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Founded in 1977 by Richard F. Aster, Jr., Aster Investment Management Co., Inc. is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager located in Larkspur, California. The firm manages the Meridian family of no-load mutual funds including the Meridian Equity Income Fund, the Meridian Growth Fund and the Meridian Value Fund.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Founded in 1980, Tukman Grossman Capital Management, Inc. is a registered investment advisor located in Larkspur, California. The firm was formerly known as formerly Tukman Capital Management, Inc. The firm provides investment advisory services for a variety of clients including pension funds, foundations, private funds, other types of “institutional clients,” and high net-worth individuals.

ArrowMark Colorado Holdings LLC (ArrowMark) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Formerly known as Arrowpoint Asset Management LLC, the firm was founded in 2007 by David Corkins, Karen Reidy, and Minyoung Sohn. They are owned by CF Shirtsleeves LLC. ArrowMark manage assets on behalf of a broad array of institutional clients and private wealth allocators across their investment strategies, along with the management of broadly syndicated and middle-market CLO Funds and customized separately managed accounts.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.