Emily Evans

Founded in 2008, Hedgeye Risk Management LLC is an independent investment research firm located in new Haven, Connecticut. The firm caters to individual and institutional investors. They employ bottom-up research that focuses on the strategy, macro, gaming, lodging, leisure, restaurants, food, beverage, retail, healthcare, financials and energy sectors. Hedgeye provides fundamental and industry specific research. The firm offers customized research, macro morning calls, company or industry specific real time intraday updates, conference calls, corporate access, field trips and virtual portfolio to its clients. They also offer quantitative and macro analysis. Hedgeye also offers media and risk management services. The firm caters to individual and institutional investors.

Avondale Partners LLC is an independent broker/dealer headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded by Robert Shepherd and Philip Krebs in 2001. Avondale Partners provides financial advisory services as well as equity and fixed income underwriting and private placement services to public and private companies throughout the US, Canada and Europe. They focus on middle-market companies in the healthcare sector.

ValuBond, Inc. provides on-line trading platform for financial institutions. It also provides electronic access & trade execution products for the fixed income market. This platform enables access to secondary trading, new issues, news and tools via an Internet or FIX connection. The company also provides Enterprise Broker & VB Broker Workstations that allow firms to provide fixed income inventory and trading access on a customized external Web site or intranet for representatives, correspondents. ValuBond was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Glickenhaus & Co. (GC) operated as an investment advisor. The company was founded in 1938 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 2012, Obsidian Research Group LLC is an independent investment research firm located in Nashville, Tennessee. The firm seeks to provide fundamental company specific equity research and healthcare policy analysis for a limited number of institutional clients.