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Boston Common Asset Management LLC (Boston Common) is an independent, employee-owned, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with an additional office in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Geeta B. Aiyer in 2002. Boston Common provides discretionary investment management services to charitable organizations, pension and profit sharing plans, state entities, taxable and tax-exempt institutional clients, high net-worth individuals, commingled investment vehicles and mutual funds.

OBAM NV is an open-ended investment fund that invests in listed shares. The funds' portfolio of companies are selected on the basis of stable earnings growth and good long-term prospects, and includes ING, Wells Fargo, Freeport-Mcmoran, Alpha Natural Resources Inc., ABB, Vale Do Rio Doce, Apache Corp., JPMorgan Chase, Hess Corp., General Electric, Rio Tinto, Schlumberger, Dow Chemical, Wilmar International, Standard Chartered, Yum Brands, and Bayer AG. The company was founded on November 20, 1936 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Founded in 2003, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Inc. (BNPP AM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas Investment Partners USA Holdings Inc., which is in turn wholly owned by Paribas North America, Inc. They offer a range of equity, Euro, fixed-income and alternative investment products to North American institutional investors.

Coöperatieve Rabobank UA provides corporate, investment banking and financial solutions. It operates through the following segments: Domestic Retail Banking, Wholesale, Rural & Retail (WRR), Leasing, Real Estate and Other Segments. The Domestic Retail Banking segment engages in the activities of the local Rabobanks, Obvion, Financial Solutions and Roparco. The WRR segment engages in the wholesale activities in Netherlands and focuses on the Food & Agri Sectors. The Leasing segment engages in the provision of leasing products. The Real Estate segment consists of the activities of Bouwfonds Property Development. The Other segment comprises the financial results of the investments in associates and Treasury and Head Office operations. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Fortis Investment Management USA, Inc. operated as a hedge fund manager and registered investment advisor. The firm offered investment management services to institutional and retail clients around the world. Its investment offerings included a wide variety of actively-managed equity and fixed-income portfolios. The company was founded in 1979 and was headquartered in Boston, MA.