Nancy E. Price

Carlson Capital employs multiple strategies including equity relative value, equity long/short, event-driven, credit, overlay hedge, strategic, and other strategies. Their risk management philosophy is based upon a rigorous approach to trade construction. Individual positions are generally constructed on a bottom-up, fundamental basis. Carlson Capital is an activist firm and is included in the SharkWatch50 as one of the 50 most prominent and impactful activist investors

Westwood specializes in distinct investment capabilities: US Value Equity and Multi Asset, which includes Asset Allocation, Real Assets and Tactical, and are made available through separate accounts, the Westwood Funds® family of mutual funds and other pooled vehicles. The firm combines bottom-up, fundamental security selection and top-down macroeconomic views to achieve an optimal risk-adjusted outcome for their investors.

Ascend Capital employs an opportunistic US-focused long/short equity investment strategy. They seek to generate superior risk-adjusted returns that maximize gains and minimize volatility over a broad range of market environments. They employ a variation of the Jones Model investing strategy with the intention of achieving capital appreciation in a broad range of market environments. The net market exposure of each account may vary significantly depending on the firm's assessment of shifting economic and market conditions, as well as particular long and short investing opportunities. Ascend Capital's strategy has neither a long nor short bias. Although their strategy focuses on equity and equity-related securities that are publicly traded, they may pursue a highly diverse range of investments and trading strategies. Ascend Capital may cause the accounts to invest a significant portion of their assets in one or more of the following: illiquid securities, including privately placed equity (of public and private companies), defaulted debt, bank debt and trade claims, bonds (convertible and non-convertible), other fixed-income investments and senior and subordinated tranches of asset-backed pools. Ascend Capital's strategy includes short selling. They expect the funds to utilize leverage on a moderate to extensive basis. The separate accounts utilize leverage in accordance with the investment guidelines for each account. The firm may cause the accounts to buy or sell (write) options, publicly traded and over-the-counter, covered and uncovered, on securities and securities indices, as well as options and forward contracts on currencies. They may also cause the accounts to engage in a variety of investment techniques involving arbitrage. addition, they may cause the accounts to engage in futures and other derivative transactions, typically for hedging of existing long and short positions.

NXG Investment Management primarily invests client accounts in the following types of investments: Upstream Energy Companies, Midstream Energy Companies, Downstream Energy Companies, and North American Renaissance Companies, NextGen Infrastructure Companies, Clean Energy & Sustainability Companies, and Small and Mid-Cap Growth Companies. The firm generally makes equity investments in a mix of publicly traded securities and non-readily marketable securities that may be issued by public or private companies. They typically construct a portfolio that it believes will have the highest risk/reward performance over the next six (6) to twenty-four (24) months. Cushing Asset Management’s buy discipline incorporates liquidity and pricing tolerances for each investment.

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