Richard Allyn Giesen

Munder Capital Management offers a variety of investment disciplines including large-, mid-, and small-cap growth, small-cap value, international equity and taxable and municipal fixed income. Generally, securities are identified for equity accounts through a variety of fundamental factors such as earnings growth, capital efficiency and valuations. More subjective factors are often considered, such as the quality of the business model, competitive profile and quality of management. Technical factors are also often utilized, such as a company’s relative valuation, momentum and market sentiment. Portfolio construction is monitored and managed through risk controls such as overall tracking effort relative to the portfolio’s benchmark and maintaining discipline on targeted sector exposure, position size and capitalization. Fixed income strategies begin with a view of the economic fundamentals, which may be influenced by the Federal Reserve Bank’s policy intentions, inflation intentions and growth expectations and then key risks are identified, such as regulatory risks, merger and activity risks, and sovereign or contagion risks. These views lead to decisions on how to position a portfolio on the yield curve, opportunistic sector allocations to take advantage of any price discrepancies and, ultimately, security selection. Securities are generally selected by identifying securities with a low probability of a negative credit event, using a proprietary financial ratio model to identify purchase and sale candidates, and searching the market for individual pricing inefficiencies.

AAM is organized around nine investment style teams. While subscribing to a common overall investment philosophy of portfolio style diversification and a common top-down economic outlook, each team functions with an investment boutique orientation, supporting research, portfolio management and portfolio construction processes unique to its specialized investment style. Each investment style team consists of portfolio managers, analysts and administrative support personnel. There are seven equity investment style teams, reflecting the specializations of large/mid/small-cap growth, large/small-cap value, the S&P 500 index and international securities. Two fixed-income teams are organized around taxable and tax-exempt fixed-income management. The fixed income teams consist of specialists in treasury/agency, corporate, mortgage, asset backed and municipal securities, as well as a credit analysis staff. The fixed-income team supports the investment styles of aggregate, intermediate government/corporate, intermediate tax exempt, GNMA, 1-3 year government/corporate and short duration/liquidity securities.

EMFAT utilizes a fundamental, bottom-up research designed to identify unrecognized, under-researched, undervalued as well as overvalued companies. The firm invests their clients' assets primarily in US domestic equity securities. Their investment strategies include small-cap growth, small-cap value, and mid- and large-cap stocks.

A team of portfolio managers, research analysts and traders is responsible for the management of each equity portfolio. They employ a bottom-up approach, using proprietary research to analyze and evaluate securities on a stock-by-stock basis. The research process begins with a diverse universe of companies. For each company in the universe, analysts develop earnings and revenue estimates. The analysts use those forecasts to calculate 13 value, growth and risk variables, which are used to rank each stock. Using the forecast and ranking information, the analysts then code the stocks on a 5-point scale - from 1, which is the most attractive to 5, which is the least attractive. The equity teams review the recommendations and create an overall assessment of the stock. The teams select stocks for the portfolios that are attractively priced with improving fundamentals. In choosing fixed income securities, BOIA seeks to avoid market timing and interest rate speculation in favor of strategies providing more consistent value over time. The teams construct the portfolios by using a process that combines specific security selection with macro bond market factors. The firm's fixed income teams actively manage all aspects of the fixed income market using risk-management techniques to minimize volatility and add value through yield curve, sector, issue and duration decisions.

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Elessar Investment Management focuses solely on value-oriented investments in small-cap US companies. Their domestic small-cap value equity strategy relies on fundamental research and stock selection. The investment research process is complemented by a proprietary and trademarked stock screen called the Quality at an Acceptable Price Model (QAPM)

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