Gail Gunter

Loomis Sayles bases their overall investment approach on the premise that their disciplined, research-based investment strategies can identify market inefficiencies that can lead to consistent outperformance of benchmarks. The firm's fixed-income research team seeks to identify attractive securities and assign ratings to various issues. Their equity investment approach is based on their belief that equity markets are inefficient. Loomis Sayles employs an intensive bottom-up investment analysis with the goal of delivering superior risk adjusted performance.

Highland is a global alternative fixed income manager that specializes in bank loans, high yield credit, distressed debt, structured products, real assets, and long-short equities, with a global geographic reach. The firm’s investment philosophy is rooted in a value-oriented, long-term approach, which combines bottom-up research with top-down technical market analysis. Their analysts follow a rigorous and time-tested bottom-up credit analysis for each credit they manage. Highland is an activist firm and is included in the SharkWatch50 as one of the 50 most prominent and impactful activist investors.

Sector Capital Management's investment process focuses on earnings growth, price, liquidity and safety (defined as reduced risk for decline in value). They strive to provide high-quality portfolios that have consistent added-value performance over the S&P 500 Index. Sector Capital's investment process is based primarily on a quantitative analysis of fundamental and technical factors. Through a quantitative, formula-driven evaluation of stock price versus earnings growth, they identify stocks that are trading at a discount relative to the present value of future earnings. This results in companies with high S&P and analyst ratings that have achieved superior earnings growth with relatively low P/E ratios. The formula also encompasses a built-in sell discipline. Their portfolios are reconstituted at least quarterly and rebalanced as needed. They offer several portfolios including Sector Plus, Sector Select, PathFinder and Mid-Cap. The Sector Plus strategy is a mixed-cap strategy that consists primarily of large-cap stocks with mid-cap stocks making up to, but no more than 30% of the portfolio. The Sector Select strategy is a large-cap strategy. The PathFinder strategy is a socially responsible, mixed-cap strategy that consists primarily of large-cap stocks with mid-cap stocks making up to, but no more than 30% of the portfolio.

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Argent Sector Capital Management employs a disciplined and objective 'quantimental' investment process that is based primarily on a quantitatively structured bottom-up fundamental approach. The firm utilizes a proprietary pricing model called 'sector matrix' to drive their 'quantimental' analysis. Argent Sector believes the most important factors in stock selection are: earnings growth, price, liquidity and safety (reduced risk for decline in value). Through a thorough evaluation of each of these factors, the firm seeks to provide high-quality portfolios demonstrating consistent added-value performance over their respective benchmarks. Argent Capital employs a disciplined, objective investment process that is based primarily on quantitative analysis of fundamental and technical factors. Through a quantitative, formula-driven evaluation of stock price versus earnings growth, the firm is able to identify and select quality stocks trading at a discount relative to the present value of future earnings. This results in companies with high S&P and analyst ratings that have achieved superior earnings growth with relatively low P/E ratios. In addition to stock selection, the formula also encompasses a built-in sell discipline. The quantitative nature of the formula allows Argent Capital to have a disciplined approach that is objective and repeatable over time. Their portfolios are reconstituted at least quarterly and rebalanced as needed. Argent Sector offers a variety of investment products including US Equities, International / Global Strategies, Socially Responsible (SRI) Strategies and Passive Plus.