Neill Groom

BNYMIA’s investment approach is a team approach where portfolio managers and the research team share information to form a disciplined and consistent strategy that meets the client’s diversification, credit quality, liquidity and average weighted maturity requirements. The firm’s credit research function is fully independent from portfolio management and their dedicated research team employs a deliberately conservative policy, when evaluating individual credits, to help support portfolio credit quality and stability.

Lord Abbett manages equity, fixed income, and multi-asset class portfolios across a wide range of investment strategies. Portfolio management teams employ a rigorous investment approach, and the firm’s investment processes are supported by a strong internal focus on fundamental and quantitative research.

NBBD-IM offers clients investment solutions across asset classes, styles, capitalizations and geographies in both public and private markets, as well as multi-asset class solutions that bring them all together. For equity investments, the firm tends to focus on stocks with solid balance sheets, relatively low price-to-earnings ratios, low price-to-cash flow ratios, strong cash flows, above-average yields, sustainable earnings growth, reasonable valuation multiples relative to growth prospects, sound franchise values and significant insider ownership. They use both top-down and bottom-up analysis to select investments. In addition, the firm uses options and futures and occasionally invests in ADRs and private equity opportunities.

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