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The

Working Capital

Directory

The Federal Reserve Bank

 

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

The Fifth District Federal Reserve Bank contributes to the formulation of national monetary policy, gathers and analyzes regional economic data, and regulates financial institutions headquartered in the region. The Bank also processes currency, checks and electronic payments for banks, and provides financial services to the U.S. Treasury.

 

 

National and Regional Banks

 

Bank of America

Charlotte-based Bank of America, the nation’s largest consumer bank, maintains a major corporate presence in the Richmond region, including a major mortgage loan office.

 

BB&T Corp.

In addition to its securities and insurance operations, BB&T maintains its Central Virginia regional operations in Richmond.

 

SunTrust Bank Mid-Atlantic

Atlanta-based SunTrust, one of the largest commercial banking organizations in the country, maintains its Mid-Atlantic Group in Richmond.

 

Wachovia/Wells Fargo
In fourth quarter of 2008, Wells Fargo purchased Wachovia to create one of the country's largest banks and a presence nationwide. In addition to major retail banking operations in the area, Wachovia's regional offices for the bank's fixed income, risk management and legal divisions are located here.

 

 

Brokerage Firms and Financial Advisors

    

(This list does not include brokerage firms that maintain a purely retail presence in the Richmond region.)

 

Anderson & Strudwick

Richmond-based Anderson & Strudwick, founded in 1948, is an independent, employee-owned stock brokerage. The firm employs more than 100 people at nine Virginia locations.

 

Barrett Capital Management

Barrett Capital Management, LLC, based in Midlothian, provides asset management and investment advisory services to the high net worth investment community. 

 

Davenport

Richmond-based Davenport & Company LLC is the largest independent stock brokerage firm headquartered in Virginia. A full-service firm, Davenport offers a complete range of investment services.

 

Edelman Financial

In 2008 Fairfax, Va.-based Edelman Financial opened an operations center in Richmond.

 

JoycePayne Partners

JoycePayne Partners provides total wealth management services on a fee-only basis to private clients.

 

Pinnacle Group

The Pinnacle Group, an independent investment advisory firm affiliated with Raymond James, is based in Chesterfield County.

 

RBC Wealth Management

RBC Wealth management, a full-service brokerage firm based in Minneapolis, maintains a large presence in Richmond built around the old Branch Cabell brokerage firm.

 

Richmond Capital Management

An independently owned fixed income advisor serving clients nationally.

 

Riverfront Investment Group

An independent, employee-owned investment advisor, Riverfront Investment Group, LLC, provides asset management and investment advice to broker-dealers.

 

Scott & Stringfellow

Scott & Stringfellow, a subsidiary of BB&T, is a full-service regional brokerage firm employing approximately 550 associates in more than 40 locations throughout Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.  

 

 

Insurance

 

Anthem

Anthem, a Richmond subsidiary of Indianapolis-based Wellpoint, provides health insurance, managed health care and benefits management services.

 

Bankers Insurance

Bankers Insurance is a consortium of community banks that has acquired insurance agencies for the purpose of providing insurance products to their community bank customers. 

 

Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group

The Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group, headquartered in Richmond serves the Mid-Atlantic states with commercial insurance and risk management services.

 

Creative Insurance Concepts Inc.

Provides a range of commercial and personal risk management services.

 

Genworth Financial

Genworth, a Fortune 500 company based in Richmond, offers a wide range of financial products including life insurance, long term care insurance, annuities, investment services (mutual funds), mortgage insurance and employee benefits (retirement plans).

 

Gilbert-Krupin

Beverly Hills, Calif., an insurance and estate-planning firm, maintains Richmond office to serve more than 1,000 East Coast firms.

 

Heritage Union

Heritage Union, LLC, is a holding company that governs Arizona-based Heritage Union Life Insurance Company and Heritage Union Services LLC, a life and health insurance agency.

 

James River Insurance Company

James River Insurance, part of the Franklin Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. group of companies, provides excess and surplus lines of insurance.

 

Markel Corporation

Markel Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company based in Henrico County, markets and underwrites specialty insurance products and programs to a broad variety of niche markets.

 

Max Specialty Insurance Company

Richmond-based Max Specialty Insurance Company, an excess and surplus commercial lines insurer, is a subsidiary of Bermuda-based Max Capital Group.

 

Schaffer Companies

Insurance claims adjustment.

Southern Health Services

Southern Health, including Coventry Health Care, provides managed health care services to more than 160,000 members throughout Virginia.

Straus, Itzkowitz, & LeCompte
Straus, Itzkowitz, and LeCompte Insurance Agency focuses on property & casualty and employee benefits. Supporting Central Virginia, SIL has provided risk management services since 1868 and they service what they sell.

 

 

Investment Banking

 

Alpha Omega Capital Partners

Alpha Omega is an independent, privately held investment banking firm that serves companies primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region.

 

Baxter Fentriss and Company

Baxter Fentriss is a boutique investment banking firm that has built a national specialty in serving small and midsized financial services firms.

 

Boxwood Partners

Boxwood Partners, of Richmond, concentrates on M&A advisory in the middle market. Its private equity group, Boxwood Capital Partners, focuses on business services, media and the internet marketing/distribution companies.

 

Cary Street Partners

Cary Street Partners, of Richmond, is an integrated investment banking and wealth management firm that provides strategic advisory, merger & acquisition, and capital-raising services.

 

Ewing Bemiss & Co.

Ewing Bemiss is an independent, privately-held investment banking firm based in Richmond. It serves national markets, specializing in Energy, Healthcare and Business & Technology Services.

 

Harbert Venture Partners

Harbert Venture Partners, a subsidiary of Birmingham, Ala.-based Harbert Capital Management, is based in Richmond.

 

Harris Williams & Co.

Harris Williams & Co., the leading investment banker in the Richmond region, serves middle-market clients across a broad spectrum of industries.

 

John B. Levy & Company

John B. Levy & Company, real estate investment-banking firm, arranges and structures capital for sophisticated commercial real estate ventures.

 

Matrix Capital Markets Group

Matrix Capital is an investment bank that provides Merger and Acquisition (M&A) advisory services to middle market companies nationwide and internationally.

 

Seare Marriott &. Co.

Seare Marriott & Co. provides investment banking services to middle-market companies with valuations between $50 million and $250 million.

 

Transact Capital Partners, Inc.

Transact specializes in business sales and acquisitions, serving small to middle-market private companies with enterprise values of $2-$20 million.

 

Windward Advisors LLC

Windward provides merger & acquisition and corporate growth advisory services to privately held companies with revenues in the $2 million to $25 million range.

 

 

Funds and Money Managers

 

Caprin Asset Management

Caprin Asset Management, based in Henrico County, specializes in the management of fixed income portfolios.

 

Closed-End Fund Advisors, Inc.

CEF Advisors, an investment advisory firm headquartered in Richmond, specializes closed-end fund data, research and managed portfolios for individual and institutional clients..

 

Private Advisors LLC

Private Advisors, LLC, based in Richmond, provides investment advisory services to institutions and high net worth families. The company managers more than $1 billion in alternative investment strategies.

 

Tattersall Advisory Group

The Tattersall Advisory Group, a subsidiary of Wachovia, is an investment advisory firm specializing in the management of fixed income and specialty, closed end fund portfolios.

 

TFS Capital

TFS Capital LLC provides portfolio management services to investment funds and manages two mutual funds as well as several small private investment funds

 

Thompson Siegel Walmsley

TSW, a Richmond-based investment advisor, serves institutional clients and high net-worth individuals.

 

Virginia Retirement System

The Virginia Retirement System administers benefits for over 500,000 of Virginia's current and retired public employees.

 

 

Venture and Equity Funds

Colonnade Capital LLC

Private investment firm.

 

Jefferson Capital Partners LLC

Jefferson Capital Partners, Ltd., located in Richmond, is a private equity firm seeking to invest in growth financings, management buyouts, and recapitalizations of well managed, rapidly growing companies.

 

Renaissance Ventures

Renaissance Ventures, based in Richmond, invests primarily in micro- to small-cap public companies that are orphaned from Wall Street.

 

Virginia Capital Partners

Virginia Capital, a $50-million private equity firm based in Richmond, Virginia, invests in well-managed companies with outstanding growth prospects.

 

Westham Capital Partners

Westham Capital uncovers "unusually attractive platform and add-on investments" for a select group of funds managed by the firm and for its principals' co-investment.

 

 

 

Specialty Finance

 

Capital One Financial Corp

Capital One Financial Corporation, Fortune 500 company headquartered in McLean, maintains major operations in Richmond. The company, one of the largest marketers of MasterCard and Visa credit cards in the world, also provide auto loans, mortgage loans and other categories of consumer finance.

 

Capital Source

Capital Source specializes in small business lending, typically through term loans, lines of credit, contract financing and commercial mortgages.

 

Charter One Mortgage Corp

CCO Mortgage Corp., based in Glen Allen, is the mortgage banking subsidiary of Charter One Bank, N.A., a part of the Citizens Financial Group family of companies. As one of the nation’s largest full-service mortgage providers, CCO Mortgage operates in more than 500 offices in 19 states.

 

Dynex Capital

Dynex Capital, Inc., invests in loans and securities backed by single-family and commercial mortgage loans, manufactured housing installment loans and delinquent property tax receivables.

 

Educational Credit Management Corporation

The Educational Credit Management Corporation provides financial services to services to students, schools and lenders participating in the Federal Family Educational Loan Program.

 

Stone and Youngberg

Stone and Youngberg, a San Francisco specialist in tax-district financing, runs its East Coast operations out of Richmond.

 

Virginia Credit Union

Owned solely by its members, the not-for-profit Virginia Credit Union offers checking and savings accounts, automated services, loans and mortgages, credit cards, various insurance and asset protection products and investment services.

 

 

Suppliers and Vendors


Precision IR Group

Precision IR provides video-conferencing and other communications solutions to brokerage firms, investment firms and corporations.

 

Thompson, Davis & Co.

TD & Co., an independent investment research company, provides unbiased, original research and services to institutional and retail investors.

 

 

Community Banks

 

Bank of Powhatan

Community bank based in Powhatan County.

 

First Bank of Richmond

 

Bank of Virginia

Community bank based in Midlothian.

 

Bank of Goochland, NA

Community bank based in Goochland

 

Central Virginia Bank

Community bank based in Powhatan.

 

Community Banker’s Bank

Community bank based in Midlothian.

 

Consolidated Bank & Trust

Community bank based in Richmond.

EVB (Eastern Virginia Bankshares)
Community-based bank.

First Capital Bank

Community bank based in Glen Allen.

 

Peoples Bank of Virginia

Community bank based in Henrico County.

 

River City Bank

Community bank based in Mechanicsville.

Union First Market Bank

Union First Market Bank is part of Union First Market Bankshares Coporation (UBSH).

Village Bank

Community bank based in Midlothian

 

Virginia Business Bank

Community bank based in Richmond.

 

 

 

Business Education

 

Virginia Commonwealth University

The VCU School of Business offers degree programs in accounting, business administration and management, economics, finance, human resource management/industrial relations, information systems, marketing, and real estate and urban land development. The Classic MBA has a flexible curriculum; most classes are held in the evenings to accommodate working students’ schedules.

 

The University of Richmond

The Robins School of Business offers a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting, finance, economics, marketing or management systems and an optional concentration in international business. The MBA degree through two programs: an evening program and a Juris Doctor/MBA program offered jointly with the T.C. Williams School of Law.

 

Virginia State University

The Sydney Lewis School of Business Administration offers BS degree programs with majors in accounting, finance and business economics, human resources management, management information systems, marketing/retail, office administration, and business education.  

 

Randolph-Macon College

Randolph-Macon College offers undergraduate degree programs in economics, economics and business, and accounting.

 

J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College

The School of Information Systems, Business & Public Safety (ISBPS) offers career-oriented programs in small business entrepreneurship, e-commerce, real estate, information technology and wholesale distribution.

 

John Tyler Community College

The business administration school offers AAS degree and certificate programs in a wide variety of occupational and technical fields including accounting, business management, and information systems technology.

 

Private for-profit career schools also offer classes and degree programs in business and computer subjects.