Brian R. Hess

The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. provides legal, tax and accounting and environment services. It serves publishing, printing, and software industries. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

RBO & Co. LLC (RBO) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Saint Helena, California. The firm was founded in 1980 by Reginald B. Oliver. RBO provides investment advice to individuals, family offices, and institutions.

Bloomberg Tradebook LLC provides electronic trading services. It offers services to institutional traders, broker-dealers, plan sponsors, market makers, and hedge fund & portfolio managers with direct and anonymous access to equities, futures and foreign exchange markets. The firm also offers equity brokerage services, execution and settlement commission management services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1997, Pareto Securities, Inc., formerly Nordic Partners, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a joint venture formed by leading Nordic & Baltic brokers, E. Ohman J:or Fondkommission AB in Sweden, Evli Bank Plc in Finland and Pareto AS in Norway. Suprema Securities (part of Evli Group) is their affiliate in the Baltics. Their sales and trading network is based on memberships of the Stockholm Stock Exchange, Helsinki Stock Exchange, Oslo Stock Exchange and Copenhagen Stock Exchange. The firm is a leading provider of stock and bond brokerage and financial advisory services, focusing on sectors where Norway has particular advantages. Pareto Securities' New York office provides a wide array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Montréal Exchange, Inc. engages in the operation and development of market and clearing services for Canadian and international clients and to commercialize internally developed technology solutions. The Group operates in two segments, namely, Exchange and Clearing House. The Exchange segment acts as the only standardized financial derivatives exchange in Canada, providing a complete range of equity, index and interest rate derivatives. The Clearing House segment acts as clearing house and guarantor for derivative instruments traded at the MX and certain other derivative instruments from the over-the-counter market. The company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Part of CME Group, Inc., Pivot, Inc. is a company that provides liquidity management and collaboration software to the financial markets. The company is based in Chicago, IL. The company was founded by David Ho, Furqan Nazeeri. Pivot was acquired by CME Group, Inc. on August 01, 2012.

Bloomberg-BNA Holdings, Inc. provides legal, regulatory, and business information services. Its services includes network of reporters, correspondents, and practitioners who delivers expert analysis, news, and practice tools. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hussman Strategic Advisors, Inc. (HSA) is an independent registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Ellicott City, Maryland. The firm was founded by John Hussman in 1989 as Hussman Econometrics Advisors, Inc. HSA serves as an investment manager to the Hussman Funds, a diversified, no-load mutual funds.

TSX Venture Exchange, Inc. provides capital and financial services to early stage companies. It offers an access to capital and a market for making venture investments. The firm also provides corporate finance, business development and compliance, and disclosure services. The company was founded on November 29, 1999 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Part of TMX Group Ltd., TSX, Inc. provides a platform for accessing SEDAR® annual reports, news releases, and mutual fund filings. Users can search within documents and view them on desktop or mobile devices. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. The Canadian company also offers free alerts to notify users when their company files a document. The CEO of the company is Craig James Dalziel.

Standard & Poor's Investment Advisory Services LLC (SPIAS) is investment research firm and registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of S&P Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPGI), formerly McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. SPIAS’ advisory services are generally offered to institutions (e.g., broker-dealers, investment advisers, investment companies and other financial institutions). SPIAS does not generally provide its advisory services directly to retail clients, but its services may be used by its clients in advising their own underlying clients, which may include retail clients. SPIAS also provides advisory consulting services to institutional clients and investment managers-of-investment funds, and investment sub-advisory services for registered investment companies, including open-end mutual funds and other institutions. S&P Global's operations consist of three reportable segments: S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Platts, and S&P Dow Jones Indices. S&P Global Ratings is an independent provider of credit ratings, research and analytics to investors, issuers and market participants. It includes the NRSRO and certain other ratings-related businesses. S&P Global Platts provides essential price data, analytics, and industry insight that enable commodities markets to perform with greater transparency and efficiency. S&P Dow Jones Indices is a global index provider that maintains a wide variety of indices to meet an array of investor needs. In 2016, CFRA acquired S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Equity and Fund Research business (formerly known as S&P Capital IQ and SNL) from S&P Global, Inc.

CreditSights, Inc. is an independent investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Paul Ciasullo, Reena Mithal, Glenn Reynolds and Peter Petas in 2000. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. CreditSights provides fundamental, in-depth credit research for buy-side decisionmakers, sell-side intermediaries and wealth managers and private banks globally. The firm actively covers more than 5,000 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific representing over 56 countries.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., Natural Gas Exchange, Inc. operates an electronic trading platform for natural gas and electricity contracts. The company is based in Calgary, Canada. Natural Gas Exchange was acquired by TSX Group, Inc. from OM Gruppen AB on March 02, 2004 for $28.86 million.

S&P Global Market Intelligence, Inc. provides integrated financial information and technology solutions. It provides data and analytics for global financial professionals. The firm works with different client firms, including investment banks, asset management firms, private equity firms, universities, and corporations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

The Bermuda Stock Exchange Ltd. owns and operates electronic stock exchange. The firm offers listing and trading opportunities for international and domestic issuers of equity, debt, depository receipts, insurance securitization, and derivative warrants. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Big Apple Circus is a circus company founded in 1977 by Paul Binder and Michael Christensen. The non-profit company presents a new show each year under its big top in Damrosch Park, located in New York, NY. The company offers an alternative to the glitz and spectacle of the American three-ring circus, focusing on intimacy and artistry associated with the European one-ring circus.

Ascend Consulting designs, develops, and delivers technology solutions. It offers business processes and information technology solutions. The company provides services to the financial, insurance, and other commercial industries. Ascend Consulting was founded by Karl Pessinis, Robert Ryan and Charles E. Fieramosca in 2002 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

BTIG LLC is an institutional brokerage and fund services firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2002 through the merger of Baypoint Trading LLC and Bass Trading LLC. They are a subsidiary of Condor Trading LP. BTIG offers institutional and corporate clients with personalized multi-asset class execution, expertise and insights worldwide across equities, equity derivatives, ETFs, fixed income, futures, commodities, foreign exchange, interest rates, credit, and convertible and preferred securities. The firm’s core capabilities include global sales, portfolio, electronic and outsource trading, transition management, investment banking, prime brokerage, capital introduction, corporate access, research and strategy, commission management and more.

The University of North Carolina Foundation, Inc. provides charitable, educational, and scientific services. The non-profit company is based in Chapel Hill, NC.

Standard & Poor''s Securities Evaluations, Inc. provides investment advice and brokerage services. The company is headquartered in New York

S&P Dow Jones Indices provides index-based concepts, data, and research to the financial market. Its stock market indices are used as benchmarks and as the basis of investable products, such as exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, and structured products. The company was founded in July 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

LCM Commodities LLC provides execution services for commodities-related products. The joint venture company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom.

Part of The Michael R. Bloomberg BI Revocable Trust, Bloomberg Tradebook Canada Co. is a brokerage services provider. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Thomson Financial (Canada) provides management consulting services. The private company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Montréal Climate Exchange, Inc. designs and operates carbon markets. The company is head quartered in Montreal, Canada.