Dan V. DeClue

SF Investments, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Highland Park, Illinois. The firm is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. The firm was founded by Nathan Shapiro in 1972 as Sucsy, Fischer Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, Inc., which is owned by WH Group, Ltd. (HKG: 0288) in Hong Kong. SF Investments conducts business in equity, fixed-income and derivative securities including: (1) OTC corporate securities (2) corporate debt securities (3) mutual funds (4) US government securities (5) pits/calls and option writing (6) investment advisory services (7) non-exchange member arranging for transactions in listed securities by an exchange member (8) trading securities for their own account and (9) private placements. All transactions are cleared through Pershing LLC. Their research tends to focus on the insurance, energy and financial sectors, with emphasis on companies located in the US, India and Brazil.

First Eagle Investment Management LLC (FEIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and holding firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1864 and formerly known as Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Advisers, Inc. FEIM provides investment advisory services primarily to mutual funds, private funds, collective investment trusts and institutional separately managed accounts (SMAs), as well as to a registered, closed-end interval fund. The firm serves as the investment adviser to the First Eagle Funds, First Eagle Variable Funds and to the First Eagle Credit Opportunities Fund, which are registered investment companies.