Stephen M. Waters

Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of banking services. It operates through the Private Banking; and Wealth Management and Trust segments. The Private Banking segment offers services to privately owned businesses, private partnerships, and non-profit organizations. The Wealth Management and Trust segment offers planning-based financial strategies, wealth management, family office, financial planning, tax planning, and trust services to individuals, families, institutions, and nonprofit institutions. The company was founded on September 2, 1987 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Compass Advisers Group LLC provides investment, strategic and financial advisory services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, private placements, strategic alliances, joint ventures and partnerships, divestitures, spin-offs, takeover defense, and capital transaction services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Shearson Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. provides security broker services. The company is based in New York, NY.

U.S. Naval Institute engages in the provision of independent forum for advancing the professional, literary, and scientific understaning of sea power and other issues critical to global security. The company is headquartered in Annapolis, MD.

Morgan Stanley Europe Fund, Inc. is a closed ended equity mutual fund launched by Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. It is managed by Morgan Stanley Investment Advisors Inc. The fund invests in the public equity markets of Russia, Central and Eastern European countries. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. Morgan Stanley Europe Fund is headquartered in New York, NY.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.