Amit Chandra

Allspring utilizes proprietary investment allocation systems in conjunction with the securities selection services provided by their portfolio managers to create and maintain actively managed investment portfolios intended to meet the requirements of its clients’ investment needs. The firm offers a variety of equity, multi-asset, and fixed income investment strategies. These investment strategies (collectively) may invest in a wide variety of financial instruments. Allspring employs bottom-up company specific analysis to find securities with under-appreciated prospects.

Golden Capital Management's (GCM) offers several domestic and international equity investment strategies, each of which is invested primarily in exchange-listed equity securities. In general, the firm avoids investments in IPOs and private placements. GCM’s investment decision making processes are based on quantitative models that they rely on to make securities buy-sell recommendations and constructing portfolios. GCM uses these models to evaluate financial data concerning thousands of publicly-listed equity securities. With respect to certain of their strategies (i.e., Large Cap Core, SMID Cap Core and Small Cap Core), GCM generally avoids investments in issuers for which the primary industry classification is alcohol, gaming or tobacco. GCM also provides investment advisory services in connection with various managed account programs, including, wrap account programs and model-portfolio programs. GCM’s stock ranking models apply concepts rooted in fundamental analysis. The models assess companies with regard to, among other things, valuation, earnings, and quality; and that assessment is translated into rankings/scores that identify companies as relatively more or less attractive than others. GCM believes that a company with a better ranking is more likely to outperform, on a total return basis, another company with a lower ranking, all things being equal. Accordingly, the firm's investment process is designed to construct portfolios that are typically overweighted in higher-ranked companies, and underweighted in lower-ranked companies. GCM’s discretionary domestic strategies include: Large Cap Core, SMID Cap Core, Small Cap Core, Enhanced Large Cap, Enhanced U.S. Large Equity, Enhanced U.S. Equity Market, Small Cap Equity, Dividend Income, and S&P 500 Equity Index. GCM’s discretionary international/global strategies include: Global Equity Yield, International Small Cap, and International Developed Markets.

Evergreen Investment Management offers a variety of equity investment products including domestic, international, global and emerging markets portfolios which are available using both fundamental and quantitative investment processes. The firm's domestic and international fixed-income strategies include short-term, money market, municipal, investment grade, high yield and structured solutions. Though not limited by sector or market-cap, the firm tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the finance, electronic technology and health technology sectors. Evergreen invests globally across all market-caps. The firm maintains a medium turnover rate. Evergreen's domestic, international and global strategies are managed by Metropolitan West Capital Management (MWCM). These strategies invest in high-conviction ideas with a long-term focus on value. MWCM employs rigorous research and an objective sell discipline to construct and actively monitor portfolios of high quality companies around the world. Evergreen's enhanced equity strategies are managed by Global Strategic Products. The strategies seek to achieve repeatable, competitive results through a disciplined quantitative approach. Portfolios are designed to seek consistent outperformance of their benchmarks with lower risk. The strategies employ disciplined proprietary analytical tools and systems to identify repeatable sources of value in the equity markets. Strategies include index and enhanced index equity products. The firm's core equity strategies are managed by Golden Capital Management. These strategies use a consistent, risk-controlled approach to core investing through all market cycles with a focus on capital growth and preservation. Portfolios consist of companies with attractive valuations and strong earnings that produce competitive long-term returns with relatively low volatility. The core-style investment process blends quantitative and fundamental analyses. Evergreen's domestic and international equity strategies are managed by Berkeley Street Equity. The strategies use fundamental analysis to identify companies with superior growth and value potential. Berkeley Street Equity constructs and monitors portfolios across the full range of core equity, sector-specific and international mandates. They employ fundamental, bottom-up research to identify quality investments for their growth and value portfolios. In addition to their US market portfolios, Berkeley Street Equity also offers global and international portfolios designed to provide investors with broad global diversification through core, fundamentally-oriented portfolios that are responsive to changing global equity markets. The firm's global fixed-income strategies are managed by First International Advisors. The strategies invest in investment grade, non-US debt securities while also seeking capital appreciation opportunities in emerging markets and below investment grade bonds. The firm pursues a variety of sectors and regions for diversification and offers currency overlay capabilities.

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Crow Point Partners specializes in global equity, global equity income and alternative/hedged investment strategies. The firm uses quantitative as well as in-depth fundamental research to identify companies that meet their investment criteria. Generally, investment decisions are determined after performing a thorough fundamental and/or quantitative financial analysis of the identified companies, which is confirmed by industry knowledge and quantitative tools. Crow Point invests across various market capitalization sizes and investment styles (small-, large- and mid-cap companies and value and growth) in both domestic and international securities and in all industry sectors. Crow Point’s investment style will be governed by the intrinsic value of a security. The lower the price of a security compared to its assessed intrinsic value, the more attractive is its fundamental value to Crow Point. The firm may build positions in selected securities over time and will take advantage of price dips (or spikes in the case of shorts), whenever possible. While Crow Point may take advantage of short-term moves in securities prices, they tend to be a long-term holder. Crow Point may use moderate leverage when investing and trading their assets. Crow Point does not use fixed holding periods but will hold a position for as long as the position continues to meet their investment criteria, without regard to how long that position has been in the portfolio.