John Thomas Preston

Beech Hill Advisors, Inc. (BHA) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1987 as Cantor & Weiss Asset Management Co., Inc. BHA provides investment management services to individuals, high net-worth individuals, pooled investment vehicles (including mutual funds), pension and profit-sharing plans (other than plan participants), and corporations or other businesses.

Analytic Asset Management, Inc. is a New York City-based registered investment advisor. The firm was founded by Edward Gray and Taylor Gray in July 2001

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.

Part of UBS Group AG, Kidder Peabody & Co., Inc. /Non Retail Unit/ is a security brokers & dealers. The company is based in Staten Island, NY.