Arlington Asset Investment Corp. invests in mortgage-backed securities. It also holds a merchant banking portfolio and other investments. The company was formerly known as Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. and changed its name to Arlington Asset Investment Corp. in June 2009. The company was founded in 1989.. Read More

Broadpoint Gleacher Securities Group, Inc. provides independent advice and execution in the areas of advisory services; capital raising; and research, sales, and trading to corporate and institutional clients primarily in the United States. The company also offers mergers and acquisitions advisory services, as.. Read More

Capital Financial Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides investment management, distribution, shareholder, fund accounting, and other related administrative services to open-end investment companies in the United States. The company also offers order processing, regulatory oversight, concession.. Read More

Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, sponsors, markets, and provides investment advisory and related services in the United States. It also provides underwriting, compliance, treasury, and other administrative services to small and mid-sized mutual fund companies. The company provides.. Read More

DIAS Holding Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides raw, finished, and assembled components to automotive, trucking, railway, and petroleum industries. The company develops and produces metal-formed products and components for auto bodies; chassis, including steering, suspension, wheels, CV Axles, control arm.. Read More

Empire Financial Holding Company provides securities brokerage, asset management, and market making services in the United States, Europe, and Asia. It provides brokerage services directly to its retail customers, including individuals and small to mid-sized institutions, such as banks, credit unions, hedge.. Read More

Finotec Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers online brokerage services in financial instruments to individual, professional, and institutional traders. The company also develops, markets, and operates a software system that delivers foreign exchange, commodities, and futures investment services to the.. Read More

First Montauk Financial Corp., through its subsidiary, First Montauk Securities Corp., operates as a full service retail and institutional securities brokerage firm in the United States. It provides a range of securities brokerage and investment services to retail and institutional clientele, as well as corporate.. Read More

GFI Group Inc. operates as an inter-dealer broker, and vendor of related products and services for over-the-counter derivative products and related securities. It offers brokerage services, trading system software, and data and analytics products to institutional clients in markets for a range of credit, financial, equity, and commodity instruments. The company provides brokerage services in a range of credit derivatives, bond instruments, and other related credit products; financial instruments, including foreign exchange options, exotic options, non-U.S. Dollar interest rate swaps and options, repurchase agreements, and government and municipal bond options; cash-based and derivative equity products, including U.S. domestic equity, international equity, global depositary receipts, and American depositary receipt stocks and equity derivatives based on indices, stocks, or customized stock structures; and cash-based and derivative commodity and energy products, including oil, natural gas, biofuel, electricity, wet and dry freight derivatives, dry physical freight, precious metals, coal, weather derivatives, property derivatives, and emissions. GFI Groups trading system software includes multi-asset class electronic trading and order management software to brokers, exchanges, and traders; and analytics products comprise Fenics used to build pricing models, develop trading strategies, and to manage price and revalue derivative portfolios, as well as Fenics FX, a foreign exchange option pricing and analysis tool. It licenses its market data in foreign exchange options, credit derivatives, emerging market non-deliverable forwards, equity derivatives, interest rate options, and European and North American energy. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Sugar Land, Englewood, London, Dublin, Paris, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, Cape Town, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Calgary, and Santiago.

Greenhill & Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an independent investment banking company in North America and Europe. It provides financial advisory services, such as advice on strategic matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, divestitures, defensive.. Read More

Investment Technology Group, Inc. operates as an agency brokerage and financial technology company, which provides solutions spanning the investment process. The company offers ITG Opt, a strategic portfolio construction and optimization tool; ITG Compliance, a daily and real-time pre-trade portfolio compliance.. Read More

Jefferies Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a securities and investment banking company in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It operates in two segments, Capital Markets and Asset Management. The Capital Markets segment engages in securities execution operations consisting of.. Read More

Jesup & Lamont, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage, investment banking, and market making and order execution services to retail and institutional customers primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. It offers brokerage services, including ancillary services, such as market data.. Read More

Kent Financial Services, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides educators with programs designed to improve themselves, their students, and their schools. Its programs for school leaders consist of solutions for superintendents, strategies for school leaders, effective presentation skills, and leading and coaching in a complex environment. The company also offers program designed for educators, which comprise coaching the literacy coach, differentiating the curriculum, classroom management for the elementary and middle school teacher, and designing and delivering effective instruction. It also operates a social networking Web site, ChinaUSPals.com, designed to promote cultural exchange between the citizens of the United States and those of the Peoples Republic of China. The company was founded in 1955 and is based in Far Hills, New Jersey.

Knight Capital Group, Inc., a financial services company, provides electronic and voice access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes for buy-side, sell-side, and corporate clients; and asset management for institutions and private clients in the United States. It operates in two segments, Global Markets and Asset Management. The Global Markets segment provides market access and trade execution services across various asset classes for broker-dealers and institutions. Its institutional products comprise equity, fixed income, futures, options, and foreign currency trade execution solutions; block trading; program trading; international equities; special situations/risk arbitrage; soft dollar and commission recapture programs; corporate access services; direct market access; and crossing networks. This segments clients include broker-dealers and on-line brokers, mutual funds, pension plans, plan sponsors, hedge funds, trusts, and endowments. The Asset Management segment operates as an investment manager. It primarily serves banks, insurance companies, funds-of-hedge funds, corporate and public pension plan sponsors, trusts, endowments, and private clients. The company was formerly known as Knight Trading Group, Inc. and changed its name to Knight Capital Group, Inc. in May 2005. Knight Capital Group was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey with additional offices in New York, New York; Greenwich, Connecticut; and London, United Kingdom.

LaBranche & Co Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a registered broker-dealer that operates primarily as a designated market maker in equity securities and rights listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It provides securities execution and brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders; and operates as a market maker in over-the-counter, bulletin board, and pink sheet securities. The company also operates as a specialist in options, futures, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on various exchanges; market-marker in options, ETFs, and futures on various exchanges; market-maker for ETFs traded on the London Stock Exchange, the Euroex, and Euronext exchanges; and broker-dealer with the United Kingdoms Financial Services Authority. In addition, it operates as a market-maker for ETFs in Hong Kong; broker-dealer with Hong Kongs Securities and Futures Commission; and broker-dealer and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority member firm, an institutional execution firm in equities and structured products. The company serves financial services, media, oil and gas, retail, technology, and telecommunications industries. LaBranche & Co Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York.

National Holdings Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in securities brokerage business in the United States. The company provides various securities brokerage and investment services to retail and institutional clientele, which include the purchase and sale of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities,.. Read More

Oppenheimer Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial services to high-net-worth individuals and families, corporate executives, and small and mid-sized businesses worldwide. It engages in the retail securities brokerage, institutional sales and trading, investment banking (both.. Read More

Paulson Capital Corp., through its subsidiary, Paulson Investment Company, Inc., operates as a brokerage company principally in the United States. It engages in securities brokerage activities, which involves acting as agent for purchase and sale of common and preferred stocks, options, warrants, and debt securities traded on securities exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. The companys corporate finance activities include underwriting initial and follow-on public offerings, private investments in public equity, and private placements for smaller companies; securities trading and market making activities comprise executing trades in equity securities, corporate debt securities, and municipal bonds; and market making activities are conducted with dealers in the wholesale market and its customers. Further, its investment activities include holding securities for investment, which primarily include securities purchased for investment and underwriter warrants. As of June 5, 2009, the company managed or underwrote 164 securities offerings and operated 37 branch offices in the United States. Paulson Capital Corp. was founded in 1969 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Raymond James Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the underwriting, distribution, trading, and brokerage of equity and debt securities, as well as the sale of mutual funds and other investment products in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Its Private Client Group segment provides securities brokerage services, including the sale of equities, mutual funds, fixed income products, and insurance products to their individual clients; and correspondent clearing services to other broker-dealer firms. The companys Capital Markets segment offers securities brokerage, trading, and research services to institutions with a focus on the sale of U.S. and Canadian equities and fixed income products; and manages participation in underwritings, merger and acquisition services, and public finance activities. Raymond James Financials Asset Management segment provides investment portfolio management services, mutual fund management, and trust services, as well as offers fee-based programs for portfolio management services customers. The companys RJ Bank segment offers consumer, residential, and commercial loans, as well as FDIC-insured deposit accounts. Its Emerging Markets segment has interest in joint ventures that operate in securities brokerage, investment banking, and asset management in Turkey and Latin America. The companys Stock Loan/Borrow segment involves in borrowing and lending securities from and to other broker-dealers, financial institutions, and other counterparties, primarily as an intermediary. Raymond James Financials Proprietary Capital segment consists of principal capital and private equity activities, including various direct and third party private equity and merchant banking investments, short-term special situation mezzanine and bridge investments, and private equity funds. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Siebert Financial Corp., through its subsidiary, Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc., engages in the retail discount brokerage and investment banking operations in the United States. The company provides Internet and traditional discount brokerage and related services to retail investors. It also offers various self-directed retirement accounts, for which it acts as agent on various transactions, as well as lends customers a portion of the market value of certain securities held in the customers account through its clearing agent. In addition, the company, through its subsidiary, Siebert Womans Financial Network, Inc., provides products, services, and information to serve womens financial needs. Additionally, Siebert Financial Corp. offers equity execution services on an agency basis, as well as equity and fixed income underwriting and investment banking services to institutional investors and issuers of equity and fixed-income securities. It provides its discount brokerage services through a broker on the telephone, through a wireless device, or via the Internet. As of December 31, 2008, Siebert Financial Corp. operated seven retail discount brokerage offices. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Stifel Financial Corp., through its subsidiaries, engages in retail brokerage; securities trading; investment banking; investment advisory; retail, consumer, and commercial banking; and related financial services in the United States and internationally. The company operates in four segments: Private Client Group, Equity Capital Markets, Fixed Income Capital Markets, and Stifel Bank. The Private Client Group segment provides securities brokerage services, including the sale of equities, mutual funds, fixed income products, and insurance, as well as offers banking products to their private clients. As of December 31, 2008, it operated a network of 1,142 financial advisors, located in 196 branch offices in 35 states; and 173 independent contractors. The Equity Capital Markets segment offers corporate finance management and participation in underwritings, mergers and acquisitions, institutional sales, trading, research, and market making services. The Fixed Income Capital Markets segment provides public finance, institutional sales, and competitive underwriting and trading. The Stifel Bank segment offers retail and commercial banking services to private and corporate clients, including personal loan programs, such as fixed and variable mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit, personal loans, loans secured by CDs or savings, automobile loans, and securities-based loans. It also provides commercial lending programs, such as small business loans, commercial real estate loans, lines of credit, credit cards, term loans, and inventory and receivables financing. The companys customers include individual investors, corporations, municipalities, and institutions. Stifel Financial Corp. was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Summit Financial Services Group, Inc., through its subsidiary, Summit Brokerage Services, Inc., provides various securities brokerage and investment services primarily to individual investors in the United States. The company also offers asset management and investment advisory services. Its investment products.. Read More

Sutter Holding Company, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in residential mortgage banking business in the United States. It operates in two segments, Insurance Brokerage and Mortgage Banking. The Insurance Brokerage segment provides Diversified Risk brokers commercial property and casualty insurance for.. Read More

SWS Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial services in the United States. The company operates in four segments: Clearing, Retail, Institutional, and Banking. The Clearing segment provides clearing and execution services for general securities broker/dealers, bank affiliated firms, and.. Read More

The investment seeks to reflect the performance, less expenses, of the spot price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light, sweet crude oil. The fund will invest in futures contracts for WTI light, sweet crude oil, other types of crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, natural gas and other petroleum based-fuels that are.. Read More

Winmax Trading Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide Web development, multimedia, and Internet solutions in Asia, Europe, and North America. The company offers a range of services, including Web and graphic design, programming, production and editing of corporate videos, production of commercials for the.. Read More

Woodstock Financial Group, Inc. provides securities brokerage and investment banking services in the United States. It offers full service commission and fee-based money management services to individual and institutional investors. The company retails stocks, mutual funds, variable annuities and life insurance.. Read More