F. Patt Schiewitz

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Standard Pacific Corp. engages in the building of homes and communities in the United States. It primarily focuses on building family oriented communities in many of the housing markets including California, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Colorado. The company operates in two principal businesses: homebuilding and financial services (consisting of its mortgage financing and title operations). Its homebuilding operations construct and sell single-family attached and detached homes. Its mortgage financing operation provides mortgage financing to its homebuyers in substantially all of the markets in which it operates, and sells substantially all of the loans it originates in the secondary mortgage market. Its title service operation provides title examinations for its homebuyers in Texas. Standard Pacific was founded by Ronald R. Foell and Arthur E. Svendsen in 1965 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.