Stephen Michael Tong

Lazard AM-UK is an active manager that manages across a wide range of global, regional and country-specific strategies - both traditional and alternative - in listed equity and fixed income. The firm follows a relative value investment philosophy and employs a bottom-up approach to seek higher-than-average returns which are undervalued. They construct portfolios based on in-house fundamental analysis performed by sector teams organized by industry. Their investment professionals integrate ESG analysis into their research and decision-making processes.

ABL is a research-driven, GARP-oriented manager which utilizes a bottom-up stock selection approach and performs fundamental research, seeking to invest in companies with sustainable fundamental growth and attractive valuation. Their portfolios are actively traded to capitalize on the volatility in individual stocks and the overall market. The firm offers a comprehensive range of investment services across regions and along the risk-and-return spectrum including style-pure growth equities and value equities, style blend equities, fixed-income, index and structured services, alternative investments and customized and packaged multi- asset class solutions.

Vontobel AM is an active asset manager with global reach and a multi-boutique approach.

AB Japan is a research-oriented manager which follows a growth-and-value investment approach. The firm invests globally in equity and fixed-income with a focus on Japan, Asia and the US. Their investment process emphasizes bottom-up stock-picking based on in-house fundamental research, supplemented with quantitative analysis. AB Japan's fixed-income investment approach is top-down, based on a macroeconomic view as well as interest rate trend and yield curve analysis, supplemented with quantitative modeling. The investment process starts with global asset allocation and aims at exploiting market inefficiencies.