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I have been meeting with a finance advisory to help me learn about investments. 
Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments.
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Babcock &amp; Brown
Babcock & Brown was a global investment and advisory firm based in Sydney, Australia that went into liquidation in 2009. It was best known in financial markets for structured finance deals. The company had at its peak 28 offices and over 1,500 employees worldwide. Although headquartered in Sydney, it had a significant presence in Europe and the United States. The creditors of Babcock & Brown voted to place the company into liquidation on 24 August 2009. At the end of 2008 Babcock had a market capitalisation of just over $8.5 billion, and in 2007 its market capitalisation peaked at above $9.1 billion (A$33.90 per share).
Richard Greco Jr.
Richard Greco Jr. is an American businessman, educator, former United States Government official, and long-standing trustee and benefactor of educational, cultural, and civic institutions. He was appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate as the nation's 19th Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) and served from 2004 to 2007. In this role, Greco was the chief financial officer of the Department of the Navy, responsible for an annual budget of more than $130 billion and a financial management workforce of 9000 professionals, including budgeters, analysts, auditors, fiscal lawyers, Congressional relations officers, and financial operations personnel.
John G. Taft
John G. Taft (born 1954) is an American financier and writer. Early in his career he worked as a journalist before entering the investment industry in 1981. Early positions with Piper Jaffray and the St. Paul Mayor's Office were followed by roles as CEO of Voyageur Asset Management and Dougherty Summit Securities. His unit at Dougherty was later acquired by Dain Rauscher, and Taft began working with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) when it acquired Dain Rauscher in 2001. From 2005 until 2016 Taft was CEO of RBC's U.S. wealth management unit, RBC Wealth Management. He is currently chairman of Delaney|Taft LLC, serves as a director of the Columbia Threadneedle Funds and is a senior advisor to Deloitte and Touche LLP.
History of private equity and venture capital
The history of private equity and venture capital and the development of these asset classes has occurred through a series of boom and bust cycles since the middle of the 20th century. Within the broader private equity industry, two distinct sub-industries, leveraged buyouts and venture capital experienced growth along parallel, although interrelated tracks. Since the origins of the modern private equity industry in 1946, there have been four major epochs marked by three boom and bust cycles. The early history of private equity—from 1946 through 1981—was characterized by relatively small volumes of private equity investment, rudimentary firm organizations and limited awareness of and familiarity with the private equity industry.
Venture capital
Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake, in the companies they invest in. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from the high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology.
Carnegie Investment Bank
Carnegie Investment Bank AB is a Swedish financial services group with activities in securities brokerage, investment banking, asset management and private banking. Founded in 1803, Carnegie is headquartered in Stockholm with offices across the Nordic region, as well as in London, New York City, Helsinki, Luxembourg and Geneva. The company has market leading positions in equities research and brokerage, corporate finance advisory and private wealth management. Carnegie’s customers include institutional investors, corporates, financial institutions, private equity firms, governments and high-net-worth individuals.
UBS
UBS AG is a Swiss global financial services company, incorporated in the Canton of Zurich, and co-headquartered in Zürich and Basel. The company provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide, and is generally considered to be a bulge bracket bank. In Switzerland, these services are also offered to retail clients. The name "UBS" was originally an abbreviation for the Union Bank of Switzerland, but it ceased to be a representational abbreviation after the bank's merger with the Swiss Bank Corporation in 1998.