Eric S. Kleppe

WMC relies on their extensive independent research and includes portfolio management styles and approaches in equities, fixed income securities, currencies and commodities, as well as asset allocation across these categories. The firm has several different disciplines when approaching research and these include asset allocation analysts, currency analysts, data scientists, factor analysts, fixed income credit analysts, fixed income market analysts, global industry analysts and research associates, macro-analysts, quantitative analysts and technical analysts.

VGI offers both passive and active discretionary investment advisory services that cover the US and international markets. They employ two types of indexing strategies: replication and sampling. Their active management equity methodology is based on quantitative modeling while fixed income analysis is based on fundamental investment research and research obtained from external investment organizations.

Turner Investment Partners (TIP) provides investment management and distribution services. The firm's investment strategies include: US growth equity, international/global growth equity, long/short equity, 130/30 equity, core/value equity and quantitative equity. TIP invests in growth and value stocks of all market-caps and in bonds of various maturity averages. The firm applies uniform investment processes to all their stock and bond portfolios and mutual funds. Their investment process maintains a strong sector focus. They employ a three-step investment process begins with a proprietary model that uses over 70 factors to screen securities. An analysis that is updated monthly determines which factors can predict strong earnings and growth in each sector. Only those securities that are identified in the top third of their asset class in each sector are targeted for potential purchase. TIP then performs thorough fundamental analysis on potential companies. TIP track a company's money flow and strength relative to its peers and its overall sector. When the fundamentals are strong, the firm uses technical analysis to identify the best time to buy a security. For those products closely tied to a specific benchmark, Turner maintains sector weightings totally in line with the benchmark. A security may be sold if: (1) earnings are lower than expected (2) fundamentals deteriorate and/or (3) if better investment opportunities are identified.

Diamond Hill is an active, long-term investor which seeks to achieve value-added results for their clients. They offer different equity and fixed income investment strategies. For their equity strategies, the firm’s investment strategy is actively managed and intrinsic value focused. Bottom-up analysis is of primary importance. For their fixed income strategies, Diamond Hill’s investment strategy is driven by individual security decisions rather than by macro-economic focus.

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