Peter Gillespie

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.

Newgate Capital Management's emerging markets portfolio seeks long-term growth of capital through investments in companies operating in emerging markets or whose shares are listed on the stock markets of such countries. The firm uses a top-down global approach to sector and industry allocation, combined with a bottom-up style of stock selection. The investment process begins with a top-down, global economic assessment to identify undervalued natural resources and commodity related sectors. Newgate uses fundamental analysis to evaluate the impact of current geopolitical and macroeconomic factors on natural resource companies worldwide. Newgate's Global Resources Portfolio seeks long-term growth of capital plus protection against inflation and monetary instability by investing in high quality companies involved in the mining, processing and transportation of natural resources of any kind. This strategy employs a top-down global economic assessment of sector and industry allocation, combined with a bottom-up style of stock selection. Newgate uses fundamental analysis to evaluate the impact of current geopolitical and macroeconomic factors on natural resource companies worldwide. Newgate uses both quantitative and fundamental analyses for security selection. A bottom-up approach focuses on a combination of relative valuation analysis and strategic business evaluation. In addition to attractive price levels, Newgate focuses on large and medium capitalization companies with dominant market share, a high degree of financial transparency and good corporate governance. The Global Fixed Income Portfolio invests in government and corporate debt on a global basis. Newgate uses a three-step discipline to identify and invest in taxable Closed-End Funds. The first is the use of top-down asset allocation which determines investment commitment and cash reserves. Then they apply a strategic fund evaluation that identifies the best performing funds and acquires the best values. Newgate's investment strategy is primarily implemented through the shares of closed-end funds (CEFs), US and foreign ETFs, open-ended mutual fund and individual issues. For global fixed-income, they invest in undervalued debt securities.

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Sintra Capital 's method of analysis and investment strategies for its investment advisory services with respect to emerging market investing is to seek long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in equity and debt securities of companies based in Asia, Latin America, and other global markets. The firm looks to invest in companies with an expectation that their equity price will increase in value.

LAM offers products across a broad spectrum of asset classes, designed for different client types. The firm’s traditional and alternative investment services cover listed equity and fixed income investments in a wide range of global, regional and country specific strategies. Risk management is integral to their portfolio construction. They rely heavily on fundamental, bottom-up investment research.