Flora J. Kim

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.

McKinley Capital invests primarily in growth equity related disciplines which includes listed and over-the-counter equities and related derivatives and swaps. The firm employs a proprietary quantitative based model screening process with a qualitative overlay to construct and manage firm disciplines and investment portfolios. They use a bottom-up growth approach to portfolio management. Their sell discipline are triggered by the following objective criteria: a consecutive and sustained deterioration in risk-adjusted relative return, estimate deceleration, negative earnings surprises, relative forward valuation multiples exceeding relative forward growth estimates, maintain risk controls on position limits, discovery of fraud, and country factors (nationalization, capital controls, etc.).

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