Casey Herren

Atlantic invests in global equities, with a singular focus on achieving superior capital appreciation through the consistent and disciplined implementation of a unique value investing approach, concentrating capital and research on high conviction investments. The firm also proactively engages with management teams and boards of directors of their portfolio companies in an effort to create value through an approach they refer to as Constructive Shareholder Activism. They employ a rigorous, private-equity like research process to seek what we consider to be attractive value investments that are not highly traded by other alternative investment firms. Atlantic’s investment process is driven by intensive bottom-up research and collaboration of their global investment team across geographies and sectors that leverage the firm’s collective experience in the US, Europe and Asia to identify investment opportunities.

Vaughan Nelson’s equity strategy seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation by investing in companies at valuations that they believe are materially below their long-term intrinsic value. The firm employs long-time horizon to exploit shorter-term volatility and poor shorter-term price discovery. They primarily utilize a fundamental, bottom-up investment process. For their fixed income strategy, Vaughan Nelson aims to maximize total return while preserving capital. They believe active, risk-controlled management, founded on research-driven analyses, can uncover relative values that, over the long term, produce returns with less risk.

Highland is a global alternative fixed income manager that specializes in bank loans, high yield credit, distressed debt, structured products, real assets, and long-short equities, with a global geographic reach. The firm’s investment philosophy is rooted in a value-oriented, long-term approach, which combines bottom-up research with top-down technical market analysis. Their analysts follow a rigorous and time-tested bottom-up credit analysis for each credit they manage. Highland is an activist firm and is included in the SharkWatch50 as one of the 50 most prominent and impactful activist investors.

LAM offers products across a broad spectrum of asset classes, designed for different client types. The firm’s traditional and alternative investment services cover listed equity and fixed income investments in a wide range of global, regional and country specific strategies. Risk management is integral to their portfolio construction. They rely heavily on fundamental, bottom-up investment research.

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