Doug Smith

Basswood aims to generate long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily on a long basis and short basis in a select number of investments that they identify as likely to experience significant price appreciation or depreciation. The firm’s primary strategies mainly invest in equity securities and include a strategy focused on the US financial services sector, a strategy focused on the financial services sector in Europe and other developed markets outside of the US, and a strategy that is not focused by sector. Basswood is an activist firm and is included in the SharkWatch50 as one of the 50 most prominent and impactful activist investors.

Fir Tree uses a value approach to investing, generally with a focus on long-term capital appreciation. The firm invests worldwide in public and private companies, real estate across a wide variety of sectors and securities, and sovereign debt. They focus on investments in mispriced publicly traded securities and employ a number of investment approaches including a long-term orientation, opportunistic capital funding and portfolio concentration. Fir Tree follows a Positive Activism® approach in creating, not just identifying, value.

NRC believes that inefficiencies in the public markets can cause meaningful disparities between the trading value and true value of various securities. The firm applies a fundamental value approach to determine the intrinsic value of a security, and they seek to identify catalysts to explain why the security is mispriced and to identify events or circumstances likely to cause the market to realize the security’s embedded value.

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