Silver Sponsor:

BDO Seidman, LLP
BDO Seidman, LLP is a national professional services firm providing assurance, tax, financial advisory and consulting services to private and publicly traded businesses. For more than 90 years, we have provided quality service and leadership through the active involvement of our most experienced and committed professionals. 

BDO Seidman serves clients through more than 30 offices and 250 independent alliance firm locations nationwide. As a Member Firm of BDO International, BDO Seidman, LLP serves multi-national clients by leveraging a global network of resources comprised of more than 600 member firm offices in 105 countries. BDO International is a worldwide network of public accounting firms, called BDO Member Firms, serving international clients. Each BDO Member Firm is an independent legal entity in its own country. 
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.bdo.com


Bellwether Consulting

Bellwether Consulting is an investment advisor with over $25 billion in assets under fiduciary advisement. We build balanced solutions that are analytically sound, cost-effective, and administratively efficient based on specific client objectives. Our principals have extensive experience on both the DB and DC sides of the retirement market working with both large and small plans. We are owned by our principals; all of our advice is rendered by a business owner, not a junior staff member. Our research is performed in-house and is objective and independent. We put our reputations on the line with every recommendation we make.
As a fully independent firm, we are unaffiliated with investment managers or service providers and do not accept product-related compensation such as sales commissions. Bellwether Consulting acts with your organization’s interests as our sole focus. 
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.bellwetherconsulting.net/  


Groom Law Group

Founded in 1975, Groom Law Group is the largest employee benefits specialty firm in the country. Our attorneys handle a wide range of sophisticated benefits and tax matters for some of the nation's largest companies and non-profit organizations. Our varied practice offers attorneys the opportunity to resolve challenging benefits and tax questions in many forms - legislative, regulatory, corporate, and judicial.
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.groom.com/


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Benefits Canada

Benefits Canada is the country’s original and leading publication written primarily for the sponsors of group benefits and pension plans.
Owned by Canada’s leading magazine publisher, Rogers Media Publishing, the magazine has provided information and analysis to the benefits, healthcare and pension investment community for more than 25 years.
Benefits Canada has won more K.R. Wilson Awards for outstanding Canadian business journalism than any other Canadian publication.
For more information visit the company's website at:http://www.benefitscanada.com/


Books on Biz.com
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.booksonbiz.com/

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Business Wire
Business Wire's worldwide team of experts has built the most comprehensive news network ever assembled. With access to more than 60 leading news agencies throughout the world in addition to our proprietary network technology, Business Wire ensures that news is delivered to audiences in each market via their preferred manner and in their preferred language. Our members direct where they want their news disseminated, specifying the geographic markets, industry audiences and editorial desks most appropriate for the announcements. 
For more information visit the company's website at: http://home.businesswire.com 


BVA, LLC

BVA, LLC is a valuation, risk analysis and litigation support company, serving attorneys and their institutional investor and business owner clients. We provide defensible opinions of value and risk management recommendations and reviews based on a sound, disciplined system that combines accounting, finance, statistics, and common sense. Our independence and objectivity allows us to do work that others are prevented from pursuing because of regulatory or inherent conflicts of interest. 
For more information about the company and our online library, visit www.bvallc.com.
Also check out our sister company website at www.pensiongovernance.com.


Dick Davis Digest
The publishers of the Dick Davis Digest, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious financial newsletters, bring you the very best investment opportunities recommended by the top minds on Wall Street. Successful investing begins with quality information. See what thousands are talking about inside the pages of Dick Davis newsletters.
For more information visit the company website at: http://www.dickdavis.com/


Eurekahedge
Eurekahedge is a research and publication house focusing on alternative investments. Founded in 2001 Eurekahedge has grown rapidly to become one of the most widely used and quoted alternative research houses worldwide. Eurekahedge has produced a suite of hedge fund indices, an Asian hedge fund directory, a global fund of funds directory, a European hedge fund directory, a North American hedge fund directory and the world’s first Latin American hedge fund directory, covering over 5300 funds as well as a collection of educational guides for both hedge funds and investors. Eurekahedge has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Tokyo and New York. Eurekahedge also provides consultancy and advisory services, hedge fund start-up services and capital introduction. 
For more information, please contact Alexander Mearns, alex@eurekahedge.com, in Singapore on +65 6212 0924 
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.eurekahedge.com


HedgeCo
HedgeCo.net is the leading online hedge fund news and data source. Our site offers hedge fund data on almost 4,000 hedge funds! We also provide daily breaking hedge fund news, seminar announcements, manager interviews, an extensive service provider section, and much more... If you are a hedge fund manager, qualified investor or industry service provider, visit us today and apply for FREE membership at: http://www.hedgeco.net 


Hedge Fund Lounge
The HedgeFundLounge.com is the First and Only Entirely Open Forum for Alternative Asset Community. Our community is entirely unbiased. Why? Because the authors are you, the users! That's right, this site allow users to post their own news stories, messages, chat, survey answers, and much, much, more! It does not matter if you are a service provider, hedge fund manager, or an investor, this site brings everyone together and gives them an entirely FREE and OPEN FORUM to be heard. 
For more information visit the company website at: http://www.hedgefundlounge.com


ISI Publications
ISI Publications specializes in titles for the capital markets community. Leveraging our presence in the UK, Hong Kong, Bermuda and Toronto we have established a truly global author network and distribution capability. 
Since the company's inception in 1991, ISI has earned a reputation for providing authoritative, timely and accurate information on critical developments in the world's capital markets and on a range of e-commerce subjects.
Our own list encompasses areas such as hedge fund start-up, regulation and strategy, the marketing of mutual funds, practitioners' guides to listing rules around the world, analyses of developing pensions markets and complex anti-money laundering developments, specifically in the financial services industry. Our author group includes some of the industry's leading advisors and practitioners in their respective fields. 
In addition to our own titles, ISI offers professional publishing services, from editing in real-time for on-line platforms, to total book production services for our corporate clients.
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www1.isipublications.com/


vFinance Investments, Inc

vFinance, Inc. is a rapidly growing financial services company that provides personalized investment banking and brokerage services, through its wholly owned broker dealer subsidiary vFinance Investments, Inc., to more than 10,000 corporate and private clients worldwide. The firm has offices in New York, Chicago, San Jose, Houston, Boca Raton and 22 other cities. vFinance Investments is registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and is a member of the NASD.
For more information visit the company's website at: http://www.vfinance.com/

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