Christopher M. Testa

MIMBT maintains a flexible strategy designed to conform with various clients’ individual investment objectives. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, debt, and balanced portfolios. They invest in the public equity and debt markets of the US, non-US, and other emerging economies. MIMBT seeks growth-oriented value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap companies. The firm selects countries by utilizing a top-down approach and selects stocks using fundamental analysis with a bottom-up approach.

GSMALP offers a wide array of investment strategies that span asset classes, industries, and geographies. The firm's products and services across a full range of asset classes including fixed income, money markets, public and private equity, commodities, hedge funds, and real estate. Clients access these solutions through GSAM's proprietary strategies, strategic partnerships, and open architecture programs.

Drake specializes in active global fixed-income strategies. They manage both benchmarked and absolute return oriented portfolios. Absolute return offerings include a multi-sector, primarily fixed-income oriented strategy; a global macro, opportunistic fund; and a short maturity, carry oriented strategy. Benchmarked mandates include US and global bond fund strategies which can be tailored to meet the needs of institutional investors. Drake's investment strategies are based on the principle of diversification and exploiting the performance advantages of managing a relatively smaller aggregate asset base with a flexible investment process. They believe that no single risk should dominate returns. By diversifying a portfolio or employing multiple sources of value added, Drake seeks to generate attractive excess returns with reasonable variability within the context of the market environment. They look to add value through the use of top-down strategies such as actively managing a portfolio's exposure to interest rates, changing market volatility, yield curve positioning and sector rotation. The firm also employs bottom-up strategies involving the relative analyses of comparable instruments and selection of specific securities. By combining investment styles and focusing on both portfolio level and security level strategies, Drake attempts to position client portfolios and their funds to benefit from attractive excess returns while incurring acceptable levels of risk. Drake's investment process is designed to construct portfolios that integrate longer-term secular economic trends with sector / security level analyses. The first step is the formulation of the Drake View which involves harnessing the collective input of the portfolio management team and international research offices. This unique market view serves as the basis for investment decisions and sector allocations made across all of Drake's portfolios, regardless of the product. In developing the Drake View, the portfolio management team places significant emphasis on understanding and monitoring long-term or secular influences on the world economy and financial markets. Using the Drake View as the fundamental backdrop, Drake's sector teams then identify assets whose current value is inconsistent with the themes inherent in the Drake View. These opportunities are then implemented by the various sector teams, who are also responsible for monitoring and adjusting portfolio positioning as market conditions evolve. Having identified a set of positions, the portfolio management team applies their best forecast of expected return over the relevant time horizon. This varies with the type of position, with some having an intra-day horizon and others having up to a one-year time frame. Volatilities are then assigned, allowing the creation of ex-ante Sharpe ratios for the different strategies. The positions with the best risk return trade-off (highest Sharpe ratios) tend to be the larger risk positions.

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Princeton Advisory Group serving as the collateral manager for a number of special purpose vehicles (SPVs) that facilitate structured finance transactions. These SPVs are often largely invested in asset-backed securities whose value and payments are derived from a portfolio of fixed income securities. The firm also advises pooled investment vehicles that invest a significant portion of their assets in fixed-income or floating-rate securities and/or CDO-type entities. On behalf of their clients, the firm participates in secured loans created by acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, focusing on companies in the upper tier of the leveraged loan market and their respective industries. On behalf of their clients, they participate selectively in dividend recapitalizations. Princeton Advisory Group targets generating higher returns with less volatility, higher security and above average recovery rates. They are biased toward hard asset coverage and have experience in multiple valuation analysis.

SGAM utilizes an event-driven investment approach that seeks to realize value through purchases of securities at a discount to corporate or other events. The firm does not employ leverage in their investing strategy. Their equity strategy is to pursue absolute returns and achieve medium- to long-term capital appreciation from equity investments issued by companies that ACM regards as mispriced. SGAM is an active manager of risk and uses various techniques to lessen undesirable risk.

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