Michael Nagy

GE Asset Management's (GEAM) core investment strategies include US equities, international equities, fixed-income, real estate and private equity. The firm follows a disciplined, fundamental, bottom-up approach to investing in US equities. Their US equity investment approach involves rigorous analyses of financial data, including industry, sector and company information, as well as qualitative assessments of management and their ability to execute business plans. Generally, GEAM invests in companies that are industry leaders with high quality earnings and a history of creating shareholder value. GEAM's international equities approach includes a variety of strategies such as International Equity, Global Equity and Emerging Markets Equity, as well as regional and country specific mandates for Canada, Europe, Euroland, China and India. All strategies are driven by a bottom-up, fundamental research process. GEAM's fixed-income team manages a variety of investment styles and strategies that span the yield curve and credit quality universe. The firm manages a variety of products designed to meet various customer risk/return parameters. GEAM's fixed-income team follows a relative value approach, emphasizing a fundamental, bottom-up process with the objective of enhancing returns while limiting volatility. The firm's International Private Equity team invests in companies domiciled and doing a substantial portion of their business outside of the US. They focus primarily on corporate buyouts and growth-equity investments, but they also selectively consider later-stage venture capital investments. GEAM considers investment opportunities across a broad range of industrial sectors and geographic areas and pursues potential investment opportunities in both developed and emerging markets.

AIA is an actively responsible investor and invests with conviction for the long-term. The firm employs a team-based approach in the management of their investment strategies, which includes both the Portfolio Management Team and the Research Team. Across the firm, the Portfolio Management Team is accountable for making final investment decisions. While the Portfolio Management Team is also ultimately responsible for the asset allocation, portfolio construction and security selection decisions, the Research Team provides valuable insights and heavily influences these decisions.

Henderson Global Investors North America (HGINA) offers their clients access to skilled investment professionals across a broad range of asset classes, focusing on the Henderson Global Investors' core capabilities of global equities, European equities, global fixed income, multi-asset, REITs and diversified alternatives. HGINA is the investment advisor to the HGF Funds. Henderson Investment Management Ltd. (HIML) provides sub-advisory services with respect to the following series of the HGF Funds: Henderson European Focus Fund, Henderson International Opportunities Fund, Henderson Global Equity Income Fund, Henderson Emerging Markets Fund, Henderson Unconstrained Bond Fund, Henderson Dividend & Income Builder Fund, Henderson All Asset Fund, Henderson Global Technology Fund, Henderson Strategic Income Fund and Henderson International Select and International Long/Short Fund. HGINA is the investment sub-advisor to the First Trust Dynamic Europe Fund, an exchange-traded closed-end fund. HIML is the sub-sub-advisor to the fund and is responsible for the investment decision making and security selection for the portfolio, other than for the option overlay strategy. Henderson Global Capital Management (HGCM) provides sub-advisory services with respect to the Henderson US Growth Opportunities Fund, a series of the HGF Funds, and is responsible for selecting securities and investment decision-making with respect to the fund. HGINA applies its own analysis to the Henderson High Yield Opportunities Fund series of the HGF Funds. HGINA is the investment adviser to unregistered pooled investment vehicles and other privately offered vehicles. HGINA engages AlphaGen to provide sub-advisory services to these accounts and vehicles and AlphaGen is responsible for investment decision making. HGINA is the investment advisor to several institutional clients. However, HIML and AlphaGen provide sub-advisory services and are responsible for selecting securities and investment decision making for certain strategies. HGINA is the investment adviser for the US High Yield and Global Commodities strategies. The US High Yield strategy seeks to exploit the inefficiencies of the high yield market through the use of in-depth, fundamental disciplined analysis to identify mispriced securities to construct a high conviction, concentrated portfolio. The Global Commodities strategy aims to generate returns that are equal or higher of that of major global commodity indices with the same or lower volatility over the long-term. The investment team seeks to add value through duration management and roll timing in specific commodity markets. The investment approach is purely quantitative and systematic and does not rely on fundamental factors.

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