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PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ziraat Bankasi AS provides commercial banking services. It offers retail, commercial, and small and medium enterprises banking services. The firm provides deposit and investment products, cash and non-cash loans, cards and cash management services to the individuals, commercial, and small and medium enterprises. It also offers insurance and pension products. The company was founded on November 20, 1863 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.

Northern Trust Investments, Inc. (Investment Management) (NTI-IM) is the asset management division of Northern Trust Investments, Inc., ultimately held by Northern Trust Corp. (NASDAQGS: NTRS), a multi-bank holding company established in 1889. The firm was founded in 1988 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. NTI-IM provides a wide range of discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory and sub-advisory services to individual and institutional clients.

ECO Trade & Development Bank provides banking services. Its products include corporate and project financing, banks and financial institutions financing, eligibility and monitoring. The company was founded on August 3, 2005 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.

Cozad Asset Management, Inc. (Cozad) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. Founded in 1972, Cozad provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, charitable foundations and organizations, municipal retirement plans, corporations, investment companies and retirement plans.

MARCEGAGLIA TR Paslanmaz Çelik Sanayi ve Ticaret AS is a company that was founded in 2015 and is based in Ergene, Turkey. The Turkish company specializes in the manufacturing of stainless steel welded tubes, both round and box section. The manufacturing unit is part of Marcegaglia Specialties network worldwide.

CargoFast Co., Ltd. provides freight services. Its services include freight arrangement, customs clearance, inland transportation, logistics advisor, on-site training, and insurance broker. The company was founded in February 1995 and is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.

Los Alamos National Laboratory operates as a multidisciplinary institution. It offers services in science, engineering, earth science, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and space science. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Los Alamos, NM.

Borsa Istanbul AS engages in the provision of stock exchange operations. Its products include equities; exchange traded funds; warrants; real estate certificates; participation certificate of venture capital investment funs and real estate investment funds; options; futures; certificates; debt instruments; and lease certificates. It caters different markets such as equity; debt securities; derivatives (VIOP); precious metals and diamonds; and audit and market surveillance activities. The company was founded on December 26, 1985 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is a trade association located in Washington, DC. Their broad mission is to enhance the climate for housing, homeownership and the residential building industry. Its various groups analyze policy issues, take the industry's story to the public, monitor and work toward improving the housing finance system and analyze and forecast economic and consumer trends. They also provide a wide range of business-related services to members and Home Builder Associations. NAHB represents the industry's interests on Capitol Hill as it strives to ensure that all housing remains a national priority when laws are made and policies are established. NAHB also works with federal agencies on regulations affecting the housing industry in areas such as mortgage finance, codes, energy and the environment. In the HousingData section of their website, NAHB produces in-depth economic analyses of the home building industry based on private and government data. Their Economics Group surveys builders, home buyers, and renters to gain insight into the issues and trends driving the industry. NAHB also publishes HousingEconomics.com, the online economics information source for Americas housing industry. HousingEconomics.com is a subscription service that provides in depth housing and economic data and forecasts for those seeking greater detail than is available in NAHB's Housing Data section. HousingEconomics.com provides the latest housing forecasts, market trends, in-depth economic analysis and archival data relating to the housing industry.

Deerpath Capital Management LP (Deerpath Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded by Gary C. Wendt, James Kirby and John Fitzgibbons in 2007. The firm is headquartered in New York.

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.

Maranon Capital LP (Maranon Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Tom Gregory and Ian Larkin. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Founded in 2001, Quantitative Services Group LLC (QSG) is a research firm located in Naperville, Illinois. The firm is a subsidiary of Markit Group Holdings Ltd. They seek to leverage the latest technology, construction techniques and specialty data to provide institutional investors a variety of global stock selection models focused on outperformance. QSG's Value Momentum Model provides a balanced approach to stock selection within the U.S. market. This model favors stocks with strong earnings quality, good valuation, strong balance sheets, positive momentum, and good earnings growth. The Value Momentum Model's approach is best for investors seeking broad exposure to a variety of proven stock selection methods and a core approach portfolio construction. The model is applied across all market-caps, investment styles and asset classes. The firm's Relative Value Model includes themes of price multiples, profitability, earnings expectations, intrinsic value and financial strength. This model is designed to avoid value traps, augment sector-relative and industry-relative viewpoints and provide a consistent source of value. QSG's Price Momentum Model provides a powerful, consistent 1- to 3-month investment signal. This model leverages put and call options and trading volume information to reduce the inherent risk-seeking nature of momentum-based strategies. The firm's GARP Model identifies growth stocks with strong value characteristics. The model consists of a proprietary combination of long-term earnings growth and relative value signals. It employs first-order partial correlation to create a blend of sustainable earnings growth and current cheapness. This model is best for strategies targeting stocks that demonstrate high long-term growth potential and the sustainability to realize that potential. QSG's Deep Value Model is a proven approach to selecting undervalued stocks across the broad US market. The Deep Value Model is designed to select future out performers over the next 9 to 12 months. The firm's Deep Value Model uses free-cash-flow, dividend yield and asset turnover to identify stocks that are currently trading at a deep discount to their intrinsic value. The Deep Value model provides discriminatory power for both long-only and long-short strategies and compliments more short term-oriented momentum and growth strategies. QSG's Earnings Momentum Model uses a proprietary search algorithm to combine analyst forecasts with the company's past earnings strength, along with several indicators of future earnings potential. The Earnings Momentum model has consistently outperformed in both pre- and post- Regulation FD environments. Utilizing a unique k-clustering factor selection technique, QSG's Historical Growth Model selects stocks with an above-average track-record of earnings growth, strong sales growth and high sustainable growth. This blended approach enables the model to identify traditional growth stocks, as well as value stocks on the verge of growth.

Tensile Capital Management LP (Tensile Capital) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Larkspur, California. The firm was founded by Arthur C. Young and Douglas J. Dossey in 2012. Tensile Capital provides portfolio management services to pooled investment vehicles.

Istanbul Kemerburgaz University operates as a university. The private company is based in Istanbul, Turkey.