Thomas M. Finucane

Loomis Sayles bases their overall investment approach on the premise that their disciplined, research-based investment strategies can identify market inefficiencies that can lead to consistent outperformance of benchmarks. The firm's fixed-income research team seeks to identify attractive securities and assign ratings to various issues. Their equity investment approach is based on their belief that equity markets are inefficient. Loomis Sayles employs an intensive bottom-up investment analysis with the goal of delivering superior risk adjusted performance.

Amundi US selects investments from a wide range of asset classes and employs a variety of styles in managing client assets. Regarding equity securities, the firm employs fundamental and quantitative research to their portfolio management approach. With respect to fixed income securities, their investment professionals consistently apply well established means of identifying potentially rewarding securities. Whether applying top-down analysis that leads to selection of government bonds, or the bottom-up approach that ends with corporate bonds being selected, the investment management team's goal is portfolio construction that matches product objectives and supports investors’ goals.

SSR combines bottom-up stock selection with quantitative risk controls. The Asset Allocation committee formulates the asset allocation strategy based upon the relative attractiveness, variability and correlation between the equity and fixed income markets. The committee reviews a wide range of factors that include forecasts of corporate earnings, liquidity and an assessment of macroeconomic trends. The committee formally reviews allocation targets on a monthly basis. For active equity management they combine bottom-up stock selection based on comprehensive fundamental research with explicit sector weighting decisions and quantitative risk management. Teams manage portfolios. SSR believes that fixed income security prices respond to economic fundamentals in predictable but not perfectly efficient ways. They seek to identify opportunities created by these inefficiencies through fundamental research supported by quantitative risk controls.

WMC relies on their extensive independent research and includes portfolio management styles and approaches in equities, fixed income securities, currencies and commodities, as well as asset allocation across these categories. The firm has several different disciplines when approaching research and these include asset allocation analysts, currency analysts, data scientists, factor analysts, fixed income credit analysts, fixed income market analysts, global industry analysts and research associates, macro-analysts, quantitative analysts and technical analysts.

Within each investment style, JHA employs a team approach to portfolio management. These teams have relative autonomy for making investment decisions within the strategies' objectives and client guidelines. Each investment team member specializes in an industry or group of industries. A bottom-up investment approach emphasizes detailed fundamental analysis. All portfolio managers perform research and contribute ideas, and the entire investment staff meets daily to exchange market perspectives and investment ideas.

Manulife IM-US utilizes a broad range of equity, fixed income, currency and asset allocation approaches. They manage differentiated investment processes and place an emphasis on proprietary fundamental research but may also employ quantitative analysis. The firm’s equity investment research combines quantitative and qualitative bottom-up fundamental analysis. Their fixed income management teams engage in intensive fundamental research and analysis, both top-down and bottom-up, to assess potential investment opportunities.

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