Newtek Business Services Corp

Newtek Business Services is a business development company. Co. provides, together with its controlled portfolio companies, a range of business and financial solutions under the Newtek® brand to the small-and-medium sized business market. Co.'s products and services include: Business Lending including United States Small Business Administration 7(a) loans, 504 loans and conventional loans, Electronic Payment Processing, Managed Technology Solutions (Cloud Computing), Technology Consulting, eCommerce, Accounts Receivable and Inventory Financing, personal and commercial lines Insurance Services, Web Services, Data Backup, Storage and Retrieval, and Payroll and Benefits Solutions.

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Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar manufactures construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Co.'s operating segments include: Construction Industries, which provides machinery for infrastructure, forestry and building construction applications; Resource Industries, which provides machinery for mining, quarry, waste, and material handling applications; Energy and Transportation, which provides reciprocating engines, turbines, diesel-electric locomotives and related parts across various related industries; and Financial Products Segment, which provides financing alternatives to customers and dealers for Co.'s products.

Chico's FAS Inc

Chico's FAS is a retailer of women's private branded, casual-to-dressy apparel, intimates and complementary accessories. Co. operates under the Chico's, White House Black Market (WHBM) and Soma brand names. Chico's primarily sells private branded clothing focusing on women 45 and older. WHBM primarily sells clothing focusing on women 35 and older with clothing and accessory items including everyday basics, polished casual apparel, relaxed workwear, black and white pieces, and feminine all-occasion dresses. The Soma brand primarily sells lingerie, sleepwear and loungewear products focusing on women. Co.'s boutiques are located in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada.

Block (H & R), Inc.

H&R Block provides assisted, do-it-yourself, and virtual tax return preparation solutions through various channels (including in-person, online and mobile applications, virtual, and desktop software) and distributes Co.-branded products and services to the general public in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and their respective territories. Co. also provides additional services, such as Refund Transfers, its Peace of Mind® Extended Service Plan (POM), H&R Block Emerald Prepaid Mastercard®, H&R Block Emerald Advance® lines of credit, Tax Identity Shield®, and Refund Advance loans. For its Canadian clients Co. also provides POM, H&R Block Instant Refund™, and H&R Block Pay With Refund® services.

KNOT Offshore Partners LP

KNOT Offshore Partners is a limited partnership formed to own, operate and acquire shuttle tankers under long-term charters, which Co. defines as charters of five years or more. Co.'s initial fleet of shuttle tankers was contributed to Co. by Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers AS, or KNOT, which is jointly owned by TS Shipping Invest AS (TSSI), and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). As of Dec. 31, 2016, Co.'s fleet consists of eleven shuttle tankers. The market for Co.'s services is the offshore oil transportation industry, and Co.'s customers consist primarily of major oil and gas companies, independent oil and gas producers and government-owned oil companies.

Cushing Renaissance Fund (The)

Cushing Renaissance Fund is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. Co.'s investment objective is to seek a total return with an emphasis on current income. Co. seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its assets in a portfolio of (i) companies across the energy supply chain spectrum (ii) energy-intensive chemical, metal and industrial and manufacturing companies and engineering and construction companies and, (iii) transportation and logistics companies providing solutions to the U.S. manufacturing industry. As of Nov 30 2016, Co. had total assets of $129,985,987 and total investment of $128,015,164.

Banco Santander Brasil SA

Banco Santander Brasil operates as a bank and through its subsidiaries carries out its operations through two segments: Commercial Banking and Global Wholesale Banking, which operates with commercial, investment, credit and financing and exchange, mortgage lending, leasing, credit cards and securities brokerage. Co. operates in Brazil and abroad, through the Cayman branch and its subsidiary in Spain. As of Dec 31 2016, Co. had total assets of R$634.39 billion.

Pfizer Inc

Pfizer is a research-based biopharmaceutical company. Co.'s portfolio includes medicines and vaccines, as well as consumer healthcare products. Co. manages its commercial operations through three businesses: Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group, which includes Co.'s health business units (except Consumer Healthcare) as well as a hospital business unit that commercializes its portfolio of sterile injectable and anti-infective medicines; Upjohn, which includes Co.'s solid oral dose brands such as Lyrica, Lipitor, Norvasc, Viagra and Celebrex, as well as certain generic medicines; and Consumer Healthcare, which is an over-the-counter medicines business.

Stanley Black & Decker Inc

Stanley Black & Decker is a provider of hand tools, power tools and related accessories, engineered fastening systems and products, services and equipment for oil and gas and infrastructure applications, commercial electronic security and monitoring systems, healthcare solutions, and mechanical access solutions (primarily automatic doors). Co.'s segments include: Tools and Storage, which is comprised of the power tools and equipment and hand tools, accessories and storage businesses; Industrial, which is comprised of the engineered fastening and infrastructure businesses; and Security, which is comprised of the convergent security solutions and the mechanical access solutions businesses.

Icahn Enterprises LP

Icahn Enterprises is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the following operating businesses: Investment, which is comprised of various private investment funds in which Co. has general partner interests and through which Co. invests its proprietary capital; Energy, which engages in the petroleum refining and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing industries through its interests in CVR Refining, LP and CVR Partners, LP; Automotive, which invests in and operates businesses involved in automotive repair and maintenance services; and Food Packaging, which produces cellulosic, fibrous and plastic casings used to prepare and package processed meat products.

Brasilagro Cia Brasileira De Propriedades Agricolas

Brasilagro Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agricolas is engaged in the acquisition, development and exploitation of agricultural properties throughout Brazil and Paraguay. Co.'s activities include the cultivation and import and export of high value-added crops like soybean, corn and sugarcane; forestry activities; as well as cattle raising; and from time to time selling its developed properties. As of June 30 2017, Co. and its subsidiaries, have ten farms in six Brazilian states and one joint-venture farm in Paraguay, with a total area of 286,194 hectares.

New Media Investment Group Inc

New Media Investment Group owns, operates and invests in local media assets focused in small to mid-size markets. Co.'s main products include: daily newspapers; weekly newspapers, which publishe up to three times per week; shoppers, which are generally advertising-only publications; locally-focused websites, which extend Co.'s businesses onto the internet and mobile devices; business publications; UpCurve Cloud and ThriveHive digital marketing; and GateHouse Live. In addition to its main products, Co. also produces publications that address specific local market interests such as recreation, sports, healthcare and real estate.

Mesabi Trust

Mesabi Trust is a trust that holds all of the interests formerly owned by Mesabi Iron Company. The principal assets of Co. consist of two different interests in certain properties in the Mesabi Iron Range: Co.'s interest as assignor in the Amended Assignment of Peters Lease and the Amended Assignment of Cloquet Lease in St. Louis County, MN (the Peters Lease Lands and the Cloquet Lease Lands, respectively); and Co.'s ownership of the entire beneficial interest in the Mesabi Land Trust, which has a 20% interest as fee owner in the Peters Lease Lands and a 100% fee ownership in certain non-mineral-bearing lands adjacent to the Peters and Cloquet Lease Lands.

Xinyuan Real Estate Co Ltd

Xinyuan Real Estate is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the development of large scale quality residential projects, which typically consist of multiple residential buildings that include multi-layer apartment buildings, sub-high-rise apartment buildings or high-rise apartment buildings. Several of Co.'s projects include auxiliary services and amenities such as retail outlets, leisure and health facilities, kindergartens and schools. Co. also develops small scale residential properties. In addition, Co. provides property management services for its developments and other real estate-related services to Co.'s customers.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is a foundry in the semiconductor industry which engages mainly in the manufacturing, selling, packaging, testing and computer-aided design of integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices and the manufacturing of masks. Co. also engages in the researching, developing, designing, manufacturing and selling of solid state lighting devices and related applications products and systems, and renewable energy and efficiency related technologies and products. Co.'s products include logic semiconductors, mixed-signal/radio frequency semiconductors, CMOS image sensor semiconductors and high voltage semiconductors.

Ryder System, Inc.

Ryder System is engaged in transportation and supply chain management solutions. Co.'s segments include: Fleet Management Solutions, which provides full service leasing and leasing with maintenance options, commercial rental, contract or transactional maintenance services, and fleet support services such as insurance, vehicle administration and fuel services; Dedicated Transportation Solutions, which combines equipment, maintenance, drivers, administrative services and additional services to provide a dedicated transportation solution; and Supply Chain Solutions, which provides logistics management services, including distribution management, transportation management and other services.

Carnival Corp

Carnival is a leisure travel company. Co. operates in four segments: North America and Australia (NAA), Europe and Asia (EA), Cruise Support, and Tour and Other. Co.'s NAA segment includes Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises (Australia), and Seabourn. Co.'s EA segment includes Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises (the U.K.), and Cunard. Co.'s Cruise Support segment includes its portfolio of port destinations and other services, all of which are operated for the benefit of its cruise brands. Co.'s Tour and Other segment represents the hotels and transportation operations of Holland America Princess Alaska Tours and other operations.

Antero Midstream Corp

Antero Midstream owns the membership interests in Antero Midstream Partners GP LLC, which owns the non-economic general partner interest in Antero Midstream Partners LP (Antero Midstream). Antero Midstream owns, operates and develops midstream energy infrastructure mainly to service Antero Resources Corporation's production and completion activity under contracts. Its assets consist of gathering pipelines, compressor stations, processing and fractionation plants and water handling and treatment infrastructure, through which it provides gathering, compression, processing, fractionation and integrated water services, including fresh water delivery services, and other fluid handling services.