DIRECTIONAL ALPHA

Investment management and financial services, namely, providing direct asset management, hedge fund management, investment advisory services, financial, trading, and investment information services in the nature of a financial index, securities analysis, classification and reporting services, fund investing services, namely, investment of funds of others, consultation and advisory in the field of investing, maintaining escrow accounts for investments; financial consultancy services, namely, providing financial advice to accredited investors, high net worth individuals, and other investors; fundraising services, namely, raising capital for hedge funds, private equity, venture capital funds, and funds for others; research in the field of investing; financial planning, financial analysis and consultation, monetary consultation, monetary exchange, cash management, asset management; investment management, namely, investments in securities, fixed income and bonds, foreign exchange rates, financial derivatives, financially distressed or under performing assets and/or companies, acceptance of trusts, namely, estate trust management and trust management accounts, investment advice, financial risk management; fund management, namely, securities trading and investing services for others via the Internet, the trading of an account holder's securities according to previously established criteria in order to maintain a predetermined level of payments to the account holder, financial management of collective investment schemes, off-shore funds, domestic funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, long-short funds, arbitrage funds, convertible funds, distressed debt funds, market neutral funds, multi-strategy funds, event-driven funds, and real-estate funds; financial portfolio management and asset allocation; corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions investments and advisory services, securities investment and financial management, namely, management of unit trusts and investment companies; securities trading in investments, stocks, unit trust securities, bonds, exchange-traded-funds (ETF), warrants, options, futures and other derivatives and over-the-counter derivatives; investment advising to others concerning investments in intangible business assets, both directly and indirectly through other entities; financial management; financial asset and investment management; financial appraisal, evaluation and analysis, namely, consultation relating to the appraisal of investments; provision of financial information, financial research, investment and financial research and advisory; commodity investment and advice; equity capital investment; financial services, namely, coordination, within a single account, of an investment portfolio's maintenance, portfolio management, trading, rebalancing; financial services, namely, a total portfolio offering for high net worth clients consisting of both separate accounts and funds for equities, derivatives, foreign exchange rates and fixed income investments