Kees Verbaas

BSG is an active, long-term manager which strives for flexibility while providing a range of investment solutions. They ensure rigorous risk management aligned with their clients' investment profile. The firm's investment strategy focuses on opportunities in traditional asset classes such as equities, fixed-income and cash. They also explore relatively unexploited segments like emerging market debt, high yield, small-cap and micro-caps. BSG typically avoids alternative investments.

FIM-N is an active investment manager following a growth-and-value investment style. Their investment philosophy emphasizes innovation, flexibility and customization to their clients' needs. Their investment approach is bottom-up, based on fundamental research and in-depth knowledge of the markets in which they specialize. FIM-N invests in equity and debt globally, and in third-party funds. Equity investments focus on the Netherlands, the UK and Europe, and also include investments in emerging markets. FIM-N invests indirectly in real estate throughout Western Europe. In addition to performances, multi-manager selection considers the manager's investment style and research process, assessed through visits to asset management firms. Proprietary research is shared within the Fortis Investments global network, and combines quantitative and qualitative analysis. Research focuses on valuation, assessing asset quality and identifying catalysts likely to unlock value. Fortis Investments believes that performances depend more on sector allocation than on regional allocation. They favor sector leaders representing quality among their peers. Their investment decisions are based on a blend of company and sector views with macroeconomic analysis. Fortis Investments emphasizes accountability. Within the allocation framework defined at the global level, small teams of portfolio managers operate autonomously under the supervision of the asset class CIO. The firm's products are managed using a core model portfolio, customized for each client.

HIML is an active, long-term manager that provides investment solutions in a range of equities, fixed income, multi-asset and private markets strategies. The firm uses either a bottom-up or a top-down approach or both in their investment process, to identify and buy quality stocks that are attractively priced and to seek superior risk-adjusted returns.