Yang Lu

PIMCO employs a broad range of portfolio management tools that seek to appropriately manage risk, hedge exposures, and seek returns consistent with client guidelines. They have considerable experience in many global investment strategies, including fixed income and equity strategies. The firm also offers alternative strategies, mainly through private investment vehicles like private equity and hedge funds. PIMCO combines top-down macroeconomic forecasting with rigorous bottom-up credit analysis in their investment process.

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Hutchin Hill Capital employs a systematic, process-driven approach to investing in an array of highly-liquid asset classes and markets. Their investment approach includes both quantitative and fundamental strategies. Hutchin Hill Capital generally allocates capital across a broad and diverse array of strategic opportunities. The firm's Core strategies include Global Equities, Fundamental Long/Short Credit, Global Macro and, Systematic & Quantitative. They also offer a strategy that includes a custom convexity hedging program for the overall Diversified Alpha Master Fund that seeks to serve as a defense against major market dislocations, tail events and other risks not hedged within each of the four Core strategies. Hutchin Hill focuses on strategies that purchase and sell liquidly-traded instruments for which there is a generally active market (although the Diversified Alpha Master Fund may trade in illiquid instruments or markets that are not generally active). The firm purchases and sells a broad array of instruments within their strategies across a variety of asset classes using cash instruments and over-the counter derivatives and including equities, fixed income/interest rates, corporate credit, currencies, and other instruments. Equity investments may include common stock and listed options on US and non-US corporations, and equity equivalent instruments such as total return swaps, CFDs and various futures and options. Interest rate investments may include US treasuries and other government bonds and bond futures and options, interest rate swaps, swaptions, and deposit rate futures and options. Corporate credit investments may cash bonds, credit default swaps referencing single issuers, and credit default swaps related to credit indices (such as the CDX and iTraxx) and other fixed income securities. Currency transactions may include currency spot and forward transactions, NDFs, futures and options. The firm also invests in commodity futures, options, and swaps; and other instruments, including ETFs and derivatives, such as variance swaps and volatility swaps.