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Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management employs a forward-thinking, change-focused investment philosophy to create domestic and international portfolios across fundamental and systematic equity, income and growth strategies. The firm's investment approach seeks to identify points of inflection that could lead to strong price appreciation and to invest in a timely manner to maximize return potential. The firm's range of investment strategies include domestic, global, international and specialty portfolios. Each portfolio follows one of two approaches: traditional or model-driven (systematic). Nicholas-Applegate tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the electronic technology, health technology, technology services, consumer non-durables and finance sectors. The firm invests globally, across all market-caps. Nicholas-Applegate maintains a medium turnover rate.

Provides brokerage services

Voya IM offers differentiated solutions across fixed income, equity and multi-asset platforms, including private markets and alternatives. The firm’s equity disciplines are organized as a series of discrete competencies managed by specialist teams and supported by centralized quantitative and sector-specific fundamental research. Top-down macro themes shape overall fixed income strategy and provide the context for bottom-up security selection.

As an active manager, ABN AMRO Asset Management seeks consistent performance within a well-monitored risk environment. Equity investments are biased toward quality growth companies that are expected to outperform over the long term. They favor companies that are dominant in their industries and represent quality among their peers. AAM blends company and sector views with macroeconomic analysis. Their fixed-income investment process takes financial, economic, valuation and sentiment factors into account as well as the macroeconomic climate, shifts in capital flows and trends in the market. This approach is based upon a fundamental approach to duration, yield curve and spread analysis. Portfolio management teams make the final investment decisions based primarily upon internal analyst recommendations. Research is bottom-up and fundamental with quantitative systems and screens used to support and confirm analyst ratings.

Provides financial services

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Functions as a College/University

AllianzGI US manages client portfolios (directly or through model delivery and wrap fee programs) using traditional and systematic processes across various investment strategies. The firm offers an array of US equity strategies that vary across style and market-cap ranges. Their high yield bond and convertibles strategies employ a fundamental bottom-up process that seeks the early identification of high yield issuers that exhibit the potential for improving fundamental characteristics. AllianzGI US employs rigorous fundamental research and capital structure analysis to construct portfolios that consist of the best companies from a risk/return standpoint. They also offer alternative investment strategies that are designed to achieve absolute return, alpha enhancement and beta hedging.