Denise Pearman

RiverSource Investments combines macroeconomic, geopolitical analysis with fundamental research to identify the most promising investment opportunities across global regions, markets, sectors and stocks. Stocks are selected based on their ability to outperform in the context of the firm's economic outlook. Stocks are sold when there is a change in their fundamental characteristics and when they are no longer expected to outperform in the existing economic climate. All of RiverSource's strategies incorporate the use of both top-down and bottom-up analysis. The firm's equity strategies include: the RiverSource Contrarian 120/20 Strategy, the RiverSource Dividend Opportunity Strategy, the RiverSource Mid-Cap Growth Strategy, the RiverSource Mid-Cap Value Strategy, the RiverSource Opportunity Value Strategy, the RiverSource Value Strategy and the Seligman Small-Cap Value Strategy. Though not limited by sector, RiverSource tends to invest in the stocks of mid-cap and large-cap companies in the finance, electronic technology, technology services and health technology sectors. The firm maintains a low turnover rate. The RiverSource Contrarian 120/20 strategy's structure allows for focus on opportunities without style confinement. It is a short portfolio that seeks to achieve efficient risk management and increased informational efficiency through investments in ETFs and index/basket securities combined with a long portfolio that seeks to generate total return. The RiverSource Dividend Opportunity strategy employs a disciplined contrarian approach that employs collaborative analysis that incorporates intrinsic value and behavioral insights with disciplined risk management. The strategy seeks to provide competitive performance over the long-term. The RiverSource Mid-Cap Growth strategy seeks to achieve competitive risk-adjusted returns over full market cycles through investments in high-quality growth companies with solid fundamental strengths including proven management teams, sustainable franchises, earnings improvement, sufficient free cash flow and reasonable valuations. The RiverSource Mid-Cap Value strategy employs a disciplined contrarian approach that employs collaborative analysis that incorporates intrinsic value and behavioral insights and disciplined risk management. The strategy seeks to provide competitive performance over the long-term. The RiverSource Opportunity Value strategy employs a disciplined contrarian investment approach that focuses on investments in the stocks of large-cap companies. The strategy is based on a disciplined contrarian approach that employs collaborative analysis which incorporates intrinsic value and behavioral insights and disciplined risk management. The strategy seeks to provide competitive performance over the long-term. The RiverSource Value strategy employs a disciplined large-cap value contrarian investment approach that is based on collaborative analysis which incorporates intrinsic value and behavioral insights and disciplined risk management. The strategy seeks to provide competitive performance over the long-term. The Seligman Small-Cap Value strategy seeks to generate competitive returns over a 3 to 5 year time horizon through investments in undervalued companies with improving fundamentals and market-caps of $3 billion or less. RiverSources' fixed-income strategies include: the RiverSource Bank Loan Strategy, the RiverSource Core Fixed-Income Aggregate Strategy, the RiverSource Core Plus Fixed-Income Aggregate Strategy, the RiverSource Currency Alpha Absolute Return Strategy, the RiverSource Global Aggregate Fixed-Income Strategy, the RiverSource Global Government Fixed-Income Strategy, the RiverSource Global Inflation Protected Securities Strategy, the Institutional High Yield Fixed-Income Strategy, the RiverSource Investment Grade Corporate Fixed-Income Strategy and the RiverSource US Inflation Protected Securities Strategy. The RiverSource Bank Loan strategy invests in a broadly diversified portfolio that seeks to maximize returns and minimize default risk over the long-run. The RiverSource Core Fixed-Income Aggregate strategy seeks to produce consistent excess returns over a client's benchmark within a risk-managed framework that is consistent with the client's objectives. The RiverSource Core Plus Fixed-Income Aggregate strategy seeks to produce excess returns over a client's benchmark within a risk-managed framework that is consistent with the client's objectives through investments that include high yield, non-dollar and emerging markets opportunities. The RiverSource Currency Alpha Absolute Return strategy seeks to achieve positive absolute returns in excess of the return on cash, with a low correlation to traditional asset classes. The RiverSource Global Aggregate Fixed-Income strategy seeks to generate alpha in a risk-controlled framework by focusing on multiple and uncorrelated sources of active risk. The RiverSource Global Government Fixed-Income strategy seeks to generate alpha in a risk-controlled framework by focusing on multiple and uncorrelated sources of active risk, through investments that focus on global government and government-related securities. The RiverSource Global Inflation Protected Securities strategy seeks to provide positive risk-adjusted returns relative to the benchmark by focusing on duration management, yield curve and country selection across global markets. RiverSource's Institutional High Yield Fixed-Income strategy seeks strong and consistent risk-adjusted returns with a focus on generating alpha and actively managing downside risk. The RiverSource Investment Grade Corporate Fixed-Income strategy seeks credit opportunities in the investment grade corporate bond market that can be exploited to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns. The strategy focuses on investments in securities with solid fundamental credit, a reasonable time horizon and the ability to withstand short-term volatility. The RiverSource US Inflation Protected Securities strategy seeks to provide positive risk-adjusted returns relative to the benchmark by focusing on duration management, yield curve and security selection in domestic markets.

Loomis Sayles bases their overall investment approach on the premise that their disciplined, research-based investment strategies can identify market inefficiencies that can lead to consistent outperformance of benchmarks. The firm's fixed-income research team seeks to identify attractive securities and assign ratings to various issues. Their equity investment approach is based on their belief that equity markets are inefficient. Loomis Sayles employs an intensive bottom-up investment analysis with the goal of delivering superior risk adjusted performance.

Munder Capital Management offers a variety of investment disciplines including large-, mid-, and small-cap growth, small-cap value, international equity and taxable and municipal fixed income. Generally, securities are identified for equity accounts through a variety of fundamental factors such as earnings growth, capital efficiency and valuations. More subjective factors are often considered, such as the quality of the business model, competitive profile and quality of management. Technical factors are also often utilized, such as a company’s relative valuation, momentum and market sentiment. Portfolio construction is monitored and managed through risk controls such as overall tracking effort relative to the portfolio’s benchmark and maintaining discipline on targeted sector exposure, position size and capitalization. Fixed income strategies begin with a view of the economic fundamentals, which may be influenced by the Federal Reserve Bank’s policy intentions, inflation intentions and growth expectations and then key risks are identified, such as regulatory risks, merger and activity risks, and sovereign or contagion risks. These views lead to decisions on how to position a portfolio on the yield curve, opportunistic sector allocations to take advantage of any price discrepancies and, ultimately, security selection. Securities are generally selected by identifying securities with a low probability of a negative credit event, using a proprietary financial ratio model to identify purchase and sale candidates, and searching the market for individual pricing inefficiencies.

Turner Investment Partners (TIP) provides investment management and distribution services. The firm's investment strategies include: US growth equity, international/global growth equity, long/short equity, 130/30 equity, core/value equity and quantitative equity. TIP invests in growth and value stocks of all market-caps and in bonds of various maturity averages. The firm applies uniform investment processes to all their stock and bond portfolios and mutual funds. Their investment process maintains a strong sector focus. They employ a three-step investment process begins with a proprietary model that uses over 70 factors to screen securities. An analysis that is updated monthly determines which factors can predict strong earnings and growth in each sector. Only those securities that are identified in the top third of their asset class in each sector are targeted for potential purchase. TIP then performs thorough fundamental analysis on potential companies. TIP track a company's money flow and strength relative to its peers and its overall sector. When the fundamentals are strong, the firm uses technical analysis to identify the best time to buy a security. For those products closely tied to a specific benchmark, Turner maintains sector weightings totally in line with the benchmark. A security may be sold if: (1) earnings are lower than expected (2) fundamentals deteriorate and/or (3) if better investment opportunities are identified.

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Janus Henderson Japan is an active, growth oriented investment manager which focuses on long-term capital appreciation. They follow a diversified investment approach, investing across asset classes, geographies, client types, products and investment capabilities. They have specialist expertise in Japanese equity. The firm follows a top-down investment approach based on fundamental analysis, seeking to invest in equity, government and corporate bonds, money market instruments, real estate, private equity and alternative investments. Investment decisions are based on an analysis of the impact of macroeconomics on the stock market. Stock selection criteria include earnings growth and valuation. Janus Henderson Japan's in-house research includes company visits and is supplemented with regularly performed research. Research teams focus on markets, sectors and investment themes.