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Loomis, Sayles & Co. LP (Loomis Sayles) is a SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Robert H. Loomis and Ralph T. Sayles in 1926. They are a direct subsidiary of Natixis Investment Managers LLC, ultimately owned by BPCE SA in France. Loomis Sayles provides investment advisory or sub advisory services to institutional clients through separate account management services. In addition, the firm provides investment advisory or sub-advised services to various investment funds.

PGIM, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1984 and is a subsidiary of PGIM Holding Co. LLC, owned by Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU). PGIM provides institutional clients with investment solutions worldwide. It is comprised of autonomous asset management businesses that specializes in a particular asset class with a focused investment approach: PGIM Institutional Advisory & Solutions (provides advisory services to institutional clients located in the US and outside of the US), PGIM Fixed Income (an adviser primarily focused on public fixed income investments), PGIM Real Estate (a provider of real estate investment advisory services) and PGIM Capital Group (a private fixed income investment adviser, also known as Prudential Capital Group).

Van Eck Associates Corp. (VanEck) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund management firm founded in 1955 by John van Eck to manage an international equity fund. In 1968, the firm began offering investments in gold shares and other hard assets. Headquartered in New York City, VanEck provides investment advisory services to registered investment companies and other pooled investment vehicles.

Barclays Bank Plc provides commercial banking services. It offers personal, premier, business and corporate banking products and services to its customers. The banks services include current accounts, savings, investments, mortgages, loans, insurance, credit cards and online banking services. The company was founded on October 4, 1971 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Rational Advisors, Inc. is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Huntington, New York. The firm offers Rational Funds to individual and institutional investors.

Founded in 1999, Credit Suisse Asset Management LLC (CSAM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE: CS), a publicly owned foreign bank holding company based in Switzerland.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

B. Riley Securities, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm is a subsidiary of B. Riley Securities Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY). The firm was formed in 2017, when B. Riley Financial, Inc. merged two of their brokers, B. Riley & Co. (founded in 1997) and FBR Capital Markets & Co. (founded in 1989), under the name of B. Riley FBR, Inc. B. Riley Securities provides research and trading ideas to institutional clients and high net-worth individuals. They provide investment banking services to a wide range of middle-market private and public companies.

Amvest Capital, Inc. provides investment advice. The private company is based in New York, NY.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Vontobel Asset Management, Inc. (Vontobel AM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. Formerly known as Vontobel USA, Inc., the firm was founded in 1984 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vontobel Holding AG (SWX: VONN), a Swiss holding company based in Switzerland. Vontobel AM offers fundamental analysis-based investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a broad array of institutional and intermediary clients, respectively. Their client base includes a list of corporations, public and private pension plans, foundations and endowments.

Amphion Capital Management LLC (Amphion Capital) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Amphion Innovations Plc founded in 1995 by Richard Morgan and Robert Bertoldi. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Founded by Gerald Kieft, Wall Street Resources, Inc. (WSR) is a research firm located in Palm City, Florida. The firm focuses on micro-to-small-cap companies. They look for companies that report sales and earnings growth over 50% or companies that reported revenue growth exceeding 50% and reported a profit versus a loss over the same period in the prior year. WSR also looks for investment opportunities by following inside trading, by seeking to identify companies showing all time highs and 12-month highs and by seeking companies that have traded in a tight pattern for a long period of time. They review industry and price charts on a daily basis. Once an undervalued security has been identified, WSR employs technical analysis to determine the ideal entry point.

Part of BHP Group Ltd., BHP Copper, Inc. operates as a holding company with interests in copper mining. The company is based in San Manuel, AZ.

Phelps Dodge Mining Co. produces copper mining and processing activities. Its copper is used as the primary raw materials for the electrical wire and cable industry, while molybdenum is primarily used by the steel industry and chemical manufacturers. The company is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Congress Asset Management Co. LLP (Congress Asset) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Alfred Lagan in 1985 and is majority owned by the Lagan Holding Company Trust. Congress Asset provides discretionary and model portfolio investment management services to individual and institutional clients who include charitable organizations, pension and profit-sharing plans, including plans subject to the Taft-Hartley Act and the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act (ERISA), state and municipal government entities, corporations, taxable and tax-exempt institutions, high net worth individuals and commingled investment vehicles such as mutual funds.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Motif BioSciences, Inc. develops antibiotics designed to be effective against serious and life-threatening infections. The company was founded on June 8, 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of SAR Holdings, Inc., Ramirez Asset Management, Inc. is a registered investment adviser that specializes in fixed income and equity asset management for a diverse client base. Ramirez Asset Management is affiliated with Samuel A. Ramirez & Co. Inc., one of the oldest and largest Hispanic-owned investment banks in the US and a leader in the fixed income market. The company's clients include public and private defined benefit and defined contribution plans, Taft Hartley plans, corporations, state and local governments, as well as foundations and endowments. The company was founded in 2002 by Samuel A. Ramirez and is headquartered in New York, NY. Samuel A. Ramirez has been the CEO since 2002.

Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC (Manulife IM (US)) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1968 and is a subsidiary of John Hancock Subsidiaries LLC, ultimately held by Manulife Financial Corp. (NYSE, TSX: MFC), a Canadian-based financial services firm. Manulife IM-US manages assets for a variety of institutional and other types of clients, such as public and private pension funds, foundations, mandatory provident funds outside the US, financial institutions, investment trusts, separately managed account clients, and high net-worth individuals. The firm also manages registered funds, which includes UCITS, US and Canadian open- and closed-end mutual funds and privately offered unregistered investment funds.

Part of BlackRock, Inc., Merrill Lynch Investment Managers LP is a private company that provides investment advisory services. The company is based in Plainsboro, NJ.

FMR LLC engages in the provision of financial and investment services. It offers financial planning and advice, wealth management, retirement plans, trading and brokerage services, and investment products. The company was founded by Edward C. Johnson II in 1946 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.