Ashi Parikh

VFIA is an active bond manager who believes that the market offers potential opportunities for returns to investors who understand and correctly value Fixed Income securities. The firm focuses their management efforts on the bottom-up principle of security selection along with top-down strategies for sector allocation and yield curve structure using rigorous fundamental research as well as a series of proprietary and third-party tools to identify value. Their diversified portfolios of well-researched companies, value-added security structures and sector rotation seek to provide attractive spreads above the benchmark, regardless of the level or direction of interest rates, at controlled risk levels.

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Certium Asset Management employs passive, active and quantitative strategies to provide clients with risk controlled exposure to equity markets. Their proprietary models utilize historical data to identify high potential investment candidates they believe possess the best combination of earnings and relative valuation characteristics. Certium offers three risk-controlled investment strategies. They seek to capture outperformance by selecting securities with characteristics they believe are superior to their peers, but with an emphasis on selling those securities that are not meeting expectations. Certium's International Equity Index strategy seeks investment results that correspond to the aggregate price performance of the securities included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International MSCI EAFE GDP- Weighted Index. They employ a stratified sampling of the MSCI EAFE GDP-weighted Index to select stocks and a multi-factor risk model and quadratic portfolio optimization to determine portfolio weights. The portfolio is available through individually managed accounts and sub-advisory relationships. Certium's Domestic Equity strategy seeks to generate investment results that correspond to the S&P 500. This portfolio is available through individually managed accounts. The firm's Large-Cap Quantitative Equity strategy invests in US large-cap companies with the most attractive earnings, growth prospects and valuation characteristics within their respective sector. The portfolio is available through individually managed accounts and sub-advisory relationships. Their International Quantitative Equity strategy invests in international companies with the most attractive earnings growth prospects and valuation characteristics within their respective region and sector. The portfolio is available through individually managed accounts. Certium's Large-Cap US Equity 130/30 strategy seeks to generate alpha (risk adjusted return relative to the benchmark) by establishing long and short equity positions in US companies. The portfolio is available through individually managed accounts. Their International Equity strategy invests primarily in the common stocks and other equity securities of foreign companies that have the best combination of relative value and earnings growth. The strategy utilizes company-specific research and analysis to identify companies whose stocks rank well on quantitative measures and which also have solid business fundamentals. This portfolio is available through individually managed accounts and sub-advisory relationships.

Silvant focuses on domestic growth equities and seeks to deliver strong investment results that are repeatable and consistent, with client service that exceeds expectations. The firm uses a bottom-up approach to stock selection.

VCA selects and employs subadvisors to implement investment management programs for each client account, consistent with stated objectives.

Functions as a College/University

Ceredex seeks to deliver excellent long-term investment performance by employing a well-crafted, methodical stock selection process with the dexterity to adapt to changing market conditions. Th firm offers value-equity strategies which are available in five portfolios: concentrated large-cap, large-cap, mid-cap smid-cap, and small-cap. The Ceredex strategies employ a traditional value style rooted in a fundamental, bottom-up approach.

Venturi primarily utilizes a fundamental method of analysis. The firm allocates client assets among various mutual funds, ETFs, individual debt and equity securities, options and independent investment managers in accordance with their stated investment objectives. Venturi consults with clients on an initial and ongoing basis to assess their specific risk tolerance, time horizon, liquidity constraints and other related factors relevant to the management of their portfolios.