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The Chase Manhattan Bank NA operates a commercial banking. It provides financial products, services, and advice, planning and treasury management services. The company is located in New York, NY.

Claymore Dividend & Income Fund is a closed-end investment fund/Investment trust. It offers strategic investment solutions for financial advisors and their valued clients. It also provides investment management, investment advisory, insurance, investment banking and capital markets services. The company was founded on January 27, 2004 and is headquartered in Lisle, IL.

Part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., The Chase Manhattan Bank of Canada provides banking services. The private company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Big Bank Big Oil Split Corp. operates as a closed-end investment fund/investment trust. It is managed by BlackRock Asset Management Canada Ltd. It invests on an equally weighted basis in a portfolio of common shares of Canadian banks and Canadian oil and gas companies. The company was founded on April 16, 2006 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund intends to maximize total return through a combination of current income and capital appreciation. It pursues a relative value-based investment philosophy, which utilizes quantitative and qualitative analysis to seek to identify securities or spreads between securities that deviate from their perceived fair value and/or historical norms. The company was founded on November 13, 2006 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Roman Friedrich & Co. Ltd. is an investment banking and consulting firm. The private company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The Canadian company provides services related to investment banking and consulting. The company was founded by Roman Friedrich.

Founded in 2004, TD Securities (USA) LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. The firm is a subsidiary of Toronto Dominion Holdings (USA), Inc. and their ultimate parent is Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD). TD Securities (USA) provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients in five areas of finance including: investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional equities, foreign exchange and money markets. Their services include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The equity group provides research coverage of media and communications, technology, financial services, oil and gas, mining and metals, industrial products, forest products, technology, utilities and power, real estate, biotechnology, consumer products and merchandising and quantitative analysis strategy. The fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, U.S. and European debt issuers and investors.

The Group's principal activity is to explore and develop mineral properties. Gateway Gold (USA) Corp. is the wholly owned subsidiary of this Group. The mining activities are carried out in the United States.

Windstorm Resources Inc. is a junior mineral exploration company that engages in the business of acquiring, exploring and evaluating natural resource properties. Its properties include Rosa Blanca and Bonanza projects in Mexico. The company was founded on July 16, 2009 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Guggenheim Credit Allocation Fund operates as a mutual fund closed-end investment. It seeks to achieve a total return of current income and capital appreciation. The company was founded on June 7, 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Fiduciary/Claymore Energy Infrastructure Fund is a closed-end management investment company. It engages in the provision of after-tax total return with an emphasis on current distributions paid to shareholders. The company was founded on October 4, 2004 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

iShares Silver Bullion ETF is a Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust. Its objective is to replicate the price performance of silver bullion, less the Fund's expenses and fees. The company was founded on June 29, 2009 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Guggenheim Taxable Municipal Bond & Investment Grade Debt Trust is a diversified and closed-end management investment company, which engages in the investment activities for long-term capital appreciation. The company was founded on June 30, 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Guggenheim Equal Weight Enhanced Equity Income Fund - is a closed-end investment fund. Its investment objective is to provide a high level of risk-adjusted total return with an emphasis on current income. The company was founded on July 11, 2011 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Sundance Minerals Ltd. provided oil and gas exploration services. The company was founded on April 25, 2007 and was headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Guggenheim Enhanced Equity Strategy Fund operates as a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek a high level of current income with a secondary objective of long-term capital appreciation. The company was founded on October 20, 2003 and is headquartered in Lisle, IL.

Guggenheim Floating Rate & Income Fund is a newly-organized, diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's objective is to provide a high level of current income while maximizing total return. It invests at least 80% of its assets in floating rate senior secured syndicated bank loans, floating rate revolving credit facilities and floating rate unsecured loans. The company offers opportunities for investors seeking an alternative to traditional fixed-income securities that may help hedge interest rate and inflation exposure. Guggenheim Floating Rate & Income Fund was founded on October 24, 2013 and is headquartered in Lisle, IL.

Guggenheim Enhanced Equity Income Fund is a closed-end investment fund/investment trust. Its investment objective is to seek high level of current income and current gains, with a secondary objective of long-term capital appreciation. The company was founded on December 3, 2004 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

ECI Exploration & Mining, Inc. engages in the business of acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Guggenheim Strategy Funds Trust is an open-end management investment company. The trust comprises of 3 funds: Guggenheim Strategy Fund I, Guggenheim Strategy Fund II and Guggenheim Strategy Fund III, which invests in a diversified portfolio of debt securities and financial instruments. Guggenheim Strategy Funds Trust was founded on November 8, 2013 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Guggenheim Energy & Income Fund is a closed-end investment fund. It is a non-diversified, non-traded management investment company. Its objectives are to provide high income and seek capital appreciation. The company was founded on April 28, 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Axiom Oil and Gas Corp. engages in the exploration and development of oil and gas properties primarily in the United States. The company was founded on February 13, 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Founded in 2010, MLV & Co. LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a direct subsidiary of FBR Capital Markets Holdings, Inc. and their ultimate parent is FBR & Co. (NASDAQ: FBRC), which acquired the firm in 2015. Their research focuses on small to mid-sized companies with disruptive technologies that have the potential to drive significant market changes. MLV & Co.'s coverage universe includes the life sciences, oil & gas and metals & mining sectors.