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Brookfield Corp is an investment firm focused on building long-term wealth for institutions and individuals. It has seven operating segments: Asset Management, Wealth Solutions, Renewable Power and Transition, Infrastructure, Private Equity, Real Estate and Corporate Activities. It invests in real assets that form the backbone of the economy to deliver risk-adjusted returns to stakeholders. The company generates the majority of its revenue from Asset Management. It has a geographic presence in the UK, the United States, Australia, Canada, Brazil, India, Colombia, Germany, Other Europe, Other Asia, and other countries.

Brookfield Asset Management is one of the world's largest alternative-asset managers, with USD 1.151 trillion in total managed assets, including USD 580.7 billion in fee-earning AUM, at the end of September 2025. The company has three main business segments: private credit (USD 349.0 billion in total AUM and USD 262.8 billion in fee-earning AUM), private equity (USD 151.0 billion/USD 46.3 billion), and real estate/real assets (USD 651.0 billion/USD 271.6 billion). The firm primarily serves institutional investors (90% of AUM) and high-net-worth individuals (10%), and is diversified globally, with 67% of revenue from the Americas, 20% from EMEA, and 13% from Asia-Pacific. Canadian-based Brookfield Corporation owns 73% of Brookfield's outstanding Class A shares.

Bajaj Finance Ltd is the holding company for various financial services businesses under the Bajaj Group, which operates in India. The company is an NBFC in India offering payments, partnerships, services, and lending solutions to customers. The company's model is focused on the acquisition of customers and offering multiple loans and services on a cross-sell basis to meet their financial service needs. The company provides discretionary spending across consumer electronics, furniture, and digital products in India. The company's strategies and structure are closely aligned with those of commercial banks in India. All of its revenue is generated from India.

Tata Capital Ltd is a Non-banking Finance company. The company is engaged in lending and investing activities. The company is engaged in providing and supplying different services and products in the financial services sector and operates across various areas of business: Commercial Finance, Consumer Loans, Wealth Services and distribution and marketing of Tata Cards.

Muthoot Finance Ltd is a non-deposit-taking, non-banking financial company with thousands of branches in India. The company's main business is providing personal and business loans to individuals who do not have access to formal credit. The loans are typically secured by gold jewelry. The company also offers some microfinance loans and housing loans to customer segments and areas that are underserved by banks. Interest income accounts for nearly all the company's revenue. It has operations in Sri Lanka and India, with India providing almost all the company's revenue.

Mitsubishi HC Capital Inc is a Japan-based company engaged in providing comprehensive financial services. The company operates through several reportable segments, including Customer Solution, Overseas Region, Environmental Energy, Aviation, Logistics, Real Estate, and Mobility. Its businesses include finance solutions for corporations and government agencies, energy-saving and vendor finance, renewable energy and environmental finance, aircraft and engine leasing, marine container and railway freight car leasing, real estate finance and investment, and automobile leasing and related services. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Customer Solutions segment.

Aditya Birla Capital Ltd is a financial service provider. The company's products include Non-Bank Financial Services, Housing Finance, Life Insurance, Asset Management, General Insurance Broking, Stock and Securities Broking, Health Insurance and Other Financial Services. Its operating segments consist of Lending, and Investing and Others. The Lending segment consists of Loans (personal, business, etc.), loan against property, structured finance, working capital loans, wealth management, distribution of financial products, etc. The Investing and Others segment includes investments in Group companies Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from India.

Charter Hall Group is the umbrella group of over 40 retail and institutional unlisted funds, as well as three listed REITs: Charter Hall Long WALE REIT, Charter Hall Retail REIT, and Charter Hall Social Infrastructure REIT. Investment management fees and property services fees from these investment vehicles are the main sources of revenue for Charter Hall. The aggregate portfolio across the platform has one third exposure to office, one third to logistics, and the remainder in retail, social infrastructure and listed equities. Charter Hall co-invests in many of the vehicles, so a portion of its earnings come from rent and fund distributions. The group also earns development revenue on projects that it manages, but this income stream is relatively small.

Credit Acceptance Corp is a consumer finance company that specializes in automobile loans. These loans are offered through a U.S. nationwide network of automobile dealers that benefit from sales of vehicles to consumers who could otherwise not obtain financing. The company also benefits from repeat and referral sales, and from sales to customers responding to advertisements for financing, but qualify for traditional financing. The company derives its revenue from finance charges, premiums earned on the reinsurance of vehicle service contracts, and other fees. Of these, financing charges, including servicing fees, are by far a source of revenue.

Chailease Holding Co Ltd provides various services of leasing and financing. Its main products and services include leasing, installment sales, accounts receivable transfer management, import/export financing, and direct financing to corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises. The majority of the company's revenue is derived in the form of interest income. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from Taiwan, followed by China, ASEAN, and other regions.

Blue Owl Capital Corp is a specialty finance company and business development company (BDC) focused on providing direct lending solutions to U.S. middle-market companies. The company seeks to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, capital appreciation by targeting investment opportunities with favorable risk-adjusted returns, including senior secured, subordinated, or mezzanine loans and equity-related instruments. Its investment strategies are intended to generate favorable returns across credit cycles with an emphasis on preserving capital.

Millrose Properties Inc is a Holding Company. The company along with its subsidiaries engages in providing operational and capital solutions for home builders and land development companies to finance the acquisition and development of land assets through its Homesite Option Purchase Platform.

Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp is an externally managed business development company mainly formed to originate and make debt and equity investments in a broad range of established and high-growth technology-related companies based mainly in the United States. Its investment objective is to maximize total return by generating current income from debt investments and other income-producing securities, and capital appreciation from its equity and equity-linked investments. The company originates and invests in senior secured or unsecured loans; subordinated loans or mezzanine loans; and equity-related securities, including common equity, warrants,preferred stock, and similar forms of senior equity, which may or may not be convertible into a portfolio company's common equity.

Mirvac started off as a residential property developer and over time expanded into property investment, funds management, and commercial property development. Investment is the major earnings driver, generating about two-thirds of group earnings. The investment portfolio, by book value, is made up of 50% office, 20% retail, 15% industrial and the rest is build-to-rent and land lease assets. Longer term, Mirvac aims to increase exposure to the industrial and living sectors and own fewer offices and retail centers. Development income is volatile and was around one-fourth of fiscal 2025 group earnings. Besides developing apartments and houses, which Mirvac is best known for, it is also involved in commercial and mixed-use precinct developments.

Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd is a nonbanking financial company engaged in financing new and pre-owned auto, utility vehicles, tractors, passenger cars and commercial vehicles through its pan India branch network. The company has a diversified lending portfolio across retail, small and medium enterprises and commercial customers with a presence in rural and semi-urban India. The company has two segments : Financing Activities, that includes financing and leasing of automobiles, tractors, commercial vehicles, SMEs and housing finance.; and Other reconciling items which consists insurance broking, asset management services and trusteeship services. It derives maximum revenue from Financing Activities.

Nelnet Inc is a United States based company engaged in these four reportable segments; Loan Servicing and Systems focuses on student and consumer loan origination services and servicing, loan origination and servicing-related technology solutions, and outsourcing business services; Education Technology Services and Payments segment provides education services, payment technology, and community management solutions for K-12 schools, institutions, churches, and businesses; Asset Generation and Management segment includes the acquisition and management of student and other loan assets; and Nelnet Bank focuses on the private education and unsecured consumer loan markets. Maximum revenue for the company is generated from its Education Technology Services and Payments segment.

Authum Investment & Infrastucture Ltd is an Indian non-banking financial company that is engaged in the business of providing loans and making investments/trading in shares and securities.

PennyMac Financial Services Inc is a specialty financial services firm with a comprehensive mortgage platform mainly focused on the production and servicing of U.S. residential mortgage loans. The firm is also engaged in managing investments related to the U.S. mortgage market and provides products and services that leverage technologies to support customers. The company operates through two reportable operating segments: production and servicing. The production segment performs loan origination, acquisition, and sale activities, while the servicing segment performs servicing and subservicing of loans, early buyout transactions, and servicing of loans sourced and managed for PMT. The majority of revenue comes from the production segment.

State Grid Yingda Co Ltd, formerly Shanghai Zhixin Electric Co Ltd specializes in the development, production and sale of amorphous alloy transformers in China.

Keppel REIT is a commercial real estate investment trust with a SGD 11.7 billion portfolio of assets (as of Dec. 31, 2025) across Singapore, Australia, South Korea, and Japan. The majority of its assets are in Singapore, where it owns a 100% stake in Keppel Bay Tower, a 79.9% stake in Ocean Financial Centre, 66.7% stake in Marina Bay Financial Centre 3 and a 33.33% stake in Marina Bay Financial Centre 1 and 2 and One Raffles Quay. The trust is externally managed by Keppel REIT Management, a subsidiary of Keppel Capital. Parent Keppel Ltd. currently retains an approximate 38% stake in Keppel REIT.

Dream Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust is an unincorporated, open-ended real estate investment trust. Its portfolio comprises industrial properties located in key markets across Canada, Europe and the USA. Its objective is to build upon and grow its portfolio and to provide stable and sustainable cash distributions to its unitholders.The reportable operating segments of its investment properties and results of operations are segmented into the following components: Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada, Europe, the U.S., Dream Summit JV and Development JV.

Hercules Capital Inc is a specialty finance company focused on providing senior secured loans to high-growth, venture capital-backed, and institutional-backed companies in a variety of technology and life sciences industries. The company's primary business objectives are to increase its net income, net investment income, and net asset value (NAV) through its investments mainly in structured debt or senior secured debt instruments of venture capital-backed and institutional-backed companies across a variety of technology-related industries at attractive yields. It finances companies belonging to computer software and hardware, networking systems, semiconductors, medical devices, bio-pharmaceutical, and other related sectors.

OSB Group PLC is a specialist mortgage lender, focused on carefully selected segments of the mortgage market. The company provides loans to entities and individuals, secured on residential property held for investment purposes and secured on commercial and semi-commercial properties held for investment purposes or for owner-occupation. It provides development loans to small- and medium-sized developers of residential property. The company also provides funding lines (loans) to non-bank finance companies secured against portfolios of financial assets, principally mortgages and leases, and loans under hire purchase, leasing, and refinancing arrangements to UK SMEs and small corporates to finance business-critical assets.

Lufax Holding Ltd is principally engaged in core retail credit and enablement business to both borrowers and institutions in the People's Republic of China (the PRC). The company address the large unmet demand for personal lending among small business owners as well as salaried workers in China and provides tailor-made wealth management solutions to China's middle class and affluent population.

Kruk SA is the leader in the debt collection industry. It manages debts purchased on its own account and contracted by third parties. The group manages bank debt (the main client category), debts owed to loan brokers, insurance companies, leasing firms, fixed-line and mobile phone operators, cable TV companies, digital TV platforms and FMCG companies. The Group manages debt in three segments consumer debts, mortgage debts and corporate debts. Consumer debts include retail and unsecured. Mortgage debts include retail, and secured. Corporate debts include mortgage-backed and non-mortgage-backed. Geographically the company operates in segments Poland, Romania, Italy, Spain, and Other foreign markets.

Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp provides agricultural real estate and rural housing mortgage loans in the secondary market in the U.S. Its operations consist of seven reportable segments: Farm & Ranch, which generates maximum revenue, Corporate AgFinance, Power & Utilities, Broadband Infrastructure, Renewable Energy, Funding, and Investments. The company purchases eligible mortgage loans secured by first liens on agricultural real estate and rural housing under the Farm & Ranch line of business. Its subsidiary purchases portions of certain agricultural, rural development, business and industry, and community facilities loans guaranteed by the USDA. Geographically, the company's operations are spread across different regions in the United States.

Fibra Mty S.A.P.I. DE C.V. acquires and manages a portfolio of first-class corporate properties with a focus on the office and industrial sectors. Its property portfolio includes Monza 2, Prometeo, Nico 1, Fortaleza, La Perla, Patria and Cienega 3 among others.

Encore Capital Group Inc is an international specialty finance company. It provides debt recovery solutions for consumers and property owners across a broad range of financial assets. The company purchases portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables at deep discounts to face value and manages them by working with individuals as the consumers repay their obligations and work toward financial recovery. Encore has only a reportable segment portfolio purchasing and recovery.

Paragon Banking Group PLC, is a specialty finance company that provides diversified banking services to clients. The company operates two core businesses: Mortgage Lending and Commercial Lending. The Mortgage Lending includes the Group's buy-to-let and owner-occupied first and second charge lending and related activities. Commercial Lending, includes the Group's equipment and motor finance leasing activities, together with development finance, structured lending, and other offerings targeted towards SME customers.

Walker & Dunlop Inc is a United States-based commercial real estate finance company. It is principally engaged in originating, selling, and servicing a number of multifamily and other commercial real estate financing products that are sold under the programs of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, and the Federal Housing Administration. The company is managed based on three reportable segments: Capital Markets (CM), Servicing & Asset Management (SAM), and Corporate. The company generates a majority of total revenue from gains from mortgage banking activities and servicing fees. It conducts business solely in the United States.

Triumph Financial Inc is a financial holding company based in the United States. Along with its subsidiaries, the company operates in four reportable segments: Banking, Factoring, Payments, and Intelligence. The Banking segment, which generates maximum revenue, includes the operations of TBK Bank, offering traditional banking services. The Factoring segment provides working capital solutions to the trucking industry through the purchase of invoices generated by carriers at a discount. The Payments segment provides payment, audit, and other banking services for the over-the-road trucking industry, and the Intelligence segment operates to turn the over-the-road trucking data collected through the services offered into actionable insights for its customers.

IndiGrid Infrastructure Trust, formerly India Grid Trust is an infrastructure investment trust established to own inter-state power transmission assets in India. The projects comprise extra high voltage (EHV) overhead power transmission lines, comprising approximately seven 765 kV transmission lines and thirty 400 kV transmission lines. The company has two distinct reportable segments: Power Transmission and Power generation. The power Transmission segment generates the majority of revenue and is engaged in the business of owning and maintaining transmission assets. The power Generation segment includes entities in the business of generating power through renewable sources such as solar etc.

Atlanticus Holdings Corp invests in the financial services industry. It provides various credit and related financial services and products to or associated with the financially underserved consumer credit market. The operating business segments are the Credit as a Service (CaaS) and the Auto Finance segment. It generates maximum revenue from the Credit as a Service segment.

Sixth Street Specialty Lending Inc is a specialty finance company focused on providing flexible, fully committed financing solutions to middle market companies located in the United States of America. The company partners with other companies across a variety of industries and provides creative solutions with complex business models that may have limited access to capital. The company seeks to generate current income in U.S.-domiciled middle-market companies through direct originations of senior secured loans and, to a lesser extent, originations of mezzanine and unsecured loans and investments in corporate bonds and equity securities.

Hoist Finance AB is principally engaged in purchasing portfolios of nonperforming loans. The company runs a business as a debt-restructuring partner to international banks and financial institutions. It acquires both unsecured and secured NPLs, mainly from banks and other financial institutions. The company operates in approximately 14 European markets and is a regulated credit market company under the supervision of the Swedish FSA.

Trinity Capital Inc is an internally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. Its investment objective is to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, capital appreciation through investments across five distinct vertical markets. The company is focused on achieving its investment objective by operating as a specialty lending company that provides debt, including loans, equipment financings, and asset-based lending, to growth-oriented companies, including institutional investor-backed companies. Its investment portfolio mainly comprises private companies that have begun to have success selling their products to the market and need additional capital to expand their operations and sales.

Banca Ifis is an independent banking group specializing in the provision of banking and other financial services. It specializes in providing factoring services, managing distressed loans, servicing and managing non-performing, secured loans, and offering leasing services, among other activities. The company's operating segments are Commercial & Corporate Banking, NPL, and Governance & Services and Non-Core. A majority of its revenue is generated from the Commercial & Corporate Banking segment, which represents the Group's commercial offerings dedicated to businesses and also includes personal loans with the assignment of one-fifth of salary or pension. This segment consists of the factoring, leasing, and corporate banking & lending business areas.

Cymbria Corp is a Canada-based investment company. The investment objective of the company is to provide long-term capital appreciation through a concentrated portfolio of companies.

Orchid Island Capital Inc is a specialty finance company that invests in residential mortgage-backed securities. The principal and interest payments of its RMBS are guaranteed by the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or the Government National Mortgage Association, and are backed by single-family residential mortgage loans. The company's investment portfolio is divided into two categories namely traditional pass-through Agency RMBS; and structured Agency RMBS, such as collateralized mortgage obligations, interest-only securities, inverse interest-only securities, and principal-only securities, among other types of structured Agency RMBS.

Goldman Sachs BDC Inc is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company that elected to be regulated as a business development company focused on lending to middle-market companies. The investment objective is to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, capital appreciation primarily through direct originations of secured debt, including the first lien, unitranche and second lien debt, and unsecured debt. It invests primarily in U.S. middle-market companies such as banks and the public debt markets. The company focuses on the negotiation and structuring of the loans or securities in which it invests and holding the investments in its portfolio to maturity. It generates majority revenue in the form of interest income and dividend income.

MFA Financial Inc is a specialty finance company that invests in and finances residential mortgage assets. Its principal business objective is to deliver shareholder value through the generation of distributable income and through asset performance linked to residential mortgage credit fundamentals. The company selectively invests in residential mortgage assets with a focus on credit analysis, projected prepayment rates, interest rate sensitivity and expected return. The company's reportable segments include mortgage-related assets; and Lima One.

Kayne Anderson BDC Inc is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company that invests primarily in first-lien senior secured loans, with a secondary focus on unitranche and split-lien loans to middle-market companies. Its investment objective is to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, capital appreciation primarily through debt investments in middle-market companies.

Barings BDC Inc operates as a closed-end, non-diversified investment company and has elected to be treated as a business development company. The company's investment objective is to generate current income by investing directly in privately held middle-market companies to help these companies fund acquisitions, growth, or refinancing. It employs fundamental credit analysis and targets investments in businesses with low levels of cyclicality and operating risk relative to other businesses in this market segment. The holding size of each position will generally be dependent upon a number of factors including total facility size, pricing and structure, and the number of other lenders in the facility.

B2 Impact ASA provides business lines that are Investments and Servicing. The Group focuses on granular consumer NPLs, and retail and corporate secured NPLs, owned and serviced for JV partners.. Geographically, the company has a presence in Northern Europe (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania); Poland; Central Europe (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary); Western Europe (Spain, Italy, and France); and South Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, and Cyprus). Its segments are Investments, Servicing, and Other, and the majority of its revenue is generated from the investment segment.

RFA Financial Inc is a scaled and dynamic financial service platform positioned as an intersection of banking, mortgage, origination, and real estate.

Alpha Investment Inc provides capital directly to borrowers seeking financing for commercial real estate properties either for refinancing or acquisitions. The firm's loan offerings encompass originating performing commercial first mortgage loans, subordinate financings, and other commercial real estate-related debt. The firm invests in the financing of core real estate assets that include office buildings, multi-family residences, shopping centers, and hospitality, plus ground-up entitled land developments.

Bain Capital Specialty Finance Inc is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. The company's objective is to provide risk-adjusted returns and current income to investors by investing predominantly in middle-market companies with between $10.0 million and $150.0 million in annual EBITDA. Its portfolio of investments includes First Lien Senior Secured Loan, Preferred Equity, Equity Interest, Warrants, and Second Lien Senior Secured Loan among others.

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd is a closed-end, externally managed, non-diversified investment company. Its investment objectives are to generate both current income and capital appreciation by investing in Floating Rate Loans and other investments made to U.S. middle-market companies. The company believes that Floating Rate Loans to U.S. middle-market companies offer attractive risk-reward to investors due to the limited amount of capital available for such companies and the potential for rising interest rates. The company generates revenue in the form of interest income on the debt securities and dividends.