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

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.

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Duraco is a leading manufacturer of specialty tapes, which are sold into highly attractive end markets including Point-of Purchase displays, appliances, transit packaging, construction, signage, and HVAC. Duraco’s application-specific tapes are strong alternatives to mechanical fasteners and traditional glues offering longevity, strength, efficiencies in customer’s assembly operations and breadth of substrates.

Launched in 2006, Opus provides a full suite of fund administration and middle and back office services to the hedge fund and alternative investment markets. By leveraging Opus’s distinctive technologies, disciplined processes and industry-leading operations, accounting and technology talent, Opus has brought a superior offering to the hedge fund community. With combined operational experience of more than 100 years, the management team is uniquely positioned to understand the requirements and needs of the hedge fund industry as it relates to the core strategies within the fund administration space. The ownership structure at Opus ensures we are committed to delivering a long term successful service to our client base. Opus Fund Services (Bermuda) Ltd. is licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority under the Investment Funds Act 2006. Opus Fund Services (IRE-Admin) Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Our USA line is +1 (312) 256-9974 Our European line is +353 1 571-3060.

The Village of Buffalo Grove (VBG) is located 35 miles northwest of downtown Chicago and 20 miles north of O'Hare International Airport. The Village's land area is 9.3 square miles, with 21.7 percent in Cook County and the remaining 78.3 percent in Lake County. Buffalo Grove has been recognized as one of the safest communities in the United States, the most family-friendly community in Illinois, one of the best Chicago suburbs for young professionals and one of "Best Places to Live" according to Money Magazine. Buffalo Grove's four elementary school districts and two high school districts consistently receive acknowledgement for providing high quality education. Additional amenities include two library districts, strong park and forest preserve districts, and over 800 acres of parks and open space, including two municipal golf courses and miles of bike trails. Residents and visitors alike enjoy these community assets and take part in the various cultural and entertainment activities held in the community. The Village's commercial base includes corporate business parks, a diverse retail sector and a wide range of professional services, including medical facilities. The Village is thrilled to be welcoming The Clove—a redevelopment project that will create a 20-acre modern central entertainment and residential district anchored by a national grocery store, retail shops, a park, restaurants, and luxury multi-family residential units. VBG has an extensive transportation system with countless regional road system connections. In addition, the Metra North Central Service rail line connected to downtown Chicago and O'Hare Airport. Pace Suburban Bus provides access to adjacent communities as well as Metra's Union Pacific Northwest and Milwaukee District North rail lines. Residents, businesses and their employees, and visitors all benefit by the top tier mobility in VBG. Visit VBG's official website, www.vbg.org, to learn more.

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