J. D. Rieber

Voya IM actively manages strategies which seek to bring technical and analytical expertise in developing rigorous and superior solutions. The primary focus of the firm’s investment management is fixed income in nature, although some equity, alternative and private equity investing strategies are also employed. In this regard, many of the investments are privately placed or otherwise not traded on public securities exchanges. Voya IM employs a disciplined investment process with top-down macro themes analysis that also provides the context for their bottom up-security selection.

Principal AM has divided their investment management operations into several unique boutiques. The equities boutiques render advice primarily for equity securities. They utilize internally generated fundamental research that focuses on bottom-up stock selection within a sophisticated comparative framework. The fixed income boutique renders advice primarily for debt securities. Their currency boutiques render advice for active and passive currency. Applying a fundamental-discretionary, macroeconomic theme-based investment approach to portfolio management, the strategies include absolute return as well as base currency hedging strategies.

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Aegon AM US provides active management of portfolios that invest primarily in fixed income assets classes, but also may utilize equities, loans, and derivatives. The investment process for most of the firm's fundamental fixed income investment strategies combines top-down macroeconomic outlooks with bottom-up credit research in a procedure overlaid with risk monitoring and risk management. This disciplined process emphasizes consistent research and analysis of fundamentals, sentiment and positioning, technical, and valuation.

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