Maureen G. Depp

Loomis Sayles bases their overall investment approach on the premise that their disciplined, research-based investment strategies can identify market inefficiencies that can lead to consistent outperformance of benchmarks. The firm's fixed-income research team seeks to identify attractive securities and assign ratings to various issues. Their equity investment approach is based on their belief that equity markets are inefficient. Loomis Sayles employs an intensive bottom-up investment analysis with the goal of delivering superior risk adjusted performance.

SSR combines bottom-up stock selection with quantitative risk controls. The Asset Allocation committee formulates the asset allocation strategy based upon the relative attractiveness, variability and correlation between the equity and fixed income markets. The committee reviews a wide range of factors that include forecasts of corporate earnings, liquidity and an assessment of macroeconomic trends. The committee formally reviews allocation targets on a monthly basis. For active equity management they combine bottom-up stock selection based on comprehensive fundamental research with explicit sector weighting decisions and quantitative risk management. Teams manage portfolios. SSR believes that fixed income security prices respond to economic fundamentals in predictable but not perfectly efficient ways. They seek to identify opportunities created by these inefficiencies through fundamental research supported by quantitative risk controls.

WMC relies on their extensive independent research and includes portfolio management styles and approaches in equities, fixed income securities, currencies and commodities, as well as asset allocation across these categories. The firm has several different disciplines when approaching research and these include asset allocation analysts, currency analysts, data scientists, factor analysts, fixed income credit analysts, fixed income market analysts, global industry analysts and research associates, macro-analysts, quantitative analysts and technical analysts.

Independence follows a multi-dimensional investment process applying fundamental research and quantitative modeling to create return predictions. In fundamental research, analysts determine how economic and competitive forces are likely to shape the prospects for each of the companies in their investment universe. The analysts interview the management of these companies, as well as suppliers, customers, competitors and other industry experts. Quantitative research is then used to translate these fundamental insights into computer-based methods for stock selection. Independence's investment philosophy and process seeks to minimize style and sector biases.

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