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Cooke & Bieler is a domestic equity value manager that employs a “High Quality, Low Risk” long-term approach. The firm is an active, bottom-up manager who studies the fundamental characteristics of companies and the industries in which they operate to reach a conclusion on their quality and intrinsic value. Their security analysis also emphasizes research meetings and interviews with corporate management. They seek to take advantage of short-term but fixable problems, either industry-wide or company-specific.

Rockefeller & Co. is organized around two primary areas of expertise: Rockefeller Wealth Advisors (RWA) and Rockefeller Asset Management (RAM). RWA is an open-architecture investment advice and wealth management platform. RWA provides tailored advice and portfolios of equities, fixed-income securities, hedge funds, private equity funds, and other alternative investments. RAM offers internally-managed global, US, non-US, sector specific and sustainability and impact investment equity strategies; as well as balanced (i.e., multi-asset class) strategies. RAM’s equity strategies, which are available through both affiliated funds and separately managed accounts and in a sub-advisory capacity (depending on size), include but are not limited to: Global Equities; US Equities; Non-US Equities; Global Sustainability & Impact Equities; US Sustainability & Impact Equities; Non-US Sustainability & Impact Equities; US Small Cap Equities; Balanced (Multi-Asset Class) Strategies; and Global Equity Sector Specific Strategies. Rockefeller & Co.’s taxable and tax-exempt fixed income strategies generally employ a conservative approach to US fixed income markets and emphasize capital preservation and current income. Portfolios are constructed utilizing both a top-down focus on macro trends and sector forecasts and a bottom-up focus on credit, relative valuation and volatility. Fixed income strategies are offered through Affiliated Mutual Funds and separately managed accounts. Rockefeller & Co. employs a formal multi-stage process for selecting third-party managers which quantitative and qualitative factors.

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