Francis Fuller O'Connor

FBR & Co. provides investment banking, merger and acquisition advisory, institutional brokerage and research services through its subsidiaries. The company operates through two segments: Capital Markets and Principal Investing. The Capital Markets segment includes investment banking, institutional brokerage and research. It also provides investment banking services, including capital raising and financial advisory services for its corporate issuer clients, and institutional brokerage services including sales, trading, research, and securities lending services to its institutional investor clients. The Principal Investing segment activities consist primarily of investments in merchant banking and other equity investments, investment funds and corporate debt investments. The company was founded in June 2006 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Founded in 1999,Cohen & Steers Capital Advisors LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. Cohen & Steers' ultimate parent is Cohen & Steer, Inc. (NYSE: CNS).