These companies advise consumers on managing their assets.

These companies invest the assets of businesses, consumers, and governments in money market portfolios.

These companies sell annuities on behalf of insurance companies.

These companies sell money management services to consumers on behalf of investment funds.

These companies broker fixed income securities.

These companies provide brokerage services to individual consumers. This is usually conducted as part of a larger financial advisory service, although revenues are derived primarily from trading commissions.

These companies broker equity securities.

These companies provide loans to businesses and consumers. These loans are used to finance a variety of products, such as vehicles, equipment, and construction projects. Includes mortgages. These companies are typically banks that also deal in investment securities.

These companies are the assets purchased by businesses and governments (via pension funds). These often include both equity and fixed-income assets, and are managed by a third-party. NOTE: These firms are NOT being paid for fund management; rather they are the funds themselves.

These companies provide software and platforms used by asset managers and financial institutions for making and managing investments on behalf of clients.

These companies provide transactional processing services to financial institutions. These services include, but are not limited to processing the card application, initiating service for the cardholder, processing each card transaction for the issuing retailer or financial institution and accumulating the account's transactions.