Richard Thomas O'Connell

RMB Asset Management International Ltd. is an investment management firm based in London. Established in 2004, they are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the FirstRand Group (JSE: FSR), headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Group provides retail banking services, merchant banking, asset management and property management as well as providing life insurance and pension fund services. RMB provides traditional tailored multi-manager portfolios and alternative investing options comprised of hedge funds and segregated portfolios. Their advisory services cater to third-party investors and private high net-worth individuals worldwide.

UBS Asset Management (UK) Ltd. (UBS-UK) is the Great Britain-based investment subsidiary of UBS Asset Management Holdings Ltd., itself a subsidiary of UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. Founded in 1981 as Phillips & Drew Investment Management Ltd., the firm merged with UBS Asset Management in 2000 to form UBS Asset Management Ltd., which became UBS Global Asset Management (UK) Ltd. in 2002. They changed their name to UBS Asset Management (UK) Ltd. in 2015. Headquartered in London, UBS-UK provides asset management services to corporate and public pension plans, sovereign institutions, endowments and municipalities, charities, insurance companies, wholesale intermediaries, financial institutions, and private clients.