George Levinson

Sequa Corp. manufactures metal coatings and aerospace products. It provides repairs for jet engine parts, turbine airfoils, and other critical engine parts in the industrial, marine gas turbine, and military markets. It also offers decorative and protective coatings to continuous coiled steel for use in commercial and residential construction projects. The company is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Part of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc. provides security broker services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Wellington Management Co. LLP (WMC) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1928 and is a subsidiary of Wellington Investment Advisors Holdings LLP, ultimately held by Wellington Management Group LLP. WMC offers investment management services for a fee to separate account clients and mutual funds sponsored by unaffiliated parties, as well as to investment vehicles that the firm sponsors.

Hoenig Group, Inc. provides securities brokerage services to banks, insurance companies, mutual finds, and other institutional investors. It sells economic research and market analysis to third-party investment managers. It operates its business through its subsidiaries. The company was founded by Ronald H. Hoenig, Max H. Levine, and Paul Strock in 1970 and is headquartered in Rye Brook, NY.

Youbet.com, Inc. provides technology and pari-mutuel horse racing content for consumer through Internet and telephone platforms. The company was founded by Russell Fine and David M. Marshall in 1995 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, CA.

Matrix Asset Advisors, Inc. (Matrix) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in White Plains, New York. The firm was founded by David A. Katz in 1986. Matrix manages money for individuals, families, endowments, foundations, and retirement plans.

Inverness Counsel LLC is a privately-owned, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and provides investment management services on both discretionary and non-discretionary bases to individual, family, trust, pension and profit-sharing plan, tax-exempt organization and other institutional clients.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Tocqueville Asset Management LP (Tocqueville) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1985, the firm’s business and affairs are managed by Tocqueville Management Corp., their General Partner. Tocqueville manages investments for high-net-worth individuals and families, institutions, family offices and through the various Tocqueville mutual funds.

Fiduciary Trust Co. is an asset management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1885 and is a subsidiary of Fiduciary Co., Inc. They provide strategic investment advice to institutions, endowments, personal foundations and other clients that require additional manager diversification or asset class exposure. Their advice spans from dynamic asset allocation recommendations to a full spectrum of third-party manager solutions.

Northstar Investment Advisors LLC (NIA) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado. It was founded in 1995 by Dick Kopp, Frederick Taylor and Robert Van Wetter. In 2021, the firm merged with Beacon Pointe Advisors LLC. NIA provides advisory services to individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, banking or thrift institutions, ERISA accounts, other investment advisors, and charitable organizations.

Gabelli Funds LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Rye, New York. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE: GBL). Gabelli Funds provides discretionary investment advisory services primarily to open and closed-end investment companies.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc. (MSIM) is an investment management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1975 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). MSIM provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services and products to institutional clients and individual investors. The firm also advises clients as to the appropriate allocation of assets among multiple separate accounts and/or investment companies or other pooled vehicles that the firm advises.

ELCO Fund LP operates as hedge fund. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

ELCO Select Fund LP engages in investment services. The company was founded on September 17, 2001 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Neuberger Berman BD LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in New York City. It is directly owned by Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC, which is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Neuberger Berman Group LLC, which is owned by NBSH Acquisition LLC. The firm traces their origin back to the 1939 founding of Neuberger & Berman, its predecessor firm. In 1950, Neuberger Berman became one of the first firms to offer a no-load mutual fund to individual investors. Neuberger Berman BD manages a range of equity, fixed income, private equity and hedge fund strategies on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors worldwide.

Founded in 1986, Comstock Partners, Inc. is an investment advisor firm located in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

Caribou Coffee Co., Inc. owns and operates coffee shops. It offers products to grocery stores, mass merchandisers, club stores, office coffee and foodservice providers, hotels, entertainment venues and e-commerce channels. The firm operates through three segments: Retail, Commercial and Franchise. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

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

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

ELCO Management Co. LLC (ELCO) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Paul Elliot in 1995. ELCO provides investment supervisory services to two investment limited partnership and separately managed accounts.

Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers, Inc. (NBIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2002 as Neuberger Berman Fixed Income LLC and adopted their present name in 2016. They are a subsidiary of Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by NBSH Acquisition LLC. NBIA provides a wide range of discretionary investment management services to a variety of clients, which includes individuals, institutions, registered investment companies, non-US registered funds and private investment funds.

TFJ Management LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. The firm provides discretionary investment management services to qualified investors through their private fund. TFJ Management also serves as an investment manager for a separately managed account.