Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., through its affiliates, operates as an asset management company providing investment management services to mutual funds, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals in the United States. It provides advisory or subadvisory services to mutual funds. These funds are.. Read More

AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. and its subsidiaries provide investment management and related services to institutional clients, retail clients, and private clients in the United States and internationally. It offers institutional investment services, including separately managed accounts, sub-advisory relationships, structured products, collective investment trusts, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles to unaffiliated corporate and public employee pension funds, endowment funds, domestic and foreign institutions, and governments and affiliates. The companys retail services comprise retail mutual funds, sub-advisory relationships with mutual funds sponsored by third parties, and separately managed account programs sponsored by various financial intermediaries and other investment vehicles. It provides separately managed accounts, hedge funds, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles for private clients, including high-net-worth individuals, trusts and estates, charitable foundations, partnerships, and private and family corporations. It also offers independent research, portfolio strategy, and brokerage-related services to institutional investors, such as pension fund, hedge fund, and mutual fund managers, as well as to other institutional investors. In addition, AllianceBernstein provides distribution, shareholder servicing, and administrative services to its sponsored mutual funds. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York.

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. provides financial planning, asset management, and insurance services to individuals, businesses, and institutions. It operates through two segments, Asset Accumulation and Income, and Protection. The Asset Accumulation and Income segment offers own and other companies mutual funds, as well as own annuities and other asset accumulation and income management products and services to retail clients through financial advisor network. It also offers annuity products through outside channels, such as banks and broker-dealer networks. This segment also serves institutional clients in the separately managed account, subadvisory, and 401(k) markets. The Protection segment offers various life insurance, disability income, and brokered insurance products through financial advisor network. It also offers personal auto and home insurance products on a direct basis to retail clients principally through strategic marketing alliances. The company also operates Ameriprise Bank, FSB in Minneapolis and Phoenix, which offers a suite of products to meet clients' borrowing, cash management, and personal trust needs. The bank offers home lending program, including mortgages, home equity loans, and lines of credit through financial advisor network. The company was founded in 1894 under the name Investors Syndicate and changed its name to Investors Diversified Services, Inc. in 1949. It further changed its name to American Express Financial Corporation in 1994 and to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. in 2005. Ameriprise Financial is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ameriprise Financial Inc. (NYSE:AMP) operates independently of American Express Company as of September 30, 2005.

Artio Global Investors, Inc., an asset management company, provides investment management services to institutional and mutual fund clients. It primarily involves in managing and advising Julius Baer Investment Funds. The company offers various investment strategies, including International Equity strategies,.. Read More

BKF Capital Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides investment advisory and asset management services primarily in the United States. The company manages equity portfolios for institutional and individual investors. It offers long-only equity strategies, as well as a range of alternative investment.. Read More

BlackRock, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm also provides risk management and advisory services. It provides its services to corporate, public, and Taft-Hartley pension plans, insurance companies, mutual funds, endowments, foundations, nuclear decommissioning trusts, banks, charities,.. Read More

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company with approximately $50 billion in assets under management. Through its subsidiaries the firm invests in the property, power, and infrastructure sectors. Its property business include owning and managing office properties,.. Read More

Calamos Asset Management Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides investment advisory services to individuals including high net worth individuals, and institutions. It also manages accounts for family offices and private foundations. The firm manages separate client-focused open-end and closed-end for its clients. It also offers separately managed accounts to its clients. The firms investment process spreads across a range of investment strategies within the equity, global/international, balanced, high yield, convertible, and alternative investment classes. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth and value stocks of companies. It also functions as a boutique investment firm. The firm employs qualitative and fundamental analysis with a top-down and bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments. Calamos Asset Management was founded in 1977 and is based in Naperville, Illinois.

Clear Choice Financial, Inc. operates as a debt resolution company in the United States. It provides assistance to consumers with settling their unsecured debts through negotiation with individual creditors. The companys debt resolution program involves client set-up phase that consists of file creation, debt.. Read More

Cohen & Steers, Inc. manages income-oriented equity portfolios in the United States. The company specializes in the U.S. real estate securities, international real estate securities, large cap value stocks, utilities and listed infrastructure, and preferred securities. It manages closed-end mutual funds, open-end.. Read More

Eaton Vance Corp., through its subsidiaries, engages in the creation, marketing, and management of investment funds in the United States. It also provides investment management and counseling services to institutions and individuals. Further, the company operates as an adviser and distributor of investment.. Read More

Epoch Holding Corporation is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. It also caters to high net worth individuals, pooled investment vehicles, pension and profit sharing plans, and charitable organizations. It manages separate client-focused equity.. Read More

Evercore Partners Inc. operates as an investment banking boutique that provides advisory services to multinational corporations on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and other strategic corporate transactions worldwide. The company offers strategic and tactical advice to public and private.. Read More

FBR Capital Markets Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides investment banking, institutional brokerage, and asset management services primarily in the United States. It offers capital raising services, including underwriting and placement of public and private equity and debt; financial advisory.. Read More

Federated Investors, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to individuals, including high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, state or municipal.. Read More

FirstCity Financial Corporation operates as a financial services company. The company operates in two segments, Portfolio Asset Acquisition and Resolution, and Special Situations Platform. The Portfolio Asset Acquisition and Resolution segment acquires portfolios of performing and non-performing commercial and.. Read More

Fortress Investment Group LLC is a publicly owned investment management firm. The firm provides its services to pension funds, endowments and foundations, financial institutions, funds of funds and high net worth individuals. It manages hedge funds and publicly traded alternative investment vehicles. The firm.. Read More

Franklin Resources Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to individuals, institutions, pension plans, trusts, and partnerships. It primarily manages families of equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm also provides retirement plans and.. Read More

GAMCO Investors, Inc. together with its subsidiaries, provides investment advisory services primarily in the United States. The company offers its advisory services to a range of investors, including high net worth individuals, corporate pension and profit-sharing plans, foundations, endowments, jointly-trusteed.. Read More

Gazoo Energy Group, Inc. engages in the acquisition and development of green energy companies worldwide. It provides financial and brand name support to companies with products in the fields of waste-to-energy conversion, solar energy, hydrogen systems, wind energy, and others. The company was formerly known as.. Read More

GLG Partners Inc. is a publicly owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to in high net worth individuals and institutions. It manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios and investment funds. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income across the globe. It also.. Read More

GSC Investment Corp. is a public investment firm specializing in buyout, acquisition, growth, recapitalization, and note financing transactions of middle market companies and select high yield bonds. It structures its investments as debt and equity investments primarily by investing in first and second lien.. Read More

Hennessy Advisors, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. It also manages accounts for other pooled investment vehicles. The firm manages a family of equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds. It invests in the public and fixed income.. Read More

Indigenous Global Development Corporation provides strategy, financial, and investment tools for economic development, empowerment, and financial self sufficiency. It sells Canadian First Nations natural gas in the United States; develops and acquires power projects; engages in investment financing in Indian.. Read More

International Assets Holding Corporation and its subsidiaries provide various financial services primarily to investment banks, commercial banks, brokers, institutional investors, corporations, charities, governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations worldwide. It acts as a wholesale market maker in select foreign securities, including unlisted American depository receipts and foreign ordinary shares; provides execution and liquidity to national broker-dealers, regional broker-dealers, and institutional investors; trades illiquid currencies of developing countries; executes trades based on the foreign currency flows; and acts as a principal in buying and selling foreign currencies on a spot basis. The company also offers trading and hedging capabilities to producers, consumers, recyclers, and investors in precious metals and certain base metals; arranges international debt transactions and asset backed securitizations, which include bond issues, and syndicated loans, as well as forms of other negotiable debt instruments; and manages third party assets and investment gains or losses on the companys investments in managed funds and proprietary accounts managed either by the companys investment managers or by independent investment managers. In addition, it provides commodity risk management consulting and execution services; operates clearing and execution platforms for exchange-traded futures and options contracts; assists its customers with financing, transportation, and merchandising of their physical commodity requirements and inventories; and serves as a financing vehicle for various commodities, including grain, energy products, and renewable fuels. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Altamonte Springs, Florida.

Invesco Ltd. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, typically high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for institutions. The firm offers investment management, asset management, and fund management services to its clients. It manages separate.. Read More

Janus Capital Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company with approximately $167.7 billion in assets under management. It also provides retirement planning, investment planning, tax planning, investment for college, and tax planning services to its clients. The firm primarily provides its.. Read More

Lazard Ltd, through its subsidiaries, operates as a financial advisory and asset management firm worldwide. The company operates primarily through two segments, Financial Advisory and Asset Management. The Financial Advisory segment offers a range of services regarding mergers and acquisitions and strategic.. Read More

Legg Mason, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified group of global asset management firm serving individual and institutional investors worldwide. Its multi-affiliate business model provides clients with a spectrum of equity, fixed income, liquidity, and alternatives solutions, including mutual funds, college savings plans, variable annuities, and separately managed accounts. The companys affiliates operate with investment autonomy, with each affiliate pursuing its own unique investment philosophy and process, as well as maintaining its own investment culture. Legg Mason complements the investment expertise of its affiliates by providing distribution and client service, enabling affiliates to access new markets, new clients, and new opportunities. It also provides shared services, such as operations and technology, accounting, legal, compliance, and marketing, to allow the affiliates to maintain their full focus on delivering sustainable investment excellence. The company offers its products and services directly and through various financial intermediaries. Legg Mason, Inc. was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Merriman Curhan Ford Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides equity research, capital markets services, corporate and venture services, investment banking, and asset management services to institutional investors and corporate clients in the United States. The companys investment banking services include advising on and structuring capital raising solutions for corporate clients through public and private offerings of primarily equity and convertible debt securities. It also provides strategic advisory services, including transaction specific advice regarding mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, and privatizations, as well as general strategic advice. The companys institutional brokerage services include institutional sales, sales trading, and trading services; and executing securities transactions for money managers, mutual funds, hedge funds, insurance companies, and pension and profit-sharing plans. Its asset management operations include creating and managing investment products for institutional and high-net worth clients. The company was formerly known as MCF Corporation and changed its name to Merriman Curhan Ford Group, Inc. in May 2008. Merriman Curhan Ford Group was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York, New York; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

National Investment Managers, Inc. engages in the acquisition and management of operating entities that offer pension plan administration, financial and investment advisory services, and insurance products to small and medium sized businesses and high-net worth individuals in the United States. The company,.. Read More

Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC is a publicly owned holding investment manager. Through its subsidiaries the firm provides investment advisory and manages real estate and hedge funds for its clients. Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC was founded in 1994 and is based New York, New York with additional.. Read More

Penson Worldwide, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various critical securities and futures processing infrastructure products and services to the financial services industry. The company offers securities and futures clearing and execution services, including trade execution, clearing and custody, trade settlement, technology, risk management, customer account processing, and data processing; and financing and cash management technology and other related products. It also participates in margin lending, securities lending, and borrowing transactions, primarily to facilitate clearing activities and proprietary trading, as well as offers tools and services to support trading in multiple markets, asset classes, and currencies. The company offers Internet account portfolio information, securities and cash deposits holding and safeguarding, securities lending and borrowing, proprietary trading, customizable front-end trading platform, futures products, and institutional and active retail front-end trading software products and services. It serves online, direct access, and traditional retail brokers, as well as banks, institutional brokers, financial technology companies, and securities exchanges in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. The companys securities and futures processing infrastructure products and services are marketed principally under the Penson name. Penson Worldwide, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Piper Jaffray Companies provides investment banking services, institutional sales, trading and research services, and asset management services worldwide. The company primarily raises capital through equity and debt financings for its middle-market clients operating in various industries, including the alternative energy, business services, consumer, financial institutions, health care, industrial growth, media and telecommunications, and technology. It also provides financial advisory services relating to mergers and acquisitions; underwrites debt issuances; and offers financial advisory and interest rate risk management services for government and non profit clients. In addition, the companys public finance investment banking capabilities focus on state and local governments, healthcare, higher education, housing, hospitality, and commercial real estate industries. Further, Piper Jaffray Companies offers both equity and fixed income advisory and trade execution services for institutional investors, public and private corporations, public entities, and non-profit clients; has equity sales and trading relationships with institutional investors in the United States, Europe, and Asia; and engages in proprietary trading. Additionally, it provides asset management services; offers an array of investment products, including traditional, quantitative and hedge equity, master limited partnerships, and fixed income; and invests in private equity and venture capital funds. The company was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Piper Jaffray Companies (NYSE:PJC) operates independently of US Bancorp as of December 31, 2003.

Principal Financial Group, Inc. provides retirement savings, investment, and insurance products and services worldwide. It operates in four segments: U.S. Asset Accumulation, Global Asset Management, International Asset Management and Accumulation, and Life and Health Insurance. The U.S. Asset Accumulation.. Read More

Pzena Investment Management, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm also provides investment advisory services to funds. It provides its services to individuals, typically high net worth individuals; investment companies; charitable organizations; corporations; state or municipal government.. Read More

Resource America, Inc. operates as an asset management company. The company, through its subsidiaries, operates in three segments: Financial Fund Management; Real Estate; and Equipment Finance. The Financial Fund Management segment engages in the formation and collateral management of structured financial.. Read More

RiskMetrics Group, Inc. provides risk management and corporate governance products and services to participants in the global financial markets. The company operates in two segments, RiskMetrics and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The RiskMetrics segment provides multi-asset, position-based risk, and.. Read More

Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides asset/wealth management and capital markets services. The company operates through two segments, Asset and Wealth Management and Capital Markets. The Asset and Wealth Management segment provides investment advisory, wealth and investment.. Read More

SEI Investments Company provides investment processing, fund processing, and investment management business outsourcing solutions to corporations, financial institutions, financial advisors, and high-net-worth families. The companys Private Banks segment offers investment processing and investment management programs to banks and trust institutions worldwide, and to independent wealth advisers located in the United Kingdom. Its Investment Advisors segment provides investment management programs to affluent investors through a network of independent registered investment advisors, financial planners, and other investment professionals in the United States. The companys Institutional Investors segment offers investment management programs and administrative outsourcing solutions to retirement plan sponsors and not-for-profit organizations worldwide. Its Investment Managers segment provides investment processing, fund processing, and operational outsourcing solutions to investment managers, fund companies, and banking institutions located in the United States and to investment managers of alternative asset classes, such as hedge funds, fund of funds, and private equity funds worldwide. The companys Investments in New Businesses segment offers investment management programs to high-net-worth families residing in the United States through the SEI Wealth Network. Its LSV Asset Management segment provides investment advisory services to institutions, including pension plans and investment companies. SEI Investments Company offers its products and services through sales representatives primarily in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the continental Europe, South Africa, and Asia. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Oaks, Pennsylvania.

Southern Trust Securities Holding Corp., through its subsidiaries, provides broker-dealer, investment banking, asset management, and investment advisory services. It offers its clients access to domestic and international securities and options exchanges; trading in fixed income products, corporate, government,.. Read More

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. The firm primarily provides its services to individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. Through its subsidiaries it manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced.. Read More

The Blackstone Group L.P., together with its subsidiaries, provides alternative asset management and financial advisory services worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Estate, Marketable Alternative Asset Management, and Financial Advisory. The Corporate Private Equity.. Read More

U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. It also manages accounts for other pooled investment vehicles, individuals, and corporations. The firm manages family of equity and fixed income mutual funds for its clients. It.. Read More

Value Line, Inc. principally engages in the production of investment related periodical publications and provision of investment management services primarily in the United States. It operates in two segments, Investment Periodicals, Related Publications and Copyright Data; and Investment Management. The companys Investment Periodicals, Related Publications and Copyright Data segment produces investment related retail and institutional periodical publications, which comprise copyright data fees for its proprietary ranking system information and other information in print and electronic format. Its services include The Value Line Investment Survey, The Value Line Investment Survey-Small and Mid-Cap Edition, The Value Line 600, and The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey, which provide statistical and text coverage of various investment securities, focusing on its statistical rankings. The segment also offers niche newsletters, such as The Value Line Special Situations Service, Value Line Select, The Value Line Fund Advisor, The Value Line Convertibles Survey, and Value Line Daily Options that offers information on certain securities; and various Value Line DataFile Products related to equities, mutual funds, and convertibles. In addition, it offers various investment analysis software, as well as current and historical financial databases. Additionally, this segment provides licensed products that are structured as unit investment trusts, exchange traded funds, closed-end funds, and other types of managed products and offer ranking systems for portfolio creation. The companys Investment Management segment offers advisory services to its funds, as well as institutional and individual accounts. Value Line serves individual and professional investors, as well as institutions, including municipalities, university libraries, and investment firms. The company was founded in 1931 and is based in New York, New York. Value Line, Inc. is a subsidiary of Arnold Bernhard & Co., Inc.

Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. provides investment management products and services to individuals and institutions in the United States. The company operates a multi-manager asset management business, comprising various individual affiliated managers, each with its own investment style, autonomous investment.. Read More

Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides investment management, investment product underwriting and distribution, and shareholder services administration to mutual funds, and institutional and separately managed accounts in the United States. The company acts as an investment adviser for.. Read More

Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. manages investment assets and provides services for its clients. The company operates through two subsidiaries, Westwood Management Corp. and Westwood Trust. Westwood Management Corp. is a registered investment advisor, and provides investment advisory services to corporate and.. Read More

WP Stewart & Co. Ltd is a privately owned investment manager with approximately $8.4 billion ($8.34 billion) assets under management. The firm provides its services to high net-worth individuals, trusts, partnerships, private corporations, and other institutions. It manages separate client-focused equity and.. Read More