Ariel Investments, LLC is a global value-based asset management firm founded four decades ago in 1983. Ariel is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Sydney Australia. Ariel serves individual and institutional investors through five no-load mutual funds and eleven separate account strategies. Our four core values are: Active Patience®, Independent Thinking, Focused Expertise and Bold Teamwork. We model these behaviors in everything we do. For complete social media disclosures and terms of use, please visit: https://www.arielinvestments.com/social

InspereX is transforming how fixed income securities and market-linked products are accessed, evaluated, and traded. InspereX unites the more than two decades of success in fixed income and market-linked products origination, underwriting, distribution, and education of Incapital with the innovation of Silicon Valley’s 280 CapMarkets and its revolutionary fixed income tech platform, BondNav.® We represent more than 400 issuing entities and have underwritten more than $705 billion in securities. InspereX stands for people, products, and technology you can trust.

PMA is a family of financial services companies that helps thousands of municipalities, school districts, local government investment pools, individuals, insurance companies and other institutions by providing investment, financial management and fund administration services. Day to day, we operate as one company, providing whatever services you need in seamless, coordinated fashion. Legally, we go by a few different names. But you only need to remember one: PMA.

XR Trading is a proprietary market-making firm with offices in Chicago, New York and London. XR provides liquidity in a wide range of financial instruments and asset classes. We add value to the markets in which we participate by integrating technology with trading effectively and employing a quantitative approach to automated market-making. To respond quickly to a constantly evolving market, our team members — traders, quants, and software engineers — work closely together in an open, collaborative environment. Our approach allows us to leverage successful strategies across a multitude of products and exchanges. Our success begins with talented individuals — and is maintained and driven by a united team effort.

PagnatoKarp was acquired by Cresset in June 2020. For more information, visit Cresset's website at cressetcapital.com

Gelber Group, a Chicago-based global proprietary trading company, has set the bar as one of the industry’s most innovative and enduring firms. Our success is driven by our relentless pursuit of new trading ideas and our emphasis on technological innovation. Established in 1982, Gelber Group is privately funded and trades on major exchanges in the United States and worldwide, operating in a variety of asset classes including foreign exchange, fixed income, equities, and commodities. Gelber has over 200 employees and offices located in Chicago, IL (headquarters); White Plains, NY; and Amsterdam/Gelber Coöperatief U.A.

WH Trading LLC is one of Chicago’s leading proprietary trading firms, with a highly diverse and talented staff that specializes in everything from traditional open-outcry trading to electronic trading and software development. Our varied expertise and commitment to cutting edge technology allows WH Trading to remain flexible in a competitive and ever changing marketplace.

As a leading, technology-driven, proprietary trading firm, we work with the most advanced technology and software in the market. Since 2004, we’ve continued to remain at the forefront of the industry by driving innovation, automation and financial opportunity through: TECHNOLOGY: We build proprietary software to create and capitalize on financial opportunity. TRADING: We optimize trading strategies for existing markets and develop new strategies to best capitalize on financial market opportunity. TEAM: We combine talented and dedicated technologists with data-driven traders to solve constantly evolving puzzles in the marketplace. Our employees are truly our greatest asset. We’ve spent years building our team of talented and dedicated technologists, data-driven traders and leaders who emulate our core values. Interested in joining an open, collaborative team that allows your talents to shine? We’re always on the lookout for the best and brightest! To view our available job postings please visit www.simplextrading.com/careers

RMB Capital is an independent, majority employee-owned firm that offers advisory services and investment solutions for a diverse range of clients. RMB Wealth Management | For high-net-worth individuals and families, our advisory and investment professionals work together to craft and deliver an integrated wealth plan (including financial planning tactics, customized asset allocation recommendations, and sophisticated investment solutions) that is designed to manage risk, seize opportunity, and drive results. RMB Family Office Services | For multi-generational families with complex needs, we aim to strike each client’s optimal balance of control and freedom by delivering tailored solutions through a fully customizable selection of planning, investment, accounting, and reporting services. RMB Asset Management | For institutional investors, we specialize in long-term, active investing strategies that are united by a dedication to deep, fundamental research and a belief that actively managed portfolios offer the flexibility and agility to outperform over a market cycle. RMB Retirement Plan Solutions | For employers who sponsor retirement plans, we serve as a co-fiduciary with a focus on reducing cost and risk while optimizing outcomes for all retirement plan stakeholders.

At SPINS, we believe there’s more than meets the eye to data. As the leading provider of retail consumer insights, analytics and consulting for the Natural, Organic and Specialty Products Industry, we strive to transform raw data into intelligent and actionable business solutions. Our mission is to maximize the value of information for growing the natural products industry. We carry out our mission by providing information, insight and a common language for the industry with which to understand and analyze consumer, retail and broad marketplace dynamics.

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on cutting-edge technology, data driven decisions and automation. Our core competency is providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we provide competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, and London. We are the leading options market-maker to successfully enter the industry in recent years with sustainable growth. By providing more liquidity to the markets through rapid innovation, we have the advantage of youth in remaining nimble and agile in an ever-changing competitive landscape. Akuna has no clients or external investors, we trade only with the company’s capital. We have dozens of employee-shareholders and this number continues to grow. We are really proud of what we have accomplished since inception, but even more excited for all that lies ahead of us. We are still building, accessing new markets, trading new products, and creating new strategies, giving you the opportunity to be involved in shaping the future of Akuna. Indeed, the great majority of Akuna’s growth profile is ahead of us. Visit Us: A 360 Virtual Reality Experience: https://vr.akunacapital.com

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