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GSBV is an active investor which seeks to bring technical and analytical expertise in developing rigorous and superior solutions for clients and funds seeking more quantitative or model-driven solutions. The firm applies their proprietary research and analytics, global resources, portfolio diagnostics and risk management to the development of investment products and solutions in pursuit of their clients’ objectives. Top-down macro themes shape over-all strategy and provide the context for their bottom-up security selection.

AEGON-IM is an active, long-term, fixed-income and asset allocation specialist manager which follows a value-oriented investment approach. Their investment philosophy emphasizes flexibility and pragmatism and they invest in large- to mega-cap equity, fixed-income and alternative investments in North America, Europe and Asia. The firm follows a research-driven process which blends top-down analysis with bottom-up stock picking. They seek to identify stocks that are undervalued relative to earnings, cash flow, or book value and share research with other asset management subsidiaries within the AEGON group, particularly in Great Britain, the US and Canada. Their in-house research combines fundamental and quantitative analysis with company visits and is supplemented by outsourced research. AEGON-IM manages risks by applying the "three lines of defense" model. The first line of defense consists of Portfolio Risk Control and Portfolio Risk Management. Finance, Compliance and Operational Risk Management departments are the second line of defense and the third line of defense consists of the independent Group Internal Audit, which periodically checks the first two lines of defense to determine whether activities are carried out according to previously agreed standards.

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NB Europe-Netherlands aims to deliver risk-adjusted returns for their clients over the long-term by managing a range of equity, fixed income, private equity and hedge fund strategies. The firm believes that material environmental, social and governance (ESG) characteristics are an important driver of long-term investment returns from both an opportunity and a risk mitigation perspective.