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Fox-Pitt, Kelton Securities, a subsidiary of Fox-Pitt, Kelton Ltd., is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City with additional offices in Boston and Hartford, Connecticut. Founded in 1971, the firm offers a full array of investment services, specializing specifically in the global financial services industry focusing on the insurance, banking and related sectors. Their fundamental, company-specific research is supported by a rigorous approach to valuation. They are a member of the NASD.

Founded in 2007, Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City, with additional offices in Chicago, West Hartford, Connecticut, London, San Francisco, Boston, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The firm is a subsidiary of Macquarie Group Ltd. (MCQEF.PK). They focus on the global financial services industry, particularly on the insurance, banking and related sectors. Their fundamental, company-specific research is supported by a rigorous approach to valuation.

Founded in 1964, Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. is a full service investment firm and registered broker/dealer headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The firm's expertise includes retail and institutional brokerage services, investment banking and underwriting, secondary trading of corporate, municipal, and government securities and market making in over-the-counter stocks. The firm is a member of the NYSE and FINRA.

Founded in 2008, Wisco Research LLC is a research firm located in Madison, Wisconsin. The firm focuses primarily on under-followed small- and- mid-cap U.S. common stocks.

Founded in 1982, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC, formerly Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc., is a full-service investment banking firm and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was also previously known as Morgan Lewis & Co. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is a subsidiary of Morgan Joseph TriArtisan Group, Inc. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's primary focus is on providing financial advisory and capital raising services in the US, Europe and Asia. This includes mergers and acquisitions advice, restructuring advice, private placements and public offerings of debt and equity. For their institutional clients, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan provides a full range of sales and executions services, including equity research and specialized reports on convertible debt. The firm's sales and trading teams service a variety of institutional clients with both debt and equity investment ideas and trading services. Morgan Joseph primarily serves the consumer products, healthcare, automotive, chemical, transportation, construction, entertainment, telecommunications and media industries. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's debt and equity analysts cover a growing universe of stock and bond issues across a broad range of industry sectors. Their equity research focuses primarily on middle-market companies with limited research and coverage and uses a classic bottom-up qualitative approach. The high-yield department specializes in finding trading opportunities by identifying undervalued and overvalued high-yield debt for institutional clients. They focus on small- to mid-sized issues that are not widely covered and are often mispriced in the market. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is a member of FINRA, the NASD and the SIPC.

Founded in 2003, Soleil Securities Corp. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Ticonderoga Securities LLC and their ultimate parent is Cayman Islands-based GEROVA Financial Group Ltd. (NYSE: GFC). Soleil Securities Corp. is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. The firm offers in-depth company-specific equity research to institutional clients. They provide coverage across a variety of significant growth sectors of the economy. Soleil Securities Corp.'s research process integrates macroeconomic considerations with investment-relevant policy insights. They seek to produce alpha-generating, actionable information that can help their clients achieve their investment objectives. The firm covers the following industries: (1) basic materials including agricultural chemicals, specialty chemicals and paper/forest products (2) capital goods and industrials including autos and auto parts (3) consumer including gaming, lodging, eTravel, agribusiness, sustainable agriculture, specialty foods, specialty retail, homebuilders and retailing/automotive (4) financial institutions including financial services, property and casualty and regional banks (5) healthcare including pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology and medical devices (6) special situations (7) strategy and policy (8) technology including software/Internet, semiconductors and solar power (9) telecommunications and telecommunications equipment (10) transportation (11) airlines and (12) utilities

Founded in 1979 as Reynders Gray & Co., Inc., Ticonderoga Securities LLC is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of GEROVA Financial Group Ltd. (NYSE: GFC), a specialty reinsurance company based in St. George, Cayman Islands. In May 2009, Ticonderoga Securities acquired Reynders, Gray & Co., Inc. and in May 2011, they acquired Soleil Securities Corp. Ticonderoga Securities focuses on domestic and international equities and with emphasis on high quality, order execution, as well as a differentiated research offering to support their execution capabilities. The firm's analysis focuses primarily on the following sectors: basic materials, capital goods/industrials, consumer, energy, financials, healthcare, strategy/policy, technology, transportation and utilities. The firm clears their equity business through National Financial Services Corp., a wholly-owned, guaranteed subsidiary of the Fidelity organization and their fixed-income business through Pershing LLC, a BNY Mellon company.

Founded in 2008, Indaba Global Research LLC is investment research firm located in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is an independent research platform that services the institutional money management community. Indaba provides equity research and analysis on stocks from a distinguished network of boutique independent research firms.

SNL Financial LC provides financial and industry data, research, news and analytics to investment professionals, government agencies and corporations. Its products include SNL unlimited, news, SNLbanker, performance graph, support and training and SNL knowledge center. The firm provides news, financial data and analysis on business sectors, which includes, banking, insurance, financial services, real estate, energy and media and communications. SNL Financial was founded by Reid Nagle and Jessica Nagle in 1987 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.