Scopia Capital Management LLC ("Scopia") is an institutional alternative asset management firm based in New York City with approximately $3.5 billion of assets under management (as of April 1, 2013).

Founded in 2001 by Matt Sirovich and Jeremy Mindich, Scopia employs a fundamentals-based, value-driven long/short equity strategy with the discipline of market neutrality to generate absolute returns that are uncorrelated to the broader equity markets.

Scopia has been an SEC Registered Investment Adviser since 2003.

Bridgewater Associates is an American investment management firm founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. The firm serves institutional clients including pension funds, endowments, foundations, foreign governments and central banks.

It utilizes a global macro investing style based on economic trends, such as inflation, currency exchange rates, and U.S. gross domestic product. Bridgewater Associates began as an institutional investment advisory service, graduated to institutional investing and pioneered the risk parity investment approach in 1996.

Open Field Capital LLC was established in August of 2003 with the exclusive focus of managing portfolios in emerging technology equities.

The founding principals of Open Field Capital have worked together for over 15 years and have a substantial depth and breadth of experience in the financial markets. Throughout that time, the principals have worked in emerging technology markets and have developed both an investment philosophy and methodology tailored to the sector's unique characteristics.

Crystal Capital Partners offers financial intermediaries turn-key solutions so they can seamlessly integrate hedge fund portfolios into their business and provide their qualified clients the same opportunities as the world’s largest investors. Crystal’s solution facilitates and supports an RIA’s business development needs and is provided at no cost to the advisor. Crystal’s services include access to alternative investments; all vetted by a rigorous due diligence process, hedge fund transparency, portfolio construction tools, institutional safeguards, consolidated reporting, private label services and more.

L/S hedge fund based in Dallas

Established in 2007, Chartwell Capital Limited* is an investment company licensed to undertake Asset Management and Advising on Securities by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). The Company provides its services solely to Professional Investors (PIs), as defined by the Securities and Futures Ordinance.

Chartwell’s investment strategy is to seek investment opportunities with deep discounts to their intrinsic value, as calculated using detailed fundamental analysis. The company’s investment focus is on solid and financially stable companies with clear and defined business models that show favorable long-term competitive prospects. Its investment horizon for such investments is three to five years.

Safra National Bank of New York is among the leading New York-area banks (based on its holding company assets). Nationally recognized as one of the United States’s banks[citation needed], Safra National Bank of New York has a core business of private banking. It has branches in and around New York and in Florida, as well as representative offices in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Offering face-to-face service and customer-oriented business methods, Safra National Bank of New York serves a select group of high-net-worth individuals, large corporations and multinational companies.

Wood Creek Capital Management, LLC is an investment manager at the forefront of real assets investing. Our mission is to address the challenges faced by institutional investors by offering asset-based investments within a defined investment horizon. Wood Creek constructs portfolios of tangible and intangible asset exposures for its clients, who are themselves global leaders in institutional investing.

Headquartered in New Haven, CT, Wood Creek is an SEC registered investment advisor founded in 2005 and is an affiliate of the MassMutual Life Insurance Company and its asset management subsidiary Babson Capital Management, LLC. Wood Creek employs an eighteen person staff with thirteen sector-focused investment professionals dedicated to pursuing our real assets mandate.

$1.1 Billion Structure Hedge Fund founded by Reza Ali

Long short equity hedge fund focused on Asia opportunities. Started by Peter Boodell who was a partner at Eastern Advisors. The fund is a Tiger Affiliate with support from Long Pine Capital.

Private banking tradition, investment management excellence
Dedicated relationship managers
Access to the investment management decision making Transparent and individualized client reporting
Tight controls over the entire investment process

Scottwood is a value-based, long/short hedge fund that invests in debt and equity across all asset classes. The firm specializes in credit-influenced, distressed situations.
Known for delivering some of the best risk-adjusted returns on Wall Street, Scottwood Capital Management was praised as the rare hedge fund that not only generated alpha, but was also non-correlated to the markets.

Strategy

Phoenix was founded by Jeffrey L. Peskind in May 2003 and launched its first private investment fund in September 2003. This fund focuses on high yield cash bonds trading at a deep discount to their principal values due to corporate fundamentals or market factors.

In January 2011, Phoenix launched a lower volatility product focusing on credits that are generally in the senior part of the capital structure and generate high current income. At the same time, the fund strives to preserve investor capital through extensive hedging.

Since its founding in 1996, Alternative Investment Group has invested with a focus on smaller, lesser known hedge funds to produce superior, risk-adjusted returns. The Firm has delivered these results by fostering a culture that supports diverse ideas and a collaborative approach to building hedge fund portfolios. Alternative Investment Group is 100% owned by its partners, who are also collectively the largest investors in its funds.

Sandler Capital, a Registered Investment Advisor since 1988, is an alternative asset management firm managing both hedge funds and private equity funds.

Sandler currently manages over $1.6 billion in assets within its hedge fund portfolios. Sandler's clients include high net worth individuals, large family offices, fund of hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds.

The firm is headquartered in New York City and has 36 employees.

ZAIS Group LLC ("ZAIS" or the "Company") is a $5.4 billion (approximately)(1) global asset management firm based in Red Bank, New Jersey focusing on structured credit. ZAIS invests across both corporate-credit and mortgage-related structured credit strategies. ZAIS employs over 125 professionals(2) across investment professionals, information technology/system & analytics, client relations, risk management, middle office/operations, legal/compliance, finance/accounting, human resources/admin. The investment team at ZAIS is led by Christian Zugel (Chief Investment Officer), who founded ZAIS in 1997.

An international financial services company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It provides investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking services through a network of 85 offices in 18 U.S. states and 12 international offices in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

Koch companies have a presence in nearly 60 countries and employ about 60,000 people. They have invested about $45 billion in acquisitions and other capital expenditures since 2003 to make life better around the world by efficiently converting resources into products and services that people depend on every day.

Koch companies are involved in refining, chemicals and biofuels; forest and consumer products; fertilizers; polymers and fibers; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; commodity trading and services; minerals; ranching; and investments.