Patrick Michielsen

ING Bank NV, Amsterdam, succursale de Lancy/Genève provides commercial banking services. Its banking products include saving and current accounts, credit cards, loans and investments. The firm offers vehicle insurance, home insurance, life insurance and retirement plans. The company was founded in 1871 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

ING Belgium SA/NV is the wholly owned securities broker/dealer subsidiary of ING Groep NV (AMS: INGA) in The Netherlands. Headquartered in Brussels, the firm provides brokerage services to various investors.

ING Bank NV (Broker) (ING Bank-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of ING Bank NV, an investment bank headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ING Groep N.V. (AMS: INGA; NYSE: ING), a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation. The firm was founded in 1991 through the merger of Nationale-Nederlanden and NMB Postbank Groep. ING Bank-Broker provides brokerage services to institutions, large corporations, and medium-sized companies.

RBS Asset Management Ltd. (RBSAML) is the Great Britain-based investment advisory subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, itself a subsidiary of state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. (LSE, ADR: RBS) in Edinburgh, Scotland. Established in 2004, the firm is located in London and provides a range of traditional and alternative asset class investments including credit, private equity, funds of hedge funds and multi-manager strategies to institutional investors such as private banks, financial institutions, family offices, charities, asset management firms and government bodies.

Belfius Bank SA engages in the provision of banking services. It operates through the following segments: Retail and Commercial (RC), Public and Corporate (PC), and Group Center (GC). The RC segment manages commercial relation-ships with individual customers and with small and medium sized enterprises both at bank and insurance level. The PC segment involves the management of commercial relationships with public sector, social sector and corporate clients. The GC segment covers residual results not allocated to the commercial segments. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Vigilant Financial Advisory BVBA provides investment research. The private company is based in Waterloo, Belgium. The Belgian company was founded by Arnaud W. Goossens, Axel Funhoff.