Ashok Kumar Bhatia

The firm's portfolio managers, research specialists and traders are organized into teams by asset class. SCM provides several different investment approaches to both its international and domestic equity portfolios. For its capital appreciation equity management, the firm emphasizes current economic environment and secular themes. In particular, long-term economic trends, Federal Reserve policy and market liquidity serve as a macroeconomic backdrop to the overall direction of the markets. For equity stock selection, disciplined, fundamental research with emphasis on the following characteristics are practiced: strong fundamentals, accelerating earnings and sales, accelerating return on equity, expanding market share, low cost producers, quality management and positive earnings surprises. Its bottom-up security analysis emphasizes management, cash flow, earnings growth, balance sheet strength, competitive position, discounted cash flow and relative p/e ratio.

Allspring utilizes proprietary investment allocation systems in conjunction with the securities selection services provided by their portfolio managers to create and maintain actively managed investment portfolios intended to meet the requirements of its clients’ investment needs. The firm offers a variety of equity, multi-asset, and fixed income investment strategies. These investment strategies (collectively) may invest in a wide variety of financial instruments. Allspring employs bottom-up company specific analysis to find securities with under-appreciated prospects.

BAM aims to deliver consistent, uncorrelated absolute returns in all market environments. The firm manages multi-strategy investment funds which maintain a concentrated private equity portfolio. Their investment advisory services reflect a blend of strategies including fundamental long/short equity, macro & rates, systematic trading and event & credit investing. BAM’s long/short equity and equity trading strategies include (but are not limited to) investments and trading in the following market sectors: Energy, Health Care, Financials, Industrials, Information Technology, Consumer Staples and Consumer Discretionary.

Stark & Roth employs a multi-strategy investment approach that focuses on risk management, portfolio construction, asset valuation, securities trading, financial structuring, quantitative modeling and credit, equity and legal analysis. The firm's investment strategies include: (1) commodities (2) credit (3) distressed (4) equity (5) derivatives and convertibles (6) long/short equity (7) event-driven (8) fixed-income (9) macro (10) private investments (11) real estate (12) reinsurance and risk-linked securities (13) risk arbitrage and (14) structured finance.

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Functions as a College/University

NBIA offers investment solutions across asset classes, styles, capitalizations and geographies in both public and private markets, as well as multi-asset class solutions. The firm’s investment teams employ distinct investment processes that incorporate various methods of securities analysis.