Walter L. Lindsay

HIMCO manages investment portfolios using a balanced top-down, bottom-up investment process, with multiple levels of investment input, within a governance framework that is designed to ensure thematic consistency. They offer a wide range of asset classes and manage fixed income and alternative investment strategies. The Investment Strategy Committee (ISC) has overall responsibility for all aspects of the investment process.

Ridgeworth employs a comprehensive allocation process that enables them to develop an efficient and appropriate asset allocation for each client. The process incorporates an objective analytical framework that three distinct activities: efficient frontier modeling, plus tactical overlay and asset allocation. Through efficient frontier modeling they derive long-term strategic investment solutions using expected returns, standard deviations and cross-correlation matrix analysis. Their plus tactical overlay evaluates asset class performance and looks for extremes and absolute and relative performance. Riverfront's portfolio maintenance strategy maintains the optimal allocation through systematic and unemotional rebalancing.

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Cornerstone Capital Management Holdings (CCMH) offers a variety of global systematic equity strategies that seek to achieve targeted returns, while minimizing risk to the portfolio. In managing these strategies, the firm uses proprietary models which have quantitative alpha forecasting engines that are designed to help position the investment team to capitalize on positive as well as negative forecasts. ^ CCMH also offers a variety of global fundamental equity strategies. For these strategies, the firm's global fundamental equity investment team employs a bottom-up investment approach, incorporating individual company fundamental analysis, industry competitive dynamics, and macroeconomic analysis to identify long-term holdings in companies that have the potential for sustained growth. ^ CCMH invests primarily in domestic and international equity securities; but depending on the client's objectives, may also invest in futures, ETFs, & contracts for difference; ADRs; U.S. Government agency securities; repurchase agreements; convertible securities; foreign currencies; and foreign currency contracts. For accounts that permit them, CCMH may engage in derivatives transactions such as swaps, options, futures and forward contracts. ^