Sean M. Leonard

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Mr. Leonard joined ARMI in January 2007.
Prior to joining ARMI, he was an Associate Director and equity analyst at Mackay Shields, a wholly owned subsidiary of NY Life Insurance Company with approximately $40B in total assets under management.
Mr. Leonard began his investment career as an equity analyst at Paradigm Capital Management in 1998 and left in 2003 to become Vice President and Senior Equity Analyst on the $5B Aurora Fund at State Street Research and Management, which was later acquired by Blackrock.
He has an MBA from the University at Albany and is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

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Adirondack Research & Management, Inc. Adirondack Research & Management, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance ARMI incorporates independent thinking, patience, and strict value criteria when selecting investments for SMA and the Fund. The SMA clients permit the firm to invest in a broader range of publicly traded equity (large-cap, mid-cap, small-cap, funds, and ETFs) and fixed-income securities. The firm uses a “middle-down” research approach that identifies attractive industries for investment, eventually paring down to the companies in those industries that make attractive additions to the Fund.	Analyst-Equity	31/01/2008
BlackRock Advisors LLC BlackRock Advisors LLC Investment ManagersFinance BlackRock Advisors offers investors around the world a variety of investment products that span across asset classes, market-caps, investment styles and geographic regions. Their mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, alternative, multi-asset and quantitative equity strategies.	Analyst-Equity	30/12/2005
State Street Research & Management Co. State Street Research & Management Co. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance SSR combines bottom-up stock selection with quantitative risk controls. The Asset Allocation committee formulates the asset allocation strategy based upon the relative attractiveness, variability and correlation between the equity and fixed income markets. The committee reviews a wide range of factors that include forecasts of corporate earnings, liquidity and an assessment of macroeconomic trends. The committee formally reviews allocation targets on a monthly basis. For active equity management they combine bottom-up stock selection based on comprehensive fundamental research with explicit sector weighting decisions and quantitative risk management. Teams manage portfolios. SSR believes that fixed income security prices respond to economic fundamentals in predictable but not perfectly efficient ways. They seek to identify opportunities created by these inefficiencies through fundamental research supported by quantitative risk controls.	Analyst-Equity	30/01/2005

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State Street Research & Management Co. State Street Research & Management Co. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance SSR combines bottom-up stock selection with quantitative risk controls. The Asset Allocation committee formulates the asset allocation strategy based upon the relative attractiveness, variability and correlation between the equity and fixed income markets. The committee reviews a wide range of factors that include forecasts of corporate earnings, liquidity and an assessment of macroeconomic trends. The committee formally reviews allocation targets on a monthly basis. For active equity management they combine bottom-up stock selection based on comprehensive fundamental research with explicit sector weighting decisions and quantitative risk management. Teams manage portfolios. SSR believes that fixed income security prices respond to economic fundamentals in predictable but not perfectly efficient ways. They seek to identify opportunities created by these inefficiencies through fundamental research supported by quantitative risk controls.	Finance
BlackRock Advisors LLC BlackRock Advisors LLC Investment ManagersFinance BlackRock Advisors offers investors around the world a variety of investment products that span across asset classes, market-caps, investment styles and geographic regions. Their mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, alternative, multi-asset and quantitative equity strategies.	Finance
Adirondack Research & Management, Inc. Adirondack Research & Management, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance ARMI incorporates independent thinking, patience, and strict value criteria when selecting investments for SMA and the Fund. The SMA clients permit the firm to invest in a broader range of publicly traded equity (large-cap, mid-cap, small-cap, funds, and ETFs) and fixed-income securities. The firm uses a “middle-down” research approach that identifies attractive industries for investment, eventually paring down to the companies in those industries that make attractive additions to the Fund.	Finance
State University of New York at Albany State University of New York at Albany Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services