Patrick J. O'Brien

AIA is an actively responsible investor and invests with conviction for the long-term. The firm employs a team-based approach in the management of their investment strategies, which includes both the Portfolio Management Team and the Research Team. Across the firm, the Portfolio Management Team is accountable for making final investment decisions. While the Portfolio Management Team is also ultimately responsible for the asset allocation, portfolio construction and security selection decisions, the Research Team provides valuable insights and heavily influences these decisions.

Evergreen Investment Management offers a variety of equity investment products including domestic, international, global and emerging markets portfolios which are available using both fundamental and quantitative investment processes. The firm's domestic and international fixed-income strategies include short-term, money market, municipal, investment grade, high yield and structured solutions. Though not limited by sector or market-cap, the firm tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the finance, electronic technology and health technology sectors. Evergreen invests globally across all market-caps. The firm maintains a medium turnover rate. Evergreen's domestic, international and global strategies are managed by Metropolitan West Capital Management (MWCM). These strategies invest in high-conviction ideas with a long-term focus on value. MWCM employs rigorous research and an objective sell discipline to construct and actively monitor portfolios of high quality companies around the world. Evergreen's enhanced equity strategies are managed by Global Strategic Products. The strategies seek to achieve repeatable, competitive results through a disciplined quantitative approach. Portfolios are designed to seek consistent outperformance of their benchmarks with lower risk. The strategies employ disciplined proprietary analytical tools and systems to identify repeatable sources of value in the equity markets. Strategies include index and enhanced index equity products. The firm's core equity strategies are managed by Golden Capital Management. These strategies use a consistent, risk-controlled approach to core investing through all market cycles with a focus on capital growth and preservation. Portfolios consist of companies with attractive valuations and strong earnings that produce competitive long-term returns with relatively low volatility. The core-style investment process blends quantitative and fundamental analyses. Evergreen's domestic and international equity strategies are managed by Berkeley Street Equity. The strategies use fundamental analysis to identify companies with superior growth and value potential. Berkeley Street Equity constructs and monitors portfolios across the full range of core equity, sector-specific and international mandates. They employ fundamental, bottom-up research to identify quality investments for their growth and value portfolios. In addition to their US market portfolios, Berkeley Street Equity also offers global and international portfolios designed to provide investors with broad global diversification through core, fundamentally-oriented portfolios that are responsive to changing global equity markets. The firm's global fixed-income strategies are managed by First International Advisors. The strategies invest in investment grade, non-US debt securities while also seeking capital appreciation opportunities in emerging markets and below investment grade bonds. The firm pursues a variety of sectors and regions for diversification and offers currency overlay capabilities.

A team of portfolio managers, research analysts and traders is responsible for the management of each equity portfolio. They employ a bottom-up approach, using proprietary research to analyze and evaluate securities on a stock-by-stock basis. The research process begins with a diverse universe of companies. For each company in the universe, analysts develop earnings and revenue estimates. The analysts use those forecasts to calculate 13 value, growth and risk variables, which are used to rank each stock. Using the forecast and ranking information, the analysts then code the stocks on a 5-point scale - from 1, which is the most attractive to 5, which is the least attractive. The equity teams review the recommendations and create an overall assessment of the stock. The teams select stocks for the portfolios that are attractively priced with improving fundamentals. In choosing fixed income securities, BOIA seeks to avoid market timing and interest rate speculation in favor of strategies providing more consistent value over time. The teams construct the portfolios by using a process that combines specific security selection with macro bond market factors. The firm's fixed income teams actively manage all aspects of the fixed income market using risk-management techniques to minimize volatility and add value through yield curve, sector, issue and duration decisions.

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