Jack Turner

Founded in 1931, Stone & Youngberg LLC is a broker/dealer located in San Francisco with an additional office in Chicago. The firm is a subsidiary of Stone & Youngberg Holdings LLC. Stone & Youngberg structures and distributes fixed-income securities for their clients which include financial institutions, investment managers, pension funds, insurance companies, state and local governments and hedge funds in California and throughout the US. The firm's research group supports the firm's sales, trading, and public finance efforts by tracking the firm's underwritings in the primary and secondary markets, particularly the below investment-grade issues.

Founded in 1969, HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) Inc. is an SEC-registered brokerage firm and registered futures commission merchant located in New York City. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. and their ultimate parent is HSBC Holdings Plc. (NYSE: HBC). HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) is a member of FINRA, the NYSE and the SIPC. Their securities and annuity products are provided by registered representatives and insurance agents of HSBC Securities (U.S.A.). In California, HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) conducts insurance business as HSBC Securities Insurance Services. Insurance products are offered through insurance agents of HSBC Insurance Agency (U.S.A.) Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank U.S.A. NA and an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc. The company also engages in investment banking underwriting, dealing and brokering of debt and equity securities and futures contracts and is a primary dealer in U.S. Government and federal agency securities.