Stephen Friscia

JAL's investment philosophy emphasizes preservation of capital, control of volatility and bottom-up security selection. Most of their research originates in-house. Specialists in long, short, event-driven and distressed debt research collaborate in evaluating companies. Their portfolio managers are active participants in the research process. JAL considers their trading team crucial to the research process. The offices of their investment professionals are organized around a central trading desk, so that all of the managers and analysts professionals can remain in continuous contact with the traders.

MacKay Shields offers a variety of fixed income and equity strategies and solutions that clients can select depending on their investment objectives. They maintain independently managed investment strategy teams, each of which conducts its own research and acts autonomously with its own distinct investment process. Investment strategies may be available through separately managed accounts, wrap programs and/or collective investment vehicles.

Palisade employs a comprehensive, bottom-up, fundamental investment philosophy. The firm seeks to minimize downside risk, while striving for consistent and attractive return potential by focusing on investing in companies where opportunity and value present themselves.

Iridian specializes in the active management of mid-cap US equity long-only portfolios. The firm employs a rigorous investment process that identifies opportunities and uncovers potential value. Iridian’s two-step stock-selection process is disciplined, bottom-up, and value-based, and uses mostly in-house generated fundamental research to identify companies undergoing “corporate change” and generating large amounts of free cash flow.

Bear Stearns Asset Management, Inc. is an asset management firm and broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Asset Management, Inc. and their ultimate parent is JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). They manage equity and fixed-income separate accounts, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity funds and venture capital funds. Their clients include corporations, municipal governments, multi-employer plans, endowments, foundations, family groups and high net-worth individuals

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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Functions as a College/University

Operates as a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company that engages in the development of drug products to extend healthy lifespan