Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with investments in more than thirty countries across five continents. Drawing on over 50 years of private markets experience, proprietary intelligence, and trusted relationships, Adams Street strives to generate actionable investment insights across market cycles. Adams Street is 100% employee-owned and manages $58 billion in assets under management. Adams Street has offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.

Hightower is a wealth management firm that provides investment, financial and retirement planning services to individuals, foundations and family offices, as well as 401K consulting and cash management services to corporations. Hightower’s capital solutions, operational support services, size and scale empower its vibrant community of independent-minded wealth advisors to grow their businesses and help their clients achieve their vision of “well-th. rebalanced.” Based in Chicago with advisors across the U.S., the firm operates as a registered investment advisor (RIA). Learn more about Hightower’s collaborative business model at www.hightoweradvisors.com.

Calamos Investments is a diversified global investment firm offering innovative investment strategies including alternatives, multi-asset, convertible, fixed income, equity, and sustainable equity. The firm offers strategies through separately managed portfolios, mutual funds, closed-end funds, private funds, and UCITS funds. Clients include major corporations, pension funds, endowments, foundations and individuals, as well as the financial advisors and consultants who serve them. Headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, Calamos Investments has offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Portland, and the Miami area. Important disclosures: http://bit.ly/39ExSuR

Wolverine is a diversified financial institution specializing in proprietary trading, asset management, order execution services, and technology solutions. We are recognized as a market leader in derivatives valuation, trading, and value-added order execution across global equity, options, and futures markets. Our focus on innovation, achievement, and integrity serves the interests of our clients and colleagues. Wolverine is headquartered in Chicago, with branch offices in New York, San Francisco, and London.

GCM Grosvenor (NASDAQ: GCMG) is a global alternatives investment firm with approximately $76 billion in assets under management in private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, absolute return strategies, and multi-asset class opportunistic investments. The firm has specialized in alternatives since 1971, and is dedicated to unlocking value for clients by leveraging its cross-asset class and flexible investment platform. GCM Grosvenor’s experienced team of over 500 professionals from diverse backgrounds serves a global client base of institutional and high net worth investors. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Toronto, Hong Kong, and Seoul. In 2020, GCM Grosvenor was named among the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments.

BDT & MSD Partners is a merchant bank with an advisory and investment platform built to serve the distinct needs of business owners and strategic, long-term investors.

Moneta, ranked by InvestmentNews as the one of the Midwest’s largest independent RIAs with more than $30.6 billion in AUM and 500 employees, delivers a level of service and loyalty to its clients that only a completely independent, 100% employee-owned company can offer. Moneta provides a full spectrum of financial planning services to successful individuals and families, empowering them to navigate life’s path and protect what they cherish. For closely held businesses and organizations, Moneta manages their retirement plan benefit with a smart approach and passionate emphasis on improving the retirement outcomes of their employees. The firm consistently earns praise for the way it invests in and takes care of employees, named as a top place to work by publications such as InvestmentNews, the St. Louis Business Journal and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “MonetaU" – the company’s internal Talent and Organization Development program – tangibly demonstrates the value Moneta places on all of its employees by significantly investing in everyone’s professional growth and education throughout the full life of their career at the firm. This approach attracts and retains the industry’s top talent while promoting a culture that rewards those who continually pursue improvement.

NISA Investment Advisors, LLC (NISA) offers customized investment solutions for tax-exempt and taxable institutional clients. NISA manages $270 billion in fixed income and equity securities and $225 billion in derivative notional value as of June 30, 2023. $19.8 billion in repurchase agreement notional and underlying assets are reported in both physical assets and derivatives notional value under management. We seek bright, motivated individuals who can contribute to our growing team of professionals. Candidates with a high degree of independent thinking skills, strong analytical and quantitative skills, and team playing abilities are encouraged to apply. NISA manages portfolios for some of the largest institutional investors in the world. Client portfolios include investment-grade fixed income, derivative overlays and index-like equity investments. NISA is 100% employee-owned and is based in St. Louis, Missouri. Members of our experienced senior leadership team provide guidance for the firm through the Management Committee and Investment Committee. We employ over 375 people, nearly one quarter of whom have a participation interest in the firm.

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Amount's unified platform helps financial institutions modernize their operations, creating a seamless and intuitive banking experience for both customers and employees. Supporting both SMB and consumer lending, we streamline processes like loan origination and deposit account opening while integrating security and compliance. With innovative tools like our AI Policy Optimizer to refine credit strategies, Amount enables banks and credit unions to deliver the digital-first experiences today's customers expect. Power new and unique digital banking experiences in just months--not years.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞: Magnetar Capital is a leading alternative asset manager with offices in Evanston, Ill., New York and London. Founded in 2005, Magnetar was built on the belief that new opportunities existed for a firm specifically structured to remove common barriers among various investment styles – like quantitative and qualitative, short and long duration, and beyond. Our core businesses – Alternative Credit & Fixed Income, Healthcare and Systematic Investing – enable us to cater to a wide-range of investor needs. We foster a collaborative work environment and supportive culture based on three key values: insight, integrity and passion. Philanthropically, we’re on a mission to ensure all high school students have access to a quality financial education course. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞 𝐃𝐨: At Magnetar, we are innovators, dissatisfied with the status quo. We seek to generate tomorrow’s diversifying return streams by challenging today’s investment norms. We embrace the creative challenge of building novel structures that produce positive outcomes for our investors. We work to identify differentiated opportunities where we believe we can create a strategic advantage by engineering and scaling our processes and attempting to structure our investments to be profitable across a wide array of outcomes. We are purposeful in how we source, analyze, structure and manage the risks of our investments as we seek to achieve quantifiable, repeatable results. As part of our mission to deliver diversifying returns to investors, we invest growth capital in businesses that drive the real economy. We invest across geographies, in both public and private transactions.

In March of 2002, Belvedere Trading emerged as Chicago’s newest market makers, soon to join the ranks of the Windy City’s elite proprietary trading firms. Armed with printouts of Excel workbooks and a team of eager minds, Belvedere established their place in the SPX pit on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology, first building our options model, then adapting it to work on a handheld computer, then committing to building our software systems from the ground up. Due to our ultramodern proprietary technology and risk management capabilities, Belvedere is able to quickly capitalize on inefficiencies in the marketplace. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry. Belvedere Trading’s success and rapid growth are the direct results of our market experience, commitment to our mission and values, and relentless focus on the training and development of our team members. We attract an amazing caliber of diverse people; our team is comprised of over 200 individuals and we are actively expanding year over year. Since our inception, Team Belvedere has enjoyed low turnover and high referral rates due to our distinctive working atmosphere, well defined company culture, and high levels of entrepreneurship and empowerment. Our aggressive drive for efficiency, unique trading techniques, use of cutting edge technology, and most importantly, talented people, make us confident of our continued growth and success. Belvedere Trading continually looks forward to further expansion and facing the opportunities and challenges that the evolving financial markets will bring.