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T R European Growth Trust PLC

T R European Growth Trust invests predominantly in smaller and medium sized companies in Europe.

The company aims to achieve capital growth, through a Net Asset Value Return greater than the FTSE World Europe Index.  The trust appeals to investors who recognise the growth potential of smaller and medium sized companies, in Europe, and who are looking to complement a balanced, core portfolio.

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T&D Holdings, Inc.

T&D Holdings is the holding company of three core life insurance companies: Taiyo Life Insurance, Daido Life Insurance, and T&D Financial Life Insurance.

Taiyo Life specializes in marketing insurance products in the retail household market.

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TA Enterprise Berhad

TA Enterprise operates in a range of business areas principally in investment, banking, funds, and property development.

It is an investment holding public company with a current issued and paid-up share capital of RM1,328,468,769-00.  TA Enterprise is the holding company of the entire TA Group, with its shares and stocks listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE).  TA Enterprise has a portfolio of equity interests in two major industry sectors; namely financial and property.  Its scope of business interests include stock broking; provision of other financial services such as share financing, ESOS financing, fund management, derivatives trading, unit trust fund management; hotel operations, property development, construction and management in over five countries namely Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and South Africa.

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T&D Holdings, Inc.

T&D Holdings is the holding company of three core life insurance companies: Taiyo Life Insurance, Daido Life Insurance, and T&D Financial Life Insurance.

Taiyo Life specializes in marketing insurance products in the retail household market.

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TA Enterprise Berhad

TA Enterprise operates in a range of business areas principally in investment, banking, funds, and property development.

It is an investment holding public company with a current issued and paid-up share capital of RM1,328,468,769-00.  TA Enterprise is the holding company of the entire TA Group, with its shares and stocks listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE).  TA Enterprise has a portfolio of equity interests in two major industry sectors; namely financial and property.  Its scope of business interests include stock broking; provision of other financial services such as share financing, ESOS financing, fund management, derivatives trading, unit trust fund management; hotel operations, property development, construction and management in over five countries namely Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and South Africa.

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TCF Financial Corporation

TCF Financial Corporations principal subsidiary, TCF National Bank, operates in Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado and Indiana.  TCF's products include commercial, small business, consumer and residential mortgage loans and deposit products; leasing and equipment finance; securities brokerage and investment, and insurance services.

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TD Banknorth Inc.

Banknorth Group is the holding company of Banknorth NA, which provides banking services in the area of New England and upstate New York.  The group operates through Banknorth Connecticut, Peoples Heritage Bank, Banknorth Massachusetts, Bank of New Hampshire, Banknorth Vermont and Evergreen Bank.

The company is also engaged in insurance, money management, merchant services, mortgage banking, government banking and other financial services through its subsidiaries and divisions.  Banknorth has over 380 branches and 540 ATMs.

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Teather & Greenwood Limited

Teather & Greenwood's corporate finance service advises companies on matters such as flotations and secondary fund raising.  Teather & Greenwood also has a mergers and acquisitions department.  This team works both with, and independently of, the corporate finance department and specializes in private company advisory, merger, acquisition and disposal business.

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Temple Bar

Temple Bar is an investment trust which targets businesses with a higher than average yield, and aims to maintain a balance between large and small companies.  Around 70% of its investments at any one time will be in large blue-chip companies.

Temple Bar's portfolio is currently worth around $550m.  Roughly a quarter of its investments are in the financial sector, with around 12% in resources and 10% in utilities.  About 17% of the company's investments are in non-cyclical consumer goods.

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Templeton Emerging Markets IT PLC

Templeton Emerging Markets IT is part of Franklin Templeton Investments.  This company is in turn a part of a worldwide group established in the US, and listed as Franklin Resources on the New York and London Stock Exchanges.

The parent company is one of the worlds largest fund managers, with over $150 billion under management for more than nine million investors worldwide.

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The AA

The AA (Automobile Association) is privately owned company.  It is primarily a provider of vehicle breakdown recovery services.  Other activities include driving schools, publishing, personal finance and accreditation of driving instructors.  Membership for the AA's vehicle recovery service stands at just over the 15 million mark.  It also offers AA Tyre Fit, an all-mobile fleet and retail tire network service.  The company has a UK network of car service, maintenance and repair centers.  There are over 150 AA products and services and the company offers customers breakdown cover in continental Europe.

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The Advest Group, Inc.

The Advest Group provides highly individualized financial advice to clients.  The company is engaged in providing a number of services, such as securities brokerage, investment banking, and asset management services to individuals, corporations, institutions, and municipalities.  These services are offered through the company's subsidiary, Advest, while investment management is offered through Boston Advisers, with real estate services provided by Billings & Company.

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The Bear Stearns Companies Inc.

Bear Stearns is an investment banking, securities and derivatives trading, clearance and brokerage firm.  The group serves corporations, governments, institutional and individual investors worldwide.

The company is a holding firm that operates through its subsidiaries, principally Bear Stearns & Company, Bear Stearns Securities Corporation (BSSC), Bear Stearns International and Bear Stearns Bank.

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The Board of Trade of the City of Chicago

The CBOT's principal role is to provide contract markets for its members and customers and to oversee the integrity and cultivation of those markets.  Its markets provide prices that result from trading in open auction or electronic platforms.  The marketplace assimilates new information throughout the trading day, and through trading it translates this information into benchmark prices agreed upon by buyers and sellers.

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The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company

Dai-ichi is an insurance company.  The companys principal areas of business are individual and group life insurance and pension products.  Other services include investment and risk management, and asset management services.  The company has five overseas offices located at New York, London , Hong Kong, Beijing and Taipei.

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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is the largest financial services post-trade infrastructure organization in the world.

The companys subsidiaries are a depository, two clearing corporations and two other subsidiaries.  Through these, DTCC offers clearance, settlement, custody and information services for equities, corporate and municipal debt, money market instruments, American depositary receipts, exchange-traded funds, unit investment trusts, mutual funds, insurance products and other securities.

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The Israel Land Development Company Ltd.

The Israel Land Development Company (ILDC) specializes in a diverse portfolio of business enterprises including publishing and media, insurance, real estate, hotels, and emergency medical care.

The company's media and publishing interests are managed by Ma'ariv Holdings. These interests include the publication of a major Hebrew daily newspaper, a variety of periodicals, and also a minority interest in a cable and a commercial television company.

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The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company

Metrobank is a Philippine bank providing a full range of banking and financial services with the aid of a long list of Metrobank Group members.

Metrobank provides a host of deposit, savings, and loan products as well as electronic banking services like internet banking, mobile banking, and phone banking, not to mention its huge ATM network.  Metrobank is also the provider of trade finance in the country.  The banks overseas branch network has enabled it to service the fund remittances of countless Filipino overseas contract workers.

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The Midland Company

The Midland Company is a provider of specialty insurance products and services.  The company also provides transportation services for commodity movement on inland waterways.  The company operates through its subsidiaries American Modern Insurance Group and M/G Transport Services.

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The Navigators Group, Inc

The Navigators Group is primarily involved with underwriting insurance.  The company conducts its operations through two main subsidiaries: Navigators Insurance Company, which is responsible for underwriting marine insurance and related lines of business and a contractors' general liability program, and NIC Insurance Company, which underwrites surplus lines of insurance in certain states.  The companys operations comprise four main types of insurance: marine insurance, onshore energy insurance, and engineering and construction insurance.

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The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company

The Northwest Mutual Life Insurance Company provides life insurance services and products.

The company offers a number of different plans designed to suit a number of different requirements.  These products include traditional whole life, CompLife, variable life and term policies for middle to upper income individuals, small business owners and professionals, estates and selected large corporations.

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The Phoenix Companies

The Phoenix Companies (Phoenix) provides a range of life insurance, annuity and asset management products and services through its subsidiaries.  It is the 37th largest life insurer in the US by statutory assets.  The company primarily serves high-net-worth individuals and institutions clients.

The company has organized its operations into two segments: Life insurance and annuity products, and asset management.

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The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

PNC Financial Services is a bank and financial holding company.  It operates community banking, corporate banking, real estate finance, asset-based lending, wealth management, asset management and global fund services businesses.

The company provides certain products and services nationally and others in its primary geographic markets in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio and Kentucky.  It also provides certain products and services internationally.

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The St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc.

St. Paul Travelers Companies is a management company principally engaged, through its subsidiaries, in providing commercial property-casualty insurance, personal property-casualty insurance and asset management services.

The company operates in the management industry through its 79% majority ownership of the John Nuveen Company.  As a management company, it oversees the operations of its subsidiaries and provides them with capital, and management and administrative services.

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The Standard Life Assurance Company

Standard Life is a large European mutual life company servicing both domestic and international clients.  The companys international operations began in 1833 with the launch of its Canadian business.

Its activities in the UK and Canada represent its largest markets.  However, Standard Life also has operations in Ireland, Spain, and Germany, France and the newer markets of China and Hong Kong as well as a joint venture in India, which provides life insurance products and services.  Domestic business accounts for around 76% of Standard Life's income, while international business accounts for 24%.  The company hopes to increase the proportion of its international interests in the near future.

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The Toronto-Dominion Bank

The Toronto-Dominion Bank offers a range of financial products and services primarily in Canada.  The bank and its subsidiaries are recognized by the name TD Bank Financial Group (TDBFG).  TDBFG's operating segments include personal and commercial banking, wealth management and wholesale banking.

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Topdanmark

Topdanmark principal activity is the provision of non-life and life insurance, mainly in Denmark and EU countries, including personal, commercial, agricultural, industrial and marine and workers compensation.  Other activities include provision of pension schemes, corporate and individually written, as well as banking through BG Bank.

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Torchmark Corporation

Torchmark Corporation is a financial services holding company that offers insurance products, health insurance and annuities to the middle classes in the US.  Torchmarks subsidiary companies include American Income Life Insurance Company; Liberty National Life Insurance Company; Globe Life and Accident Insurance Company; United American Insurance Company and United Investors Life Insurance Company.  Torchmark's subsidiaries write a variety of nonparticipating ordinary life insurance products.  These include traditional and interest sensitive whole-life insurance, term life insurance, and other life insurance.  The company also offers supplemental health products and health policies.  Other products include annuity products, such as single-premium deferred annuities, flexible-premium deferred annuities and variable annuities.

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Toyota Financial Services Corporation

Toyota Financial Services is a large captive finance company, primarily concerned with the provision of auto financing and leasing services to buyers of Toyota and Lexus automobiles.

The company provides credit insurance, extended service contracts and vehicle protection plans.  The Toyota Extra Care Vehicle Service Agreement (VSA) supplements a factory warranty by covering a vehicles components; and offering benefits like towing reimbursement.

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Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.

Transatlantic Holdings is a holding company for a number of reinsurance companies providing a range of property and casualty products.  These products include general liability, medical malpractice, automobile liability, and surety lines.  The company has offices in Europe, South Africa, Asia, Australia, South America, and extensive operations in North America.  It sells its reinsurance directly and through brokers to insurers and re-insurers.

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Triad Guaranty Inc

Triad Guaranty through its wholly owned subsidiary, Triad Guaranty Insurance Corporation, offers private mortgage insurance to residential mortgage lenders nationwide.

The principal type of private mortgage insurance cover offered by the company is primary insurance.  Private mortgage insurance, also known as mortgage guaranty insurance, is issued in most home purchases and re-financings involving conventional residential first mortgage loans to borrowers with equity of less than 20%.  If the homeowner defaults, private mortgage insurance reduces, and in some instances eliminates, the loss to the insured lender.

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