Vijay Chopra

Lebenthal Asset Management's (LAM) equity strategy focuses on a broad range of equity investment styles including growth, core, and value, as well as portfolios designed to be style-neutral. Some client accounts focus on specific ranges on the capitalization scale, from micro-cap through mega-cap. Others focus on investment opportunities in more than one capitalization category or across all capitalization levels. In addition, LAM manages client accounts that are global, multi-national, or focused on particular geographic regions or specific countries. LAM engages in a buy and hold investment strategy in which they buy securities and hold them for a relatively longer period of time, regardless of short-term factors such as market fluctuations or volatile stock prices. They employ a fundamental value strategy that seeks to invest in asset-oriented securities believed to be undervalued by the market. The firm engages in a global macro investing strategy that attempts to anticipate global macroeconomic events using discretionary selection, pre-determined mathematical trading models or a combination of both. LAM's capital growth investment strategy seeks to invest in securities of companies whose earnings are expected to grow at an above-average rate as compared to their specific industry or the overall market. LAM utilizes a variety of financial instruments such as derivatives, options, interest rate swaps, caps and floors, ETFs, futures and forward contracts for risk management purposes. They occasionally employ the use of leverage. The firm engages in various option trading investment strategies including writing covered calls, buying calls and buying naked puts. LAM also engages in short selling strategies as a form of hedging to offset potential declines in long positions in similar securities, to maintain flexibility and for profit.

Mesirow Financial invests in companies located in North America and Western Europe. The firm focuses on a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides financing for later stage, buyout, growth and secondary transactions. The firm makes co-investments.

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Frank Russell Co. (FRC) invests in the public equity, fixed-income and real estate markets on a global basis. They invest in the growth and value stocks of large-, mid-and small-cap companies. FRC does not generally research or recommend specific portfolio securities. Rather, they research investment managers for different classes of assets and investment styles. The firm generates research and models for managing large pools of assets. In addition, they review, evaluate and utilize similar research developed by other professional organizations and by the academic community. Much of their research focuses on the process, organization, portfolio structure and performance of investment managers, using both qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate and select investment managers. FRC exercises investment discretion over the portion of each of their funds' assets not allocated to the investment managers. They select the individual securities for that portion of each fund's assets and for each fund's cash reserves. Cash reserves are invested in short-term investments, including appropriate money market funds. In addition to investing in such short-term investments, FRC uses a hedging strategy for the fund's cash reserves to ensure a fund is fully invested by exposing these reserves to the appropriate markets by purchasing equity or fixed-income securities and/or derivatives.

DCM Advisors uses a variety of methods and strategies to make investment decisions and recommendations. Their methods of analysis include fundamental research, charting analysis, technical analysis, and cyclical analysis, as well as the use of quantitative tools and investment approaches.