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Nuveen Investments, Inc. provides investment management and related services to retail and institutional investors. It offers investment management capabilities across a diversified set of asset classes and investment strategies through its investment management affiliates, including municipal bond, investment grade, global and high-yield bond, floating-rate bank loan, preferred securities, growth equity, value equity, global and international equity, equity income, core equity, equity index, quantitative and enhanced equity, asset allocation, balanced strategies, real asset and commodity. The company was founded by John Nuveen in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (KBW) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). KBW offers sales and trading in equities securities of financial services companies.

XL Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd. provides liability insurance coverage services. The firm offers insurance and reinsurance coverages, and financial products & services to industrial, commercial, and professional service firms, insurance companies, and other enterprises worldwide. The company has operating divisions in Australia, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, and Ireland. The company was established in 1986 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Plc provides insurance and financial consulting services. The company offers different insurance products, mortgages, investments, claims and risk management services. Ecclesiastical Insurance Office was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Gloucester, the United Kingdom.

NetNumber, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the development of signaling control solutions. It provides a common infrastructure for the virtual delivery of real-time signaling control, policy enforcement and subscriber database services. The firm global data services provides real-time data feed service for the distribution and synchronization of shared industry data. The company was founded in 1999 by Douglas J. Ranalli and James M. Kenny and is headquartered in Lowell, MA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

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.

Gerling Global Reinsurance Corp. provides reinsurance products and services in the field of treaty and facultative risk underwriting. It has offices in more than 37 countries worldwide. The company is headquartered in Cologne, Germany

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Part of American International Group, Inc., AIG Property Casualty International LLC operates as an insurance holding company. The company is based in Albany, NY.

Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd. provides catastrophe reinsurance and other related insurance services. Its products include property catastrophe and risk excess, casualty clash, medical malpractice and multi-peril crop. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Pool Reinsurance (Nuclear) Ltd. provides non-life insurance services. The private company is based in London, UK. The British company was founded in 1995. The CEO is Barry McConway.

Part of AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. (New York), Flagstone Syndicate Management Ltd. provides insurance and reinsurance services. The company is based in London, UK.

Part of Westfield Group (Ohio), Argo Managing Agency Ltd. is a British company that provides non-life insurance services. The company is based in London, UK. The CEO of the company is Dominic James Kirby.

Founded in 1930, British Aviation Insurance Co. Ltd. is a provider of aerospace and aviation insurance services. Part of Intact Financial Corp., the company is based in London, UK.

Wacker Chemical Corp. manufactures silicone fluids and related products for the chemistry and semi-conductor sectors. Its products include basic chemicals, electrofluxes, fine chemicals, polymers, polysilicon, silicones, silanes and siloxanes. The company was founded in 1965 and is located in Adrian, MI.

Arden Reinsurance Co. Ltd. provides underwriting services to insurance and reinsurance business. It offers treaty and specialty reinsurance, direct and facultative insurance, and claims. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Ariel Re Holdings Ltd. operates as an underwriting company for global portfolio of insurance and reinsurance business. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Ariel Re Ltd. provides reinsurance services. It offers general insurance for cars and homes. The company is headquartered in Bermuda.

Realty Insurances Ltd. provides insurance brokerage services for property. The British company was founded in 1950. The CEO is Graham Salmon.

Zafin Labs Technologies Ltd. provides relationship banking software solutions to the financial services industry. Its technology platform, miRevenue software, was built for banking, enabling customer-centric product innovations that drive revenue, transparency and operational efficiency. The firm’s software modules include miCatalog, miPricing, miEarnings, miOffering, miLoyalty and miBilling. The company was founded by Al Karim Somji in 2002 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

iSoftstone, Inc. provides information technology services and solutions. The company was founded on September 30, 2008 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.