Richard Paul Sobel

Baring North America's (BNA) investment approach focuses on identifying favorable earnings surprise and valuation characteristics through fundamental research. They seek companies and markets whose attractive growth prospects are not fully reflected in their prices. The firm's core equity portfolios are diversified large-cap portfolios that typically offer above market growth characteristics at or at a reasonable premium to market valuations. BNA's growth criteria embrace companies delivering growth in earnings per share in the top 60% of their universes. The firm's systematic equity investment process embraces hands-on fundamental stock research and analysis to generate proprietary earnings forecasts and relative valuation targets and quantitative analysis and screening to focus their research and generate buy and sell ideas. BNA's investment teams use a common framework and template for equity research, which focuses on growth, management, value creation and valuation criteria. Their regional equity teams are responsible for portfolio strategy and stock selection for specialist regional equity portfolios as well as the regional portion of their global and multi-asset mandates. The asset allocation team is responsible for regional/country strategy in their global and multi-asset portfolios and for sector policy at the global and multi-asset mandate level. The output of their fundamental and quantitative research is used to rank each stock and to shape buy and sell decisions. Teams review stocks continuously following company meetings and announcements. BNA's fixed-income processes are characterized by fundamental research and disciplined portfolio construction techniques. They also use technical analysis, particularly in currency allocation research. The firm's credit research leverages off the equity research capabilities of the firm. They invest in bonds issued by governments, agencies, corporates as well as emerging market sovereign, mortgages and asset-backed securities. BNA includes bonds across the rating spectrum from Aaa to Caa, according to the risk tolerance and guidelines of their clients.

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Barings UK focuses on building long-term, trusted partnerships with their clients and utilizes an active management approach, built upon fundamental analysis, to help meet their long-term investment goals. The firm leverages its depth and breadth of expertise across the global fixed income, alternative investment and equity markets. Their expansive asset market coverage, includes global fixed income presence and high active equity expertise in international and emerging markets, contributes to the firm’s strength in multi-asset investing. This encompasses solutions such as income, target return and absolute return.

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ACP's private equity fund investment objective aims to generate long term capital appreciation. The fund typically invests from USD 10 million to USD 50 million per firm in equity or equity-type securities. They specialize in various transition transactions such as providing expansion capital, MBOs or spin-outs, industry consolidations alone or as co-investor, and shareholder transition. They focus on mid-sized firms in Russia, Ukraine and in the CIS region operating across a variety of sectors such as consumer products and services, media and entertainment, publishing, retail, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, construction materials and agribusiness. ACP is an active investment partner. The private equity fund management team generally takes Board seats on their portfolio firms. They work closely on strategic development, business planning and analysis, debt financing and corporate governance. They advise on mergers and acquisitions, and assist with management development and recruitment. Their exit strategies typically involve a trade sale or IPO.

Functions as a College/University