Steve Thompson

Wachovia Capital Markets LLC provides financial and corporate advisory services. The firm's services include private capital, corporate lending, leasing, underwriting, and sales & trading of stocks and bonds. It also provides real estate financing, risk management services and structured products such as asset-backed & mortgage-backed securities. Wachovia Capital Markets offers services to the retail, defense, aerospace, utilities, and financial markets. The company is located in Charlotte, NC.

Aegon USA Investment Management LLC, do-business-as Aegon Asset Management US (Aegon AM US), is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a direct subsidiary of Aegon USA Asset Management Holding LLC and their ultimate parent is Aegon NV (AMS: AGN, NYSE: AEF) in The Netherlands. Aegon AM US provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management products and services in similar and different investment strategies to affiliated and unaffiliated institutional clients.