Robert John Murphy

Founded in 2002, Alternative Investment Partners LLC is a hedge fund manager located in White Plains, New York. They are a subsidiary of Hatteras Investment Partners LLC. The firm manages the AIP Alternative Strategies Funds, an open-end mutual fund, the Alpha Hedged Strategies Fund and the Beta Hedged Strategies Fund.

Founded in 2009, Hatteras Alternative Mutual Funds LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The firm is a subsidiary of Hatteras Investment Partners LLC and its ultimate parent is RCS Capital Corp. (NYSE: RCAP).

Founded in 1984 by Howard Wohl and Lawrence Simon, Ivy Asset Management LLC is a global fund-of-hedge fund firm located in Jericho, New York with additional offices in New York City and London. They are a subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK), which acquired the firm in October 2000. Ivy Asset Management offers a variety of risk-adjusted, performance-driven multi-manager products ranging from diversified proprietary fund portfolios to customized programs. The firm provides services to global institutional investors including: (1) Fortune 500 companies (2) global banks (3) multi-national insurance corporations (4) global investment banking firms (5) municipality pension plans and monetary authorities (6) Taft-Hartley plans (7) registered investment companies (8) foundations (9) endowments (10) non-profit organizations (11) professional money managers (12) high net-worth individuals and (13) private family offices.

Founded in 1996, Meridian Capital Partners, Inc. is a hedge fund manager located in Albany, New York. The firm is affiliated with Meridian Diversified Fund Management LLC and Meridian Diversified Fund LLC, both SEC-registered investment advisors.

A.G. Edwards, Inc. operate as a securities broker-dealer in the United States. It provides investment products and financial services including annuities, bonds, futures & commodities, mutual funds, banking and business services, education funding, and retirement planning. The company was founded by Albert Gallatin Edwards in 1887 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

Altegris Advisors LLC (Altegris) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and holding firm headquartered in La Jolla, California. The firm was founded in 2010 by Matthew Osborne and James Waldinger. Altegris serves as the investment adviser to the following categories of Fund clients: (i) Mutual and Closed-End Funds, and their respective subsidiaries, as applicable; and (ii) Private Funds.