Dave Hays

RCM Capital Management offers investment strategies that cover all market-caps and investment styles. The firm offers investment products that vary widely from regional and global strategies to multi-asset and structured products. They have particular expertise in: (1) regional/country equity strategies (2) global equity strategies (3) emerging markets equity strategies (4) thematic and sector strategies (5) alpha extension strategies (6) multi-asset absolute return strategies and (7) structured products. RCM's investment philosophy is based on proprietary sector-based fundamental research. Though not limited by sector, RCM tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the electronic technology, technology services and health technology sectors. The firm invests globally, across all market-caps. RCM maintains a medium turnover rate.

Caywood-Scholl Capital Management (CSCM) specializes in the management of high yield bonds. The firm's investment approach is based on the belief that superior risk-adjusted performance in the high yield market is best achieved by protecting against the downside. Portfolios are weighted with upper-tier high yield securities to control default risk and ensure that the premium yields available in the high yield market accrue to their clients benefit. Holdings of high-quality high yield issues are selectively augmented with more volatile credits that the firm believes are significantly mispriced. CSCM's investment research process begins with a macroeconomic analysis to identify favorable industries. The firm ten performs detailed credit research on individual issues within those industries to identify companies that offer the most compelling risk/return tradeoff. CSCM's proprietary Credit Scoring Model is used to identify relative value opportunities within industries and across rating categories. Credits held in clients' portfolios are continuously monitored to ensure that the rationale for owning them is still valid. CSCM will sell a security is (1) an industry's outlook deteriorates (2) a company's results underperform the firm's projections (3) there is an unexplained or fundamental reason for an extreme drop in the company's stock and/or (4) price appreciation occurs and the funds are redeployed elsewhere.

Provides investment advice

WestLB Mellon uses an active management style utilizing multiple sources of value added and stringent risk controls to generate investment returns in accordance with the client's stated investment objectives and guidelines. They use primarily a top-down approach in their decision-making process, though issue selection is bottom-up. Data is gathered from a variety of independent sources and analyzed and modeled using a proprietary system. The firm utilizes quantitative and fundamental data as inputs to their process. Specific factors are evaluated by small groups of portfolio managers and decisions are made. The output from this process is relative return forecasts for interest rates and bond market sectors. WestLB Mellon applies risk management disciplines and constructs model portfolios.

Functions as a College/University

Functions as a College/University

Princeton Advisory Group serving as the collateral manager for a number of special purpose vehicles (SPVs) that facilitate structured finance transactions. These SPVs are often largely invested in asset-backed securities whose value and payments are derived from a portfolio of fixed income securities. The firm also advises pooled investment vehicles that invest a significant portion of their assets in fixed-income or floating-rate securities and/or CDO-type entities. On behalf of their clients, the firm participates in secured loans created by acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, focusing on companies in the upper tier of the leveraged loan market and their respective industries. On behalf of their clients, they participate selectively in dividend recapitalizations. Princeton Advisory Group targets generating higher returns with less volatility, higher security and above average recovery rates. They are biased toward hard asset coverage and have experience in multiple valuation analysis.