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Part of Voya Financial, Inc., ING Advisors, Inc. is an American company.

IAML offers a range of equity and emerging market fixed income strategies. Generally, their investment teams use standard methods of analysis. The firm may analyze potential investments internally but they will rely on third parties for the provision of data used by the proprietary screening models. IAML’s investment teams manage the Strategies. Each investment team has their own specific investment philosophy and applies their philosophy to the strategy they manage through a multi-step investment process. Each investment team has clear accountability for its strategy and reporting lines that encourage active participation and implementation of ideas. IAML’s investment teams are supported by a centralized infrastructure. IAML investments are directed by specific processes developed by each of their specialist investment teams. In addition to research analysts, each team has portfolio managers who have authority to manage client portfolios within pre-agreed risk parameters.

Octopus Investments aims to achieve capital growth by investing in diversified portfolio quality smaller UK companies. They believe that the smaller end of the market is becoming increasingly inefficient and seek to identify fast-growing companies at attractive valuations which have the potential to offer investors substantial upside. The firm supports their institutional investors to meet their investment mandates on behalf of their end investors, across five specialist asset classes: renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure, real estate, healthcare and venture capital.

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TrinityBridge is an active, long-term manager that offers a comprehensive range of asset classes, such as equities, bonds, unit trusts, property, commodities, currencies, structured products, and hedge funds. The firm invests globally, both directly and indirectly, and follows many investment strategies. They favor a diversified, multi-asset approach and delegate portfolios not directly related to their core competencies to boutique-sized firms with a proven track record. TrinityBridge focuses on real returns, the right balance of growth and income, and ways to preserve wealth with the use of intensive research to identify the strongest opportunities. The firm looks for attractively priced, high-quality companies with a business profile and a track record of growing shareholder value.

Nile Capital Management manages the Nile Pan Africa Fund. The Fund seeks to provide long term capital appreciation through investments in the stocks of African-based companies. Under normal market conditions, the Fund typically invests at least 80% of its assets in the stocks of public companies that have the majority of their assets in Africa and/or that derive a majority of their revenues from Africa. Investments are broadly diversified across the most attractive regions and countries in Africa. NCM employs top-down macroeconomic analysis that evaluates and ranks African nations based on economic growth, inflation, interest rates, currency, regulatory framework and political ability. The firm also employs bottom-up fundamental analysis to identify the most attractive companies in selected markets. Their fundamental analysis focuses on the following factors: (1) cash flow return on investment (2) return on invested capital (3) strength and stability of company management and (4) prospects for sustained earnings growth. NCM also looks for companies with sound balance sheets with reasonable debt, strong products with competitive advantages and sound accounting policies and corporate governance. Though not limited by sector, NCM tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the energy minerals, non-energy minerals, finance and retail sectors. The firm invests primarily in Africa and Europe.