Stephen Sylvester

MIMBT maintains a flexible strategy designed to conform with various clients’ individual investment objectives. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, debt, and balanced portfolios. They invest in the public equity and debt markets of the US, non-US, and other emerging economies. MIMBT seeks growth-oriented value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap companies. The firm selects countries by utilizing a top-down approach and selects stocks using fundamental analysis with a bottom-up approach.

BNYMIA’s investment approach is a team approach where portfolio managers and the research team share information to form a disciplined and consistent strategy that meets the client’s diversification, credit quality, liquidity and average weighted maturity requirements. The firm’s credit research function is fully independent from portfolio management and their dedicated research team employs a deliberately conservative policy, when evaluating individual credits, to help support portfolio credit quality and stability.

DIMA typically invest in securities that appear to offer the best potential to meet client needs, which may include any number of factors such as: yield, value, growth, income, etc. The firm utilizes a variety of quantitative and qualitative techniques in trying to meet clients' investment objectives. Portfolio management constructs the strategy using a combination of top-down macro views and bottom-up research along with risk management strategies.

Standish Mellon Asset Management Co. is a dedicated fixed income manager that offers a wide range of cash, credit-based and specialty bond strategies. The firm is effectively split into three divisions: the Active Fixed Income Division, the Tax-Sensitive Fixed Income Division and the Stable Value Division. Standish’s Active Fixed Income investment process combines top-down, macroeconomic analysis with bottom-up research to identify attractive securities based on proprietary, fundamental research. Their top-down approach includes macroeconomic research to assess the overall risk environment, and determine broad portfolio themes, industry emphasis, and overall portfolio quality. Standish’s Tax-Sensitive Fixed Income approach has an objective of achieving a high after-tax return on an absolute and risk-adjusted basis versus the benchmark. Their investment process emphasizes the identification of undervalued sectors and securities in the municipal and taxable bond markets. Their focus is to capitalize on yield anomalies among municipal and taxable sectors, identify undervalued securities, and pinpoint relative value between particular bonds. Standish's Stable Value investment process is marked by four key characteristics: a risk-averse style; a disciplined, quantitative approach; a flexible model; and opportunistic management. The objective is preservation of principal and the delivery of stable returns over time.

Acts as Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust

Functions as a College/University

Nationally chartered commercial bank

Functions as a College/University

BSP NY is a credit investor and invests primarily, on behalf of their clients, in the sub-investment grade credit markets. The firm aims to deliver favorable, risk-adjusted returns together with capital preservation. Generally, they seek to meet this objective through intensive fundamental research and credit analysis, combined with active portfolio management to minimize principal losses and impairment of risk capital. However, their methods of analysis do vary depending on the type of client and the investment strategy selected.