Alphonsus Moniz

PSAM focuses on investing in catalyst-driven transactions to generate absolute returns. The firm utilizes a disciplined investment process based on fundamental research to analyze announced corporate events that are expected to alter the control, capital structure or corporate strategy of an organization. They believe these announced events can create mispricing of securities relative to their inherent or ultimate realizable value. PSAM employs three main investment strategies: Merger Arbitrage, Distressed/Stressed Credit Opportunities and Special Situations. They are agnostic as to where in the capital structure an investment is made and allocated to each strategy and geography opportunistically.

Fore Research & Management focus primarily on credit long/short investments with an emphasis on event driven opportunities. The firm's approach is based on bottom-up fundamental research of individual credits including companies, sovereigns and structured products, all considered within the context of the global macroeconomic environment. Fore Research employs highly liquid instruments while paying close attention to changing market technicals. Fore Research's investment products and strategies include a multi-strategy approach, a Japanese credit strategy and a collateralized loan strategy. Their investment strategies include long and/or short corporate credit, high yield and investment grade trading, event driven credit/equities, convertible arbitrage, long/short equity, distressed security, private claims, and special situation investing, leverage loan investing, risk/merger arbitrage, commodities, opportunistic trading and various macro-themed trades. Investments include a wide range of asset classes, regions, sectors and markets, including common stocks, preferred stocks, warrants, secured and unsecured debt, bank debt, subordinated bonds, investment grade and non-investment grade corporate bonds (including private placements), municipal securities, US Government and agency securities, convertible securities (including stocks and convertible corporate bonds), REITs, structured instruments, ETFs, ETNs, derivatives, swaps (asset swaps and credit default swaps including swaps referencing corporate and sovereign debt), rights issued by businesses in capital raising activities, futures, forward contracts, foreign currencies, money market obligations, commodities and their over-the-counter counterparts. Strategies may also involve investments in CLOs or securitization vehicles, ABS and loans and other interests of companies including private loans.

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