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Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. engages in the provision of insurance, annuities, and employee benefits programs. It operates through the US, and MetLife Holdings segments. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Lazard Freres & Co. LLC provides corporate advisory, capital market, and asset management services. The company was founded on April 13, 1992 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Freestone Capital Management LLC (Freestone) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The firm was founded by Gary Furukawa and Gary Smart in 1999 and is principally owned by Freestone Capital Holdings LLC. Freestone provides wealth management and investment advisory services to high net worth families and individuals on a discretionary or non-discretionary basis, typically through managed accounts. They also serve as investment manager to private funds.

Stifel Independent Advisors LLC (SIA) is a broker/dealer headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded in 1991 as Century Securities Associates, Inc. and became Stifel Independent Advisors LLC in 2021. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a full-service regional brokerage and investment banking firm that was founded in 1890. SIA offers brokerage services to a variety of individual and institutional clients. The firm executes securities transactions per client instructions through Stifel as their clearing firm.

Boustead Securities LLC is an investment banking firm that was established in 2006 to assist lower middle market private and public companies in all areas of capital markets formation. The private company is based in Irvine, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. Today, it provides a full array of corporate finance, third party research, and sales and trading to a diversified client base that includes fast-growing companies, companies facing financial or other challenges, financial institutions, and high net worth clients. Boustead Securities executes and advises on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, capital raises, and restructuring assignments in a wide array of industries, geographies, and transactions, for a broad client base. The company was founded in 2006 by David Allen Walters and Keith Charles Moore. Keith Charles Moore has been the CEO since 2006.

B. Riley Wealth Advisors, Inc. (BRWA) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. The firm was founded in 1994 as National Asset Management, Inc. and changed its name to B. Riley Wealth Advisors, Inc. in 2022 following the acquisition of National Holdings Corporation by B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY). BRWA provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations or other business entities, private funds, and pension and profit-sharing plans.

Mbloom Business Development Co. LLC operates as a closed-end fund. The private company is based in Kahului, HI. Arben Kryeziu has been the CEO of the company since 2014.

Founded in 1989, Philadelphia Brokerage Corp. is an independent broker/dealer headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. provides markets for the trading and clearing of crude and heating oil, gasoline, natural gas, and electricity. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Native Nations Securities, Freeman Securities Co., Inc. provides investment banking and broker/dealer services. The company is based in Jersey City, NJ. Freeman Securities Co. was acquired by Native Nations Securities on January 10, 2001.

Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc. provides investment baking and brokerage services. The firm also provides asset and wealth management, underwriting, alternative investments and advisory services. It serves emerging growth companies and high net worth individuals. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

House Research Institute is a foundation that focuses on ear and neuroscience research, education, and hearing health. The private company is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company's mission is to ensure that everyone can hear.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.

Goldstein Capital Corp. (Goldstein Capital) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Long Island City, New York. The firm was founded by Paul Goldstein in 1994. Goldstein Capital provides investment management services for pooled investment vehicles and separately managed accounts for individuals, institutions and other investment advisors.

National Asset Management, Inc (National Asset Management) is a private equity firm founded in 1900. The firm is headquartered in New York, united States.

Ceros Capital Markets (Ceros Capital Markets) is a venture capital firm. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Ceros Financial Services, Inc. is a financial services company based in Rockville, MD. Ceros Financial Services provides highly customized RIA, hybrid, or professional trading services. The private company's boutique platform is beyond cutting edge with unmatched service. The company was founded in 1994, and Mark Harry Goldwasser has been the CEO of the company since 2019.