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Established in 1945, 3i is one of the UK's biggest investors in private companies. It says its strategy is to go for early stage growth companies rather than the financial wizardry favoured by other venture capitalists. It has been a big investor in tech companies in the past.

3i Infrastructure specialises in infrastructure investments. The group aims to build a portfolio of infrastructure investments across the globe, but with an initial focus on Europe, North America and Asia.

888 Holdings is one of the world's biggest online gaming firms. The group develops its own software in house and includes some of the popular brands including Casino-on-Net and Pacific Poker. The various sites offer a range of activities from casino to poker to skill games. Founded in Antigua in 1997, the group is now headquartered in Gibralter.

Investment objective is to provide investors with a total return primarily through investing in Asian Pacific securities, including those with an above-average yield. The Company does not expect to have any significant Japanese exposure.

The investment objective is to maximise total return to shareholders over the long term from a portfolio of smaller quoted companies (with a market capitalisation of up to approximately US$750m at the time of investment) in the economies of Asia and Australasia, outside Japan.

British Assets Trust aims to achieve a total return in excess of a composite index weighted as to 75% FTSE All-Share Index and 25% FTSE World Index. It invests in an international portfolio of equities and equity-related securities.

The objective of Aberdeen New Dawn Investment Trust PLC is to provide shareholders with a high level of capital growth through equity investment in the Asia Pacific countries excluding Japan.

Investment objective is to achieve long-term capital appreciation by investing in companies which are incorporated in India or which derive significant revenue or profit from India, with dividend yield from the company being of secondary importance.

Investment objective is to provide a high level of long-term, above-average capital growth through investment in Thailand.

Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust's objective is to achieve a net asset value total return (with dividends reinvested) greater than on the Hoare Govett Smaller Companies Index (Excluding Investment Companies) over the long term by investing in a diversified portfolio of small UK quoted companies.

African Barrick Gold describes itself as Tanzania's largest gold producer and one of the five largest gold producers in Africa. It has four producing mines, all located in north-west Tanzania, as well as several exploration projects at various stages of development. Its stated aim is to increase production to one million ounces per year by 2014. The company has four producing mines, all located in the north of Tanzania. These are Bulyanhulu, Buzwagi, North Mara and Tulawaka and regional offices in London, Johannesburg and Dar Es Salaam.

Accsys Technologies PLC is a UK incorporated environmental science and technology company focused on 'sustainability' via the development and commercialisation of a range of transformational technologies based upon the acetylation of solid wood and wood elements.

A leading provider of offshore and onshore oil and gas drilling and production services in the Middle East and Africa.

Admiral was launched in 1993 as a division of Brockbank. In 1999, it was bought in a management buyout backed by Barclays Private Equity. The group specialises in providing low cost car insurance for young drivers, people living in cities and those driving high-performance cars.

Adriatic Metals Plc is a UK based exploration and development company, and owner of the Vareš Mining Concession in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ruukki Group is an industrial group focusing on economically profitable and efficient processing of natural resources in minerals and wood processing businesses

Aggreko is a global provider of rental power, temperature control and compressed air systems. It operates in over 120 locations in 28 countries worldwide.

Airtel Africa is a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, with a presence in 14 countries in Africa, primarily in East Africa and Central and West Africa.

AJ Bell is the parent holding company of the Group. The Group provides online investment platforms and operates in both the advised and D2C segments of the platform market through its flagship platform propositions: AJ Bell Investcentre and AJ Bell Youinvest.

Aldermore is a specialist lender and savings bank focused on serving small and medium-sized enterprises, homeowners, landlords and individuals. Founded in May 2009 it has no branch network, serving customers on-line and by phone, although it does have a network of regional offices in the UK. Products offered to SMEs include lease and hire purchase finance for plant and equipment, invoice finance, commercial mortgages and Buy-to-Let services for individual and corporate landlords.

A leading developer of mission-critical software for the asset finance industry.

Alliance Trust is one of the oldest investment trusts, investing primarily in large global companies with the objective of long-term growth.

International project management and services company, Amec, carries out work for both the public and private sector. It serves a range of industries, including the transport, oil and gas and power sectors.

Amigo is the leading company in the UK guarantor loans market and offers access to credit to those who are unable to borrow from traditional lenders due to their credit histories.

Mining giant Anglo American is synonymous with South Africa. The company produces a whole range of metals and natural resources through gold, platinum, diamonds, coal, base and ferrous metals, industrial minerals to timber and coal from operations in Africa, Europe, South and North America and Australia.

Anglo Pacific Group is a global natural resources royalties company. The strategy of the Group is to expand its mineral royalty interests in low-cost, long-life mining assets. The Group achieves this through both direct acquisition and investment in projects at the development and production stage. It is a continuing policy of the Group to pay a substantial proportion of these royalties to shareholders as dividends. The Group strives to focus on projects in areas with low political risk that have defined resources and near-term production.

Chile-based Antofagasta has grown from humble beginnings in 1888 transporting copper through South America along the railway of the same name, into one of the world's largest copper producers through its huge Los Pelambres, El Tesoro and Michilla mines. The company has three business divisions: Mining, Transport and Water.

Founded by John Roberts in 2000 after a bet in a pub, AO World is an online electrical goods retailer based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, which also has a presence in the Netherlands and Germany. The company, which floated on the London Stock Exchange in February 2014, offers a range of ancillary services, such as customer finance options, an unpack and recycle service, product care packs, and disposal and connection services.

Apax Global Alpha is a closed-ended investment company which aims to deliver an annualised total net asset value return of 12-15% across economic cycles, net of fees and expenses, and to pay an annualised dividend yield worth 5% of its net asset value each year. The bulk of its investments are in private equity and the remainder in so-called 'derived investments', including derived equity and debt. Derived Investments are derived from insights gained through Apax Partners' private equity activities. Just over half of the portfolio is invested in North America, followed by Europe (ex-UK) where close to a quarter of the investments are located. By sectors, the fund is most exposed to Technology and Telecommunications, followed by Services, Healthcare and Consumer.

Argo is a platform that enables customers to efficiently mine Ethereum and other altcoins from their own computer or mobile device. Company's service provides immediate access to the cutting-edge mining rigs, which seamlessly perform the complex crypto-mining operations for our users and then directly deposit all coins mined into users' digital wallets.

Arix Bioscience is a global healthcare and life science company that drives value in private and public companies through operational and strategic direction as well as patient capital

A large number of low income people in Asia and Africa remain excluded from financial services as the mainstream banks or financial institutions do not consider them bankable. ASA International offers apt financial services to low income individuals in developing countries.

Ascential is a business-to-business media business specialising in exhibitions & festivals and information services. It organises large scale exhibitions, congresses and festivals where customers come together to form business relationships and transact. In Information Services, it provides high quality, industry-specific business intelligence and forecasting via digital subscription products.

Ashmore Group is one of the world's leading investment managers. It is a specialist value-oriented emerging markets asset manager.

The investment objective of the Company is to achieve long-term capital appreciation, mainly through investment in securities listed in India and listed securities of companies with a Significant Presence in India.

Ashtead Group is one of the world's largest equipment rental firms with a network of more than 400 profit centres stretching across the US, UK and the Far East. Its business provides equipment such as excavators and forklift trucks as well as power saws and ladders.

Associated British Foods is the Weston family's UK arm. The Westons still own over 50% and through their careful husbandry it now owns a raft of the UK's best-known brand names including Twinings tea, Ovaltine, Primark and British Sugar.

Assura Group works with the medical profession to deliver a wide range of services in the UK. The company forms joint venture partnerships with GP practices as well as developing and retaining property for long term investment.

Aston Martin Lagonda is the world's only independent luxury car group with more than 100 years of design and automotive excellence across two brands. We strive to be the great British car company that creates the most beautiful and accomplished automotive art in the world.

A world-leading pharmaceutical group, AstraZeneca was created in 1999 via the merger of Sweden's Astra and the UK's Zeneca, which had been demerged from chemicals group ICI in 1993. About half of its total sales are generated from the US, with over a third of revenues coming from its gastrointestinal treatments such as Prilosec (Losec) and Nexium.

Sub-Sahara-focused financial services group operating in multiple countries in the region with a special focus on South Eastern Africa and the Southern African Development Community and Nigeria. With a stated aim of expanding through inorganic growth, management at the British Virgin Islands-based outfit was targeting transactions which would be earnings accretive within a three-year timeframe.

Augmentum Fintech plc is a newly established closed-ended investment company. An investment in the Company will enable investors to gain exposure to a focused portfolio of fast growing and/or high potential private financial services technology ("fintech") businesses based predominantly in the UK and wider Europe to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns for shareholders. The Company will invest in early (but not seed) or later stage investments in unquoted fintech businesses which are high growth, with scalable opportunities, and have disruptive technologies in the banking, insurance and asset management sectors, including other cross-industry propositions.

Our purpose is to lead the future of the UK's digital automotive marketplace. We aim to improve the process of buying and selling vehicles in the UK, by continually evolving the ecosystem to provide a better experience for consumers, retailers and manufacturers alike.

Avast generates shareholder value through a combination of consistent growth, high profitability and strong cash flow.

Aveva provides engineering data and design IT systems to the plant, power and marine industries.

Formed by the merger of CGU and Norwich Union, Aviva is the UK's largest insurance company. It is what used to be called a composite in that it has both a life and general insurance division. Only about half of sales come from the UK with Aviva having big interests in France, Holland and Poland.

Avon Rubber is an innovative technology group, which designs and produces specialist products and services to maximise the performance and capabilities of its customers.

B&M European Value Retail is a discount retailer selling fast-moving consumer and non-grocery goods in the UK under the B&M Bargains brand and as Ja Woll in Germany. The company, boosted by snapping up dozens of ex Woolworths stores, raised more than £1bn as part of its £2.7bn flotation in London in June 2014, before being promoted to the FTSE 250 within a year. B&M opened its 500 UK store in April 2016.

A focused support services company, Babcock International, works primarily with public sector institutions. The company provides outsourcing services to government and private sector customers and works extensively with the UK armed forces. The company is split into six divisions - including Defence, Engineering and Naval services - and has business across Europe, Africa and North America.

BAE Systems is one of the world's biggest weapons and aviation groups. Operating in almost 80 countries, the group supplies many of the World's fighter planes, radar, attack missiles, warships and munitions.

Investment objective is to pursue long term capital growth principally through investment in medium to smaller sized Japanese companies with above-average growth prospects.

Shin Nippon's objective is to pursue long term capital growth through investment principally in small Japanese companies with above-average growth prospects.

Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food ("FPF") in the United Kingdom and has a growing international presence in the United States and China. The Group develops and produces innovative fresh prepared food products for a variety of occasions and budgets and is the number one producer by market share in the UK in each of the four fresh prepared food product categories: Meals, Salads, Desserts and Pizza & Bread. In partnership with some of its long-standing retailer customers, the Group has helped to develop and grow the fresh prepared food market in the United Kingdom, and today, the United Kingdom is one of the largest and most dynamic fresh prepared food markets in the world. The Group's customers include some of the United Kingdom's most reputable and well-known grocery retailers, which sell the Group's products to consumers under their respective brands.

The engineering and construction group completes work for the international rail, road, utility systems and buildings markets. It is the second biggest construction company in the UK and the fifteenth biggest in the world and was responsible for building the largest proportion of the M25 motorway.

We are industry-leading systemically important universal bank in Georgia, serving over 2.5 million clients through the widest services distribution network. Our strategy is based on at least 20% Return on Average Equity (ROAE) and c.15% growth of the loan book.

The fund uses a broadly diversified international portfolio to achieve long term asset growth in excess of the FTSE All-Share Index and to achieve regular dividend growth in excess of the increase in the Retail Prices Index.

One of the big four clearing banks, Barclays has a history that can be traced back 300 years. It owns credit card business Barclaycard and has a strong investment banking arm in Barclays Capital to go with its high street retail presence. It employs almost 150,000 people around the world.

Soft drinks group AG Barr traces its roots back to 1875 and Robert Barr in Falkirk. The company gets its name from Robert's son, Andrew Greig Barr. Its most famous drink Iron Brew was launched in 1901 and became IRN-BRU in 1947. The group's range now includes Tizer, D'N'B, KA, Barr, Strathmore Spring Water, St Clements and Simply. Barr also makes and sells Orangina in the UK under license from Schweppes and has a partnership with Rockstar Inc to sell and distribute their Rockstar energy drink brand in the UK and Ireland.

The company is one of the country's best-recognised builders, operating a network of over 30 housebuilding divisions throughout the UK.

BASF is a chemical company that also deals with plastics, oils and gases, agricultural products, and other performance products. Most of its services go towards the chemical, agricultural, automotive, and energy industries.

Aviation services specialist BBA provides refuelling, cargo handling, maintenance and other services to the airline industry.

We are a global infrastructure investment company helping to provide the responsible capital required to build and maintain the developed world's transport and social infrastructure.

Bellway is one of the UK's leading housebuilders. Many of the group's developments are situated on brown field land, areas earmarked by the government for urban renewal.

Berendsen, known as Davis Service Group until January 2011, runs a number of businesses in the textile services market. It's involved in workwear, textile rental, laundry, maintenance and supply services for customers within the commercial, industrial, leisure and public sectors.

Berkeley Group is a residential housebuilder with over 95% of its developments on brown field land. Established in 1976, the company now includes the Berkeley Homes, St George and St James brands.

Investment objective is to seek to generate consistent long-term capital appreciation through an investment policy of investing all of its assets in the Brevan Howard Master Fund. The funds may invest in a wide range of geographical regions, sectors and instruments which may include, but are not limited to, debt securities and obligations (which may be below investment grade or unrated), bank loans, listed and unlisted equities, other collective investment schemes, currencies, commodities, futures, options, warrants, swaps and other derivative instruments. The funds have the ability to take short positions across the majority of these instruments.

Investment objective is to seek to generate consistent long-term capital appreciation through an investment policy of investing all of its assets in the Brevan Howard Master Fund. The funds may invest in a wide range of geographical regions, sectors and instruments which may include, but are not limited to, debt securities and obligations (which may be below investment grade or unrated), bank loans, listed and unlisted equities, other collective investment schemes, currencies, commodities, futures, options, warrants, swaps and other derivative instruments. The funds have the ability to take short positions across the majority of these instruments.

The Company is organised as a feeder fund that invests all of its assets (net of short-term working capital requirements) directly in the Master Fund, a hedge fund in the form of a Cayman Islands open ended investment company, and which has as its investment objective the generation of consistent long-term appreciation through active leveraged trading and investment on a global basis. The underlying philosophy is to construct strategies, often contingent in nature, with superior risk/return profiles, whose outcome will often be crystallised by an expected event occurring within a pre-determined period of time.

The Company is organised as a feeder fund that invests all of its assets (net of short-term working capital requirements) directly in the Master Fund, a hedge fund in the form of a Cayman Islands open ended investment company, and which has as its investment objective the generation of consistent long-term appreciation through active leveraged trading and investment on a global basis. The underlying philosophy is to construct strategies, often contingent in nature, with superior risk/return profiles, whose outcome will often be crystallised by an expected event occurring within a pre-determined period of time.

Formed by the merger of Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary with South African miner Billiton, BHP Billiton is the model for a modern resources company. The company produces iron ore, copper, diamonds and aluminium, oil and natural gas, though it is base metals that remain the core of the business.

Formed by the merger of Australia's Broken Hill Proprietary with South African miner Billiton, BHP Billiton is the model for a modern resources company. The company produces iron ore, copper, diamonds and aluminium, oil and natural gas, though it is base metals that remain the core of the business.

Biffa Group Limited is a leading UK waste management company, providing collection, recycling, treatment, disposal and technologically-driven energy generation services across four operating divisions.

Big Yellow is the leading self storage brand in London and is planning to expand in order to cover the rest of the UK. The company develops, owns, and operates, self-storage centres for both personal and business use. Currently the majority of its stores are located within the M25.

BioPharma Credit plc provides investors with an opportunity to gain exposure to the fast growing life sciences industry, through a diversified portfolio of loans and other instruments backed by royalties or other cash flows derived from sales of approved life sciences products. BioPharma Credit's primary objective is to generate predictable income for shareholders over the long term.

The Company aims to achieve long-term capital growth for shareholders through investment mainly in smaller UK quoted companies.

The BlackRock World Mining Trust's investment objective is to maximise total returns by investing in mining and metal securities around the world.

Launched in May 2006 under the name Close AllBlue Fund Limited, the firm is a closed-ended listed investment company operating under the umbrella of BlueCrest Capital Management, an asset management company based in Guernsey. BlueCrest AllBlue accesses the best of BlueCrest's funds across both discretionary and systematic trading, and seeks to achieve the optimal blend of those funds.

The trust offers investor access to a broadly spread global smaller companies portfolio. The portfolio consists of individual smaller company investments within the US, UK and European markets, and fund holdings targeting smaller companies in Japan, Asia, Latin America and other smaller territories. The dividend of the Company has risen for 48 years in a row, benefiting from a growing income stream from the investment portfolio.

Bodycote is a leading supplier of specialist metallurgical services, providing heat treatments, hot isostatic pressing, metallurgical coatings and materials testing services to industries such as power generation, automotive, railway and general engineering.

Booker is a cash and carry operator, offering branded and private-label goods which are sold to the likes of independent convenience stores, grocers, leisure outlets, pubs and restaurants within the UK. Good supplied include fresh and frozen food, beers, wines, spirits, tobacco and non-food items.

Founded in 1885, Bovis is now one of Britain's leading housebuilders. Operating through five main regional offices it now supplies a wide range of homes across England and South Wales.

Oil giant BP moved into the top bracket of oil companies in the late nineties with the acquisitions of US concerns Amoco and Atlantic Richfield. More geared to oil production and exploration than its main rivals, BP has moved into the former Soviet Union to secure future production as its current key assets in the North Sea and Alaska wind down.

Brewin Dolphin is a stockbroker and investment manager with a long history. It's said to have started way back in 1762 with the founding of broker John Dawes. After numerous partner changes and acquisitions over the subsequent 200 years, Brewin Dolphin listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1994.

British American Tobacco was founded in 1902 as a joint venture between the UK's Imperial Tobacco Company and the American Tobacco Company. It is second only to Philip Morris in the World cigarette market, with more than 300 brands sold in around 180 markets.

The trust's objective is to achieve capital growth through a focused portfolio of investments, particularly in companies whose share prices stand at a discount to estimated underlying net asset value.

One of the UK's oldest property groups, British Land invests in prime, modern properties and has a current portfolio of £8.2 billion.

Listed in 2005 after its owners - Whitbread, InterContinental, Allied Domecq and PepsiCo - agreed to demerge the business and float it. The company has a number of high profile brands in its portfolio including Robinsons, Tango and J2O. Britvic is the largest supplier of still soft drinks and the number two supplier of carbonates. In total the group has around 2,700 employees.

The company is a major direct home shopping retailer, selling value products such as clothing, footwear, household and electrical goods. It also provides financial services including unsecured personal loans, warranties and insurance.

Originally one half of the Post Office, BT is still the UK's leading fixed line telecoms group. Rapid expansion in the late nineties, however, forced BT to sell off assets such as mobile arm O2 and yellow pages group Yell to slash its debt pile. Its three major divisions are Retail, Global Services and Wholesale.

BTG is a specialty pharmaceuticals company that is developing and commercialising products targeting critical care, cancer, neurological and other disorders. The company is also seeking to acquire new products to develop and market to hospital specialists.

Distribution and outsourcing group Bunzl was formed in the 1940s though its origins date back another 100 years. The group expanded rapidly through its cigarette filter business Filtrona, though this was demerged in June 2005 and the group now focuses on its food packaging and cleaning products operations.

Luxury international brand, Burberry, famous for its distinctive check design, sells its products through its own directly-operated stores and in department stores and specialty retailers around the world. The company was acquired by GUS in the 1950s who floated Burberry in 2002.

C&C Group plc is a premium drinks company which owns, manufactures, markets and distributes a unique portfolio of beer and cider brands in its home markets and across the globe.

Oil and gas exploration group Cairn Energy operates in Bangladesh and Nepal. Following the flotation of Cairn India Limited on 9 January 2007, the Group's interests in India are now operated by Cairn India Limited.

Caledonia's investment objective is to consistently achieve a long term shareholder return in excess of the FTSE All-Share Total Return while maintaining a progressive annual dividend.

Calisen is leading owner and manager of essential energy infrastructure assets, as well as a provider of installation, meter reading, maintenance and ancillary services, whose purpose is to accelerate the development of a cleaner, more efficient and sustainable energy segment.

The trust's primary objective is to achieve above average growth in its net assets through capital gains from its investments and to earn satisfactory income for its shareholders.

The Company and its subsidiaries form an international group primarily engaged in the supply of a wide range of services including multi-user work access systems, insulation, fi re protection, abrasive blasting, refractory, asbestos removal, coatings, cleaning, training and other essential non-mechanical services to major industrial groups, principally in the energy and natural resources sectors.

Capita is one of the UK's leading outsourcing specialists. Established in 1984, the company now counts both private and public sector businesses among its customers and is perhaps best known for its involvement in London's congestion charging scheme.

Capital & Counties Properties was demerged from Liberty International, now Capital Shopping Centres Group, in May 2010. It is one of the largest listed central London focussed investment and development companies, with investment properties mainly in west London and the West End. It owns the Covent Garden central plaza and wants to redevelop its Earls Court & Olympia exhibition facilities.

Real estate asset manager and investment company, Capital & Regional, has more than £1bn of property funds under management. Its properties include shopping centres, retail parks and family entertainment venue, Xscape.

Card Factory is a retailer of greetings cards and associated gift and party products. The company, which was founded by a Yorkshire entrepreneur as a back-of-the-van stall, was floated in London by private equity group Charterhouse with a valuation of £700m in May 2014. No-frills Card Factory had a total store estate of 865 at its January 2017 year end. It has an online presence offering personalised cards and gifts at gettingpersonal.co.uk.

Provides expertise in commercial and industrial building, refurbishment, civil engineering, road and rail construction and maintenance, mechanical and electrical services, facilities management and PFI Solutions.

Carnival is a cruise operator with a portfolio of cruise brands in North America, Europe and Australia. In 2003 the company combined with P&O Princess Cruises to form one of the largest leisure travel companies in the world. The group now encompasses brands such as Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line and Princess Cruises.

Carpetright sells carpets, laminate, vinyl flooring and rugs in around 350 UK stores and about 90 in Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg, making it the largest carpet retailer in Europe.

Castings PLC produce ductile iron castings, SG iron castings, austempered ductile iron (ADI) castings, Simo castings and Ni-resist castings up to 40kg in weight using 4 Disamatic moulding machines and 3 horizontal Green Sand moulding machines.

Centamin plc is a mineral exploration, development and mining company dual listed on the London and Toronto Stock Exchanges.

Centrica is the supply side of the former British Gas. The company supplies gas and electricity and offers a range of home energy solutions and low-carbon products and services.

With origins dating back to the early twentieth century, Chemring is a specialist defence manufacturer producing decoy measures to protect air, sea and land platforms against guided missile threats. The group, which floated in 1974, employs over 2000 people at 14 operations in the UK, US, Germany, Spain, France and Australia.

Chesterfield Resources plc, a special purpose acquisition company focused on opportunities in the mining sector.

Circassia is a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of a range of immunotherapy product candidates for the treatment of allergy.

The trust's objective is to outperform the total return of the FTSE All Share Index over the long term through either capital growth or income generation.

Boutique UK-based fund management group focused on closed-end funds centred on emerging markets. Founded un 1991, out of the London operations of Oliff & Partners, it also offers products geared towards frontier and developed markets. Using its proprietary processes, macroeconomic analysis and trading expertise it aims for outperformance by taking advantage of discount anomalies in closed-end funds. The company operates from five centres located in London, Philadelphia, Singapore, Dubai and Seattle.

Clarkson PLC is a provider of shipping services, and is headquartered in London. It has 46 offices in 20 different countries. Clarkson's operations are divided into four areas: broking, financial, support and research. The company brokers vessels for some of the world's largest producers and traders of natural resources. Broking constitutes more than 75% of company revenue.

A specialist financial services group which makes loans, trades securities and provides advice and investment management solutions to a wide range of clients. Close Brothers was established in 1878 & today employs over 2,500 people, principally in the UK.

Property investment company, CLS, aims to achieve stable cash flows by investing mainly in office buildings let on long leases. Operating from offices in London, Paris and Stockholm, the group hopes to see long-term asset growth by holding, refurbishing and developing properties.

Online broker specialised in spread-betting, CFD's, Binary options and Countdowns, covering Forex, Indices, Commodities, Shares and ETFs and Treasuries. Established in 1989 it has grown to become a global provider of retail financial services but also offers a comprehensive institutional offering. One of its stated strategic objectives is to become a key player in the institutional space. Based in London it has offices in more than a dozen countries, including in many of the world's main financial centres, such as: Frankfurt, Paris, Sydney, Singapore and Toronto.

Coats is the world's leading industrial thread company. Headquartered in the UK, we have a workforce of 18,000 in some 50 countries, across six continents around the world.

Cobham operates in three primary business sectors: aerospace systems, avionics and flight operations and services. It designs and makes equipment, specialised systems and components used within the search and rescue, civil and defence aviation, marine, aerospace, homeland security and communication markets.

Coca Cola European Partners' product portfolio includes the world's greatest brands and beverages. Working closely with our customers, we ensure availability in the right place at the right moment with outstanding marketplace execution.

Coca Cola HBC is a bottling partner for The Coca Cola company, manufacturing , packaging, merchandising and distributing the final branded products to its trade partners and consumers. The company sells over 2.0bn unit cases each year, making it one of the world's biggest bottlers of The Coca Cola Company's brands, serving 595m potential customers spanning three continents and 28 countries. That includes Emerging Markets such as the Russian Federation and Nigeria. The firm also has a secondary listing on the Athens Stock Exchange. Its two major shareholders are the Kar-Tess Holding S.A., a private holding company, and The Coca‑Cola Company.

Commerzbank is in the banking industry, focusing on financing real estate and other public sector projects. It sales are primarily in Europe, North America, and Asia.

From beginning as a division of Grand Metropolitan, Compass is the now the world's largest contract caterer operating in around 60 countries across the world. It also runs coffee shops, vending machines and bakery outlets. In 2006 the group sold its Select Service Partner travel catering unit, which included the Moto motorway service station chain.

Europe's leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, Computacenter, serves its corporate and government clients from offices throughout the UK, Germany, Austria, France and Luxembourg. Its expertise covers technology sourcing, infrastructure integration and managed services.

ContourGlobal is a growth platform for acquiring and developing wholesale power generation with long-term contracts diversified across fuel types and geographies. It was founded in 2005 by CEO Joseph Brandt and Reservoir Capital Group. We have developed the highest of operating standards and practices which we ensure are applied globally in all of our projects. Today, we are uniquely positioned to capitalize on market opportunities that rely on operators with best-in-class track records with refurbishment and development expertise.

ConvaTec is a global medical products and technologies company focused on therapies for the management of chronic conditions, with leading market positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence and critical care, and infusion devices. Its products provide a range of clinical and economic benefits including infection prevention, protection of at-risk skin, improved patient outcomes and reduced total cost of care. Based in Reading, it employs over 9,000 people in more than 100 countries.

Countryside Properties is a UK-based house builder that specialises in place making and urban regeneration. Its business is centred around two complementary divisions, Housebuilding and Partnerships. Housebuilding provides homes on land the company either owns or controls, whereas Partnerships works with local authorities and housing associations to regenerate public sector land. Founded in 1958, Countryside operates in locations across outer London, the South East, the North West of England and the West Midlands.

Cranswick was formed by farmers in the early 1970's to produce pig feed. Activities have since been extended from this agricultural base into the food sector.The business is focused predominantly on the supply of fresh and processed food to the UK food retail, food manufacturing and food service categories.

Crest Nicholson is a property developer with a focus on house building across the south of England. With a southern-based bias, the company had a has a track record spanning more than 50 years and a broad portfolio of developments. The company has five regional house building divisions, plus two further business units complement the regional divisions and provide specialist skills. These were Crest Nicholson Regeneration (Major Projects), and Crest Strategic Projects (Strategic Land).

CRH is the leading global diversified building materials business in the world, employing 79,200 people at 3,100 locations worldwide. We manufacture and supply a diverse range of superior building materials and products for use in the construction and maintenance of infrastructure, housing and commercial projects. Our materials and products are used extensively, in construction projects of all sizes, all across the world.

Curzon Energy Plc is an energy company pursuing a targeted acquisition strategy.

CYBG (Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banking Group) is a holding company that owns Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank in the UK. It was formed by National Australia Bank (NAB) in February 2016, in advance of the divestment of its UK business through a stock market flotation. The Company will own National Australia Bank Limited's Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank operations. Clydesdale Bank's products and services include mortgages, current accounts, deposits, term lending, personal loans, working capital solutions, overdrafts, credit cards and payment and transaction services

Daily Mail & General was established in 1922, although flagship title Daily Mail dates back to 1896. The group first floated in 1932, and has since expanded to include global interests in newspapers, TV and radio.

Chilled dairy foods company, Dairy Crest, manufactures a wide range of leading milk and dairy products including Utterly Butterly, Yoplait products as well as cheddar cheese Cathedral City.

Irish-based international sales, marketing, distribution and business support services group, organised and managed across four divisions: Energy, Healthcare, Technology and Environmental. The former unit accounts for the lion's share - roughly two thirds - of the group's operating profits. LPG, Oil and Retail & Fuel Card are the three main business units in Energy. DCC Energy is the market leader in oil distribution in the UK and LPG (propane and butane) in Norway and Sweden.

De La Rue is the largest commercial security printer and papermaker in the world, producing more than 150 national currencies. It also delivers a range of security documents such as travellers cheques and vouchers and is a leading provider of cash handling equipment and software solutions to banks and retailers around the world.

Debenhams is leading international, multi-channel brand with a proud British heritage which trades out of 240 stores across 28 countries. Co's gives its customers around the world a unique, differentiated and exclusive mix of own brands, international brands and concessions. Co's has a top four market share in womenswear and menswear and a top ten share in childrenswear. It leads the market in premium health and beauty.

Dechra Pharmaceuticals, founded in 1997 following a management buy-out from Lloyds Chemists, develops prescription only veterinary medicines for dogs, cats and horses. Most of its projects involve adapting treatments, currently used by humans, for the animal market. Expertise is in the development, manufacturing and sales and marketing of high quality products exclusively for veterinarians worldwide. It listed in London in 2000.

Derwent Valley is a commercial property investment company focused on niche urban areas within Central London. It aims to maintain a balanced property portfolio of income generation and refurbishment and development projects.

Diageo is an international spirits maker and brewer, operating in 180 countries around the World. The group, which has origins dating back to the 1700s, counts Baileys, Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker among its brands.

Dignity is UK's largest provider of funeral related services. Based in West Midlands, it owns over 500 funeral directors and operates 22 crematoriums across the country.

DIPLOMA - Diploma is a leading British-based business supplying specialised technical products and services. It operates globally in three sectors: Life sciences, where it supplies consumables, instrumentation and related services to the healthcare and environmental industries; Seals, where it supplies seals, gaskets, filters, cylinders, components and kits for heavy mobile machinery and industrial equipment and controls; where it supplies specialised wiring, connectors, fasteners and control devices for technically demanding applications.

Insurance provider focused on the UK personal motor and home insurance market. Its roughly 10,000-strong staff serve clients online, by phone and indirectly through partners in its Commercial business, via brokers. Based in Bromley, it gained entry into the top flight index in September 2014, just over half a year after RBS sold its remaining stake in the outfit. Its brands include Direct Line, Privilege, Churchill, Brand Partners, NIG and Green Flag.

CPW has a range of store formats across Europe, together with well-developed online propositions, offering specialist and independent advice in areas of product and service complexity. OWN STORES, FRANCHISE, ONLINE, DEALER and GEEK SQUAD

DP Eurasia is the exclusive master franchisee of the Domino's Pizza brand in Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Domino's Pizza is one of the most successful fast food brands worldwide and a global leader of home delivery.

Drax owns and operates the Drax Power Station, the UK's largest coal-fired power station based in North Yorkshire. The group's main activity is operating the station and the trading of electricity produced.

Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust is an investment trust that specialises in investing in mainly UK stocks.

Investment objective is the achievement of long term growth from a portfolio of smaller companies in the United Kingdom.

Dunelm is a home furnishings retailer founded in 1979 in Leicester. It now operates more than 150 stores across the country, many of which are large out-of-town sites, as well as a growing digital channel. Home textiles such as curtains, bed linen, cushions, quilts, rugs make up the majority of sales.

DWF is a global legal business, supplying services not only to the global legal market but also providing complementary connected services to our clients. Purpose of the company is to transform legal services through our people for our clients using our three principal strategic objectives: understanding our clients, engaging our people and doing things differently.

The airline was founded by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou in 1995, and he and his family remain major shareholders. Sir Stelios separately owns easyGroup IP licensing Ltd , the company that owns the "easy" brand and licenses it to the airline and also other companies.

Objective is to achieve long term capital growth through investment in the Far East. Investments are made in stock markets in the region, with the exception of Japan and Australasia, principally in large companies. When appropriate, the trust will utilise gearing to maximise long term returns.

By investing principally in the UK's largest companies, the Edinburgh Investment Trust aims to achieve capital growth at a higher rate than the FTSE All−Share Index and dividend growth above the rate of UK inflation.

The Trust's objective is the achievement of long term capital growth by investing in around forty-five listed companies without geographical constraint. Income is not a consideration and the portfolio benchmark against which it is measured is the MSCI All Countries World Index (in sterling terms).

The trust's objective is to maximise total return to shareholders and to emphasise capital growth while maintaining a progressive dividend policy.

Electrocomponents distributes electronic, electrical and industrial supplies and services to engineers, technical users and other industrial and commercial customers. The company serves a range of sectors including automotive, health and safety, office equipment, electrical and IT.

Elementis is a global specialty chemicals business with operations in North and South America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Founded in Liverpool in 1844, it operates three businesses: Specialty Products, Surfactants and Chromium. The group's largest division, Specialty Products, provides functional additives that enhance the flow characteristics and performance of its customers' products in applications such as paints and coatings, cosmetics, and oil and gas exploration. Elementis employs more than 1,300 people at over 30 locations worldwide.

Endesa is an energy company which offers electricity in Spain, Portugal, Latin America and the Eastern Mediterranean. It is also becoming more involved in the renewable energies business.

Energean Oil & Gas (LSE:ENOG, FTSE 250, TASE:אנאג, TA-35) is a London-based independent E&P company focused on developing resources in the Mediterranean. Energean is committed to sustainable development and to be a net zero emitter by 2050. The company also strives to meet United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals through its day-to-day operations and a wide range of CSR initiatives.

EnQuest is an independent oil and gas developer and explorer with a focus on the UK Continental Shelf in the North Sea, an area which it says represents a "significant hydrocarbon basin in a low risk region". The group, which had 1,200 employees at the end of 2010, is listed on both the FTSE 250 index in London and the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm.

Entertainment One is a Canadian multinational media distribution company. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the company is primarily involved in the acquisition, distribution, and production of entertainment content, including films, television series, and music. Its operating units include include television, family and film. The family division develops, produces and distributes a portfolio of children's properties, and is most famous for the Pegga Pig brand.

Equiniti is a leading provider of technology and solutions for complex and regulated administration, serving blue-chip enterprises and the public sector organisations.

Demerged from Bunzl in June 2005, Filtrona is a support services group specialising in speciality plastic and fibre products. The UK-based group has offices and facilities spread over 22 countries. The group makes and distributes products such as self-adhesive tear tape and cigarette filters.

The Group is a UK-focused personal lines insurer founded in 2000 by Peter Wood, the foremost general insurance entrepreneur in the UK. The Group has established a strong platform for growth and a track record of profitability. In 2011, the company launched a broker service that extends its motor insurance footprint by offering the products of other carefully selected insurers using its brands.

The company runs an international publishing business, providing magazines and other publications aimed at a wide range of industries. The group's events business is responsible for business conventions, conferences and other meetings.

To achieve long term capital growth through investment in Continental Europe.

Exillon Energy is a Northern Russia-focused oil producer operating through two major divisions: Exillon TP, which is focused in Timan-Pechora; and Exillon WS with assets in West Siberia. The FTSE 250-listed firm is incorporated in the Isle of Man but its operational headquarters are located in Urai, Russia.

Experian is a global business services company, operating in four main areas: Credit Services; Decision Analytics; Marketing Solutions; Interactive. The group is perhaps best known for its credit checking operation that enables consumers to identify their credit score. Headquartered in Dublin, Experian was formerly part of the GUS group until being demerged in October 2006.

F&C Commercial is an offshore property investment trust, with a portfolio of property in the office, retail and industrial sectors. The real estate investment group has gross assets of £965m and came to market in March 2005.

The trust offers investor access to a broadly spread global smaller companies portfolio. The portfolio consists of individual smaller company investments within the US, UK and European markets, and fund holdings targeting smaller companies in Japan, Asia, Latin America and other smaller territories. The dividend of the Company has risen for 48 years in a row, benefiting from a growing income stream from the investment portfolio.

Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust was there when the idea of investment trusts was first mooted back in 1868. To have kept going more in less intact since then suggests at least the concept was robust enough. F&CIT now has just over £2bn spread widely around the world though the UK remains the biggest component of the portfolio.

Fenner makes reinforced polymer technology, It produces heavyweight belting using PVC, fabric and steel reinforced rubber. Lightweight belting is also manufactured using PVC, urethane, thermoplastic elastomer blends and rubber.

Ferrexpo is a producer of iron ore with assets in the Ukraine and headquarters in Switzerland. Its iron ore is transported by rail from its operations near Kremenchug in central Ukraine to European customers and for shipment further afield from Black Sea ports.

Fidelity China Special Situations is a FTSE 250-listed investment trust focused on the long-term growth potential of China. While its portfolio is mainly made up of securities issued by companies listed in China of Hong Kong, it also invests in other businesses with significant interests in these two regions. Its parent company, Fidelity Worldwide Investment, is one of the UK's largest fund managers.

The trust aims to achieve long term growth from Continental European stockmarkets.

Fidelity Special Values is an investment trust focused mainly on companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. It looks for businesses that are 'unloved and out of favour'. The aim of the manager is to achieve a total return on the company's assets over the long-term in excess of the equivalent return on the FTSE All Share Index.

Software and services firm Fidessa provides trading systems to clients in the financial industry. Founded in 1981, the company is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Boston, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Formerly Fine Art Developments, Findel operates via three divisions: Home Shopping, a personal shopping service offering mail order catalogues; Education, which includes supplying educational products to schools in the UK; and Findel Services, a provider of online and logistics services to third parties.

FirstGroup is one of Britain's largest transport companies, operating bus services, passenger and freight rail services in the UK and yellow school bus and other services in the US. The group's UK rail interests include First Great Western, TransPennine Express, Hull Trains, First Great Western Link, First North Western and GB Railfreight.

Foresight Solar Fund Limited ("the Company" or "FSFL") is a FTSE 250, Jersey registered, closed-end investment company investing in a diversified portfolio of ground-based solar PV assets in the UK and Australia.

Forterra plc was formerly Hanson's UK building products division, founded in the early 1960s. This business built up a significant UK presence through a number of acquisitions, including The Butterley Company Ltd in 1968, London Brick PLC in 1984, Marshalls Flooring in 2002, Marshalls Clay Products Ltd and Thermalite Ltd in 2005, Red Bank Manufacturing Company Ltd and Formpave Holdings Ltd in 2006, and Bison Precast in 2017.

Fresnillo is the world's largest primary producer of silver and Mexico's second largest gold producer. It became the first Mexican company to have its primary listing in London when it floated here in May 2008. The group has three producing mines, all in Mexico.

Company is a holding company and the principal activity of its subsidiary undertakings is the provision of online lending platforms whereby investors can lend money to small and medium sized businesses in the UK, USA, Germany and Netherlands

Future is a global platform for specialist media with scalable, diversified brands. We connect people to their passions through the high-quality content we create, the innovative technology we pioneer and the engaging experiences we deliver.

Group 4 Securicor was formed in July 2004 when top international security firms Securicor and Group 4 merged. The combined company is now the world's number one security firm, operating in more than 100 countries around the world with over 340,000 employees. It operates in three key sectors: Security Services, Security Systems and Cash Services.

The Company's primary investment objective is to seek to generate total return, consisting of capital appreciation and current income. The Company will seek a secondary objective of the protection of capital, uncorrelated to equity and fixed income markets.

The Company's primary investment objective is to seek to generate total return, consisting of capital appreciation and current income. The Company will seek a secondary objective of the protection of capital, uncorrelated to equity and fixed income markets.

Galliford Try specialises in construction and housebuilding. It provides construction services across the UK to a wide range of public and private sector clients and has regional housebuilding businesses that specialise in individually designed developments across the South of England and the Eastern Counties.

Games Workshop lets ferocious armies clash without the drawback of actual bloodshed. Founded in 1975, the company designs and manufactures model soldiers, game systems, and accessories for tabletop wargaming. Popular game lines include Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, and The Lord of the Rings. The company sells its products through about 320 of its Games Workshop Hobby Centres, its catalogues and Web sites, as well as over 4,000 toy and hobby shops globally. Games Workshop also publishes a monthly hobby magazine called White Dwarf available in five languages, and operates Sabertooth Games collectible card games and BL Publishing which produces novels, graphic novels and art books set in the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000.

Gem Diamonds is a global diamond producer with diamond mining, cutting and polishing operations throughout the world and headquartered in London. Gem Diamonds focuses towards higher value diamonds and has assets in nine countries.

Research-driven organisation founded in 1989 to provide institutional clients with excellent investment returns through a company-focused approach to investment in emerging markets. Aims to identify underpriced companies through its own independent research and disciplined analysis, using a bottom-up investment approach to create a diversified portfolio not referenced to any index. Invests with a five-year time horizon looking for both 'Growth' and 'Value' opportunities.

Genus applies science to animal breeding. Its non-genetically modified organism technology is applicable across all livestock species but is only commercialised by Genus in the bovine and porcine farming sectors. It is a provider of bovine genetics and reproduction services, marketing in more than 70 countries.

Engineer GKN is responsible for making most of the cars around the world move. It designs and manufactures drive shafts and axle joints and dominates its field. Its other businesses include metallurgical powders but it is the car side of the business that now dominates the group's operations. GKN employs over 48,000 people within its companies and joint ventures in more than 30 countries.

UK-based GlaxoSmithKline is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical research companies. The company was created out of the merger between GlaxoWellcome and SmithKline Beecham in 2000.

Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, Glencore International is a global producer and marketer of commodities. The firm, listed on the FTSE 100 index in London, has activities across a range of industries, including production, processing, refining, transporting, financing, storage and supply. Glencore employs 2,700 people in its marketing operations, while its industrial operations directly or indirectly employ over 54,800 worldwide.

Global Ports Holding is the world's largest cruise port operator with an established presence in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Asia-Pacific regions, including extensive commercial port operations in Turkey and Montenegro.

Go-Ahead provides integrated public transport through bus operations and commuter train services. It also provides aviation ground handling services following a number of acquisitions. Go-Ahead has approximately 6% of the entire UK public transport market.

Grafton Group distributes building materials to trade customers engaged in residential repair, maintenance and improvement projects, and house building. It's main operating units are Merchanting, Retailing and Manufacturing. Merchanting distributes building and plumbing materials. Retailing operates do-it-yourself and home improvement business and manufacturing comprises a manufacturer of dry mortar and a plastics manufacturing business. Its brands are Selco, Buildbase, Plumbase, Chadwicks, Heiton Buckley, Macnaughton and Panelling Centre.

Grainger is a specialist residential company. Founded in 1912, Grainger Trust acquires, develops and trades residential and commercial property assets via offices around the UK. The company acquired a number of tenanted estates during the 1970s from institutions such as British Coal, British Rail and Reckitt & Colman, which has helped it become one of the UK's leading residential property investment businesses.

Great Portland Estates is a leading property investment and development firm operating in central London. It looks to achieve capital growth and income from its portfolio of properties.

Greencoat Renewables PLC is an investor in euro-denominated renewable infrastructure assets, and is focused on the acquisition and management of operating wind farms in Ireland. It is managed by Greencoat Capital, an experienced investment manager with a track record of making acquisitions and delivering strong shareholder returns in the listed renewable energy infrastructure sector.

Greencoat UK Wind is a FTSE 250 company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange. It is a British investment company investing in UK wind farms with a portfolio that stretches across the country. Established in 2012, the company is a constituent of the FTSE 250 index.

Established by the Irish government in 1991 following the privatisation of Irish Sugar, Greencore manufactures a wide range of chilled, frozen and ambient foods which it supplies to retailers and food service customers in the UK and US. The company's Food to Go division is one of the world's largest pre-packed sandwich makers, producing more than 600m food to go products a year. The UK convenience business comprises food to go and prepared meals and grocery, while the US business focuses on food to go. Greencore also has an Ingredients and Property division, which is made up of Trilby Trading, Premier and United Molasses.

Founded in 1799, Greene King operates managed and tenanted public houses and is responsible for brewing popular beers such as Abbot Ale, IPA, Old Speckled Hen and Ruddles County.

Greggs is a leading sandwich, savouries and bakery related products retailer, focusing primarily on takeaway food and catering. The group operates around 1,200 retail outlets, mainly under the Greggs and Bakers Oven brands.

Principal activity is oil exploration in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. In November 2007 Gulf Keystone secured interests in two production sharing contracts in the Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq, Shaikan and Akri-Bijeel. In 2009, the Company diversified the asset base in Kurdistan with the addition of two new Production Sharing Contracts, Sheikh Adi and Ber Bahr. Stategy is to bring the company into production and to explore, appraise and develop current blocks to realise reserve potential.

Shares in Halfords, the UK's leading retailer of car parts, bikes and accessories, started trading on the London Stock Exchange on 3 June 2004. Investors were offered shares at 260p each, valuing the business at £593m. The company operates 387 stores around the country, employing more than 9,000 people.

Halma develops and sells products for use in the enhancement of public safety and for minimising hazards in the workplace. Its six business divisions cover the development and supply of visual warning systems, toxic gas and smoke detectors, electronic alarm systems and water leakage detectors.

European property firm, Hammerson, invests in and develops shopping centres, retail parks and prime offices through operations in the UK, France and Germany. Its portfolio of around 1.2 million m² of retail space and over 260,000 m² of prime offices is valued at around £5.7bn.

Hansteen Holdings is a European industrial real estate investment trust. It specialises in buying undervalued portfolios, often with high levels of vacancy or other opportunities to add value. It looks for opportunities across Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and the UK. The company applies an intensive programme of improvement using its local management teams, and then sells to realise the value added. The company was launched on AIM in 2005.

HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE) is an investment company designed to provide access to HarbourVest funds for a wide range of public-market investors. The Guernsey-incorporated closed-end investment company is managed by HarbourVest Advisers L.P., an affiliate of HarbourVest Partners, LLC, a private equity firm based in Boston, US. HVPE provides a complete private equity solution for public investors by managing the portfolio through four phases of the private equity cycle to create value.

Bristol-based investment management firm Hargreaves Lansdown was founded in 1981 by chartered accountants Peter Hargreaves and Stephen Lansdown. The company owns one of Britain's biggest so-called fund supermarkets, a low-cost platform that allows investors to buy a wide range of funds from investment houses. The group has around £8.3bn of assets under administration on behalf of private investors.

Hays has undergone a massive transformation from its previous incarnation as a multi business group. The company, which first came to the market in 1958 and again in 1989 after it was taken private in the 1970s, now concentrates on specialist recruitment.

Headlam's principal business is the distribution and supply of floor coverings to UK and European retailers and contractors. The group operates through 42 trade brands and commands leading positions in various product and market sectors.

Helical Bar is a British property investment group that favours low risk operations. A small number of its developments are financed through bank facilities however most are pre-sold or forward sold.

Helios Towers (HT) owns and operates telecommunications towers and passive infrastructure in five high-growth African markets.

HFEL seeks to provide a high level of dividends, as well as capital appreciation over the long term, from a diversified portfolio of investments traded on the Pacific, Australasian, Japanese and Indian stock markets.

Henderson Global Investors is a global asset manager focused on delivering excellent investment performance and service to clients.

HICL Infrastructure, formerly known as HSBC Infrastructure Company Limited, was launched on 29 March 2006, and was the first infrastructure investment to list on the London Stock Exchange. The company describes itself as a long term investor in public infrastructure, working with the public sector to deliver high-quality infrastructure projects.

Hikma is an international pharmaceutical company conducting operations through three businesses: generic pharmaceuticals, branded pharmaceuticals and injectable pharmaceuticals. The company sells 113 branded and non-branded generic pharmaceutical products in 34 countries worldwide. The majority of Hikma's operations are in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa Region and Europe.

Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited (the "Fund") is required to produce and publish this document by Regulation (EU) 1286/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (the "Regulation"). The Fund is required to follow the Regulation's prescribed methodology in preparing the document, including for the determination of the summary risk indicator and calculation of the performance scenarios. As such, the performance scenarios may deviate substantially from expectations of performance which do not similarly rely on the same methodology

Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited (the "Fund") is required to produce and publish this document by Regulation (EU) 1286/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (the "Regulation"). The Fund is required to follow the Regulation's prescribed methodology in preparing the document, including for the determination of the summary risk indicator and calculation of the performance scenarios. As such, the performance scenarios may deviate substantially from expectations of performance which do not similarly rely on the same methodology

Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited (the "Fund") is required to produce and publish this document by Regulation (EU) 1286/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (the "Regulation"). The Fund is required to follow the Regulation's prescribed methodology in preparing the document, including for the determination of the summary risk indicator and calculation of the performance scenarios. As such, the performance scenarios may deviate substantially from expectations of performance which do not similarly rely on the same methodology

Hiscox is a specialist insurer, providing insurance to individuals and businesses around the world. The group is happy to insure unusual and complicated risks, such as terrorism and fine art, as well as provide upmarket home insurance.

Hochschild Mining is a precious metals company specialising in the exploration of sliver and gold. The group largely operates in Latin American, with three underground mines located in southern Peru.

Homeserve was formerly known as South Staffordshire Group, but changed its name after demerging its water business in April 2004. The company is now a supplier of emergency plumbing and electricity services to customers of water and electricity companies.

The company (formerly called Galiform) came into existence in October 2006 after MFI Furniture Group sold its retail business and changed its name. The group is now focussed on its Howdens business. Howden Joinery sells kitchens and joinery products to the building trade.

Britain's largest bank, HSBC has steadily expanded away from its roots in South East Asia. In the UK it took over Midland Bank, while there has been a succession of acquisitions in the US, which includes Household International, now known as HSBC Finance.

Hunting PLC is an international energy services provider to the world's leading upstream oil and gas companies. Established in 1874, it is a premium listed public company traded on the London Stock Exchange.

Ibstock Plc is a brick making business. The company was founded in 1899 at Ibstock in Leicestershire as a coal mining business and bought Redland's brick manufacturing business in 1996. A majority stake in the business was acquired by CRH in 1998 with the balance of the shares being bought by CRH in October 2011. The business was then acquired by Bain Capital as part of a management buyout in February 2015. It was the subject of an initial public offering in October 2015.

Spread betting business IG Group returned to the market in April 2005, two years after being bought up by private equity firm CVC Capital for just £143m. The core business is spread betting though IG also provides other services such as CFDs and FX trading. More than 85% of IG's client transactions are executed online.

IMI is an international engineering company, which operates primarily in the fluid controls and retail dispense areas. Fluid controls covers pneumatics, severe service valves and indoor climate products and services, while retail dispense includes beverage dispense and merchandising systems.

The Company intends to become a real estate investment trust ("REIT") and provide shareholders with an attractive return, principally in the form of quarterly income distributions and with the potential for capital and income growth, through exposure to a diversified portfolio of healthcare real estate opportunities. The Company will acquire, own, lease, renovate, extend and redevelop high quality healthcare real estate assets in the UK and lease those assets primarily to healthcare operators providing residential healthcare services under full repairing and insuring leases.

Impax Environmental Markets invests in the market for cleaner or more efficient delivery of services such as energy, water and waste. It mainly invests in quoted companies in North America and Europe.

Imperial Tobacco has powered ahead since it was released from conglomerate Hanson in the late 1990s. Brands include Embassy, Regal, John Player Specials and Lambert & Butler alongside Castella cigars. Like its rivals, expansion has seen it go continental with the acquisition of Germany's Reemstma in 2001, which promoted the group into the fourth biggest tobacco company in the world.

Inchcape is an international automotive services group involved in the importation, distribution and sale of motor vehicles. The group also offers financial services and counts Toyota/Lexus, Subaru, Ferrari/Maserati, BMW and the Premier Automotive Group of Ford among its key global manufacturer partners.

Indivior is a pharmaceutical company specialising in addiction treatment. Indivior was spun out of parent Reckitt Benckiser in December 2014. Adding to its Suboxone opioid addiction product, the company has a pipeline including longer-lasting 'depot' formulations, treatments for cocaine intoxication, alcohol addiction and even schizophrenia, as a psychiatric co-morbidity of addiction.

T&F Informa was formed in May 2004 after the merger of Informa Group and Taylor & Francis Group. The company publishes specialist business and industry information through books, magazines, newsletters and journals. It also has a programme of conferences, exhibitions and seminars which are attended by more than 150,000 delegates around the world.

Inmarsat is a provider of global mobile satellite communications services via a network of satellites, offering solutions for users in the maritime, land and aeronautical industries.

IntegraFin Holdings plc (IntegraFin) is the holding company of a group including Transact, one of the largest independent wrap platforms in the UK. Transact offers advisory professionals a comprehensive financial planning infrastructure for investing client assets in a tax-efficient way.

IAG was formed by the merger of British Airways and Iberia in January 2011. It is one of the largest airline groups with over four hundred aircraft flying 55 million passengers to 200 destinations. They are also major conveyors of air-cargo. BA is principally located in the UK and are sole tenants of Terminal 5 at Heathrow, the world's busiest hub and biggest premium travel market. Iberia, principally based at Madrid's Terminal 4, operates a major network between Europe and Latin America.

Credit lender International Personal Finance was established in 1997 as a division of Provident Financial. The unit was demerged in July 2007. It runs a lending business in eastern Europe and Mexico, with Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia the largest and most established of its markets.

International Public Partnership is a closed-end investment company investing in public private partnership and private finance initiative projects in Europe and North America.

Support services group, Interserve, provides facilities, industrial, project and equipment services to organisations such as hospitals, schools, the Ministry of Defence, petrochemical companies and the utilities.

Leading testing, inspection and certification services group, Intertek, focuses primarily on customers products and commodities, which it assesses against safety, regulatory, quality and performance standards. The company performs these services from more than 270 laboratories worldwide.

Invesco Asia Trust plc provide long-term capital growth by investing in a diversified portfolio of Asian and Australasian companies.

Investec is an international, specialist banking group, providing its client base with a range of financial products and services, including investment banking, treasury and specialised finance, private client activities and asset management. The company operates principally in the UK and South Africa.

Investor focused on helping develop intellectual property into mature businesses. It sources its pipeline of disruptive ideas via long-term partnerships with top research institutions in the UK and US with a focus on the Healthcare, Technology, Cleantech and Biotech spaces. To do this it provides services ranging from financial capital, to executive search and development as well as corporate finance and capital raising as well as administrative services.

ITE Group is a Russia-focused company that organises trade exhibitions and conferences. Established in 1991, the group's operations now span 15 countries and it employs over 650 staff. ITE says business is thriving thanks to booming oil and gas markets and a strong construction sector.

ITV, formed after the merger of Carlton and Granada in 2004, is one of the UK's five terrestrial broadcasters. As well as its terrestrial ITV1 channel the company ahs also launched a number of free to air digital channels including ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and ITVPlay. The group also owns GMTV and cinema screen advertising businesses in the UK, Europe and the US. ITV has also been expanding its multimedia platforms and in 2005 bought website Friends Reunited.

James Fisher provides services for the marine industry and supplier of engineering services to the nuclear industry in the UK and abroad. It delivers a range of marine services from bases around the UK and in Scandinavia.

The group is one of the largest insurance and reinsurance brokers in the world and is the largest London-listed UK and European-based risk and employee benefits business.

JD Sports Fashion is a retailer and distributor of branded sportswear and fashionwear. It had over 950 stores across a number of retail fascias, as of July 2016. As well as shops operating under the JD brand, the group other fascias include trainer outlets Size? in the UK, Chausport in France, Sprinter in Spain, Glue in Australia, plus outdoor equipment chains Blacks, Millets and Tiso; and clothing chains Scotts, Tessuti, Mainline, Nicholas Deakins and Cloggs footwear. Clothing brands owned by the company include Kooga rugby apparel and equipment, Kukri sportswear, Focus footwear, plus the Source Lab football apparel licensing business.

Founded in 1767, Johnston Press now publishes local newspapers and local internet sites. It currently hosts more than 90 local internet sites and ranks as the UK's fourth largest publisher of local and regional newspapers.

JPMorgan American Investment Trust invests in North American companies. The trust is managed by a 60-strong US equity team and has over $100 billion under management.

JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust invests in companies that provide exposure to the stockmarkets of Asia, excluding Japan

Long term capital growth Fund, investing in companies which are quoted on the stock exchanges of Hong Kong, China and Taiwan or which derive a substantial part of their revenues or profits from these territories.

Capital and income growth from a portfolio of UK investments consisting mostly of leading companies.

JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust aims to achieve capital growth from emerging markets worldwide. It invests in a diversified portfolio with no more than 50% of assets invested in any one region. The Subscription shares were issued as a bonus issue in June 2009 on the basis of one Subscription share for every five Ordinary shares.

JPMorgan European Investment Trust invests in companies in continental Europe.

Investment objective is to grow income together with the potential for long term capital growth from a diversified portfolio of investments in Pan-European stock markets.

Investment Trust that is dedicated to investments in smaller Continental European countries, excluding UK.

The trust seeks primarily capital growth from a broad range of overseas markets. Concentration is on capital growth with income a lesser consideration.

JPMorgan Indian Investment Trust aims to achieve capital growth from investments in India. The trust invests in Indian and non Indian companies which derive a large part of their revenues from India.

Investment objective is long term capital growth through investment in small and medium sized Japanese companies.

Capital growth from Japanese investments. To maintain a portfolio almost wholly invested in Japan. To use borrowing to gear up the portfolio.

Investment objective is capital growth from medium sized UK companies. Specialises in FTSE 250 companies using long and short term borrowings to increase returns to shareholders.

JP Morgan Russian Securities is an investment trust with a portfolio of Russian securities and Russian pre-initial public offering (pre-IPO) stocks. The materials sector is its biggest investment area.

Capital growth from a diversified portfolio of smaller UK companies.

JTC is a leading global provider of administration services to fund, corporate and private clients.

Jupiter is an established fund management group that seeks to add value for our clients through the delivery of outperformance over the medium to long term. Our origins go back to 1985 as a specialist investment boutique founded in London. Since then we have expanded beyond the UK as retail and institutional investors have been attracted to our active approach to asset management.

Jupiter Fund Management is a FTSE 250-listed financial services sector firm which manages assets on behalf of private and institutional investors. The firm, which employs several hundred staff currently has a market cap of just under £1bn. Its expertise is in the management of UK and offshore mutual funds, multi-manager products, hedge funds, institutional mandates and investment companies. The board is led by group chief executive Edward Bonham Carter.

Just Eat Takeaway.Com is an online food delivery marketplace connecting millions of consumers in ten European countries (the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal and Luxembourg) and Israel with nearly 50,000 local restaurants through its websites and apps

Specialist UK financial services outfit centred on the individual retirement income and defined benefit de-risking market. It was formed from the combination of Just Retirement Group and Partnership Assurance Group and caters to individual customers, financial intermediaries, corporate clients and pension scheme trustees. The company boasts of unrivalled intellectual property to help it deliver on its vision. It products for individuals include lifetime mortgages for those wishing to release some of the equity of their homes and protection products for people who have been declined by other insurers due to their medical conditions.

Investment objective is to create a portfolio of investments in businesses primarily in the United States, providing a return comprised of a current yield and significant capital appreciation. The Company's present investments include Micro-Cap Buyouts, mezzanine loans (sometimes with equity participations) and high yield securities, senior secured debt and second lien loans and other debt and equity opportunities, including distressed debt and structured financings, derivatives and opportunistic purchases of publicly traded securities. The Company is a split capital trust comprised of Ordinary shares (JZCP) and ZDP shares (JZCN).

Kazakhstan miner Kazakhmys is the country's largest copper producer and the tenth largest refined copper producer and the tenth largest mined copper producer in the world based on 2004 production. Its main business is the mining, processing, smelting, refining and sale of copper and copper products, including cathodes and rods. It has around 66,000 employees worldwide, although the main business is in Kazakhstan.

Fixed line telecommunications group KCOM delivers communications services and integrated information technology to businesses and consumers. Its Kcom business provides communications services for national multi-site enterprise and public sector organisations across the UK. It is an independent provider of these services, although supported by its BT wholesale partnership. The Kingston Communications business provides communications services to businesses and consumers in Hull and East Yorkshire. Eclipse Internet delivers a portfolio of internet based communications services which are designed to help small businesses and home based workers to exploit the power of the internet to achieve business success.

Keller Group is a ground engineering specialist. It prepares the ground for projects and provides solutions to ground engineering problems. The company has a global presence in Europe, North America and Australia.

Dublin-based Kenmare Resources operates a mining and exploration company focused primarily on the Moma Mine in Mozambique. The firm, which was founded in 1972, is led by chairman Charles Carvill and managing director Michael Carvill. The Moma Mine contains reserves of heavy minerals which are used to produce titanium dioxide pigment, as well as the relatively high-value zirconium silicate mineral, zircon.