01-13-2009, 01:26 PM
The Ricketts are bidding as a family entity (when you take into account their wealth amassed from selling Ameritrade and then Tom's from Incapital), since they have more wealth in aggregate than the other groups without any need to bring in outsiders to strengthen their bid. Could there be minority partners ready to infuse more capital if needed? Sure, but they will be insignificant and I'm not wasting my time trying to find out who they might be. No additional names have been mentioned so far as I can tell anywhere in the press.