Neal Karchem

Bel Air employs a longer-term investment approach that seeks to achieve consistent, risk-adjusted after-tax returns over time. The firm allocates assets across four major categories: equities, fixed-income, alternative investments and cash.

Allspring utilizes proprietary investment allocation systems in conjunction with the securities selection services provided by their portfolio managers to create and maintain actively managed investment portfolios intended to meet the requirements of its clients’ investment needs. The firm offers a variety of equity, multi-asset, and fixed income investment strategies. These investment strategies (collectively) may invest in a wide variety of financial instruments. Allspring employs bottom-up company specific analysis to find securities with under-appreciated prospects.

SBAM is a fundamentally focused investment firm that seeks companies with strong fundamentals and a clear commitment to growing their dividend. The firm provides separate account investment advisory services in dividend-focused strategies. Their portfolio managers are responsible for the investment decisions with respect to an investment strategy selected by the client.

Metropolitan West Capital Management (MetWest) specializes in domestic value equity, international core value equity and balanced portfolios. The firm employs a team-based approach to identify the stocks of high quality, growing businesses that are selling at a discount to their intrinsic value. Their approach also requires the existence of one or more positive catalysts that will unlock that value, leading to a higher stock price. They are long-term investors, not traders or speculators; their conservative style fosters capital preservation and consistency of returns. In addition to above-market returns, MetWest seeks below-market risk. They screen candidates for characteristics such as low p/e ratios, high dividend yields, growing cash flows and low debt levels. Portfolios are diversified across economic sectors and individual securities.

Ascend Capital employs an opportunistic US-focused long/short equity investment strategy. They seek to generate superior risk-adjusted returns that maximize gains and minimize volatility over a broad range of market environments. They employ a variation of the Jones Model investing strategy with the intention of achieving capital appreciation in a broad range of market environments. The net market exposure of each account may vary significantly depending on the firm's assessment of shifting economic and market conditions, as well as particular long and short investing opportunities. Ascend Capital's strategy has neither a long nor short bias. Although their strategy focuses on equity and equity-related securities that are publicly traded, they may pursue a highly diverse range of investments and trading strategies. Ascend Capital may cause the accounts to invest a significant portion of their assets in one or more of the following: illiquid securities, including privately placed equity (of public and private companies), defaulted debt, bank debt and trade claims, bonds (convertible and non-convertible), other fixed-income investments and senior and subordinated tranches of asset-backed pools. Ascend Capital's strategy includes short selling. They expect the funds to utilize leverage on a moderate to extensive basis. The separate accounts utilize leverage in accordance with the investment guidelines for each account. The firm may cause the accounts to buy or sell (write) options, publicly traded and over-the-counter, covered and uncovered, on securities and securities indices, as well as options and forward contracts on currencies. They may also cause the accounts to engage in a variety of investment techniques involving arbitrage. addition, they may cause the accounts to engage in futures and other derivative transactions, typically for hedging of existing long and short positions.

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