Milberg LLP is the largest New York City-based law firm representing investors in class actions seeking recovery of financial losses resulting from corporate securities fraud. The firm's 76 lawyers work from its main office in New York City and its regional offices in California, Florida, and Michigan. Supported by an unparalleled professional staff of investigators, forensic accountants, financial analysts, economic modeling experts, and paralegals, Milberg LLP has an unmatched capability to investigate claims, conduct discovery, and obtain optimal results for investors through trial or settlement...more Barclays Global Investors is one of the world's largest asset managers and a leading global provider of investment management products and services with more than 3,000 institutional clients and $1.5 trillion of assets under management as of December 31, 2008. BGI transformed the investment industry by creating the first index strategy in 1971 and the first quantitative active strategy in 1979. BGI is the global product leader in exchange traded funds (iShares® exchange traded funds) with over 360 funds for institutions and individuals globally...more ALPS Holdings, Inc. is the parent company for ALPS Distributors, Inc & ALPS Fund Services, Inc. and is a Denver-based outsourcing solution for administration, compliance, creative services, fund accounting, legal, marketing, tax administration, transfer agency and shareholder services for open-end, closed-end, alternative investment and exchange-traded funds...more BarclayHedge is a leading source for proprietary research in the field of alternative investments. Founded in 1985, Barclay provides services as a publisher, database and software provider, and industry consultant. Barclay's 18 hedge fund indices and 10 managed futures indices are utilized worldwide as performance benchmarks for hedge funds and managed futures...more BlackRock is a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services. The firm manages portfolios and provides investment solutions for a broad array of investors that include corporate, public and union pension plans, insurance companies, mutual funds, endowments, foundations, charities, corporations, official institutions and individuals worldwide. BlackRock offers a unique blending of qualities that makes it a preferred choice among financial professionals...more Claymore Securities, Inc. is a privately held financial services company offering unique investment solutions for financial advisors and retail investors alike. Claymore is an innovator in exchange-traded funds (ETFs), unit investment trusts (UITs) and closed-end funds (CEFs), is often the first-to-market provider of creative investment vehicles. In total, Claymore entities have provided supervision, management, servicing and/or distribution on approximately $10.4 billion in assets as of December 31, 2008...more Direxion Funds/Direxion Shares, managed by Rafferty Asset Management, LLC, is a major provider of leveraged index funds, ETFs and alternative-class fund products for investment advisors and sophisticated investors who seek to effectively manage risk and return in both bull and bear markets. Direxion strives to offer products that allow advisors and sophisticated investors to navigate various market conditions...more A leading provider of registered fund services. Ernst & Young provides audit, tax and advisory services to more than 14, 000 pooled investment vehicles globally, including registered funds, hedge funds and private equity funds. Our Asset Management practice has a strong presence nationwide, with more than 25, 000 professionals in 95 US locations. We serve asset management companies of every size and scope...more Euromoney Handbooks is a division of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC group. We specialise in producing sector specific publications, built on incisive comment and market-driven analysis. We do this by building relationships with leading opinion-formers - in turn their contributions form the basis of our Handbooks. This gives them unparalleled exposure amongst their peers; as they set the agenda, their organisations are recognised as industry leaders, and our Handbooks become the primary source for investors, senior corporate executives and market intermediaries worldwide...more Evergreen Investments is a leading asset management firm serving more than four million individual and institutional investors through a broad range of investment products. Led by 350 investment professionals, Evergreen Investments strives to meet client investment objectives through disciplined, team-based asset management. Evergreen Investments manages over $210 billion in assets (as of December 31, 2008) including five closed end funds:....more FBN Securities, Inc., established in 1983, is an independent broker dealer and a member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). We are a premier institutional brokerage firm that provides our clients with a variety of services including anonymous equity and options execution, comprehensive trading strategies, corporate access, capital introduction, direct NYSE access, independent and proprietary research, and soft dollar services...more Hennion & Walsh Asset Management, Inc. ("H&W"), a New Jersey corporation formed in 2003, serves as the Investment Adviser to the SmartGrowth® Mutual Funds. The Adviser is an affiliate of full-service broker/dealer Hennion & Walsh, Inc. Founded by Richard Hennion and William Walsh, Hennion & Walsh, Inc. has been serving clients as a full-service securities firm, specializing in municipal bonds since 1990. The firm has built its reputation on developing strong, mutually beneficial relationships designed to last a lifetime. The firm currently offers various unit investment trust ("UITs") under the SmartTrust® brand, as well as managed money portfolios to both individuals and company retirement plans. As of December 31, 2008, the adviser had $152 million in....more Nuveen Investments provides high quality investment services designed to help secure the long-term goals of institutions and high net worth investors as well as the consultants and financial advisors who serve them. Nuveen Investments markets its growing range of specialized investment solutions under the high-quality brands of HydePark, NWQ, Nuveen, Santa Barbara, Symphony, Tradewinds and Winslow Capital...more NYSE Euronext operates the world's largest Exchange Traded Products marketplace, and is the leading venue for Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs), Exchange Traded Vehicles (ETVs) and Warrants and Certificates trading. NYSE Euronext's offering of these products provides investors access to regulated listings as well as fast and innovative trading tools to access liquidity. NYSE Arca, NYSE Euronext's US market for ETFs, has 664 primary ETF and 46 primary ETV listings...more ProShares is the nation's fourth-largest provider of ETFs1, offering 76 ETFs that provide investors with short and leveraged exposure to major indexes. ProShares is part of ProFunds Group, which also includes more than 115 ProFunds mutual funds. Since 1997, ProFunds has provided mutual fund investors with easier access to sophisticated investment strategies, with offerings that include funds that seek to magnify daily index performance and funds that seek to increase in value when markets decline...more Prospect Capital Corporation: One-stop and Targeted Financing Solutions to Middle Market Companies. Summary: Business Development Company focused on secured lending and private equity; Managed by Prospect Capital Management (20-year history); 5th year as public company (IPO July 2004); 18 consecutive quarterly dividend increases; 12% year-over-year increase in NII per share for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2008; Particular expertise in asset-rich sectors; Diversified portfolio, 31 companies (~15% yield across debt and equity investments)...more RiverNorth Capital Management, Inc. - RiverNorth Capital is an independent SEC registered investment management firm based in Chicago, Illinois that specializes in closed-end fund investing and research. The firm manages various investment strategies that opportunistically invest in closed-end funds for individuals and institutions, including a public no-load mutual fund...more Tortoise Capital Advisors, LLC (TCA) is a specialist in energy infrastructure Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). TCA was founded in 2002 and has $1.7 billion of assets under management in publicly traded closed end funds, private funds and separate accounts. TCA has completed over $1 billion of direct investments in public and private companies. Energy infrastructure MLPs operate real assets which are critical to the functioning of the North American economy...more WisdomTree® is a leading ETF sponsor and innovative index developer using its own fundamentally weighted index methodology. WisdomTree also licenses its indexes to third parties for proprietary products and offers a platform to promote the use of WisdomTree ETFs in 401(k) plans. Approximately $3.3 billion in assets are currently managed against the WisdomTree Indexes by WisdomTree and third parties under license from WisdomTree. For more information, please visit www.wisdomtree.com or www.wisdomtree401k.com...more Investor Relations & Global Financial Communications Services. Capital Link is an international investor relations and financial advisory firm that assists international institutions, stock exchanges and companies to: develop and maintain access to European and North American investors; take advantage of favorable opportunities in the international capital markets; identify and approach the proper business and financial partners...more