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The Waterbury-Arms Group (also known as the Waterbury Arms Group) is a Washington, DC-based boutique investment banking and private equity holdings firm. It was established in 1996 by two former managing directors of the now merged Chase Manhattan Bank. The bank has operations in several US cities including Pittsburgh and Washington, DC. continued…

UBS AG (NYSE: UBS; SWX:UBSN; TYO: 8657 ) is a financial services company, headquartered in Zürich and Basel, Switzerland. It also has a major presence in the New York metropolitan area with a large volume of offices located in Manhattan, Jersey City, New Jersey, Weehawken, New Jersey, and Stamford, Connecticut. The US headquarters is located in Stamford, Connecticut. It is a private banking, investment banking and securities firm. It is also a global asset manager and does retail and commercial banking in Switzerland. UBS has invested assets of 2.766 trillion Swiss francs (CHF), shareholders’ equity of 47.850 billion CHF and market capitalization of 150.663 billion CHF. UBS AG is the world’s largest wealth manager. continued…

TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation is the owner of Ameritrade Inc., the largest online brokerage in America. continued…

Smith Barney is an American-based global stock brokerage, investment banking and asset management services company owned by the Citigroup. continued…

Simmons & Company International is a private investment bank based in Houston, Texas that specializes in energy research, trading, and capital structuring. It was founded in 1974 by Matthew Simmons who was motivated by the 1973 energy crisis to create an investment banking firm catering to oil companies. continued…

Shamil Bank of Bahrain B.S.C. (Arabic: مصرف الشامل) is an islamic based bank operating in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Its headquarters are located in Al-Seef District, Manama - Bahrain.Shamil Bank is a subsidiary of the Dar Al-Maal Al-Islami Trust, one of the world’s leading Islamic financial organizations. Other shareholders include prominent Saudi and Bahraini entities and high net worth individuals continued…

Schroders plc is a British investment management company with its headquarters in the City of London. It is traded on the London Stock Exchange and was until 15 September 2006 a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. continued…

Opportunity Asset Management is a Brazilian investment bank founded in 1994, among others by Mr. Daniel Dantas, widely recongnized in Brazil at the time as a financial genius. Opportunity started as a non-financial exclusively asset management firm, built around a team of first-class traders and market specialists, in what was essentially a pioneering model in Brazil. Within a few years it became one of the largest Brazilian investment firms in terms of the volume of capital under its management, repeatedly boasting impressive rates of return on its mutual funds. continued…

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (野村證券株式会社 Nomura Shōken Kabushiki-gaisha, NSC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NHI), which forms part of the Nomura Group. NSC plays a central role in the securities business, the Group’s core business. Established December 25, 1925, it is the oldest brokerage firm in Japan. It is named after its founder Tokushichi Nomura II, a wealthy Japanese stockbroking tycoon. continued…

The Nomura Group (野村グループ, Nomura Gurūpu?) is an international conglomerate of financial services and consulting companies, headquartered in the Nihombashi district of Tokyo, Japan. Nomura also has major offices at the World Financial Center in New York City, at the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong, and at Nomura House in London. continued…