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ALL Dividends: % Div as of 5/03/16


Arlington Asset Investment Corp (AI) 19.92%

Financial | Mortgage Investment | USA

an investment firm, acquires mortgage-related and other assets. The company acquires on a leveraged basis residential mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that are issued by the United States (U.S.) government agency, or guaranteed as to principal and interest by U.S. government agencies, or U.S. government-sponsored entities. It also acquires MBS issued by private organizations. The company was formerly known as Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. Arlington Asset Investment Corp. was founded in 1989 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.


Archrock Partners, L.P. (APLP) 17.82%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Equipment & Services | USA

On November 4, 2015, Exterran Holdings, Inc. separated its international contract operations, international aftermarket services and global fabrication businesses into a standalone, publicly traded company (Exterran Corporation), resulting in two independent companies. The remaining company, now known as Archrock, Inc., is a pure-play U.S. compression services business, and it owns and operates the former Exterran U.S. contract operations and U.S. aftermarket services businesses, including equity interest in Archrock Partners.


AmeriGas Partners, L.P. (APU) 8.8%

Utilities | Gas Utilities | USA

operates as a retail and wholesale distributor of propane gas, and related equipment and supplies in the United States. It serves approximately 2 million residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, wholesale, and motor fuel customers in 50 states through approximately 2,000 propane distribution locations. The company also sells, installs, and services propane appliances, including heating systems. It markets propane primarily under the AmeriGas, America's Propane Company, Heritage Propane, and Relationships Matter trade names and related service marks. Its propane is used for home heating, water heating, and cooking purposes; to fire furnaces, as a cutting gas, and in other process applications; as a supplemental fuel and motor fuel; and for tobacco curing, chicken brooding, and crop drying applications, as well as in hotels, restaurants, churches, warehouses, and retail stores. AmeriGas Propane, Inc. serves as the general partner of the company. AmeriGas Partners, L.P. was founded in 1994 and is based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.


Buckeye Partners, L.P. (BPL) 6.74%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

owns and operates liquid petroleum products pipeline systems in the United States. The company operates through four segments: Pipelines & Terminals, Global Marine Terminals, Merchant Services, and Development & Logistics. The Pipelines & Terminals segment transports liquid petroleum products, including gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, heating oil, and kerosene; and refined petroleum products, such as propane and butane, refinery feedstock, and blending components, as well as crude oil. This segment owns and operates approximately 6,000 miles of pipeline located primarily in the northeastern and upper midwestern portions of the United States, and services 110 delivery locations; and 116 active terminals that provide bulk storage and throughput services with aggregate storage capacity of 55 million barrels. The Global Marine Terminals segment provides marine terminal throughput services, marine bulk storage, and other related services through 7 liquid petroleum product terminals located in The Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and St. Lucia in the Caribbean; and the New York Harbor and Corpus Christi, Texas in the United States. The Merchant Services segment is involved in the wholesale distribution of refined petroleum products, including gasoline, propane, ethanol, and biodiesel, as well as petroleum distillates, such as heating oil, diesel fuel, kerosene, and fuel oil. The Development & Logistics segment offers pipeline construction management, turnkey operations and maintenance, asset development, and construction services for third-party pipeline and energy assets. This segment owns and operates 2 underground propane storage caverns with approximately 800,000 barrels of throughput and storage capability in Indiana and Illinois; and a 30-mile ammonia pipeline and 25 miles of pipeline in Texas. Buckeye GP LLC serves as the general partner of the company. Buckeye Partners, L.P. was founded in 1886 and is based in Houston, Texas.


Central Securities Corp. (CET) 10.10% (yearly)

Financial | Asset Management | USA

Central Securities Corp. is a publicly owned self managed investment trust. The firm invests in the public equity markets of the United States. Central Securities Corp. was founded on October 1, 1929 and is based in New York City.


Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. (CLMT) 0%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing | USA

produces and sells specialty hydrocarbon products in North America. It operates in three segments: Specialty Products, Fuel Products, and Oilfield Services. The Specialty Products segment offers various lubricating oils, white mineral oils, petrolatums, solvents, waxes, synthetic lubricants, and other products which are used primarily as raw material components for basic automotive, industrial, and consumer goods. The Fuel Products segment provides fuel and fuel-related products, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt, and heavy fuel oils, as well as resells purchased crude oil to third party customers. The Oilfield Services segment manufactures and markets drilling fluids, completion fluids, production chemicals, and solids control services to the oil and gas exploration industry. Calumet GP, LLC serves as the general partner for Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.


CVR Energy, Inc (CVI) 8.77%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing | USA

through its subsidiaries, engages in petroleum refining and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing activities in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Petroleum and Nitrogen Fertilizer. The Petroleum segment refines and markets transportation fuels, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, pet coke, natural gas liquids, propane, butane, slurry, sulfur, gas oil, asphalt, jet fuel, and other products. This segment owns and operates a coking medium-sour crude oil refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas and a crude oil refinery in Wynnewood, Oklahoma; and a crude oil gathering system serving Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Texas. It also owns a proprietary pipeline system that transports crude oil from Caney, Kansas to its refinery; and supplies products through tanker trucks directly to customers located in Coffeyville, Kansas and Wynnewood, Oklahoma, as well as to customers at throughput terminals on Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. and NuStar Energy, LP's refined products distribution systems. This segment primarily serves retailers, railroads, farm cooperatives, and other refiners/marketers. The Nitrogen Fertilizer segment operates a nitrogen fertilizer plant in North America that utilizes a pet coke gasification process to produce nitrogen fertilizer products. It markets ammonia products to industrial and agricultural customers; and UAN, a solution of urea and ammonium nitrate used as a fertilizer to agricultural customers. This segment offers its products in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Colorado, and Texas. CVR Energy, Inc. is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.


Chevron Corporation (CVX) 4.14%

Basic Materials | Major Integrated Oil & Gas | USA

Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in integrated energy, chemicals, and petroleum operations worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Upstream and Downstream. The Upstream segment is involved in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas; processing, liquefaction, transportation, and regasification associated with liquefied natural gas; transportation of crude oil through pipelines; and transportation, storage, and marketing of natural gas, as well as operates a gas-to-liquids plant. The Downstream segment engages in refining crude oil into petroleum products; marketing crude oil and refined products; transporting crude oil and refined products through pipeline, marine vessel, motor equipment, and rail car; and manufacturing and marketing commodity petrochemicals, and fuel and lubricant additives, as well as plastics for industrial uses. It is also involved in the cash management and debt financing activities; corporate administrative operations; insurance operations; real estate activities; and technology businesses. Further, the company holds interests in power plants, as well as operates geothermal plants; and engages in the transportation of refined products primarily in the coastal waters of the United States. The company was formerly known as ChevronTexaco Corporation and changed its name to Chevron Corporation in 2005. Chevron Corporation was founded in 1879 and is headquartered in San Ramon, California.


Digital Realty Trust Inc. (DLR) 3.94%

Financial | REIT - Office | USA

Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), through its controlling interest in Digital Realty Trust, L.P., engages in the ownership, acquisition, development, redevelopment, and management of technology-related real estate. It focuses on strategically located properties containing applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry tenants and corporate enterprise datacenter users, including the information technology departments of Fortune 1000 companies, and financial services companies. The company's property portfolio consists of Internet gateway properties, corporate datacenter properties, technology manufacturing properties, and regional or national offices of technology companies. As of December 31, 2008, Digital Realty's portfolio consisted of 75 properties, including 62 located in North America and 13 located in Europe. Digital Realty Trust has elected to be treated as a REIT for federal income tax purposes and would not be subject to income tax, if it distributes at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its stockholders. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Northern Virginia, and Phoenix, as well as in Dublin, London, and Paris.


DCP Midstream Partners, LP (DPM) 9.59%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

together with its subsidiaries, owns, operates, acquires, and develops a portfolio of midstream energy assets in the United States. It operates through three segments: Natural Gas Services, natural gas liquids (NGL) Logistics, and Wholesale Propane Logistics. The company's Natural Gas Services segment gathers, compresses, treats, processes, transports, stores, and sells natural gas. The NGL Logistics segment engages in producing, fractionating, transporting, storing, and selling NGLs, and recovering and selling condensate. The Wholesale Propane Logistics segment is involved in transporting, storing, and selling propane in wholesale markets. It serves retail and wholesale propane customers, refining and petrochemical companies, and NGL marketers operating in the liquid hydrocarbons industry. DCP Midstream GP, LP serves as the general partner of the company. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. DCP Midstream Partners, LP operates as a subsidiary of DCP Midstream, LLC.


Ecopetrol S.A., (EC) 11.12%

Basic Materials | Major Integrated Oil & Gas | Colombia

an integrated oil company, engages in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas primarily in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Angola, and the United States Gulf Coast. The company operates through three segments: Exploration and Production; Transportation and Logistics; Refining, Petrochemicals, and Biofuels. It also owns and operates refineries that produce various refined products, including unleaded gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, jet fuel, aviation fuel, liquefied petroleum gas, sulfur, heavy fuel oils, and others; and petrochemicals and industrial products comprising paraffin waxes, lube base oils, low-density polyethylene, aromatics, asphalts, alkylates, cyclohexane, and aliphatic solvents, as well as refinery grade propylene. In addition, the company markets various refined and feed-stock products, including regular and high octane gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, natural gas, petrochemical products, and other products. Further, it is involved in the transportation of crude oil, motor fuels, and fuel oil, as well as other refined products, such as diesel and bio fuels. As of December 31, 2014, the company had a network of approximately 8,986 kilometers in length for the transportation of refined products to wholesale distribution points. The company was formerly known as Empresa Colombiana de Petrleos and changed its name to Ecopetrol S.A. in June 2003. Ecopetrol S.A. was founded in 1948 and is based in Bogot, Colombia.


Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P (EEP) 10.85%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

owns and operates crude oil and liquid petroleum transportation and storage assets; and natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation, and marketing assets in the United States. It operates through two segments, Liquids and Natural Gas. The Liquids segment operates Lakehead system that consists of interstate common carrier crude oil and liquid petroleum pipelines and storage assets, which serves Great Lakes and the Midwest regions of the United States, and the province of Ontario, Canada; and the North Dakota crude oil system. Its Mid-Continent system consists of approximately 1,666 miles of crude oil pipelines and approximately 21.4 million barrels of storage capacity, which serve refineries in the United States Mid-Continent region. This segment serves integrated oil companies, independent oil producers, and refiners and marketers. The Natural Gas segment owns and operates natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) gathering and transportation pipeline systems; natural gas processing and treating facilities; and NGL fractionation facilities, as well as provides trucking, rail, and liquids marketing services. This segment also offers supply, transmission, storage, and sales services to producers and wholesale customers, as well as other interconnected pipeline systems. It primarily serves wholesale customers, such as refiners and petrochemical producers, fractionators, and propane distributors, as well as industrial, utility, and power plant customers. Enbridge Energy Company, Inc. operates as a general partner of the company. The company was formerly known as Lakehead Pipe Line Partners, L.P. and changed its name to Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. in 2001. Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.


Ellington Financial LLC (EFC) 11.8%

Financial | Mortgage Investment | USA

through its subsidiary, Ellington Financial Operating Partnership LLC, operates as a specialty finance company in the United States. It primarily acquires and manages mortgage-related assets, including residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) backed by prime jumbo, Alternative A-paper, manufactured housing, and subprime residential mortgage loans; RMBS for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by the U.S. government agency or the U.S. government-sponsored entity; residential mortgage loans; commercial mortgage-backed securities; commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate debt; mortgage servicing rights; and real property and mortgage-related derivatives. The company also invests in corporate debt and equity securities and derivatives, consumer loans and asset-backed securities backed by consumer and commercial assets, and non-mortgage-related derivatives, as well as other financial assets, including private debt and equity investments in mortgage related entities. Ellington Financial LLC was founded in 2007 and is based in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.


Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (EPD)4.90%

Basic Materials | Independent Oil & Gas | USA

provides midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, petrochemicals, and refined products in the United States and internationally. Its NGL Pipelines & Services segment provides natural gas processing and related NGL marketing services, as well as import and export terminal services. This segment operates NGL pipelines aggregating approximately 19,400 miles; NGL and related product storage facilities; and 15 NGL fractionators. The company's Onshore Natural Gas Pipelines & Services segment operates approximately 19,300 miles of onshore natural gas pipeline systems to gather and transport natural gas in Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming. This segment also leases salt dome natural gas storage facilities; and markets natural gas. Its Onshore Crude Oil Pipelines & Services segment operates approximately 5,400 miles of onshore crude oil pipelines; and markets crude oil. This segment's pipelines gather and transport crude oil primarily in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas to refineries, centralized storage terminals, and connecting pipelines. The company's Offshore Pipelines & Services segment operates approximately 2,350 miles of offshore natural gas and crude oil pipelines and 6 offshore hub platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Its Petrochemical & Refined Products Services segment operates propylene fractionation and related operations, including 680 miles of pipelines; butane isomerization complex, associated deisobutanizer units, and related pipeline assets; and octane enhancement and high purity isobutylene production facilities, as well as refined products pipelines of 4,200 miles, as well as terminals and related marketing and marine transportation services. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Houston, Texas.


Equity Residential (EQR) 2.90%

Financial | REIT - Residential | USA

Equity Residential, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the acquisition, development, and management of multifamily properties in the United States. As of December 31, 2007, it owned and invested in 579 properties in 24 states and the District of Columbia consisting of 152,821 units. The company qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income tax to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. Equity Residential was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.


Entergy Corporation (ETR) 4.45%

Utilities | Electric Utilities | USA

Entergy Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the electric power production and retail electric distribution operations in the United States. It operates in two segments, Utility and Entergy Wholesale Commodities. The Utility segment generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electric power in portions of Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana, including the City of New Orleans; and distributes natural gas. The Entergy Wholesale Commodities segment is engaged in the ownership, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear power plants located in the northern United States; sells the electric power to wholesale customers; offers services to other nuclear power plant owners; and owns interests in non-nuclear power plants that sell the electric power to wholesale customers. This segment sells energy to retail power providers, utilities, electric power co-operatives, power trading organizations, and other power generation companies. It generates electricity through wind, gas/oil, nuclear, coal, and hydro power. The company's power plants have approximately 30,000 megawatts (MW) of aggregate electric generating capacity, including approximately 10,000 MW of nuclear-fueled capacity. It delivers electricity to 2.8 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The company was founded in 1989 and is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.


Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Buy-Write Opportunities Fund (ETV) 8.84%

Financial | Closed-End Fund - Equity | USA

Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Buy-Write Opportunities Fund is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Eaton Vance Management. It is co-managed by Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC. The fund invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund also writes call options on one or more U.S. indices on a substantial portion of the value of its common stock portfolio. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P 500 Index, the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index, the NASDAQ-100 Index, and the CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index. Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Buy-Write Opportunities Fund was formed on June 30, 2005 and is domiciled in the United States


Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund (ETW)11.16%

Financial | Closed-End Fund - Foreign | USA

Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Eaton Vance Management. It is co-managed by Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC. The fund invests in public equity markets across the globe. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund also writes call options on one or more U.S. and foreign indices on a substantial portion of the value of its common stock portfolio. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P 500 Index, the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index, the CBOE NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite Index, and the FTSE Eurotop 100 Index. Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write Opportunities Fund was formed on September 30, 2005 and is domiciled in the United States.


Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income Fund (EXG) 11.10%

Financial | Closed-End Fund - Foreign | USA

Eaton Vance Global Diversified Equity Income Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end investment company. The Fund was established to offer investors sources of potential tax-advantaged income and gains. The Fund's primary investment objective is to provide current income and gains, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. The Fund pursues its investment objectives by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of domestic and foreign common stocks. The Fund invests primarily in dividend-paying domestic and foreign common stocks that qualify for favorable federal income tax treatment. In addition, the Fund writes (sells) stock index call options with respect to a portion of its common stock portfolio value. The Fund's 10 largest equity holdings as of October 31, 2007, included Enel SPA, Nokia Oyj ADR, ENI SPA, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, BP PLC, Cesky Telecom AS, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, EMC Corp., HSBC Holdings PLC and Anadarko Petroleum Corp.


First Trust Strategic High Inco (FHY) 10.29%

Financial | Closed-End Fund - Debt | USA

First Trust Strategic High Income Fund II (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's primary investment objective is to seek a high-level of current income. The Fund seeks capital growth as a secondary objective. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing in a diversified portfolio of below-investment grade and investment grade debt securities, and equity securities that Valhalla Capital Partners, LLC (Valhalla or the Sub-Advisor) offers yield and/or capital appreciation potential. The Fund invests a significant portion of its assets in below-investment grade debt securities, including mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, corporate bonds and collateralized debt obligations. First Trust Advisors L.P. (the Advisor) is the Fund's advisor, while Valhalla Capital Partners, LLC (Valhalla or the Sub-Advisor) is its sub-advisor.


Golar LNG Partners LP (GMLP) 13.76%

Services | Shipping | Bermuda

owns and operates floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. Its fleet consists of two FSRUs and two LNG carriers. Golar GP LLC serves as the general partner of Golar LNG Partners LP. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda. Golar LNG Partners LP is a subsidiary of Golar LNG Limited.


Health Care REIT, Inc. (HCN) 4.78%

Financial | REIT - Healthcare Facilities | USA

Health Care REIT, Inc. is an independent equity real estate investment trust. The firm engages in acquiring, planning, developing, managing, repositioning and monetizing of real estate assets. It primarily invests in the real estate markets of the United States. The firm primarily invests in senior living and health care properties. It invests across the full spectrum of health care real estate, including senior living communities, medical office buildings, inpatient and outpatient medical centers and life science facilities. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments. Health Care REIT, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is based in Toledo, Ohio with additional offices in Brentwood, Tennessee and Dallas, Texas.


Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) 2.90%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

operates as an energy infrastructure and energy company in North America. The company operates through Natural Gas Pipelines, CO2, Terminals, Products Pipelines, Kinder Morgan Canada, and Other segments. The Natural Gas Pipelines segment owns and operates interstate and intrastate natural gas pipeline and storage systems; natural gas and crude oil gathering systems, and natural gas processing and treating facilities; and natural gas liquids fractionation facilities and transportation systems. The CO2 segment produces, transports, and markets CO2 for use in enhanced oil recovery projects; and owns interest in oil-producing fields, gas processing plants, and crude oil pipelines located in the Permian Basin region of West Texas. The Terminals segment owns and operates liquids and bulk terminals, and rail transloading and materials handling facilities that transload and store refined petroleum products; crude oil; condensate; and bulk products, including coal, petroleum coke, cement, alumina, salt, and other bulk chemicals, as well as owns and operates tankers. The Products Pipelines segment owns and operates refined petroleum products, and crude oil and condensate pipelines; and associated product terminals and petroleum pipeline transmix facilities. The Kinder Morgan Canada segment owns and operates Trans Mountain pipeline system that transports crude oil and refined petroleum products from Edmonton, Alberta, and Canada to marketing terminals and refineries in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington State; and aviation turbine fuel pipeline. The Other segment includes various physical natural gas contracts with power plants. Kinder Morgan, Inc. owns an interest in or operates approximately 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. The company was formerly known as Kinder Morgan Holdco LLC and changed its name to Kinder Morgan, Inc. in February 2011. Kinder Morgan, Inc. is headquartered in Houston, Texas.


Medley Capital Corporation (MCC) 18.07%

Financial | Closed-End Fund - Equity | USA

is a business development company. The fund seeks to invest in privately negotiated debt and equity securities of small and middle market companies. It primarily invests in the following sectors: business services; buildings and real estate; automobile; oil and gas; aerospace and defense; home and office furnishings, housewares, and durable consumer products; healthcare, education and childcare; personal, food, and miscellaneous services; retail stores, diversified or conglomerate manufacturing; telecommunications; mining, steel, iron, and non-precious metals; leisure, amusement, motion pictures, and entertainment; chemicals, plastics, and rubber; finance; personal and nondurable consumer products (manufacturing only); beverage, food, and tobacco; containers, packaging, and glass; structure finance securities; machinery (non-agriculture, non-construction, non-electric); diversified or conglomerate service; restaurant and franchise; electronics; and cargo transport. The fund seeks to invest in companies located in North America. The fund targets private debt transactions in companies with enterprise values or asset values between $25 million and $250 million. The fund seeks to invest in companies with debt investment values between $10 million and $50 million. It exits its investments between three years and seven years; it holds most of its investments to maturity or repayment, but may realize or sell some investments earlier. The fund may take a board seat on its investee companies and can also offer managerial assistance to certain portfolio companies. It structures its investments as first lien senior secured loans, second lien senior secured loans, senior secured notes, senior subordinated notes, subordinate notes, unitranche loans, and seeks warrants or other equity participation. The fund may co-invest in privately negotiated transactions under certain conditions.


AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc. (MITT) 14.31%

Financial | REIT - Diversified | USA

a real estate investment trust, focuses on investing, acquiring, and managing a portfolio of mortgage assets, other real estate-related securities, and financial assets. It invests in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), for which a U.S. government agency guarantees payments of principal and interest on the securities; and fixed- and floating-rate residential non-agency RMBS that are not issued by a U.S. government agency or a U.S. government-sponsored entity. The company also invests in other real estate-related securities, including asset backed securities, fixed- and floating-rate commercial mortgage-backed securities; residential mortgage loans secured by residential real property, such as prime, Alt-A, and subprime mortgage loans; and commercial mortgage loans secured by commercial real property comprising mezzanine loans and preferred equity. In addition, its other real estate securities and financial assets investments include first or second lien loans, subordinate interests in first mortgages, bridge loans to be used in the acquisition, construction, or redevelopment of a property, and mezzanine financing secured by interests in commercial real estate; other real estate structured finance products, mortgage servicing rights, other real estate-related loans and securities, and other financial assets; and investment grade and non-investment grade debt and equity tranches of securitizations backed by various asset classes, such as small balance commercial mortgages, aircraft, automobiles, credit cards, equipment, manufactured housing, franchises, recreational vehicles, and student loans. The company qualifies as a real estate investment trust for federal income tax purposes. It generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York.


Martin Midstream Partners L.P. (MMLP) 13.95%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

collects, transports, stores, and markets petroleum products and by-products in the United States Gulf Coast region. The company's Terminalling and Storage segment owns or operates 29 marine shore-based terminal facilities and 18 specialty terminal facilities that provide storage, refining, blending, packaging, and handling services for producers and suppliers of petroleum products and by-products. This segment also offers land rental services to oil and gas companies, as well as storage and handling services for lubricants and fuels. Its Natural Gas Services segment distributes natural gas liquids (NGLs) to propane retailers, refineries, and industrial NGL users. This segment owns a NGL pipeline covering an area of approximately 200 miles from Kilgore, Texas to Beaumont, Texas; and 2.4 million barrels of underground storage capacity for NGLs. It also develops, constructs, operates, and manages natural gas storage facilities in northern Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as owns an approximate 2,300 mile common-carrier pipeline system that transports NGLs from New Mexico and Texas to Mont Belvieu, Texas. The company's Sulfur Services segment manufactures and markets various sulfur-based fertilizer and related sulfur products, including plant nutrient and agricultural ground sulfur products; ammonium sulfate products; industrial sulfur products; and liquid sulfur products. This segment owns 56 railcars and leases 105 railcars to transport molten sulfur; and leases 132 railcars to transport fertilizer products. Its Marine Transportation segment operates 42 inland marine tank barges, 25 inland push boats, and 4 offshore tug and barge units that transport petroleum products and by-products to oil and gas refining companies, and petroleum marketing companies. Martin Midstream GP LLC serves as a general partner of the company. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Kilgore, Texas.


AllianzGI NFJ Dividend, (NFJ) 9.74%

Financial | Closed-End Fund - Equity | USA

Interest & Premium Strategy Fund is a close ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC. The fund is co-managed by Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC and NFJ Investment Group L.P. It invests in public equity markets of the United States. The fund invests in the stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It primarily invests in dividend-paying stocks of companies. The fund employs a combination of fundamental research with bottom up stock picking approach and quantitative analysis to create its portfolio. It was formerly known as NFJ Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund. AllianzGI NFJ Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund was formed on February 28, 2005 and is domiciled in the United States.


NuStar Energy L.P. (NS) 9.06%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

engages in the terminalling, storage, and marketing of petroleum products; and transportation of petroleum products and anhydrous ammonia primarily in the United States and the Netherlands. It operates through three segments: Pipeline, Storage, and Fuels Marketing. The Pipeline segment transports refined petroleum products, crude oil, anhydrous ammonia, and other feedstocks. This segment operates refined product pipelines in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and North Dakota. The Storage segment owns terminal and storage facilities, which offer storage, handling, and other services for petroleum products, crude oil, specialty chemicals, and other liquids. Its terminals also provide pilotage, tug assistance, line handling, launch, emergency response, and other ship services. The Fuels Marketing segment is involved in the purchase of crude oil and refined petroleum products for resale. As of December 31, 2014, the company had 5,463 miles of refined product pipelines with 21 associated terminals that offer storage capacity of 4.9 million barrels; 2 tank farms providing storage capacity of 1.4 million barrels; 2,000 miles of anhydrous ammonia pipelines; 1,180 miles of crude oil pipelines with 3.5 million barrels of associated storage capacity; and 53 terminal and storage facilities, which offer 80.9 million barrels of storage capacity. Riverwalk Logistics, L.P. serves as the general partner of the company. NuStar Energy L.P. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.


Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. (OHI) 6.77%

Financial | REIT - Healthcare Facilities | USA

is a real estate investment firm. The firm invests in the real estate markets of United States. It invests in healthcare facilities, primarily in long-term healthcare facilities in order to create its portfolio. Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Maryland, United States.


Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (PAA) 13.02%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

through with its subsidiaries, engages in the transportation, storage, terminalling, and marketing of crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGL), natural gas, and refined products in the United States and Canada. The company operates in three segments: Transportation, Facilities, and Supply and Logistics. The Transportation segment transports crude oil and NGL through pipelines, gathering systems, trucks, and barges. As of December 31, 2014, this segment owned and leased 17,800 miles of active crude oil, and NGL and gathering systems; 29 million barrels of active and above-ground tank capacity; 800 trailers; 149 transport and storage barges; and 72 transport tugs. The Facilities segment provides storage, terminalling, and throughput services for crude oil, refined products, and NGL and natural gas; and NGL fractionation and isomerization, and natural gas and condensate processing services. This segment owned and operated approximately 73 million barrels of crude oil and refined products storage capacity; 23 million barrels of NGL storage capacity; 97 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage working capacity; 29 billion cubic feet of base gas; 11 natural gas processing plants; 1 condensate processing facility; 7 fractionation plants; 26 crude oil and NGL rail terminals; 6 marine facilities; and 1,100 miles of active pipelines. The Supply and Logistics segment purchases crude oil at the wellhead, pipeline, and terminal and rail facilities; purchases cargos at their load port and various locations in transit; purchases NGL; stores inventory, and NGL and natural gas; resells or exchanges crude oil and NGL; transports crude oil and NGL on trucks, barges, railcars, pipelines, and ocean-going vessels; and purchases and sells natural gas. This segment owned 990 trucks and 1,100 trailers; and 8,100 crude oil and NGL railcars. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.


Park Electrochemical Corp., (PKE) special

Technology | Semiconductor Equipment & Materials | USA

through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells high-technology digital and radio frequency/microwave printed circuit material products primarily for the telecommunications, Internet infrastructure, and high-end computing markets. It also provides composite materials, parts, and assemblies for the aerospace market. The company's printed circuit materials are used to fabricate complex multilayer printed circuit boards and other electronic interconnection systems, such as multilayer back-planes, wireless packages, high-speed/low-loss multilayers, and high density interconnects. It markets and sells its printed circuit materials to printed circuit board fabricators, electronic manufacturing service companies, and electronic contract manufacturers, as well as electronic original equipment manufacturers in the computer, networking, telecommunications, wireless communications, aerospace, military, instrumentation, and automotive industries. The company has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. Park Electrochemical Corp. was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.


PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, (PMT) 14.31%

Financial | REIT - Diversified | USA

a specialty finance company, invests primarily in residential mortgage loans and mortgage-related assets in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Correspondent Production and Investment Activities. The Correspondent Production segment engages in purchasing, pooling, and reselling newly originated prime credit mortgage loans directly or in the form of mortgage-backed securities. The Investment Activities segment invests in mortgage-related assets, which include distressed mortgage loans, real estate acquired in settlement of loans, mortgage-backed securities, mortgage servicing rights, and excess servicing spreads. PNMAC Capital Management, LLC acts as the manager of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust. The company qualifies as a real estate investment trust for federal income tax purposes. It generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust was founded in 2009 and is based in Moorpark, California.


Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (PPC) Special

Consumer Goods | Food - Major Diversified | USA

engages in the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products to retailers, distributors, and foodservice operators in the United States, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. It offers fresh chicken products comprising pre-marinated or non-marinated, and prepackaged refrigerated (nonfrozen) whole or cut-up chicken in various combinations of refrigerated whole chickens and chicken parts. The company also provides prepared chicken products, such as portion-controlled breast fillets, tenderloins and strips, delicatessen products, salads, formed nuggets and patties, and bone-in chicken parts. In addition, it exports whole chickens and chicken parts to approximately 95 countries. Pilgrim's Pride Corporation sells its products to foodservice market, including chain restaurants, food processors, broad-line distributors, and other institutions; and retail market customers that primarily include grocery store chains, wholesale clubs, and other retail distributors. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Greeley, Colorado. As of December 28, 2014, Pilgrim's Pride Corporation operates as a subsidiary of JBS USA Holdings, Inc.


RCM Technologies, Inc. (RCMT) special

Services | Staffing & Outsourcing Services | USA

designs, develops, and implements business and technology solutions to commercial and government sectors in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The company operates in three segments: Engineering, Information Technology, and Specialty Health Care Services. The Engineering segment offers engineering and design, engineering analysis, engineer-procure-construct, configuration management, hardware/software validation and verification, quality assurance, technical writing and publications, manufacturing process planning and improvement, reliability centered maintenance, component and equipment testing, and risk management engineering services. The Information Technology segment provides enterprise business solutions, application services, infrastructure solutions, competitive advantage and productivity solutions, life sciences solutions, and other vertical market specific offerings. The Specialty Health Care Services segment provides long-term and short-term staffing, executive search, and placement services in various fields, including rehabilitation comprising physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech language pathologists; nursing; managed care; allied health care; health care management; medical office support; and non-medical caregivers or companions. This segment offers in-patient, outpatient, sub-acute and acute care, and multilingual speech pathology services, as well as geriatric, pediatric, and adult day care services to hospitals, long-term care facilities, schools, sports medicine facilities, and private practices. The company serves aerospace/defense, energy, financial services, life sciences, manufacturing and distribution, and technology industries, as well as the public sector. RCM Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is based in Pennsauken, New Jersey.


Seadrill Partners LLC owns, (SDLP) 18.11%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration | United Kingdom

operates, and acquires offshore drilling units. The company primarily serves various oil and gas companies. As of March 31, 2015, its fleet consisted of four semi-submersible drilling rigs, three drillships, and three tender rigs. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. Seadrill Partners LLC is a subsidiary of SeaDrill Limited.


Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (STWD) 9.98%

Financial | REIT - Diversified | USA

originates, acquires, finances, and manages commercial mortgage loans, other commercial real estate debt investments, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and other commercial real estate-related debt investments in the United States and Europe. It operates in two segments, Real Estate Lending, and Real Estate Investing and Servicing. The company qualifies as a real estate investment trust for federal income tax purposes and would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes, if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. Starwood Property Trust, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.


SunCoke Energy Partners, L.P., (SXCP) 19.83%

Basic Materials | Nonmetallic Mineral Mining | USA

a master limited partnership, manufactures and sells coke used in the blast furnace production of steel in the United States. The company operates through Domestic Coke and Coke Logistics segments. It also provides metallurgical and thermal coal blending and handling terminal services. SunCoke Energy Partners GP LLC operates as the general partner of the company. SunCoke Energy Partners, L.P. is headquartered in Lisle, Illinois.


Symantec Corporation (SYMC) Special

Technology | Security Software & Services | USA

Symantec Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides security, backup, and availability solutions worldwide. Its products and services protect people and information in various environments from the mobile device and enterprise data center and to cloud-based systems. The company operates through three segments: Consumer Security, Enterprise Security, and Information Management. The Consumer Security segment offers Norton-branded services that provide multi-layer security and identity protection on desktop and mobile operating systems to defend against online threats to individuals, families, and small businesses. The Enterprise Security segment offers secure socket layer certificates, authentication, mail and Web security, data center security, data loss prevention, information security services, endpoint security and management, encryption, and mobile security services offerings. Its products and services help its customers to secure their confidential information wherever it resides in the network path from the user's device to the data's resting place. The Information Management segment focuses on backup and recovery, archiving and eDiscovery, storage, and high availability solutions helping to ensure that its customers' IT infrastructure and mission-critical applications are protected, managed, and available. The company serves individuals, households, and small businesses; small, medium, and large enterprises; and government and public sector customers. It markets and sells its products and related services through direct sales force, ecommerce platform, distributors, direct marketers, Internet-based resellers, system builders, Internet service providers, wireless carriers, retailers, original equipment manufacturers, and retail and online stores. Symantec Corporation was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.


AT&T Inc. (T) 4.95%

Technology | Telecom Services - Domestic | USA

provides telecommunications services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Wireless and Wireline. The Wireless segment offers data and voice services, including local, long-distance, and network access services, as well as roaming services to youth, family, professionals, small businesses, government, and business customers. This segment also sells various handsets, wirelessly enabled computers, and personal computer wireless data cards through its owned stores, agents, or third-party retail stores; and accessories, such as carrying cases, hands-free devices, batteries, battery chargers, and other items to consumers, as well as to agents and third-party distributors. As of December 31, 2014, it served approximately 120 million wireless subscribers. The Wireline segment provides switched and dedicated transport, DSL Internet access, network integration, managed Web-hosting, packet, and enterprise networking services, as well as intrastate, interstate, and international wholesale networking capacity to other service providers. It also offers voice services consisting of local and long-distance services; and wholesale switched access services to other service providers, as well as sells customer premises equipment and other equipment comprising basic telephones and private digital switching systems. This segment served 9 million retail consumer access lines, 9 million retail business access lines, and 2 million wholesale access lines. The company was formerly known as SBC Communications Inc. and changed its name to AT&T Inc. in November 2005. AT&T Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Dallas, Texas.


Triangle Capital Corporation (TCAP) 10.97%

Financial | Credit Services | USA

is a business development company specializing in private equity and mezzanine investments. It focuses on leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, ESOPs, change of control transactions, acquisition financings, growth financing, and recapitalizations in lower middle market, mature, and later stage companies. The firm prefers to make investments in many business sectors including manufacturing, distribution, transportation, energy, communications, health services, restaurants, media, and others. It primarily invests in companies located throughout the United States, with an emphasis on the Southeast and Midatlantic. The firm makes equity investments between $1 million and $25 million and debt investments between $5 million and $30 million per transaction, in companies having annual revenues between $20 million and $200 million and EBITDA between $3 million and $35 million and can also co-invest. It typically makes investments between $5 million and $35 million. It primarily invests in senior subordinated debt securities secured by second lien security interests in portfolio company assets, coupled with equity interests. The firm also invests in senior debt securities secured by first lien security interests in portfolio companies. Triangle Capital Corporation was founded in 2002 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.


THL Credit, Inc. (TCRD) 12.07%

Financial | Asset Management | USA

is a business development company specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. The fund seeks to invest in debt and equity securities of middle market companies. It seeks to invest in PIPES, growth, acquisition, market or product expansion, recapitalization, mature, and change of control transactions in both sponsored and unsponsored issuers. The fund does not intend to invest in start-up companies, operationally distressed situations, or companies with speculative business plans. The fund invests primarily in debt securities, including unsecured subordinated or mezzanine debt and second lien secured debt, which may include an associated equity component such as warrants, preferred stock, options to buy minority interest, and other similar securities. Its investments may also include high-yield bonds, private equity investments, securities of public companies that are broadly traded, and securities of non-United States companies. It seeks to invest in outsourced business services, healthcare, financials, retailing, media, and consumer discretionary. The fund may make direct equity investments, including equity investments into or through funds, and also selectively invest in syndicated first lien secured loans, including unitranche investments. It seeks to invest between $10 million and $25 million of capital per transaction in companies with annual revenues ranging from $25 million to $500 million. The fund prefers to be a lead or sole investor in a transaction.


Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (TGP) 4.31%

Services | Shipping | Bermuda

provides marine transportation services for liquefied natural gas (LNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and crude oil worldwide. It transports liquid petroleum gases, including propane, butane, and ethane; petrochemical gases, such as ethylene, propylene, and butadiene; and ammonia. The company provides its services through a time-charter or bareboat charter contract basis. As of February 19, 2015, it had a fleet of 48 LNG carriers, 30 LPG/multigas carriers, and 8 conventional tankers. Teekay GP L.L.C. serves as the general partner of the company. Teekay LNG Partners L.P. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda. Teekay LNG Partners LP is a subsidiary of Teekay Corporation.


TransMontaigne Partners L.P. (TLP) 6.73%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

operates as a terminaling and transportation company. It provides integrated terminaling, storage, transportation, and related services for customers engaged in the distribution and marketing of light and heavy refined petroleum products, crude oil, chemicals, fertilizers, and other liquid products. The company operates along the Gulf Coast; in the Midwest; in Houston and Brownsville, Texas; along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers; and in the Southeast United States. It operates 8 refined product terminals in Florida with approximately 6.9 million barrels of aggregate active storage capacity; a 67-mile interstate refined products pipeline between Missouri and Arkansas; and 3 refined product terminals and 1 crude oil terminal with approximately 1.6 million barrels of aggregate active storage capacity in the Midwest. The company also owns and operates approximately 0.9 million barrels of tankage, which includes a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) terminaling facility with aggregate active storage capacity of approximately 33,000 barrels; and an LPG pipeline from Brownsville facilities to the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as operate a bi-directional refined products pipeline. In addition, it operates river facilities comprising 12 refined product terminals located along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers with approximately 2.7 million barrels of aggregate active storage capacity; and a dock facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana connected to the Colonial pipeline. Further, the company operates southeast facilities consisting of 22 refined product terminals located along the Colonial and Plantation pipelines in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia with an aggregate active storage capacity of approximately 10 million barrels. TransMontaigne GP L.L.C. serves as the general partner of the company. TransMontaigne Partners L.P. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.


Targa Resources Corp. (TRGP) 9.53%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

Targa Resources Corp., through its general and limited partner interests in Targa Resources Partners LP, provides midstream natural gas and natural gas liquid (NGL) services in the United States. The company operates in two divisions, Gathering and Processing, and Logistics and Marketing. It is involved in gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and selling natural gas; storing, fractionating, treating, transporting, terminaling, and selling NGLs and NGL products; and gathering, storing, and terminaling crude oil and refined petroleum products. The company also purchases and resells component NGL products; sells propane and provides related logistics services to multi-state retailers, independent retailers, and other end-users; offers NGL balancing services; and provides transportation services to refineries and petrochemical companies in the Gulf Coast area. It operates approximately 23,630 miles of natural gas pipelines, including 28 owned and operated processing plants; and 39 storage wells with a net storage capacity of approximately 64 million barrels. As of December 31, 2015, the company leased and managed approximately 716 railcars; 80 owned and leased transport tractors; and 20 company-owned pressurized NGL barges. Targa Resources Corp. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.


Two Harbors Investment Corp. (TWO) 12.00%

Financial | REIT - Residential | USA

operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on investing in, financing, and managing residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), residential mortgage loans, mortgage servicing rights, commercial real estate debt and related assets, and other financial assets. The company's target assets include agency RMBS collateralized by fixed rate mortgage loans, adjustable rate mortgage loans, hybrid mortgage loans, or derivatives; and non-agency RMBS collateralized by prime mortgage loans, Alt-A mortgage loans, pay-option ARM mortgage loans, and subprime mortgage loans. Its target assets also comprise prime nonconforming and credit sensitive residential mortgage loans; and other assets, such as asset backed securities and certain non-hedging transactions. The company qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, the company would not be subject to federal income tax, if it distributes at least 90% of net taxable income to its stockholders. Two Harbors Investment Corp. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, New York.


Verizon Communications Inc., (VZ) 4.46%

Technology | Telecom Services - Domestic | USA

through its subsidiaries, provides communications, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental agencies worldwide. The company's Wireless segment offers wireless voice and data services; messaging services; service that enables its customers to access the Internet on smartphones, basic phones, notebook computers, and tablets; customers and business-focused multimedia offerings; location-based services; global data services; LTE Internet, a high-speed Internet service; and network access and value added services to support telemetry-type applications. It also offers machine-to-machine services that support devices used in health monitoring, education, manufacturing, utilities, distribution, and consumer products markets, as well as offers smartphones and basic phones, tablets, and other Internet access devices. As of December 31, 2014, it had 108.2 million retail connections. Its Wireline segment provides high-speed Internet, FiOS Internet, and FiOS Video services; voice services, such as local exchange, regional and long distance calling, and voice messaging services, as well as VOIP services; private Internet protocol and Ethernet access and optical services; and Internet protocol, infrastructure and cloud services, machine-to-machine services, security, and other communications services. It also offers voice and data services, such as conferencing and contact center solutions, and private line and data access networks, as well as customer premise equipment, installation, maintenance, and site services; and data, voice, local dial tone, and broadband services primarily to local, long distance, and other carriers. The company was formerly known as Bell Atlantic Corporation and changed its name to Verizon Communications Inc. in June 2000. Verizon Communications Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in New York, New York


Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB) 13.22%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

The Williams Companies, Inc. operates as an energy infrastructure company primarily in the United States. The company operates through Williams Partners, Williams NGL (natural gas liquids) & Petchem Services, and Other segments. It owns and operates natural gas pipeline system extending from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the offshore Gulf of Mexico through Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to the New York City metropolitan area. The company also owns and operates a natural gas pipeline system extending from the San Juan basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado through Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington to a point on the Canadian border near Sumas, Washington; gulfstream natural gas pipeline system extending from the Mobile Bay area in Alabama to markets in Florida; and constitution pipeline that would connect its gathering system in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania to the Iroquois Gas Transmission and Tennessee Gas Pipeline systems in New York. In addition, it provides natural gas gathering, treating, processing, and compression; NGL production, fractionation, storage, marketing, and transportation; deepwater production handling and crude oil transportation; and olefin production services, as well as transports and stores natural gas to local natural gas distribution companies, municipal utilities, direct industrial users, electric power generators, and natural gas marketers and producers. Further, the company extracts, fractionates, treats, stores, and sells ethane/ethylene, propane, propylene, normal butane, isobutene, alky feedstock, and condensate. Additionally, it provides construction management services for third parties. As of December 31, 2015, the company owned and operated approximately 13,600 miles of pipelines. The Williams Companies, Inc. was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


Williams Partners L.P., (WPZ) 11.92%

Basic Materials | Oil & Gas Pipelines | USA

an energy infrastructure company, focuses on connecting North America's hydrocarbon resource plays to growing markets for natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL). It operates in Northeast G&P, Atlantic-Gulf, West, and NGL & Petchem Services segments. The Northeast G&P segment includes midstream gathering and processing businesses in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions; and a 51 percent equity investment in Laurel Mountain Midstream, LLC, as well as a 47.5 percent equity investment in Caiman Energy II, LLC. The Atlantic-Gulf segment is engaged in the interstate natural gas pipeline, natural gas gathering and processing, and crude oil production handling and transportation activities in the Gulf Coast region; and equity investment activities. The West segment is involved in gathering, processing, and treating operations in New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming, as well as the operation of interstate natural gas pipeline. The NGL & Petchem Services segment operates NGL and natural gas marketing businesses, as well as an NGL fractionator and storage facilities; and invests in pipelines, an olefins production facility, and a refinery grade propylene splitter and pipelines in the Gulf Coast region. Williams Partners GP LLC serves as the general partner of the company. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Williams Partners L.P. is a subsidiary of Williams Companies, Inc.