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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).

Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc (Bear Stearns) is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of The Bear Stearns Cos LLC founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in the US.

Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC (Manulife IM (US)) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1968 and is a subsidiary of John Hancock Subsidiaries LLC, ultimately held by Manulife Financial Corp. (NYSE, TSX: MFC), a Canadian-based financial services firm. Manulife IM-US manages assets for a variety of institutional and other types of clients, such as public and private pension funds, foundations, mandatory provident funds outside the US, financial institutions, investment trusts, separately managed account clients, and high net-worth individuals. The firm also manages registered funds, which includes UCITS, US and Canadian open- and closed-end mutual funds and privately offered unregistered investment funds.

Founded in 1984, Noble Financial Capital Markets is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm is a subsidiary of Noble Financial Group, Inc. Noble Financial Capital Markets' sales & trading team provides strategic insight and reliable solutions to nearly 500 of the dominant small-cap money managers in North America. They are members FINRA, SIPC and MSRB. Noble Financial Capital Markets offers a full array of investment services with a particular focus on under-followed, undervalued, out-of-favor small-cap emerging growth companies. Their research coverage universe includes healthcare, business services & software, defense/defense technology, energy, enterprise hardware, and media & entertainment.

Cota, Inc. provides healthcare services. It specializes in healthcare information technology. The company was founded by Andrew L. Pecora in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1889, The Bryn Mawr Trust Co. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. (NASDAQ: BMTC), a publicly-held, one-bank holding company. The firm is located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (SSgA FM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1978 and is a subsidiary of State Street Global Advisors, Inc., ultimately held by State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT). SSgA FM provides investment advisory services to US investment companies and certain pooled investment vehicles.

BDO USA LLP operates as an accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping firm. It offers advisory; audit and assurance; digital; and tax services. The company was founded by Maximillian L. Seidman in 1910 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides a comprehensive range of equity execution services exclusively to institutional clients worldwide. Their clients include private banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, independent asset managers and investment advisors and other brokers.

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.

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP provides legal services. Its clients include banks, health care providers, Internet companies, lenders & borrowers, manufacturing companies, emerging & start-up companies, brokers & dealers, and technical companies. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

PT Arutmin Indonesia engages in producing and exporting thermal coal products for power and industrial plants. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.

PT Kaltim Prima Coal operates as a coal mining company. Its operations include a series of open pits and coal preparation facilities. The company was founded on April 8, 1982 and is headquartered in Sangatta, Indonesia.

Big Sky Energy Corp. operates oil and gas exploration and production Company. It has five onshore petroleum licenses in the prolific pre-Caspian basin in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The company was founded in February 1993 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. was founded in 1920. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company provides investment research.

PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara engages in the mining of copper and gold ores. It produces and transports copper concentrate containing small quantities of gold to local and foreign smelters for further processing. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mataram, Indonesia.

Medalist Partners LP is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and alternative investment management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Gregory Richter, Michael Ardisson and John Slonieski in 2018. Medalist Partners manages capital primarily on behalf of institutional investors such as pensions, endowments, foundations, family offices and high-net-worth individuals.

Candlewood Investment Group LP (Candlewood) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Rye, New York. The firm was formed founded by Michael Lau and Indra Chandra in 2010 as the result of a spin-off from Credit Suisse Group AG. Candlewood provides investment management services to private pooled investment vehicles (Candlewood Funds) that are offered to investors on a private placement basis.

Abacus Insights, Inc. engages in the development of data management platform as a service and analytics application ecosystem. It offers healthcare payer space, enterprise data integration, and technology currency. The company was founded by Minalkumar Patel on August 2, 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.