AQR Capital Management, LLC is an investment management firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. AQR employs a disciplined multi-asset, global research process and as of March 31, 2009, had approximately $17 billion in assets under management. AQR's investment strategies are provided through a limited set of collective investment vehicles and separate accounts that deploy all or a subset of AQR's investment strategies. These investment products span from market-neutral hedge funds to benchmark-driven traditional products.

BlackRock® is a provider of global investment management services. As of December 31, 2008, BlackRock manages $1.31 trillion across equity, fixed income, real estate, liquidity, alternatives, and asset allocation/balanced strategies for institutional and retail clients. Through BlackRock Solutions®, the firm provides risk management and advisory services that combine capital markets expertise with proprietarily-developed systems and technology. BlackRock Solutions provides risk management and enterprise investment services for $7 trillion in assets. Headquartered in New York, BlackRock maintains offices in over 60 cities worldwide, including twenty investment centers in the U.S., U.K., Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

As of March 31, 2009, Bridgewater currently manages $72 billion in global investments for a wide array of institutional clients, including foreign governments and central banks, corporate and public pension funds, university endowments and charitable foundations. Bridgewater has approximately 800 employees, with over 200 engaged in research and trading. The company is based in Westport, Connecticut.

Capital Fund Management is a quantitative investment manager based in Paris, France with offices in New York. CFM analyzes price and fundamental data to isolate statistically significant signatures, and designs proprietary trading algorithms that are implemented via a proprietary straight through-processing network. CFM has 34 researchers mostly physics PhD's, and 32 IT engineers out of total headcount of 90 people.

Cevian Capital is a private investment firm acquiring significant ownership positions in European public companies where long term value can be enhanced through active ownership. Cevian generally invests in companies overlooked or misunderstood by the market and in many instances out of favor with investors. Cevian targets investments where there is a meaningful opportunity to enhance the long term value by improving corporate governance, operational performance, corporate strategy and structure.  Cevian has approximately $3 billion in assets under management.

Vancouver-based Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management (CCL) was established in 1982 and has grown to be one of Canada’s largest independent partner-owned money management firms. The firm is dedicated to managing investment portfolios for pension fund sponsors, capital accumulation plans, corporations, not-for-profit organizations, First Nations groups, mutual funds and individual investors. CCL combines its own Canadian and US equity capabilities with the international equity expertise of Arrowstreet Capital L.P., of Cambridge, M.A. Connor, Clark & Lunn has a long-standing relationship with  Arrowstreet Capital through their shared investment in Connor, Clark & Lunn Arrowstreet Capital.

Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse Group is a world-leading financial services company active in over 50 countries and employing approximately 46,700 people. Credit Suisse Asset Management group is a global leader in alternative investments, offering a wide range of products, including private equity, hedge funds, fund of funds, real estate, credit, leveraged investments and quantitative strategies. The Credit Suisse Alpha Strategies Group is the hedge fund of funds group.   

Elliott

Founded in 1977, Elliott is a New York-based investment firm with offices in London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Elliott’s multi-strategy funds opportunistically invest in a variety of strategies including distressed situations, performing debt, equity oriented investments, event-driven situations, structured products, commodities, fixed income arbitrage, related securities arbitrage, and portfolio protection. The firm employs approximately 230 people worldwide, nearly half of whom are dedicated to portfolio management, risk management, trading, and research. As of December 2009, Elliott manages US$16 billion.

ESL Investments, Inc., is an investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. ESL's investment portfolio has typically consisted of a select group of long-term equity investments, including large ownership interests in publicly traded companies. While this has been the focus of ESL's approach over its 20 years of existence, ESL has the ability to invest in all types of investments, including special situation investments and risk arbitrage transactions.

FX Concepts is one of the world’s oldest and most established independent currency managers. For more than 20 years, they have been helping investors generate sustainable returns while managing their currency risk. Their world-class research team provides currency forecasts and market insights to institutional money managers and investors on a subscription basis.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is the asset management arm of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), which manages US$690.7 billion as of December 31, 2008. Goldman Sachs Asset Management has been committed to providing innovative financial solutions for their clients around the globe, following the core principles established by Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1869. Today they have grown to become one of the world’s leading asset managers, offering specialized investment solutions in both traditional and non-traditional asset classes.

Knight Vinke Asset Management (“Knight Vinke”) is an institutional asset management firm which focuses on investments in large cap public companies in Europe. Knight Vinke identifies ways of unlocking value in large caps through proprietary analysis and, through its engagement with the company and the financial community, works to see that this value is realized. Knight Vinke has offices in Monaco (investment professionals), New York and Sacramento, CA (finance and operations professionals).

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, PanAgora Asset Management has provided a broad range of investment solutions across global regions, risk levels, and asset classes for over 20 years. PanAgora currently employs 36 investment professionals and over 90 employees. As of March 31, 2009, the firm had over $11 billion in assets under management.

Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. (“Pershing Square”) is a concentrated research-intensive fundamental value investor in the public markets.  Pershing Square’s investment objective is to preserve capital and seek maximum long-term capital appreciation commensurate with reasonable risk. In its value approach to investing, Pershing Square seeks to identify and invest in long and short investment opportunities that it believes exhibit significant valuation discrepancies between current trading prices and intrinsic business (or net asset) value, often with a catalyst for value recognition. In certain situations, if Pershing Square believes the commitment of time, energy, and capital is justified, it may seek to be a catalyst to realize value from an investment by seeking to effectuate corporate change.  Pershing Square was founded in 2003 and is based in New York City.  

PIMCO is a leading global institutional money manager specializing in fixed-income investments. The firm was founded in 1971 and has more than $756 billion in assets under management. PIMCO is headquartered in California and has operations around the globe. They manage assets for a wide range of clients, from personal investors to central banks and multinational corporations. PIMCO Canada was launched in 2004 and is headquartered in Toronto.

Relational Investors LLC is a privately owned registered investment adviser and asset management firm. Relational serves some of the largest pension funds and institutional investors in the world. The Firm focuses in the large and mid cap space, investing in 8 to 12 U.S. and Canadian publicly-traded, underperforming companies. Relational develops a specific plan and constructively engages the management and board of directors of each portfolio company in a productive dialogue. The plan is designed to remedy the issues causing the underperformance, ultimately resulting in improved shareholder value. Relational is based in San Diego, California.

Treesdale Partners, LLC is a New York based specialized asset management firm which manages a variety of fixed income alternative investment products on behalf of a wide array of institutional and individual clients. Founded in 2002, Treesdale has fixed income experience in risk/asset management, institutional sales and trading, and quantitative modeling.

Universa Investments L.P. is an investment management firm that specializes in hedging tail risks for its clients. Universa has a focused investment approach employing positively-skewed payoffs, empirical and fundamental-based option valuation, and order flow trading. It was founded in January 2007 by CIO Mark Spitznagel, and the principals have decades of experience implementing and developing Universa's protection strategies, creating an innovative risk management vehicle.

ValueAct Capital is a concentrated value-investment firm with offices in San Francisco and Boston. ValueAct Capital establishes substantial ownership positions in companies it believes to be fundamentally undervalued, and then works with company's management and board of directors to implement business strategies that enhance shareholder value and create a return independent of the market. ValueAct Capital was established in 2000.