Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end, nondiversified management investment company. The fund primarily invests in Australian and Asian debt securities, as well as in debt securities of the United States, Canada, and western Europe. It invests principally in sovereign/government,.. Read More

ACM Income Fund, Inc. operates as a nondiversified, closed-end management investment company. It invests principally in the U.S. government and government sponsored agency obligations. The fund also invests a portion of its assets in other fixed-income securities, including those issued by foreign governments... Read More

Adams Express Company operates as a diversified closed-end equity investment company. Its portfolio comprises investments in consumer, energy, financial, health care, industrials, information technology, materials, telecom services, and utilities sectors. The company also makes loans of securities to brokers,.. Read More

American Income Fund, Inc. operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment portfolio comprises mortgage-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, asset-backed securities, corporate bonds, and preferred stock. The fund primarily invests in companies operating in.. Read More

ASA (Bermuda) Limited operates as a closed-end investment company. The company invests in a portfolio consisting primarily of stocks of companies conducting gold mining and related activities in South Africa. ASA (Bermuda) was organized in 1958 and is based in Buffalo, New York.

The Asia Tigers Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. It invests primarily in equity securities of Asian companies. The fund invests in the securities of airport development and maintenance, coal, machinery material handling, metal processors and fabrication, oil,.. Read More

Bancroft Convertible Fund, Inc. operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company in the United States. The company invests in convertible securities. Its investment portfolio comprises various industries, such as advertising, aerospace and defense, automotive, banking/savings and loan, consumer.. Read More

Blackrock Income Trust, Inc. operates as a diversified closed-end management investment company in the United States. Its portfolio comprises investments in, energy, financial institutions, media, basic materials, telecommunications, consumer products, industrials, aerospace and defense, health care, technology,.. Read More

Blue Chip Value Fund, Inc. operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund primarily invests in common stocks and short-term investments. Its portfolio includes investments in materials, capital goods, commercial services, communications, consumer cyclical, consumer staples, energy,.. Read More

Brantley Capital Corporation is a non-diversified investment company that provides equity and long-term debt financing to small and medium-sized companies in a variety of industries throughout the United States. The Company's portfolio consists primarily of private equity securities and, to a lesser extent,.. Read More

Brazil Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end, nondiversified management investment company. It invests primarily in equity securities and cash equivalents. The fund’s investment portfolio comprises investments in materials, financials, consumer staples, energy, industrials, utilities, telecommunication services,.. Read More

Cadema Corporation finances and operates business enterprises that have the potential to generate profits and positive cash flow. The Company is still exploring other possible acquisitions and mergers, seeking to enter into new operating businesses and to use its liquid assets in connection therewith. The Company.. Read More

Camelot Corporation does not have significant operations. It seeks merger opportunities. Prior to April 1999, the company was engaged in the research and development of Internet software and hardware, and the retailing of computer software over the Internet. Its subsidiaries were involved in selling software products, the provision of Internet services, video marketing and distribution, financial services, real estate rentals, and oil and gas development. Camelot was incorporated in 1975 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Capital Southwest Corporation, a business development company, serves as a venture capital investment company that provides capital to small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. Its investments are focused on expansion financings, management buyouts, recapitalizations, industry consolidations, and.. Read More

Castle Convertible Fund, Inc. operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund invests in corporate convertible bonds, corporate bonds, preferred stock, convertible preferred securities, and common stocks. Its investment portfolio includes investments in aerospace and defense,.. Read More

Central Fund of Canada Limited, an investment holding company, invests in gold and silver bullion primarily in bar form. As of October 31, 2004, the company’s gold holdings were 518,309 fine oz. of physical bullion and 5,282 fine oz. of gold bullion certificates; and silver holdings were 25,928,142 oz. of.. Read More

Central Natural Resources, Inc. engages in the management of its interests in real properties and the ownership of its working interests in its energy segment in the midwestern and southern United States. It also engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas, as well as the leasing of real properties.. Read More

Central Securities Corporation operates as a nondiversified, closed-end management investment company. It invests primarily in common stocks. The company would invest in bonds, convertible bonds, preferred stocks, convertible preferred stocks, warrants, options real estate, or short-term obligations of.. Read More

Cheung Kong Holdings Limited is an investment holding company that is primarily engaged in property development. The Company also has substantial interests and operations in life sciences and the information technology and Internet business arena. Cheung Kong Holdings is the flagship company of the Cheung Kong.. Read More

The Chile Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. It invests primarily in Chilean equity and debt securities, and mutual funds. The company investment portfolio comprises investments in banking, chemicals-diversified, diversified operations, electric-integrated, food.. Read More

China Evergreen Environmental Corp. is a designer, engineer and developer of waste water treatment facilities in China. The Company provides both turnkey and BOT (build, operate, transfer) services to a range of industrial companies and municipalities throughout China.

Counsel Corporation is a diversified company engaged primarily in the ownership and development of companies that provide services and products in the United States and Canada. The Company is focused on acquiring and building businesses in two specific sectors: communications in the United States and real estate.. Read More

Credit Suisse Asset Management Income Fund, Inc. operates as a diversified, closed-end investment company. The fund primarily invests in debt securities of companies operating in the aerospace, automobile manufacturing, broadband, building products, capital goods, chemicals, and consumer products sectors. Credit.. Read More

DNP Select Income Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end diversified management investment company. It primarily invests in fixed and equity income securities. The fund primarily invests in the companies operating in electric, telecommunications, utility, and gas sectors. It also invests in the U.S. treasury.. Read More

Dreyfus Municipal Income, Inc. operates as a nondiversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund invests in municipal bonds. Its portfolio primarily includes investments in healthcare, resource recovery, housing, general obligations, and utility–electric sectors. Dreyfus Corporation serves as the.. Read More

Dreyfus New York Municipal Income, Inc. (the Fund) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to maximize current income exempt from federal, New York State and New York City personal income taxes to the extent.. Read More

Dreyfus Strategic Municipals, Inc. (fund) operates as a diversified closed-end management investment company. It primarily invests in municipal bonds in Texas, California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. The fund’s portfolio of investments primarily comprises health care, housing, general obligations,.. Read More

Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. It primarily invests in long-term municipal investments. Dreyfus Corporation serves as the investment advisor of the fund. Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund is based in New York City.

Element 21 Golf Co. is in the business of the manufacture and sale of advanced scandium golf equipment characterized by playability properties exceeding those of all other materials thus far applied to the manufacture of professional golf equipment in the areas of feel, distance and accuracy.

Ellsworth Convertible Growth and Income Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The fund primarily invests in convertible securities. Its investment portfolio includes investments in automotive, banking/savings and loan, energy, entertainment, financial and insurance,.. Read More

Engex, Inc. operates as a nondiversified, closed-end investment company. It invests primarily in common stocks and private investments of companies operating in biotechnology, technology, gaming, distribution, and financial services industries. American Investors Advisors, Inc. serves as the investment advisor of.. Read More

The Equity Investor Fund, First Exchange Series - AT&T Shares (the Fund) is a unit investment trust that was formed in 1983 under New York law and in accordance with the Investment Company Act of 1940 by a trust indenture among Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter,.. Read More

Eurotech, Ltd. is a development-stage technology transfer, holding, marketing and management company formed to commercialize new or existing, but previously unrecognized, technologies, with a particular emphasis on technologies developed by prominent research institutes and individual researchers in the United.. Read More

First Financial Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end and diversified management investment company. It invests in financial and financial services-related companies, including savings and banking institutions, mortgage banking institutions, and their holding companies. Wellington Management Company, LLP serves as.. Read More

First Pacific Company Limited is a Hong Kong-based investment and management company with operations located in Southeast Asia. Its principal business interests relate to telecommunications and consumer food products. At December 31, 2003, the Company's principal investments were a 51.6% economic interest in PT.. Read More

Fog Cutter Capital Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the restaurant operations. It also conducts commercial mortgage lending and brokerage activities, as well as makes real estate investments. The company operated or franchised 77 hamburger restaurants located primarily in California and Nevada,.. Read More

Fort Dearborn Income Securities, Inc. operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund invests in investment grade long-term fixed income debt securities. Its portfolio includes investments in aerospace and defense, automobiles, capital markets, chemicals, commercial services and.. Read More

Foxby Corp. operates as a nondiversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund invests in equity and fixed income securities, including securities convertible into common stock, debt securities, futures, options, derivatives, and other instruments of the U.S. and foreign issuers. It invests in.. Read More

Franklin Capital Corporation is a business development corporation whose past focus has been the management of certain radio and telecommunication industry holdings. In October 2004, the Company initiated a recapitalization plan that includes the divestiture of its legacy assets and its entry into the medical.. Read More

FuelNation, Inc, a development stage company, through Leman Energy Trading, Inc., engages in the oil and gas wholesale marketing of unbranded petroleum transportation fuels and crude oil trading in western Siberia, Russia; the Middle East; and southeast Asia. The company was organized in 1993 as International.. Read More

Gateway Industries, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Oaktree Systems, Inc., provides marketing solutions to organizations needing information management tools. It provides real-time database development consolidation and management services, such as database marketing, product fulfillment, subscription.. Read More

GIANT GROUP, LTD., through its subsidiary, Periscope Sportswear, Inc., designs and markets a line of women's and children's clothing. The Company sells its products to mass merchandisers and retailers primarily for sale under private label.

Global Technologies, Ltd. (Global) provides entertainment and information systems for the passenger rail market through its U.K subsidiary, TNCi UK Limited, in which the Company owns 60% of the outstanding equity. Global also owns approximately 62.5% of the equity of The Network Connection, Inc. and 476,300 shares of common stock of U.S. Wireless Corporation, both of which are now in Chapter 11 proceedings. TNCi UK has developed a broadband, interactive entertainment and information system for the passenger rail market. The system is designed to provide rail passengers with Internet and e-mail access, with such customizable services as on-demand films, videos and music, video games, reservation information, train schedules and other Internet-based content and commerce applications. TNCi UK is currently marketing the system to major rail operators in the United Kingdom and continental Europe.

H&Q Healthcare Investors operates as a closed-end management investment company in the United States. It invests primarily in securities of public and private companies operating in the biotechnology, healthcare services, medical devices and diagnostics, drug discovery technologies, drug delivery, and generic.. Read More

H&Q Life Sciences Investors (fund) operates as a closed-end management investment company in the United States. The fund invests primarily in securities of public and private companies in the healthcare industries. It invests in a portfolio of companies operating in the drug discovery technologies, healthcare.. Read More

Harris & Harris Group, Inc. operates as a venture capital company that invests tiny-technology-enabled companies. It primarily invests in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems, and microelectromechanical systems technology. The company was incorporated in 1981 and is based in New York City.

The Hartcourt Companies, Inc. is an investment holding and corporate development company focusing on the acquisition of private companies within high-growth industries in China with the goal of building stronger businesses. The Company's business strategy is to bring together a group of complimentary companies,.. Read More

The High Yield Income Fund, Inc. operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The company primarily invests in a portfolio of corporate bonds, sovereign bonds, common stocks, preferred stocks, warrants, short term investments, and long term investments. Its investment portfolio comprises.. Read More

The High Yield Plus Fund, Inc. (the fund) operates as a diversified closed-end management investment company. It primarily invests in debt securities rated in the medium to lower categories. The fund’s portfolio comprises investments in energy, technology, automobiles, pharmaceutical, cable television, utilities,.. Read More

KBK Capital Corporation serves as the holding company for KBK Financial, Inc., an independent financial