Erik A. Swords

The Boston Company Asset Management (TBCAM) offers both traditional and alternative equity investment products that encompass a variety of US, non-US and global strategies. The firm provides investment advice for the following types of strategies: US domestic equity, balanced, non-US equity, emerging markets equity and long/short equity. Portfolios generally are composed of individual securities. TBCAM seeks consistent delivery of alpha across a broad range of investment strategies. They are committed to a value-oriented, research-driven and risk-aware investment approach. TBCAM seeks to identify attractive stocks through rigorous quantitative and fundamental analyses blended with analysis of current business momentum and places controls on sector selection and, if applicable, country selection. Short sales and similar strategies are considered part of their overall investment strategy; however, they are not used across the account base in the management of account assets. The firm may use these strategies for certain accounts consistent with the client's guidelines, objectives, and restrictions.

Provides brokerage services

Liberty Ridge focuses on domestic equities. Liberty Ridge Capital believes it adds the greatest value over all market cycles by consistently applying a time-tested, bottom-up stock selection process that combines the use of rigorous fundamental research with quantitative techniques. Liberty Ridge Capital seeks to select securities that offer the most attractive trade-off between valuation, near-term dynamics and long-term growth. They believe that superior investment results can be achieved by investing in companies that possess an attractive valuation relative to the broad market and peer group, display positive near-term business prospects and exhibit healthy long-term earnings growth potential. LibertyRidge employs a process that defines a manageable universe of stocks by utilizing proprietary quantitative screens to narrow their focus. Fundamental research further narrows the team's top investment candidates and then a portfolio is constructed based on process and account parameters. In seeking to identify attractive investment opportunities for the Focused, Large Cap, Mid-Cap and Small Cap Funds and the blend portion of the Strategic Small Company Fund, Liberty Ridge first creates a universe of companies whose current share price seems lower than their current or future worth. They consider factors like a company's earnings power vs. its current stock price, dividend income potential, its price-to-earnings ratio vs. similar companies, competitive advantages, like brand or trade name or market niche, management team, and current and future business prospects. Lastly, using their own fundamental research and a bottom-up approach to investing, Liberty Ridge identifies those companies which are currently out of market favor but have the potential to achieve significant appreciation as the marketplace recognizes their fundamental value.

Voya IM actively manages strategies which seek to bring technical and analytical expertise in developing rigorous and superior solutions. The primary focus of the firm’s investment management is fixed income in nature, although some equity, alternative and private equity investing strategies are also employed. In this regard, many of the investments are privately placed or otherwise not traded on public securities exchanges. Voya IM employs a disciplined investment process with top-down macro themes analysis that also provides the context for their bottom up-security selection.

Mellon Investments offers a range of alpha and beta investment strategies designed to meet each client's specific needs. Their disciplined approach is grounded in long-term economic relationships and provides an integrated view of the distinct components that comprise the global financial market. The firm's primary investment strategies include Active Equity, Active Fixed Income, Index, and Multi-Asset and Multi-Factor.

Acts as Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust

Functions as a College/University

AllianzGI US manages client portfolios (directly or through model delivery and wrap fee programs) using traditional and systematic processes across various investment strategies. The firm offers an array of US equity strategies that vary across style and market-cap ranges. Their high yield bond and convertibles strategies employ a fundamental bottom-up process that seeks the early identification of high yield issuers that exhibit the potential for improving fundamental characteristics. AllianzGI US employs rigorous fundamental research and capital structure analysis to construct portfolios that consist of the best companies from a risk/return standpoint. They also offer alternative investment strategies that are designed to achieve absolute return, alpha enhancement and beta hedging.

NIMNA offers a variety of carefully developed investment strategies. They generally manage all client accounts in accordance with a model portfolio that is based upon a selected Strategy. The firm’s global research platform blends thematic, fundamental, macroeconomic, geopolitical, regional, quantitative, accounting and investigative research that takes material ESG risks, opportunities and issues into account to give them the widest perspective on the investment landscape. Their global research team consists of fundamental equity, quantitative equity, quantitative multi-asset, specialist research, credit and responsible investment analysts.