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Pareto AS provides financial services. The firm through its subsidiaries offers a wide range of services within the broking of shares, bonds and partnership interests, the management of issues of equity and debt capital instruments, and direct investments. It also provides project funding, business management services, valuations, refinancing, financial advisory services, commercial property and insurance brokerage, investment advisory services, investment management and asset management. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

Auksjonen.no AS operates an online auction site. The private company is based in Sem, Norway. The Norwegian company was founded in 2011. The CEO is Kai Espen Moller.

Part of Offshore Merchant Partners AS, OMP Capital AS provides fund management services. The company is based in Oslo, Norway.

Ulstein Mekaniske Verksted Holding ASA develops and builds advanced specialized vessels for the international market. The private company is based in Ulsteinvik, Norway. The Norwegian company also has activity within electro and mobile heavy lift- and transportation services. and has subsidiaries in China and Norway. Bård Martin Mikkelsen has been the CEO of the company since 1997.

Skagen AS (Investment Management) (Skagen-IM) is the investment management division of Skagen AS, itself a subsidiary of Storebrand ASA (OSE: STB, FRA: SKT) in Norway. The firm was founded in 1993 by Kristoffer Stensrud, Tor Dagfinn Veen and Åge Westbø. Headquartered in Stavanger, Skagen-IM manages Skagen global equity and fixed income funds for individual and institutional investors. They are a socially responsible investor.

Clarksons Securities AS is the Norwegian brokerage subsidiary of Clarksons Platou AS, itself a subsidiary of Clarkson Plc (LON: CKN) in Great Britain. The firm was founded in 1987 and formerly known as RS Platou Markets AS. Headquartered in Oslo, Clarksons Securities offers their global institutional client base with equity and fixed income sales and trading, equity and credit research, corporate access and Investment Banking services, including advising clients on a range of equity and debt capital markets and M&A transactions.

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), known locally as Norges Bank Kapitalforvaltning, is the asset management division of the Norwegian central bank, Norges Bank. The firm is headquartered in Oslo and has additional offices in London, New York, Shanghai and Singapore. Founded in 1998 by Norges Bank, NBIM is manages the Government Pension Fund Global, often referred to as the Norwegian oil fund, and some of Norges Bank's foreign exchange reserves.

DNB Bank ASA is a brokerage division of DNB ASA (OTCMKTS: DNHBY), a financial services group headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Founded in 1822, DNB Bank provides full service execution services to institutional and corporates clients.