John B. Cuccia

MEAG New York Corp. (MEAG NY) is an insurance management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1994 and is a subsidiary of Munich-American Holding Corp., which is owned by Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG (Munich Re) (ETR: MUV2; OTCMKTS: MURGY) in Germany. MEAG NY provides investment advisory services primarily on fixed income securities to Munich Re and its direct/indirect subsidiaries.

Established in 2005, Halbis Capital Management (USA), Inc., formerly HSBC Halbis Partners (USA), Inc., is a specialist investment subsidiary of HSBC Investments, itself a subsidiary of HSBC Bank USA. The firm's ultimate parent is HSBC Holdings Plc (LSE: HSBA). They manage the HSBC Gem Opportunities Ltd. fund, the HSBC Gem Opportunities LLC, the Halbis Global Opportunistic Alpha Fund Ltd., the Halbis US Credit Alpha Offshore Fund Ltd. the HSBC Distressed Opportunities Fund and the Halbis Commodities Alpha Fund. The firm is headquartered in New York City with additional offices in London, Paris and Hong Kong.

Amalgamated Bank (Investment Management) (Amalgamated Bank-IM) is the investment management division of Amalgamated Bank (NASDAQ: AMAL), an FDIC-insured commercial bank headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded as Amalgamated Bank of New York in 1923 by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. They have retail branches in New York as well as branches in Las Vegas, Nevada, Lyndhurst, New Jersey, Pasadena, California and Washington, DC. Amalgamated Bank’s corporate divisions also include commercial banking and real estate finance. Through their institutional asset management and custody division, Amalgamated Bank-IM provides investment and trust services to US Taft-Hartley and public sector employee benefit plans, as well as endowments and foundations, non-profits, unions, political organizations and social impact enterprises.