Stephen M. Cook

Payden & Rygel employs active management of fixed income and equity portfolios, through domestic and international solutions. Their strategies are customized based on each client's objectives, but fall into four broad categories: fixed income, equity, absolute return, and balanced. Strategies can be employed using customized separate accounts, our US mutual funds, or Dublin-based UCITS funds.

Western Asset is a global fixed-income investment manager committed to delivering long-term results through active management. The investment management team seeks to exceed benchmark returns while approximating benchmark risk or, for total return portfolios, within appropriate risk tolerances. The firm’s investment philosophy combines traditional fundamental and relative value analysis with an emphasis on diversification to dampen potential volatility. Issue selection is a bottom-up process that seeks to determine undervalued or overvalued securities.

Post is a client-centered, active credit investment management firm that combines deep investment knowledge and a disciplined risk-management approach with a goal of delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns across macro-economic and market cycles. They offer a broad range of high yield and senior loan investment and credit strategies. Their process combines rigorous bottom-up fundamental credit research and analysis with an emphasis on downside risk mitigation. They augment their bottom-up credit research process with a top-down macro and technical overlay to enhance risk management with a goal of positioning their portfolios to achieve attractive relative and absolute performance through market and macroeconomic cycles.

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