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With $12.4 billion in assets and $1.7 billion in common equity as of September 30, 2015, Hilltop Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HTH) is a Texas-based diversified financial holding company specializing in banking, mortgage origination, financial advisory and insurance through its wholly owned subsidiaries, PlainsCapital Corporation, National Lloyds Corporation, and Hilltop Securities Holdings. Hilltop Holdings includes PlainsCapital Corporation, which is the holding company for Dallas-based companies PlainsCapital Bank and PrimeLending. PlainsCapital Bank is the 6th largest Texas-based bank by deposits. PrimeLending is a mortgage originator ranked 6th in the U.S. for purchase units in 2014. On Jan. 1, 2015 Hilltop announced that it had completed its acquisition of Dallas-based SWS. SWS`s broker-dealer subsidiaries, Southwest Securities, Inc. and SWS Financial Services, Inc., became subsidiaries of Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC, a holding company directly under Hilltop and the successor of SWS in the merger. In connection with the merger, FirstSouthwest and its related entities also became subsidiaries of Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC. On October 5, 2015 Southwest Securities, Inc. was renamed Hilltop Securities Inc. and SWS Financial Services, Inc. was renamed Hilltop Securities Independent Network Inc. Hilltop also includes National Lloyds Corporation (formerly NLASCO), a niche property and casualty underwriter providing homeowners insurance for low value dwellings. With origins dating back to 1948, National Lloyds Corporation has an established Texas presence and is based in Waco, TX. The Hilltop Holdings family of companies employs approximately 5,400 people in approximately 425 locations in 44 states and the District of Columbia.
Founded in 2011, the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard is a research and education institution – a think tank – whose single purpose is to promote the vital importance of the fiduciary standard in investment and financial advice. The vision of the Institute is a fiduciary society where fiduciary principles and practices permeate the Wall Streetinvestment and financial advisory profession, and all advice serves investors’ best interest. (A fiduciary society is the term Vanguard founder John C. Bogle uses to describe the goal we must aspire to in ensuring that “trustees of other people’s money act solely in the interests of their beneficiaries.”)
Maxgain is a San Mateo, CA-based company in the Financial Services sector.
Gauge Capital is a private equity firm that partners with owners, managers and equity stakeholders of successful middle-market companies to maximize their potential. Gauge`s primary aim is long-term, sustainable value creation through alignment of interests, transformational change and organic and strategically acquired growth.
Maverick Capital is a Dallas, TX-based company in the Financial Services sector.