Rusty Hoss

Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management employs a forward-thinking, change-focused investment philosophy to create domestic and international portfolios across fundamental and systematic equity, income and growth strategies. The firm's investment approach seeks to identify points of inflection that could lead to strong price appreciation and to invest in a timely manner to maximize return potential. The firm's range of investment strategies include domestic, global, international and specialty portfolios. Each portfolio follows one of two approaches: traditional or model-driven (systematic). Nicholas-Applegate tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the electronic technology, health technology, technology services, consumer non-durables and finance sectors. The firm invests globally, across all market-caps. Nicholas-Applegate maintains a medium turnover rate.

CIP aims to generate attractive returns with less risk than the overall market by offering institutional separate accounts and pooled investment vehicles in Small-Cap, Mid-Cap, and Strategic Focus (mid/large-cap) equity strategies. In all the firm's strategies they actively attempt to minimize business and valuation risk through their well-defined and consistent investment processes.

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Alder Capital is a value-oriented long/short investment manager which employs a stock selection process that combines top-down macro-economic analysis and fundamental bottom-up research. Their investment process begins with the establishment of a macro view of economic, geo-political and equity market valuation conditions. The firm then uses fundamental analysis to identify individual stocks that offer the potential for large returns in the forecasted economic environment.

New Sheridan Advisors focuses exclusively on actively-managed investment products that target equity investments in developing markets. The firm considers developing countries to include most Asian, Eastern European, African, Middle Eastern and Latin American countries. Portfolios are benchmark-agnostic, concentrated, quality-oriented and alpha-driven. New Sheridan's research process is driven by bottom-up fundamental analysis that seeks to identify growing, but stable, companies trading at attractive valuations relative to anticipated growth in revenue and earnings. The New Sheridan Developing World Fund seeks long term capital appreciation, and under normal market conditions, invests at least 80% of its net assets (including borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of developing country issuers. The Fund invests in large-, mid- and small-cap developing country issuers. The EP China Fund seeks long term capital appreciation, typically investing at least 80% of its net assets (including borrowings for investment purposes), in non-US dollar denominated publicly traded stocks of companies of all market-caps that are economically tied to China or its special administrative regions (SARs). The EP Asia Small Companies Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through investments mainly in the stocks of small-cap companies in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The fund typically invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes), in the stocks of small-cap companies (market-cap less than $3 billion) located in the targeted countries. Companies must have at least 50% of its assets located in a targeted country or countries. Investments include common stock, preferred stock, convertible stock and warrants. The EP Latin America Fund seeks long term capital appreciation, and invests at least 80% of its net assets (including borrowings for investment purposes), in equity securities of Latin American companies of any market-cap. Companies must be organized in Latin America or derive at least 50% of revenues or profits from business activities in Latin America.

Composition Wealth aims to develop a customized asset allocation for each client based on their specific risk/reward profile and investment goals. They use a blend of bottom-up security valuation analysis and top-down economic analysis when constructing portfolio allocations.