Richard Lodewick

Commercial banking

JAL's investment philosophy emphasizes preservation of capital, control of volatility and bottom-up security selection. Most of their research originates in-house. Specialists in long, short, event-driven and distressed debt research collaborate in evaluating companies. Their portfolio managers are active participants in the research process. JAL considers their trading team crucial to the research process. The offices of their investment professionals are organized around a central trading desk, so that all of the managers and analysts professionals can remain in continuous contact with the traders.

BP's equity products share a value oriented, risk averse investment philosophy. Their fixed-income products seek to build in a yield premium versus the appropriate benchmark through bottom-up security selection and a focus on the corporate and mortgage sectors of the bond market. They use a bottom-up investment process to identify portfolio candidates. The process is driven by internal fundamental research streamlined by quantitative screening. Quantitative screening identifies companies within the universe that are attractively valued and demonstrate a quantifiable measure of business momentum. Fundamental research involves a detailed analysis of the business dynamics supporting a portfolio candidate's current value and prospects for future growth. Beyond demonstrating value and momentum criteria identified in the screening results, portfolio candidates must also exhibit strong business fundamentals and improving business trends as determined through fundamental research. BP's fixed-income portfolio construction process focuses on achieving a yield advantage through their individual security selection process while carefully avoiding interest rate risk. They focus on the corporate and mortgage sectors that they believe offer the best risk-adjusted yield opportunities.

LCS generally follows a large-cap, bottom-up, value investment strategy. The firm invests client assets primarily in equity securities, of both domestic and foreign issuers that are traded on a US exchange. They believe that the fundamental approach to select attractive long and short equity positions is the key to achieving sustained and substantial appreciation.

SeaRock Capital Management LLC invests in US large-cap equities across all sectors. They maintain a very high turnover.

Functions as a College/University

Functions as a College/University

Magnitude aims to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to investors through the management of multi-strategy funds, hedge funds, and other investment vehicles. They utilize a variety of information sources to identify prospective investments, such as, but not limited to, industry contacts, prime brokers, databases, and academic research. For the select opportunities strategy, Magnitude uses opportunistic investments that take advantage of less-liquid or non-traditional investment opportunities to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to investors.