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Salient Partners LP (Salient) is an asset management boutique headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2002 by Andrew Linbeck, Jeremy Radcliffe and Haag Sherman. In 2003, the firm merged with Pinnacle Management & Trust Co. to form Salient Partners & Pinnacle Trust Co. Two years later the firm adopted the name Salient Partners LP. In 2022, they were acquired by Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. (NYSE: WHG). Salient provides real assets, tactical equity alternatives, and private solutions for institutional investors and investment advisors.

Part of GradeSaver, LLC, BookRags, Inc. runs an educational website. The company is based in Ridgewood, NJ. BookRags was acquired by GradeSaver, LLC from Ambassadors Group, Inc. on September 05, 2014 for $5 million.

First Institutional Securities LLC provides investment banking services to institutions and high net-worth clients. The company is headquartered in Woodland Park, NJ.

Strategic Investment Management, Inc. (Strategic) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1987 by Hilda Margarita Ochoa-Brillembourg, Joseph Oricoli, Carol Grefenstette, Antoine van Agtmael and Michael Duffy. Strategic offers discretionary investment management and planning services to both US and non-US individual and institutional investors, such as employee pension and benefit plans, foundations, endowments, government entities, pooled investment vehicles and family and general corporate funds.

Putnam Investments LLC operates as an investment advisory company. The company was founded on May 14, 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Wall Street Financial Group, Inc. provides investment advice. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Fairport, NY.

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

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Part of Citigroup, Inc., Citicorp Investment Bank Ltd. is a British company.

Patrina Corp. provides information technology services. Its solutions include data management and storage, robust, data outsourcing, third-party-compliant data storage and rapid online access solutions. The company was founded by Dan deRoulet, Tony Aruta, Maria Tossini and Frank-Charles Osafo in 1993 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Verition Fund Management LLC (Verition) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund manager headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Nicholas M. Maounis in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Verition Fund Management NY, Inc. Verition serves as the manager for and provides discretionary investment advisory services to several private funds.

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.

Part of Oak Hill Partners, Inc., Oak Hill Advisors, Inc. is a company that provides asset management services. The company is based in New York, NY.

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.

Foresters Financial Services, Inc. provides asset management services. Its products and services include mutual funds, college savings plans, insurance, and retirement planning. The company was founded on February 7, 1968 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sacramento Angels, Inc. provides investment services. The firm’s members invest in emerging technology companies located in Northern California. It offers finance to small and medium sized firms. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Folsom, CA.

Abner, Herrman & Brock LLC (AHB) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1981 and is a subsidiary of Abner Trust. AHB specializes in actively managed customized separately managed accounts (SMAs). Their customized separately managed accounts are suitable for private clients and their families, non-profit organizations such as endowments and foundations, trusts and corporations.

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

Longbow Research LLC is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Independence, Ohio. The firm was founded by David S. MacGregor in 2003 to provide the institutional equity research market with a high quality, independent product, free from the many conflicts of interest that plague bulge-bracket research. Longbow Research provides insights and research coverage on publicly-traded mid-cap companies in the industrial/basic materials, consumer and technology sectors.

Managed Funds Association provides support services for the hedge funds industry. It operates as an association for investment professionals in futures, hedge funds, commodity pool operators, and other alternative investments. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.