José Gerardo Morales

Axiom seeks to consistently provide top-tier investment performance by implementing their investment philosophy rigorously across all products while monitoring their growth levels to ensure that the firm meets their objectives. The firm specializes in equity related strategies and utilizes a consistent, firm-wide, dynamic growth philosophy and process that is fundamental and based on bottom-up stock selection.

Mirae Asset USA mainly focuses on investments in equity and fixed income securities, principally in global and emerging market equities and global and high-yield fixed income securities. With respect to equities, the firm focuses on a team-based, bottom-up investment approach supported by extensive on-the-ground research coverage. With respect to fixed income investments, Mirae Asset USA employs a top-down investment approach in allocating assets based on the portfolio manager’s judgment of changing market, political, and economic conditions. The portfolio manager considers various factors, including evaluation of interest rates, currency exchange rates, and the relative risk and return characteristics of prospective investments when determining how to achieve desired exposures.

Pictet AM actively manages a wide range of equity, fixed income and multi asset strategies including total return. The firm aims to provide long-term return potential with diversified risk. Their disciplined two-stage investment process blends top-down evaluation of the global environment with bottom-up sector and individual issuer analysis.

Blackfriars is an active manager which has specific expertise in emerging market equity and debt as well as in global fixed-income and currencies. Their portfolios are primarily long-only, however they also manage global long/short emerging market equity portfolios. The firm combines fundamental-driven, bottom-up stock selection with disciplined quantitative analysis in an investment process involving a three-stage filtering process. First an internally developed quantitative stock screener based on three inputs (a multi-factor model, a CFROI model and a technical model) identifies pricing anomalies, then a team of in-house analysts establishes their fundamental view of the value of these companies, after which they construct a portfolio with stock-specific risk.

WestLB Mellon uses an active management style utilizing multiple sources of value added and stringent risk controls to generate investment returns in accordance with the client's stated investment objectives and guidelines. They use primarily a top-down approach in their decision-making process, though issue selection is bottom-up. Data is gathered from a variety of independent sources and analyzed and modeled using a proprietary system. The firm utilizes quantitative and fundamental data as inputs to their process. Specific factors are evaluated by small groups of portfolio managers and decisions are made. The output from this process is relative return forecasts for interest rates and bond market sectors. WestLB Mellon applies risk management disciplines and constructs model portfolios.

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