John Paul Lech

OFI focuses on delivering long-term results through active management and seeing opportunities where others may not. The firm’s methods of security analysis may include economic analysis, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, quantitative analysis and top-down analysis. OFI’s investment strategies may also be guided by (a) the investment objectives, policies, strategies, and restrictions set forth in an advisory or sub-advisory agreement, (b) any offering document or other governing document applicable to a client for whom OFI provides advisory services, and (c) applicable legal and regulatory requirements. OFI offers investment strategies in the following broad asset classes: equities, fixed income, alternatives and multi-asset. Equities include main street equity, small and mid cap growth equity, value and income equity, emerging markets equity and global equity. Fixed income has investment grade debt, high yield corporate debt, global debt, Rochester municipals, multi-sector fixed income and cash strategies. Alternatives asset class includes alternative strategies, real estate, gold and special minerals and global infrastructure securities.

Matthews Asia employs an active, bottom-up and fundamental investment philosophy, with a focus on long-term investment performance. The firm invests primarily in companies located in or with substantial ties to, and in securities issued by the governments of, the Asia Pacific region. Their long-term, bottom-up, benchmark-agnostic approach results in portfolios characterized by low turnover, high active share, and significant exposure to business models that are oriented towards domestic demand growth within Asia Pacific and emerging market economies.

Principal AM has divided their investment management operations into several unique boutiques. The equities boutiques render advice primarily for equity securities. They utilize internally generated fundamental research that focuses on bottom-up stock selection within a sophisticated comparative framework. The fixed income boutique renders advice primarily for debt securities. Their currency boutiques render advice for active and passive currency. Applying a fundamental-discretionary, macroeconomic theme-based investment approach to portfolio management, the strategies include absolute return as well as base currency hedging strategies.

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Citigroup Private Bank's global investment opportunities across asset classes via capital markets strategies, discretionary portfolios, and third-party managers. They utilize a core and opportunistic wealth framework, in which they identify a broadly diversified core portfolio based on the long-term plan they create using their proprietary asset allocation methodology.