Richard Orre Excell

UBS O'Connor generally uses a combination of fundamental and/or quantitative analysis when formulating its investment advice or managing client assets. The firm employs a number of investment strategies in connection with its investment management services. Investment decisions are primarily based on fundamental comparisons. Such bottom-up analysis is combined with a top-down view of opportunities across the various sectors. They believe that the combination of bottom-up and top-down analysis will allow them to identify the most attractive long and short opportunities both across and within sectors and geographies.

UBS O'Connor combines strategies with the goal of creating a diverse stream of returns relatively uncorrelated to major asset classes. The firm’s shift capital and risk dynamically across strategies to seek market investment opportunities. Their approach is rooted in relative value investing and state-of-the-art risk management capabilities, through which they strive to provide investors with attractive, risk-adjusted absolute return potential.

WAM utilizes structural arbitrage and relative value strategies that seek to capture returns on capital through the purchase of securities below their theoretical fair value and through the reduction of related sources of risk. The firm invests in equity, credit, commodity, and volatility asset classes.

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