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Massachusetts Financial Services Co., do-business-as MFS Investment Management (MFS), is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1924 and is a subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (US) Financial Services Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Sun Life Financial, Inc. (TSE, NYSE: SLF) in Canada. The firm provides investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a range of institutional clients and pooled investment vehicles. MFS is a responsible investor and signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

Artisan Partners LP (Artisan Partners) is a mutual fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 2009 by Andrew Ziegler and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Artisan Partners Holdings LP, itself a subsidiary of Artisan Partners Asset Management, Inc. (NYSE: APAM). Artisan Partners serves as investment adviser to a variety of separately managed accounts, unregistered pooled investment vehicles, trustees of collective investment trusts, and to each series of Artisan Partners Funds, Inc., an open-ended management investment company.

Harding Loevner LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1989 by former managers for the Rockefeller family. They are a direct subsidiary of Titan NJ LP Holdings LLC, which is owned by Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG). Harding Loevner provides investment management services to a variety of types of clients in the US such as retirement plans, foundations and endowments, sovereign wealth funds, religious institutions, individuals, trusts, broker-dealers, banks, investment advisers, insurance companies, mutual funds, collective investment trust funds, and offshore funds.

HarbourVest Partners LLC (HarbourVest Partners) is a private equity & venture capital firm founded in 1982 by David Brooks Zug. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices around the world.

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (KBW) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). KBW offers sales and trading in equities securities of financial services companies.

The Investment Company Institute is an association of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and unit investment trusts. The non-profit company is based in Washington and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom. The American company operates to support and represent these types of investment vehicles. The CEO of the company is Paul Schott Stevens.

Fresche Solutions, Inc. provides legacy management and IT modernization services. It designs, develops, markets and supports software solutions. The firm also designs application portfolio management, business intelligence and enterprise application development solutions. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Founded in 1985, NatWest Markets Securities, Inc. is a financial services and brokerage firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm is a subsidiary of RBS Holdings USA, Inc. and their ultimate parent is the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (LSE: RBS). The firm was formerly known as RBS Securities, Inc., RBS Greenwich Capital, and Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. NatWest is an institutional fixed-income firm that provides a full range of debt capital markets services to both those seeking to raise capital and those seeking to invest it. The firm is an industry leader in the U.S. Treasury, agency and MBS markets and in providing real estate and asset-backed financing to their clients. NatWest also provides futures brokerage services and trade strategies to select clients.

TIFF Advisory Services LLC (TIFF) is an independent fund-of-hedge funds manager headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1991, TIFF delivers comprehensive outsourced CIO (OCIO) and private equity investment solutions to primarily endowments, foundations, and other charitable institutions.

Lombard Odier Asset Management (USA) Corp. (LOAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 and do-business-as Lombard Odier Investment Managers. The firm is a subsidiary of LO Holding SA and their ultimate parent is Switzerland-based Compagnie Lombard Odier SCmA. LOAM provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to private pooled investment vehicles (Funds) and investment advisory accounts. The investors in the Funds consist of endowments, foundations, insurance companies, high net-worth individuals, funds of funds, public and corporate pensions, and other sophisticated investors.

Bexil Advisers LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Rochester, New York. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bexil Corp. (OTCPK: BXLC), a holding company. Bexil Advisers serves as the investment manager to Bexil Investment Trust (formerly Dividend and Income Fund), a closed end fund (Stock Symbol: BXSY) (NAV Symbol: XBXIX).

Bexil American Mortgage, Inc. provides mortgage services. It funds mortgages. The ffirm serves the broker community in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

ABRY Partners LLC (ABRY Partners) a private equity subsidiary of John F. Stafford Insurance Agency, Inc. founded in 1989 by Samuel Andrew Banks and Royce G. Yudkoff. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kohlberg & Co. LLC (Kohlberg & Co) is a private equity firm founded in 1987 by James Andrew Kohlberg and Jerome S. Kohlberg. The firm is headquartered in Mount Kisco, New York.

Riverside Partners LLC /New York/ (Riverside Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Bela Szigethy. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the globe.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Montefiore Medical Center engages in the provision of healthcare, clinical and surgical services. It offers treatments including cardiology and cardiac surgery, cancer care, tissue and organ transplantation, children’s health, women’s health, surgery and the surgical subspecialties. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

Brookstone Partners (Brookstone Partners) is a private equity firm founded by Michael Toporek in 2002. The firm is headquartered in New York.

New York State Bar Association is a non-profit organization, which provides legal services and offers a membership program for lawyers. It also publishes an array of books, bar journals, law digest, and State Bar news. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Alban, NY.

Guggenheim Partners Investment Management LLC (GPIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The firm was founded by Mark Walter in 2005 and is a direct subsidiary of Guggenheim Partners Investment Management Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by Guggenheim Partners LLC. GPIM provides investment advisory and supervisory services to a variety of institutional clients through separately managed accounts (SMAs) and registered and unregistered pooled investment vehicles.

Founded in 2005, Water Asset Management LLC is a registered investment advisor located in New York City.

Midas Securities Group, Inc. provides securities brokerage services. The CEO of the American company is Thomas Bassett Winmill.

Bexil Securities LLC provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Lutherville, MD. Thomas Bassett Winmill has been the CEO of the company since 1995.

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).

Millennium Trust Co. LLC engages in the provision of alternative custody solutions to institutions, advisors, and individuals. It offers rollover and self-directed individual retirement account, and retirement and custody services. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Oak Brook, IL.

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

Evercore Group LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1995 and is a subsidiary of Evercore BD Investco LLC, which is owned by Evercore, Inc. (NYSE: EVR). Evercore Group delivers equity research and equity sales and agency trading execution, in addition to providing wealth and investment management services to high net worth and institutional investors.

League Park Advisors LLC provides investment banking services. The firm assists the middle market companies with transactions that generate value through mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, capital raising and outsourced corporate development. The firm also offers tailored programs for acquisitive corporations, including strategic guidance, targeted marketing and sophisticated deal-closing capabilities. The company was founded by J. W. Sean Dorsey in 2010 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

American Pacific Group LP (American Pacific Group) is a private equity firm founded by Fraser Preston in 2019. The firm is headquartered in Larkspur, California.

Fellers, Inc. is a company based in Tulsa, OK. Fellers, Inc. specializes in vinyl products and offers a vinyl superstore accessible through their website. The company was founded in 1986 by Frank Fellers and is currently led by CEO Tom Brophy.

RIA in a Box LLC provides compliance business consulting services. The firm focuses on registration and ongoing compliance for registered investment advisory firms at both the state and SEC levels. Its services include distinction and loss statements, change sheets, broad ledgers and contract journals using QuickBooks to emanate and sustain the inner books vital to encounter state and SEC correspondence standards. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Concisys LLC is a high-tech electronic assembly company that specializes in handling complex circuit card assembly technologies using state-of-the-art equipment and manufacturing processes. The company is based in San Diego, CA and was founded in 2000 by Giao Huu Nguyen. The company offers test engineering and support for their customers' products and use their long-term supplier network and purchasing power to minimize lead times and hold down costs.

Vibrant Capital Partners, Inc. (VCP) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. Formerly known as DFG Investment Advisers, Inc., the firm was founded in 2006 by O. Volkan Kurtas, Moritz Hilf and Kimito Iwamoto. They became Vibrant Capital Partners, Inc. in 2021. The firm is owned by Vibrant Capital Partners LLC. VCP discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management and investment advisory services to investors such as insurance companies, pension funds, banks, private investment funds, family offices, ad fund-of-funds, mainly in the form of pooled investment vehicles and separate accounts.