Eugene Gardner

Barings? investment decisions across all asset classes incorporate a comprehensive analysis that uses or combines top-down and/or bottom-up approaches to investment analysis. The firm utilizes economic, fundamental, technical/cyclical, and quantitative analyses, along with a sound understanding of both macro drivers and micro considerations in its investment decision-making process and to manage risk. They invest in a variety of fixed income and financing instruments across various industries as well as credit qualities and maturities in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa/Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Barings manages portfolios of public equity securities and equity-related securities of issuers of all sizes. The firm has teams focused on three alternative investment sectors: Real Estate, Private Equity & Real Assets, and Funds & Co-Investments.

GRQ employs long-term, global-value investment strategy. Investment decisions are made using primary, fundamental research directed towards a limited number of global industries with little input from Wall Street. The firm buys at reasonable prices, and retains, meaningful positions of common stocks in concentrated industry groups, in competitively advantaged, global businesses that are run by able and honest managers.

Rutabaga is a value manager that invests in turnarounds and focuses on investing in micro-cap stocks. The firm's fundamental, bottom-up research process strives to identify catalysts for change that will boost profit margins, driving significant earnings acceleration, which should in turn deliver significant stock appreciation. Their portfolios typically have 20-40 stocks. If a company executes poorly, experiences market share loss, or sees a material deterioration in its capital structure, they will liquidate that holding.

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