BlackRock Health Sciences Trust
NYSE:BMEBlackRock Health Sciences Trust is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by BlackRock, Inc. The fund is managed by BlackRock Advisors, LLC. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating in the health sciences and related sectors, which include businesses involved in researching, developing, producing, distributing or delivering medical, dental, optical, pharmaceutical or biotechnology products, supplies, equipment, or services. It also invests through equity derivatives, with an emphasis on option writing. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Russell 3000 Healthcare Index. BlackRock Health Sciences Trust was formed on March 31, 2005 and is domiciled in the United States.
Glacier Media
TSE:GVCGlacier Media Inc. operates as an information and marketing solutions company in Canada and the United States. It operates through three segments: Environmental and Property Information; Commodity Information; and Community Media. The Environmental and Property Information segment offers environmental risk data and related products to environmental consultants, CRE brokers, financial institutions, and insurance companies; and produces digital audit guides and compliance tools for use in environmental health and safety audits. This segment also provides residential real estate listings and property information. The Commodity Information segment provides digital media, listings, publications, exhibitions, weather, and commodities marketing subscriptions for the Canadian grower and agricultural industry; and databases, conferences, digital media, and e-learning programs for the mining sector. The Community Media segment offers local news, general community information, and classifieds websites; digital marketing services; specialty products and services; licenses community website platform software; publishing newspapers. This segment also provides local news websites, website design, social media management programmatic advertising solutions, content marketing solutions, and brand videos. The company was formerly known as Glacier Ventures International Corp. and changed its name to Glacier Media Inc. in July 2008. Glacier Media Inc. was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Glacier Media Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Madison Venture Corporation.
IAMGOLD
NYSE:IAGIAMGOLD Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as an intermediate gold producer and developer in Canada and Burkina Faso. It owns 100% interest in the Westwood project that covers an area of 1,925 hectare and located in Quebec; a 60% interest in the Côté gold project, which covers an area of 596 square kilometer located in Ontario, Canada; and a 90% interests in the Essakane project that covers an area of 274,000 square kilometer situated in Burkina Faso. IAMGOLD Corporation was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.