Paul Olszewski

Founded in 1932 by Harold C. Brown, Harold C. Brown & Co. LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Buffalo, New York. Their clients include high net-worth individuals, trust funds, estates, retirement and pension plans, corporations, charitable and religious organizations, hospitals and educational institutions.

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.

ABN AMRO Asset Management (AAM) is the separately organized U.S. investment management business of ABN AMRO Holding NV (NYSE: ABN). AAM offers a line of global, regional and domestic investment strategies to institutional and individual investors worldwide as segregated accounts, as well as through ABN AMRO mutual funds. The firm is based in Chicago.

Based in New York City, Value Line Asset Management (VLAM) manages assets for individual, corporate, government and the Value Line family of mutual funds. VLAM is the asset management division of Value Line, Inc. (NASDAQ: VALU) Founded in 1931 by Arnold Bernhard, Value Line's products and services include print and electronic data and analyses, asset management and a family of mutual funds.

Founded in 1996, Investrend, Inc. is a research firm headquartered in Forest Hills, New York. The firm specializes in an integrated, interdependent approach, pulling together research, broadcast, forums and information platforms as needed to create a cohesive platform to enhance events, conferences, research, publications and information distributions worldwide with services skewed toward shareholder empowerment.