Ian Thomas Kirwan

Lazard AM-UK is an active manager that manages across a wide range of global, regional and country-specific strategies - both traditional and alternative - in listed equity and fixed income. The firm follows a relative value investment philosophy and employs a bottom-up approach to seek higher-than-average returns which are undervalued. They construct portfolios based on in-house fundamental analysis performed by sector teams organized by industry. Their investment professionals integrate ESG analysis into their research and decision-making processes.

MSIM’s investment strategies span the risk/return spectrum across geographies, investment styles and asset classes, including equity, fixed income, alternatives and private markets. When considering their clients’ unique investment profiles, the firm applies a holistic approach, with a goal of incorporating the different factors affecting investors’ investment decisions. The firm combines top-down country allocation with bottom-up stock selection and disciplined risk management.

ABL is a research-driven, GARP-oriented manager which utilizes a bottom-up stock selection approach and performs fundamental research, seeking to invest in companies with sustainable fundamental growth and attractive valuation. Their portfolios are actively traded to capitalize on the volatility in individual stocks and the overall market. The firm offers a comprehensive range of investment services across regions and along the risk-and-return spectrum including style-pure growth equities and value equities, style blend equities, fixed-income, index and structured services, alternative investments and customized and packaged multi- asset class solutions.

AB Japan is a research-oriented manager which follows a growth-and-value investment approach. The firm invests globally in equity and fixed-income with a focus on Japan, Asia and the US. Their investment process emphasizes bottom-up stock-picking based on in-house fundamental research, supplemented with quantitative analysis. AB Japan's fixed-income investment approach is top-down, based on a macroeconomic view as well as interest rate trend and yield curve analysis, supplemented with quantitative modeling. The investment process starts with global asset allocation and aims at exploiting market inefficiencies.

EVMI offers active, passive, rules-based and responsible investing strategies that go beyond traditional, mainstream strategies.

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EVAIL generally seeks to achieve above-average long-term investment results for their clients through emphasis on equity or debt instruments judged by EVAIL to have unrecognized value or investment potential. The firm offers discretionary investment management services in a variety of equity, income, mixed-asset and alternative strategies. EVAIL directs considerable attention to the portfolio's overall composition to provide proper portfolio balance and diversification, and thus reduce risk.