Steven Spiegel

Artivest is a leading provider of premier alternative investment strategies designed for financial professionals and individuals seeking to improve their portfolio diversification. Artivest follows a disciplined process for identifying, evaluating, selecting and monitoring investment talent across a spectrum of alternative strategies including managed future, global macro, long/short equity, private equity, event-driven and others.

HedgeServ Holdings, a hedge fund and fund of hedge funds administrator, provides clients with improved access to critical information required to run their businesses, manage risk, execute trades, and build more robust and timely reports for their traders, investors, and regulators.

AssetMark is a leading independent provider of innovative investment and consulting solutions serving financial advisors. The firm provides investment, relationship, and practice management solutions that advisors use to help clients achieve their investment objectives and life goals.

Conning is a leading investment management company for the global insurance industry, with assets under management through Conning, Inc.; Conning Asset Management Limited; Cathay Conning Asset Management Limited (CCAM); Goodwin Capital Advisers, Inc; and Conning Investment Products, Inc. The company's unique combination of asset management, risk and capital management solutions, and insurance research helps clients achieve their financial goals through customized business and investment strategies. Founded in 1912, Conning provides clients with innovative solutions, leveraging its global capabilities, investment experience, proprietary research and risk management technology. Conning delivers its services globally through its offices in Connecticut, New York, London, and Cologne, and in Hong Kong through CCAM, a joint venture between Conning and Cathay.

CRT Capital Group was an institutionally focused broker-dealer delivering value-added research, trading, and banking services to its clients and security brokerage and research services to institutional accounts with established counterparty relationships around the world. CRT was founded in 1989.

Nexar Capital Group, an alternative asset manager, provided hedge fund-of-funds and proprietary hedge fund products to global institutional and high net worth investors. Its founding team was lifted out from Societe Generale. In April 2012, Union Bancaire Privee UBP SA acquired Nexar Capital Group.