Sameer Bhasin

Okumus Capital manages US and offshore hedge fund assets spread across a series of strategies that include market-neutral, long/short technology and opportunistic-value. They invest mainly in the stocks of US small-cap companies in the technology services, electronic technology and consumer services sectors. Okumus Capital maintains a high turnover rate

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ClearBridge Investments is a global equity manager that seeks to deliver long-term results through authentic active management by offering investment solutions that emphasize differentiated, bottom-up stock selection. The firm offers strategies focused on three primary client objectives: high active share, income solutions and low volatility. ClearBridge Investments performs research on an ongoing basis for the maintenance of existing investments, and to identify new investment opportunities. They integrate ESG considerations into their fundamental research process across all strategies.

Meru Capital Group seeks to generate positive absolute returns for their clients through strategic and tactical investments focused primarily on relative value opportunities, along with some directional trades. The firm invests clients' assets primarily in liquid assets across developed and emerging markets. Meru Capital does not anticipate systematic bias to be either long or short in the long run, but clients may be either net long or net short with respect to the market from time to time. Meru Capital engages in a range of equity investment styles and establishes positions in single stocks and indices based on fundamental and technical analysis. Holding periods of the trades vary from short-term positions, which would be tactical in nature, to longer-term positions based on fundamental re-pricing theses. Strategies include relative value investing on a long/short basis, convertible bond arbitrage, option and volatility-based strategies and short term market timing strategies. The firm takes positions in global interest rate and FX markets. Trading strategies include establishing yield-curve and spread positions, trading options and other volatility-based instruments, or creating interest rate and FX exposures. The foregoing may be expressed using cash or derivative instruments. When trading or investing around themes based in emerging market countries, Meru Capital invests in combinations of equities, sovereign and corporate debt, FX and derivative instruments. The firm seeks to profit from long or short positions based on fundamental analysis of obligors, prospects and likely developments in the intermediate term. These strategies may be global macro in nature or they may be fundamental value investments. Meru Capital trades volatility-based strategies alongside other investment themes and for the purpose of providing hedge protection for the portfolio. For this strategy, they establish global positions in equity or index options or swaps, volatility and variance swaps, convertible bonds, fixed-income options, swaptions, and other volatility instruments, FX options or volatility products and other related instruments. The firm utilizes other pooled investment vehicles as part of their investment strategies which are generally listed ETFs, mutual or money-market funds, but may include other private pooled investment vehicles.