Timothy Laird Jones

Palisade Capital Management LLC (Palisade) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1995 by Martin L. Berman, Steven E. Berman, and Jack Feiler. They are a subsidiary of Palisade Capital Holdings LP. Palisade offers specialized investment solutions that seek to deliver attractive results to corporations, public plans, financial institutions, family offices, and individuals.

Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America engages in the provision of individual annuities and life insurance products. It operates through the following segments: Individual Annuities, Life, Questar, and Legacy. The Individual Annuities segment includes fixed, fixed-indexed, variable, and variable-indexed annuities that are provided through independent distribution channels made up of agents and registered representatives. The Life segment issues fixed-indexed universal life insurance products, as well as maintains term and whole life in-force blocks that the company no longer sells or distributes. The Questar segment distributes a range of securities products, including mutual funds, variable life insurance, and annuity contracts; and also processes general securities transactions through a clearing arrangement with a third-party provider. The Legacy segment consists of closed blocks of long-term care and special markets products. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Minneapolis. MN.

CJS Securities, Inc. is an independent, registered broker-dealer headquartered in White Plains, New York. The firm was founded by Arnold Ursaner in 1998. CJS Securities seeks to identify quality Small-cap companies that may be inefficiently priced in the market due to lack of research coverage, or a material change in the business. The firm actively follows several stocks that span a number of sectors/industries. They are generalists, not "industry analysts," and therefore tend to seek companies that do not typically slot into traditionally "ranked" categories. Their in-depth basic reports are designed for long-term oriented institutional investors.

Founded in 1988, Cutter & Company Brokerage, Inc. is a dually registered broker-dealer and investment advisor located in Ballwin, Missouri. The firm does business as Cutter & Co., Inc. The firm utilizes utilizing two clearing firms as custodian of their client assets: First Clearing Corp. LLC, a non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo and BB & T Securities LLC.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

Headquartered in New York, Whitaker Securities is an institutional securities firm. They provide a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. The firm was founded in 2002.

Newhard, Cook & Co., Inc. provides securities brokerage services. The private company is based in Brentwood, MO.

Detalus Advisors LLC (Detalus) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded by Steven Rull and Joseph Garea in 2001 as Hancock Investment Advisors LLC. They were formerly owned by Manchester Holdings, Inc. Detalus provides financial advisory services to individuals, families, businesses, and nonprofit organizations.

City National Rochdale LLC (CNR) is the SEC-registered investment management subsidiary of CNR Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE, TSX: RY) in Canada. The firm was created when Rochdale Investment Management LLC was combined with City National Asset Management, Inc. and City National Bank's investment management group, City National Asset Management. Headquartered in New York City, CNR provides portfolio management services to high-net-worth individuals as well as to registered investment companies, a private fund and institutional clients.