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The Allstate Corporation NYSE: ALL is the largest publicly held personal lines insurer in the United States and the second-largest of all personal lines insurers in the U.S. Allstate was founded in 1931 as part of Sears, Roebuck and Company. Allstate sells auto insurance, home insurance (in certain localities), life insurance, umbrella insurance, and commercial insurance.

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP) is a company offering financial advice and products. It is the successor to American Express Financial Advisors (AEFA), which was a subsidiary of the American Express Company. In 2005, American Express launched the spin-off of AEFA as an independent company.

The Charles Schwab Corporation NASDAQ: SCHW is one of the world's largest discount brokers. Schwab now offers the same services as traditional brokerages with much lower commissions and fees. Schwab serves some 7 million individual and institutional clients, with over $1.4 trillion in assets (as of Sept. 30, 2007), from some 300 offices in the U.S. Clients can also access its services via telephone, wireless device, and the Internet. Besides discount brokerage, the firm offers a wide range of investment research, mutual funds, annuities, bond trading, and now checking and mortgages through its Charles Schwab Bank.

Countrywide Financial Corporation (NYSE: CFC) is a diversified financial marketing and service holding company engaged primarily in residential mortgage banking and related businesses.

E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) is a financial services company based in New York, NY, United States. It is a holding company, the major business of which is an online discount stock brokerage service for self-directed investors. As a discount brokerage, it charges a smaller fee on each trade than a full-service broker. Investors can buy and sell securities such as stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds on E*TRADE's website, http://www.etrade.com. The company also offers banking and lending products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, credit cards, and mortgages. (wikipedia)

Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. Fidelity Investments includes a large family of mutual funds, their distributors and investment advisors, as well as providing discount brokerage services, retirement services, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, life insurance and a number of other services.

General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, an American multinational corporation, is the world's largest auto company by production volume for the first 9 months of 2007, and by sales volume since 1931. [4] However, it ranks second behind Toyota in net worth, revenue and profit.

Grant Thornton LLP is the US member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the six global accounting, tax and business advisory organizations.

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. The company, headquartered in New York City, is one of the leaders in investment banking, financial services, asset and wealth management and private equity. With assets of $1.4 trillion, JPMorgan Chase is currently the third largest banking institution in the United States,[1] behind Bank of America and Citigroup. The hedge fund unit of JPMorgan Chase is the largest hedge fund in the United States with $34 billion in assets as of 2007.[2] Formed in 2000 when Chase Manhattan Corporation acquired J.P. Morgan & Co., the firm serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and governmental clients.

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services worldwide. The firm's world headquarters is located in New York City.