-clustering factor selection technique, QSG's Historical Growth Model selects stocks with an above-average track-record of earnings growth, strong sales growth and high sustainable growth. This blended approach enables the model to identify traditional growth stocks, as well as value stocks on the verge of growth.