Jianling Ying

Numeric Investors offers a variety of actively managed quantitative investment strategies including long-only, market neutral, active extension (130/30) equity and fundamental statistical arbitrage. Their strategies cover a variety of geographic regions, investment styles and market-cap ranges. All portfolios at Numeric are managed under the direction of their Chief Investment Officer, with oversight from the firm’s Investment Committee. Their investment approach is based on the idea that in the aggregate, markets are efficient and real economic performance drives returns, but over certain time periods markets are inefficient. This results in stock prices that fluctuate more than the underlying information set.

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.

GSMALP offers a wide array of investment strategies that span asset classes, industries, and geographies. The firm's products and services across a full range of asset classes including fixed income, money markets, public and private equity, commodities, hedge funds, and real estate. Clients access these solutions through GSAM's proprietary strategies, strategic partnerships, and open architecture programs.

Piedmont Investment Advisors employs an objective and disciplined investment process that seeks to generate consistent excess returns over a full market cycle. The firm's risk-aware equity investment philosophy focuses on extracting alpha from three interconnected processes: Quantitative, Fundamental, and Macro. They believe that this combination offers the best opportunity to outperform in the long term and maximize the return per unit of risk for their clients. All of Piedmont’s equity products use this approach with each component used in varying degrees for each product. The firm's Strategic Core strategy is managed using a fundamental process but it utilizes quantitative models as a source of idea generation. Macro insights are taken into consideration in the process of portfolio construction. For their Market Plus, Optimized SMID Core and Optimized Small Cap Core, the quantitative models are the primary drivers of stock selection and portfolio construction while fundamental and macro insights are used as inputs for risk control in the portfolio construction process. Smart Beta products are managed using factor based weighting schemes. Piedmont’s Russell Top 200 Index strategy, S&P 500 Index Strategy and S&P 600 Index Strategy use full replication methodology to generate index like returns. Piedmont constructs customized, yield-advantaged fixed income portfolios with the expectation of outperformance over a full market cycle. Their yield-advantaged style seeks to dampen performance volatility by encompassing moderate duration shifts, strategically overweighting spread sectors, and being opportunistic along the yield curve. These objectives are synthesized and implemented within the context of a quantitative backdrop. Active management connotes a constant assessment of relative value, that is, whether expected returns are commensurate with the level of risk taken. Piedmont's bias is typically an overweight in the spread sectors. They construct well-diversified portfolios to give clients the broad benefit of owning these sectors while remaining mindful of not unduly exposing the portfolio to any one issue. Conversely, security selection is emphasized, but within the context of its overall risk versus expected return.

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