Newtek Business Services Corp

Newtek Business Services is a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. Co. provides a range of business services and financial products under the Newtek® brand to the small- and medium-sized business market. Co.'s products and services include: Business Lending including U.S. Small Business Administration 7(a) and 504 lending, Electronic Payment Processing, Managed Technology Solutions, eCommerce, Accounts Receivable and Inventory Financing, The Secure Gateway, The Newtek Advantage®, personal and commercial Insurance Services, Web Services, Data Backup, Storage and Retrieval, and Payroll and Benefits Solutions to SMB accounts nationwide across all industries.

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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 operates as a retailer of women's private branded, casual-to-dressy clothing, intimates and complementary accessories. Co.'s portfolio consists of three brands: Chico's, which sells private branded clothing focusing on women 45 and older; White House Black Market (WHBM), which provides a collection of clothing and accessory items, including everyday basics; and Soma, which primarily sells private branded lingerie, sleepwear, loungewear, activewear, and beauty products. Co.'s product is available to customers in its domestic and international retail stores, its various e-commerce websites and its call center.

Service Corp. International

Service Corporation International provides deathcare products and services. Co.'s funeral service and cemetery operations consist of funeral service locations, cemeteries, funeral/cemetery combination locations, crematoria, and other related businesses. Funeral service locations provide services related to funerals and cremations, including the use of funeral home facilities and motor vehicles, arranging and directing services, removal, preparation, embalming, cremations, memorialization, and catering. Co.'s cemeteries provide cemetery property interment rights, including developed lots, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces, niches, and other cremation memorialization and interment options.

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.

Tekla World Healthcare Fund

Tekla World Healthcare Fund is a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. Co.'s investment objective is to seek existing income and long-term capital appreciation through investments in U.S. and non-U.S. companies engaged in the healthcare industry (including equity securities and debt securities). Co. invests primarily in securities of public and private companies believed by the Fund's Investment Adviser, Tekla Capital Management LLC, to have potential for above-average growth.

RiverNorth Opportunities Fund Inc

RiverNorth Opportunities Fund is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is total return consisting of capital appreciation and income by pursuing a tactical asset allocation strategy and opportunistically investing under normal circumstances in closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds ("Underlying Funds"). Underlying Funds also may include business development companies. As of Oct 31 2016, total assets were $74,312,818 and investment securities were $71,317,125.

Becton, Dickinson & Co

Becton, Dickinson and Company is a medical technology company engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of a range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products. Co.'s has three segments: BD Medical, which produces an array of medical technologies and devices that are used to help improve healthcare delivery in a range of settings; BD Life Sciences, which provides products for the safe collection and transport of diagnostics specimens, and instruments and reagent systems to detect a range of infectious diseases, healthcare-associated infections and cancers; and BD Interventional, which provides vascular, urology, oncology and surgical specialty products.

Aircastle Ltd.

Aircastle is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. acquires, leases, and sells commercial jet aircraft. Co. owns and manages on behalf of its joint ventures aircraft that leases to various lessees. Co.'s aircraft are managed by a team based in the U.S., Ireland and Singapore. Co.'s aircraft are subject to net leases whereby the lessee is generally responsible for maintaining the aircraft and paying operational, maintenance and insurance costs, although in certain cases, Co. is obligated to pay a portion of specified maintenance or modification costs. Co.'s aircraft types include: A319/A320/A321, A330-200/300, 737-700/800/900ER, 777-200ER/300ER, E195 and freighters.

Icahn Enterprises LP

Icahn Enterprises is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the following operating businesses: Investment, which provides investment advisory and certain administrative and back office services to the investment funds but does not provide such services to any other entities, individuals or accounts; Automotive, which provides automotive products, automotive repair and maintenance services, as well as distributes and sells automotive aftermarket parts and accessories; Energy, which is engaged in the petroleum refining and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing industries; and Railcar, which designs and manufactures hopper and tank railcars.

Domtar Corp

Domtar is engaged in designing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing a range of fiber-based products such as communication papers, specialty and packaging papers and absorbent hygiene products. Co.'s segments are: Pulp and Paper, which consists of business papers including copy and electronic imaging papers, computer papers, preprinted forms and digital papers, commercial printing and publishing papers including uncoated freesheet papers, specialty and packaging papers, and pulp products such as softwood, fluff and hardwood kraft; and Personal Care, which designs, manufactures, markets and distributes absorbent hygiene products, including adult incontinence and infant diaper products.

Tribune Publishing Co (New)

Tribune Publishing is a media company. Co. manages its business as two segments, troncM, which is comprised of Co.'s media groups that include the Chicago Tribune Media Group, the New York Daily News Media Group, the Sun Sentinel Media Group, the Orlando Sentinel Media Group, The Baltimore Sun Media Group, the Hartford Courant Media Group, the Morning Call Media Group, the Daily Press Media Group, the Los Angeles Times Media Group, and the San Diego Media Group; and troncX, which includes Tribune Content Agency, a syndication and licensing business providing content solutions for publishers, and forsalebyowner.com, a national consumer-to-consumer focused real estate website.

Peabody Energy Corp (New)

Peabody Energy is a coal company, engaged in the mining of thermal coal for sale primarily to electric utilities and metallurgical coal for sale to industrial customers. In addition to its mining operations, Co. markets and broker coal from other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight-related contracts through trading and business offices in the U.S., Australia, China, and the U.K. Co. conducts business through six operating segments: Powder River Basin Mining; Midwestern U.S. Mining; Western U.S. Mining; Australian Metallurgical Mining; Australian Thermal Mining; and Trading and Brokerage.

Ready Capital Corp

Ready Capital is a real estate finance company. Co. acquires, originates, manages, services and finances primarily small balance commercial loans (SBC loans). Co.'s segments are: loan acquisitions, which acquires performing and non-performing SBC loans; SBC originations, which originates SBC loans secured by stabilized or transitional investor properties using loan origination channels through Co.'s subsidiary, ReadyCap Commercial, LLC; the U.S. Small Business Administration (the SBA) originations, acquisitions and servicing, which acquires, originates and services owner-occupied loans guaranteed by the SBA; and residential mortgage banking, which originates residential mortgage loans.

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.

Fortress Transportation & Infrastructure Investors LLC

Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors, through its subsidiary, is engaged in the ownership and leasing of aviation equipment, offshore energy equipment and shipping containers. Co., also owns and operates, among others, a short line railroad in North America, Central Maine and Quebec Railway, and a multi-modal crude oil and refined products terminal in Beaumont, TX. Co.'s operations consist of two primary business units: Infrastructure, which acquires long-lived assets that provide services or functions to transportation networks; and Equipment Leasing, which acquires assets that are designed to carry cargo or people or provide functionality to transportation infrastructure.

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.

AMC Entertainment Holdings is a theatrical exhibition company. Through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including American Multi-Cinema, Inc. and its subsidiaries, Co. is principally involved in the theatrical exhibition business and owns, operates or has interests in theatres primarily located in the U.S. and Europe. Co. provides consumers a range of entertainment alternatives including film programming, independent and foreign films, performing arts, music and sports. Co. also provides food and beverage alternatives such as made-to-order meals, customized coffee, snacks, beer, wine, cocktails and dine-in theatre options.

Star Group LP

Star Group is a home heating oil and propane distributor and services provider that principally provides heating related services to residential and commercial customers. Co. sells home heating oil and propane to residential and commercial customers. Co. also sells home heating oil, gasoline and diesel fuel to customers on a delivery only basis. Co. installs, maintains, and repairs heating and air conditioning equipment and to a lesser extent provides these services outside its heating oil and propane customer base for natural gas and other heating systems. In addition, Co. provides plumbing to customers, several of whom are also existing home heating oil and propane customers.