Founded in 1923, The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. (NYSE: BSC) is the parent company of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., a leading investment banking and securities trading and brokerage firm. With approximately $61.9 billion in total capital, Bear Stearns serves governments, corporations,... more

The Charles Schwab Corporation (CSC) is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company engages in securities brokerage, banking and related financial services. CSC provides financial services to individuals and institutional clients through three segments: Schwab... more

Citigroup Inc. (Citigroup) is a diversified global financial services holding company whose businesses provide a range of financial services to consumer and corporate customers. Citigroup is a bank holding company. As of March 31, 2008, Citigroup was organized into four major segments:... more

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a financial holding company. JPMorgan Chase's principal bank subsidiaries are JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, a national banking association with branches in 17 states, and Chase Bank USA, National Association, a national bank that is the Company's... more

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. together with its subsidiaries, provide investment, financing, insurance, and related services to individuals and institutions on a global basis through its broker, dealer, banking, and other financial services subsidiaries. The Company’s operations are organized... more

Smith Barney is the private wealth management unit of Citigroup. It is a leading provider of comprehensive financial planning and advisory services to high net worth investors, institutions, corporations and private businesses, governments and foundations. With more than 13,000 Financial... more

Legg Mason, Inc. (Legg Mason) is a global asset management company. Acting through its subsidiaries, the Company provides investment management and related services to institutional and individual clients, Company-sponsored mutual funds and other investment vehicles. The Company offers... more

Northern Trust Corporation is a financial holding company, which provides investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary, and banking solutions for corporations, institutions, and affluent individuals. The Company conducts business through various United States and... more

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides its products and services to a group of clients and customers, including corporations, governments, financial institutions and individuals. Morgan Stanley’s business segments include... more

UBS AG is a global provider of financial services for wealthy clients. UBS’s financial businesses are organized on a worldwide basis into three Business Groups and the Corporate Center. Global Wealth Management & Business Banking consists of three segments: Wealth Management International... more

SEI Investments Company is a provider of asset management services, investment processing and investment operations solutions. The Company's outsourcing solutions help corporations, financial institutions, financial advisors and families create and manage wealth. Its products and services... more

Credit Suisse High Yield Bond Fund (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's primary objective is to seek high current income. The Fund invests primarily in below investment-grade United States fixed-income securities. The Fund’s investment... more

A division of BMO Financial Group, BMO Spend & Payment Solutions (formerly BMO ePurchasing Solutions) is a leading commercial card, spend and payment solutions provider in North America. BMO Spend & Payment Solutions' products are widely used by Corporations, non-profit and government... more

American Capital Ltd., formerly American Capital Strategies, Ltd., is an alternative asset management company. The Company is engaged in providing capital to middle market companies with sales between $10 million and $750 million. It primarily invests in senior debt, mezzanine debt and... more

Founded in 1937, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is a global investment management organization with $269.5 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2005. The firm provides a broad array of mutual funds, sub-advisory services, and separate account management for... more

Edward Jones provides investment advice and financial services for individual investors in the United States and, through its affiliates, in Canada and the United Kingdom. Every aspect of the company's business, from the types of investment options offered to the location of branch... more

Morgan Keegan & Company Inc., one of the nation's largest regional full-service brokerage and investment banking firms, is the securities brokerage arm of Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE: RF). Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., Morgan Keegan has some 300 offices across an 18-state... more

Lazard Ltd (Lazard) is an international financial advisory and asset management firm. The Company serves a diverse set of clients around the world, including corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and high-net worth individuals. Lazard operates from 39 cities in business... more

Cantor Fitzgerald Europe is a leading financial services provider to the institutional equity and fixed income markets, with products and services including sales and trading, investment banking, asset management, market data, and market commentary. For nearly 60 years, Cantor Fitzgerald,... more

In its early years, Wilshire Associates was an innovator in applying computing technology to investment concepts. Wilshire created the first asset/liability model for pension funds in the 1970s, 10 years before actuarial and accounting firms began to adopt this technology. We were among... more

Salomon Smith Barney (www.smithbarney.com) is a global, full-service financial firm that provides brokerage, investment banking, and asset management services to corporations, governments, and individuals. As a leader in the U.S. securities industry, Salomon Smith Barney's core... more

Piper Jaffray Companies is a middle-market investment bank and institutional securities firm, serving the needs of middle-market corporations, private equity groups, public entities, nonprofit clients and institutional investors. The Company provides a set of products and services,... more

Fidelity Investments is an international provider of financial services and investment resources that help individuals and institutions meet their financial objectives.

Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1937, it is an independent, employee-owned firm with $32.2 billion in assets under management and more than 1,100 employees in locations across the country and in London. With expertise in... more

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated operates 77 offices in 15 states, mostly in the central United States. A full range of investments, including stocks, corporate and municipal bonds, mutual funds, annuities, insurance, options, and managed assets accounts are available through the... more

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Wedbush Morgan Securities is a full-service investment banking firm with offices in 22 cities throughout the U.S. With over three decades of experience, Wedbush Morgan's investment bankers bring broad-based transactional expertise coupled with... more

U.S. Trust Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation and is a member FDIC. Banking deposits are FDIC insured up to the maximum amount allowable by law. Investments are NOT FDIC INSURED, NOT BANK GUARANTEED and MAY LOSE VALUE.

FBR Financial Services Partners, L.P. (FSP) is a private equity fund whose sole investment objective is to provide strategic, medium-term equity capital to growing financial services companies. The institutional investors committed to FSP include major banks, insurance companies and... more

TD Waterhouse Group, Inc. provides investors and financial advisors with a broad range of brokerage, mutual fund, banking and other consumer financial products. Worldwide, TD Waterhouse currently services 3.1 million active customer accounts.

American Century Investments is a leading investment manager with nearly fifty years of experience helping investors achieve their financial goals. Serving investment professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors, American Century offers a broad array of products... more

Merriman Curhan Ford Group, Inc., formerly MCF Corporation, a financial services holding company that provides investment research, capital markets services, corporate and executive services, investment banking, venture services, asset management and primary research through its operating... more

Franklin Templeton Investments provides global and domestic investment management solutions managed by its Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series and Fiduciary Trust investment teams.

Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Hong Kong, CLSA is consistently recognised as one of the top research, sales and execution houses in Asia. CLSA maintains a client-focused operation complemented by a comprehensive global research and execution network and is a leading provider of... more

CIBC World Markets is the global marketing name for CIBC's investment banking affiliates and subsidiaries around the world. The CIBC World Markets companies offer a full range of investment services to governments, corporations, institutions and private clients worldwide.

Federated Investors, Inc. (Federated), together with its consolidated subsidiaries, is a provider of investment management products and related financial services. The Company sponsors, markets and provides investment-related services to various investment products, including mutual funds... more

At Baird, we have the deep expertise and broad skills to create outcomes that meet your specific needs. Baird Financial Advisors have been recognized in Barron's and other publications1 as among the nation's top financial advisors. They deliver unique solutions to wealthy families and... more

The Capital Group Companies form one of the world's most experienced investment-management organizations with roots dating back to 1931. Capital currently manages over $500 billion in assets and has an unparalleled global research effort that has been involved in international investing... more

Societe Generale is one of the largest financial services groups in the euro-zone. The Group employs 92,000 people worldwide in three key businesses: Retail Banking & Financial Services: Societe Generale serves about 18 million individual customers worldwide; Global Investment Management... more

Vanguard of Malvern, Pa., is one of the world largest investment management companies and a provider of company-sponsored retirement plan services. It manages $1.25 trillion in U.S. mutual fund assets, including more than $350 billion in employer-sponsored retirement plans. Vanguard... more

Archipelago Holdings, Inc. (PCX: AX) owns and operates the Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx). ArcaEx is the first totally open all-electronic stock market in the United States. ArcaEx customers can trade over 8,000 equity securities, including securities listed on the New York Stock... more

Pershing LLC (member FINRA/NYSE/SIPC) is a leading global provider of financial business solutions to more than 1,150 institutional and retail financial organizations and independent registered investment advisors who collectively represent over five million active investors. Located in... more

LPL is committed to providing its representatives with the tools they need to offer the highest quality of independent investment advice. LPL has been ranked the number one independent broker/dealer for eight years in a row by Financial Planning magazine (June 1996-2003, based on... more

The Ziegler Companies, Inc. (symbol: ZGCO) is a growth-oriented boutique investment banking and investment services firm with a primary focus in the healthcare, senior living and church and school sectors. Operations encompass capital markets (capital advisory services, bond underwriting,... more

Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc. (SMHG), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides asset/wealth management, and capital markets services. The products and services provided by the Company include asset/wealth management and capital markets. The asset/wealth management business... more

vFinance.com is the web's leading Financial Opportunity Exchange. The site offers FREE, open and equal access to investments and investors. By providing an open marketplace of financial services, proprietary business development tools, searchable databases and daily news in one... more

State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, delivers investment strategies and integrated solutions to clients worldwide across every asset class, investment approach and style. With $1.9 trillion in assets under management as of June 30, 2007,... more

Raymond James & Associates, Inc. are a leading investment bank and a wholly owned subsidiary of Raymond James Financial (NYSE: RJF). Raymond James Financial is a diversified financial services firm whose subsidiaries engage in securities brokerage, investment banking, asset management,... more

Ameritrade Holding Corporation has a 28-year history of servicing self-directed investors. Ameritrade develops and provides innovative brokerage products and services tailored to meet the varying investing and portfolio management needs of individual investors and institutional... more

GAIN Capital (www.gaincapital.com) offers direct access trading and asset management services for the global Foreign Exchange (FX) markets. GAIN Capital is a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and is a member of the... more

About A.G. Edwards Capital A.G. Edwards Capital is a private equity firm affiliated with St. Louis-based brokerage firm A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. A.G. Edwards Capital manages approximately $230 million for its limited partners, made up of high net worth individuals and institutions.