May Tong

Voya IM offers differentiated solutions across fixed income, equity and multi-asset platforms, including private markets and alternatives. The firm’s equity disciplines are organized as a series of discrete competencies managed by specialist teams and supported by centralized quantitative and sector-specific fundamental research. Top-down macro themes shape overall fixed income strategy and provide the context for bottom-up security selection.

MLAM's worldwide approach to equity investing uses a philosophy of identifying relative value among individual stocks and stock markets by focusing primarily on two variables: reinvestment rate and the price-to-book value ratio. There are seven additional screens employed to further refine the process. The factors used to identify value include price-to-cash flow, price-to-earnings ratios, past and future earnings growth and dividend payouts. For asset allocation, a country whose market valuation measurements seem consistently above or below world averages or its own historical averages are over or under-weighted accordingly. The degrees of over or under-weighting are determined by relative economic prospects as measured by the outlook for GNP, inflation and interest rates of each country and their impact on currency movements. By combining a value approach to individual stock selection with asset allocation by country, the firm seeks to achieve consistent performance relative to international equity indexes. MLAM combines top-down and bottom-up analysis and uses proprietary models as part of their research process. Their funds are team-managed.

Franklin Advisers provides advisory services to a range of products and separate accounts which utilize various investment strategies including equity, fixed income, core, hybrid, and multi-asset strategies. The firm employs fundamental, bottom-up investment analysis to select securities within a specific sector or industry.

Principal AM has divided their investment management operations into several unique boutiques. The equities boutiques render advice primarily for equity securities. They utilize internally generated fundamental research that focuses on bottom-up stock selection within a sophisticated comparative framework. The fixed income boutique renders advice primarily for debt securities. Their currency boutiques render advice for active and passive currency. Applying a fundamental-discretionary, macroeconomic theme-based investment approach to portfolio management, the strategies include absolute return as well as base currency hedging strategies.

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