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SAM-UK aims to manage their investments to capture maximum upside but also downside protection. The firm selects fund managers based on their ability to demonstrate a sound investment philosophy and apply it to the market, monitoring them regularly against agreed investment objectives and risk.

Barings UK focuses on building long-term, trusted partnerships with their clients and utilizes an active management approach, built upon fundamental analysis, to help meet their long-term investment goals. The firm leverages its depth and breadth of expertise across the global fixed income, alternative investment and equity markets. Their expansive asset market coverage, includes global fixed income presence and high active equity expertise in international and emerging markets, contributes to the firm’s strength in multi-asset investing. This encompasses solutions such as income, target return and absolute return.

RIL is an active, conservative manager which focuses on capital preservation and appreciation over the long-term. The firm provides in-depth single-manager research and conviction-based manager selection, and worldwide market research covering mature and emerging markets. They also offer implementation services encompassing transition management, passive currency overlay, agency currency execution, synthetic rebalancing and commission management. RIL specializes in fund-of-fund management and diversifies investments globally across equity, fixed income and alternative asset classes.

Provides investment advice

GLG conducts their own analyses and may also use the analyses and certain models of its affiliates as well as third parties. They use many sources of information in their analyses of financial instruments which may be obtained from their affiliates or third parties. In addition, the firm may employ third-party consultants to provide it with fundamental and technical research, including, but not limited to, information regarding various markets, industries and companies. GLG also utilizes a number of investment strategies in connection with its advisory and sub-advisory services depending upon the type and stated investment objectives of each client.