William D. Sandow

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.

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.

Oppenheimer manages separate US small-, mid- and large-cap and value equity portfolios and separate non-US international and global equity portfolios. The firm also offers an array of separately managed institutional investment products. Their proprietary research approaches designed to deliver alpha to client portfolios. Oppenheimer's value strategies are designed to generate alpha through research insights that identify securities trading at a discount to intrinsic value. Their value strategy platform contains several equity strategies managed for long-term appreciation over a full market cycle. Their value strategies include large-cap value, mid-cap value, small-cap value, all cap value and balanced value. Oppenheimer's core strategies incorporate a value-oriented investment approach that emphasizes strong management and franchise quality when analyzing companies and identifying attractive investment opportunities. Their core strategy platform is managed for long-term appreciation over a full market cycle and includes large-cap focus, strategic equity, small-cap core and all cap equity. Oppenheimer's growth strategies employ a bottom-up fundamental research approach. The goal is to identify growing businesses through proprietary fundamental research, bearing in mind a long-term investment horizon. They believe this is the best way to identify differentiated insights about a stock's earnings potential and ultimately generate strong returns. Their growth strategies include large-cap growth, mid-cap growth, small-cap growth and 130/30 S/M growth. The firm's global strategies include core and value-oriented investment approaches that emphasize strong management and franchise quality when analyzing companies and identifying attractive investment opportunities. Their global strategy platform is managed for long-term appreciation over a full market cycle and includes international equity and global equity. Oppenheimer's fixed-income strategies incorporate a multi-sector approach investing in U.S. government, agency and corporate bonds. Their fixed-income strategies seek long-term outperformance of client specific benchmarks over a full market cycle. These strategies include fixed-income core, fixed-income core plus, fixed-income intermediate and fixed-income government/corporate. Oppenheimer also offers structured alpha strategies that integrate their proprietary index options approach with underlying fixed income, passive equity or active equity portfolios. The strategies are designed to achieve absolute-return, alpha-enhancement and beta-hedging. One of the key benefits of this approach is the consistently low correlation of the alpha source to the underlying portfolio. These strategies include structured alpha and enhanced index.

RCM Capital Management offers investment strategies that cover all market-caps and investment styles. The firm offers investment products that vary widely from regional and global strategies to multi-asset and structured products. They have particular expertise in: (1) regional/country equity strategies (2) global equity strategies (3) emerging markets equity strategies (4) thematic and sector strategies (5) alpha extension strategies (6) multi-asset absolute return strategies and (7) structured products. RCM's investment philosophy is based on proprietary sector-based fundamental research. Though not limited by sector, RCM tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the electronic technology, technology services and health technology sectors. The firm invests globally, across all market-caps. RCM maintains a medium turnover rate.

Exis Capital Management uses quantitative strategies to manage a multi-strategy hedge fund. The firm focuses on a variety of sectors, including but not limited to, industrial services, health technology, electronic technology, producer manufacturing and non-energy minerals, as well as high yield and distressed debt. Exis Capital Management invests long/short primarily in the stocks of US mid-cap and large-cap stocks. The firm maintains a very high turnover rate.

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.

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