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Wood Creek Capital Management, LLC, is an investment management company created through a joint venture between Babson Capital Management LLC ("Babson Capital"), an investment management firm with strengths in both alternative and traditional strategies, and Norfolk Management Group, LLC ("Norfolk"), an investment holding company specializing in alternative investments.
Wood Creek Capital Management, LLC closed its first fund in August 2005, Wood Creek Venture Fund, LLC. Wood Creek Venture Fund seeks to identify and develop the next generation of alternative investment managers who are focused on proven but still-emerging niche strategies such as intellectual property rights, environmental credits and trade finance obligations. Wood Creek Venture Fund makes equity investments in the underlying management companies as well as providing the associated investment funds with seed capital.
Wood Creek Capital Management, headquartered in New Haven Connecticut, is led by Brett D. Hellerman, the CEO of Norfolk. Mr. Hellerman was a co-founder of Clinton Group, Inc., a major multi-strategy hedge fund manager. Having more than 15 years of hedge fund industry experience, Mr. Hellerman has been involved in all aspects of the alternative investments business.
Norfolk Management Group, LLC is an investment holding company specializing in alternative investments. Norfolk Management Group is the owner of Norfolk Markets, LLC, a registered broker-dealer, member NASD. Norfolk Markets acts as the placement agent for a variety of hedge funds and absolute return strategies. Norfolk Markets specializes in the marketing of sophisticated asset management strategies to leading institutional investors around the world. Norfolk also acts as structurer, manager and placement agent for collateralized debt obligations, guaranteed accounts and other structured products involving absolute return strategies. Norfolk's mission is to be an expert intermediary for both providers and customers of institutional alternative investment products.
Babson Capital manages more than $97 billion* for institutional and retail investors in the U.S. and abroad, as well as high net worth individuals and family offices. The firm offers a wide range of relative return, absolute return, co-investing, financing and customized mandates utilizing equity, fixed-income and derivative instruments. Based in Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts, the firm has six additional offices in the U.S. and an indirect subsidiary, Babson Capital Europe Limited, in London. Babson Capital is a member of the MassMutual Financial Group.
*Assets include Babson Capital Management LLC and Babson Capital Europe Limited as of Sept. 30, 2005.
Merrill Lynch (http://www.ml.com) is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, with offices in 38 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.7 trillion. It is ranked number 22 in the Fortune 500 listing.
Merrill Lynch offers a broad range of services to private clients, small businesses, and institutions and corporations, organizing its activities into two interrelated business segments - Global Markets & Investment Banking Group and Global Wealth Management, which is comprised of Global Private Client and Global Investment Management. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide.
Merrill Lynch owns approximately half of BlackRock, one of the world's largest publicly traded investment management companies, with more than $1 trillion in assets under management.
MassMutual (http://www.massmutual.com) is a mutually owned Fortune 500 financial protection, accumulation and income management company headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts. MassMutual provides life insurance, annuities, disability income insurance, long term care insurance, retirement planning products, income management and other products and services for individuals, business owners, and corporate and institutional markets.
MassMutual’s affiliates include OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; Babson Capital Management LLC; Baring Asset Management Limited; Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC; MML Investors Services, Inc.; The MassMutual Trust Company, FSB; MML Bay State Life Insurance Company; C.M. Life Insurance Company; and MassMutual International LLC.
RK Harrison provides risk management services, focusing primarily on Political Risk and Credit Insurance products. These products are used for general portfolio risk management and when structuring transactions. The Political Risk and Credit team at RK Harrison also have direct access to the European trade finance market.
RK Harrison is an independent Lloyd's insurance and reinsurance broker operating in London and Bermuda employing approximately 250 professionals and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority.