Lawrence Solow

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BioPharma invests primarily in smaller innovative companies that develop medical devices, drugs or pharmaceuticals using modern biotechnology research. They may also invest in larger companies that operate in the related traditional pharmaceutical and medical device areas. Investment decisions are based on fundamental analysis and on integration of information, knowledge, experience and expertise concerning medical and financial aspects of biopharma companies. The firm's investment scope is worldwide, and they invest primarily in equities (or equity related securities) admitted to official listing on a stock exchange or trading on another well recognized regulated market that operates regularly and is open to the public. BioPharma performs proprietary research upon which their investment strategies are based. The investment selection process starts with a top-down analysis of medical research by medical specialty or disease. A second step in the investment selection process involves a financial analysis of the market opportunity for promising new drugs. In the third step of the investment selection process, BioPharma analyzes the financials of the biotechnology companies that are developing and or selling promising drugs. This company-specific analysis results in projections of future profits and the calculation of fair values for the company and its stock. Such fair values are compared with fair values of similar and competing companies. Those stocks that seem to be fairly priced compared to others (or fairly priced on an absolute basis) are then selected for the portfolio. The firm does not track any benchmarks or known biotech indexes.

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