DJ Patwardhan

Ivory Investment Management's core funds consist of their Flagship Strategy and their Optimal Strategy. They also manage a Long-Only Strategy and the Ivory Select Opportunity Fund. The firm uses utilizes a range of investments including equities and convertibles; cash equivalents, including short-term corporate or government obligations and money market instruments; market or sector indices; debt securities and instruments of US and non-US government and corporate issuers including distressed and high-yield securities; options; futures; warrants; swaps; index derivatives; when-issued securities; private placements; partnership/LLC interests; trade claims; and structured security products. The Ivory Flagship Strategy seeks to deliver attractive, risk-adjusted absolute returns with low correlation to market indices. It takes long and short positions in equity securities of publicly traded companies and may also invest in debt securities and other liquid instruments. The Ivory Optimal Strategy employs the same proprietary, bottom-up, value-based investment approach as the Flagship Strategy and invests in the same universe of companies. The strategy seeks to maintain 1.5x the position sizing of positions held by the Flagship Strategy. The Long Strategy takes long positions primarily in equity securities of publicly traded companies. It may also invest in debt securities and derivative instruments. It may have higher individual position concentration and maintain fewer total positions than the Flagship Strategy due to the Flagship’s mandate to hedge long exposure with short positions. The Select Opportunity Fund's core portfolio consists of a diverse group of long and short positions based on a proprietary set of systematic screens and analyses, as well as select concentrated positions based on in-depth fundamental analysis The fund invests in the same universe of companies and related firms as the Flagship Strategy.

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Hawk Ridge generally pursues a value-oriented strategy. The firm seeks to achieve equity like investment returns while taking on significantly less market risk than the broad market indices through long and short investments in publicly traded equity securities primarily in the US and other developed markets. They seek to achieve their objectives through thoughtful, in-depth due diligence and bottom-up, fundamental analysis of investments, including both quantitative valuation analysis and significant qualitative due diligence.