Absolute Strategy Research is Europe's leading independent macro-strategy provider.

Founded in 2006, ASR has established its position through bringing together one of Europe's most experienced teams of highly-ranked individuals across economics, strategy and sales.

We have built a reputation for providing research that challenges the consensus and leads to actionable market strategies, helping our clients navigate their way through an increasingly volatile macro-environment in order to maximise their portfolio returns.

Independent equity research firm focussing on European and US financials, founded in 2009 by former Merril Lynch bank coverage team.

Thank you for your interest in Telsey Advisory Group. TAG’s mission is to provide the most relevant, timely, and insightful information on the consumer to help our research, trading, investment banking, and consulting clients make informed, strategic investment decisions.

Corporate and Investment Banking in Russia

ITG is an independent research broker partnering with global portfolio managers and traders throughout the investment process, from investment decision through to settlement.

EVA Dimensions provides software tools and training and support services that help corporate teams and consultants to measure, analyze, and improve corporate performance, and that enable institutional investors to make better investing decisions – all with the power of EVA and the EVA Momentum ratio framework. EVA Dimensions also maintains a 9,000 company global file on EVA metrics as reference points for benchmarking performance, setting targets, and assessing expectations.

Wood Mackenzie is a global energy and mining research and consultancy group with an international reputation for supplying comprehensive data, written analysis and consultancy advice. (Wikipedia)

WhiteSand Research, LLC is a premier independent research firm that provides unbiased, timely research to help our clients understand the opportunities found in the universe of Special Situations. We identify and analyze the key financial information, strategic issues and trends that affect companies and provide fundamental research that seeks to capitalize on the most inefficient and attractive investment opportunities in the equity arena.

Investment advisory firm with $11.3 billion in assets under management as of 12/31/12. Components include mutual fund, private equity, and wealth management.

Fearnley Securities AS was established in 1987 and is an independent full service investment bank, a member of the Oslo Stock Exchange, and part of the Astrup Fearnley Group. The Group has approximately 300 employees with a strong global presence with offices in 14 strategic locations around the world, including Oslo (HQ), Paris, London, Sopot, Houston, Caracas, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Bangkok and Singapore.

Wm Smith & Co. is an event-driven, special situations, institutional research firm that utilizes 13D filings, insider buying, 13F filings, and stock buybacks to generate investment ideas. Since 1983, we have followed and studied this methodology, which provides the Company with good insight into how successful investors think.

Independent, boutique institutional equity research firm based in New York City. Founded in 1982, formerly affiliated with the hedge fund Buckingham Capital Management.

Sberbank of Russia is the largest bank in Russia and CIS. The founder and principal shareholder is the Central Bank of Russia, which owns 50% of the Bank's authorized capital plus 1 voting share. The rest of the shares are held by international and domestic investors. The Bank's ordinary and preferred shares have been publicly traded in Russia since 1996, and the American Depositary Shares (ADS) were listed on the London Stock Exchange, admitted to trading in Frankfurt Stock Exchange and over the counter in the US.

University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. This is the Research group that now operates the CRSP index that Vanguard benchmarks against.

Sidoti & Company, LLC, founded in 1999, continues to set the Wall Street standard for independent small-cap equity research, while rapidly becoming a driving force in micro-cap research, launching coverage of more than 100 equities of $200 million market cap or less since inception in mid-2010.

Our analysts mine dozens of industries to provide unbiased, institutional-quality research focusing on the investment merits of profitable companies at a sub-$3 billion market cap, and we anticipate extending coverage to 700 small-cap equities by the end of 2012.

SEB is a Swedish financial group for corporate customers, institutions and private individuals with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Its activities comprise mainly banking services, but SEB also carries out significant life insurance operations and also owns Eurocard. The bank was founded by and is controlled by the powerful Swedish Wallenberg family through their investment company Investor AB.

Euro Pacific Canada is a full service IIROC registered brokerage headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and specializing in foreign markets and securities. Our investment strategy follows advice laid out by Euro Pacific Capital’s† Chief Global Strategist, Peter Schiff, an internationally recognized economist and financial analyst. Through their Euro Pacific investment consultants, our clients receive advice about foreign securities that may simply not be offered by discount brokerage firms. See The Euro Pacific Advantage.

Daiwa Securities Group is Japan's second largest securities brokerage after Nomura Securities. Major group members include Daiwa Securities Co.Ltd., which offers retail services such as online trading to individual investors and investment banking services in Japan as well as Daiwa Capital Markets, the firm's international investment banking arm (with a presence across Asia, Europe and North America) that provides M&A advisory, sales and trading services in a variety of financial products to corporate and institutional clients. Other group companies provide asset management, research and private equity fund services.

Quintiles is the largest provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services.

With a network of more than 27,000 employees conducting business in approximately 100 countries, we have helped develop or commercialize all of the top 50 best selling drugs on the market. With extensive therapeutic, scientific and analytics expertise, we help biopharmaceutical and health sciences customers navigate the increasingly complex landscape with more predictability to enable better outcomes.

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.

"Morningstar is a leading provider of independent investment research to investors around the world. Since our founding in 1984, our mission has been to create great products that help investors reach their financial goals. Through our Investment Information segment, we offer an extensive line of data, software, and research products for individual investors, financial advisors, and institutional clients. We also provide asset management services for advisors, institutions, and retirement plan participants through our Investment Management segment. In addition to our U.S.-based products and services, we offer local versions of our products designed for investors in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and South Africa.

Founded in 1979 with primary offices in California and Washington, along with a wholly-owned subsidiary in London and joint venture affiliate in Germany.
• One of the largest independent investment advisers with tens of billions of dollars under management.
• Clients include 25,000+ private clients in all 50 states and over 100 large institutions including Fortune 500 corporations, governments, foundations & endowments.*
• Investment Policy Committee has over 100 years' combined industry experience.
• Published 10+ investment books in partnership with Wiley.
• Founder and CEO Ken Fisher recognized in 2010 as one of 30 most influential industry figures in last 30 years.**

China Investment Corporation (CIC) is a sovereign wealth fund responsible for managing part of the People's Republic of China's foreign exchange reserves. CIC was established in 2007 with approximately US$200 billion of assets under management, making it one of the largest sovereign wealth funds.[2][3] Since then, CIC's assets have grown to $410 billion at the end of 2010.

The mission of CIC is to make long-term investments that maximize risk adjusted financial returns for the benefit of its shareholder.

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