John H. Tobin

BNYMIA’s investment approach is a team approach where portfolio managers and the research team share information to form a disciplined and consistent strategy that meets the client’s diversification, credit quality, liquidity and average weighted maturity requirements. The firm’s credit research function is fully independent from portfolio management and their dedicated research team employs a deliberately conservative policy, when evaluating individual credits, to help support portfolio credit quality and stability.

JPMIM seeks to generate positive excess return through both a bottom-up approach emphasizing security selection and a top-down approach focusing on macro investment themes and trends to aid in determining sector weightings, currency, and yield curve weighting where appropriate. The firm offers a broad range of US, non-US and global investment management products and provides different strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes including equity, fixed-income, cash liquidity, currency, real estate, hedge funds and private equity.

BNY Mellon is a global investment management firm that offers access to global hedge funds, active currency risk management, US large-cap equity strategies and index product providers. The firm provides services through various independent investment management firms, distribution units and service providers. Their investment process begins with top-down analysis to identify the sectors they believe will outperform the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 indices over the next 12 to 18 months. BNY Mellon invests in stocks across all market caps, focusing on market trends and themes that will lead to above-average earnings momentum and growth. They also manage indexed portfolios that use the S&P 400, S&P 500 and S&P 600 indices as their benchmarks. BNY Mellon employs bottom-up research.

SSgA FM utilizes several methods of investment analysis across a wide array of investment strategies when formulating investment advice or managing assets. The firm does not rely on one type of investment analysis over another and does not recommend one particular type of security. They seek to utilize the most prudent methods of investment analysis based upon certain characteristics of the investment strategy and the current market conditions, as applicable.

Functions as a College/University

Functions as a College/University