Trip Shepard

UBS AM offers Equities, Fixed Income, Indexing, and Investment Solutions businesses. The firm provides active investment strategies to their clients and principally employs fundamental analysis in managing client accounts by attempting to identify discrepancies between current market prices and their estimate of fundamental value.

GAMCO employs a research-driven value approach to equity investing (known as Private Market Value with a Catalyst™). The firm’s value team believes mispriced companies with strong businesses and the presence of a catalyst to surface value led to investment opportunities through fundamental research and bottom-up stock selection. GAMCO is an activist firm and is included in the SharkWatch50 as one of the 50 most prominent and impactful activist investors.

OFI focuses on delivering long-term results through active management and seeing opportunities where others may not. The firm’s methods of security analysis may include economic analysis, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, quantitative analysis and top-down analysis. OFI’s investment strategies may also be guided by (a) the investment objectives, policies, strategies, and restrictions set forth in an advisory or sub-advisory agreement, (b) any offering document or other governing document applicable to a client for whom OFI provides advisory services, and (c) applicable legal and regulatory requirements. OFI offers investment strategies in the following broad asset classes: equities, fixed income, alternatives and multi-asset. Equities include main street equity, small and mid cap growth equity, value and income equity, emerging markets equity and global equity. Fixed income has investment grade debt, high yield corporate debt, global debt, Rochester municipals, multi-sector fixed income and cash strategies. Alternatives asset class includes alternative strategies, real estate, gold and special minerals and global infrastructure securities.

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Axel utilizes a fundamental research method and strategy to make investment decisions and recommendations. The firm invests in a broad range of industries on a global basis using a top-down and bottom-up approach to identify investments in a diverse number of industries.