Tony Barkan

Provides investment banking services

AGAM utilizes growth, core and specialty strategies. Their growth strategy is committed to long-term growth. They identify fundamentally strong and dynamic growth companies trading at a discount to their growth rates. The firm finds profitable investment opportunities and long-term returns by combining comprehensive, fundamental research, growth themes, risk controls and fundamental stock-picking. Portfolio construction consists of careful qualitative and quantitative analysis overseen by each strategy's lead portfolio manager. AGAM's core strategy asserts that small- and mid-cap markets are inefficient. They exploit this inefficiency with intense fundamental research and bottom-up stock-picking. The firm employs a relative value approach aimed to identify companies at the low end of their valuation range when compared to similar companies and the market overall. AGAM's objective is to achieve excess return of 3-5% over market cycles with less risk than the benchmark. They seek to deliver competitive returns in strong markets due to the undervalued earnings power of portfolio companies and superior performance in weak markets due to their quality and valuation discipline. AGAM has developed specialty strategies to extend our research edge beyond growth and core portfolios. Through these specialty strategies, they achieve specific and well-focused client goals. As with the growth and core strategies, the firm deploys intensive fundamental research, a disciplined investment process and a rigorous risk management oversight.

Clinton Group seeks to achieve consistent returns with low volatility in all of their funds through a highly systematic relative value approach that attempts to meet clients' return objectives without market forecasting or speculation. The firm employs state-of-the-art technology, quantitative analysis, market information and market experience to evaluate potential investment opportunities. They seek to hedge the component risks in securities to extract a stable and secure return. Clinton Group is an activist firm and is included in the SharkWatch50 as one the 50 most prominent activist investors.

Operates as an alternative asset management firm

Provides investment advice

Provides brokerage services

Harbinger specializes in event/distressed investment strategies. The firm seeks to invest in alpha-generating ideas that are uncorrelated to investment cycles. They generally pursue the following strategies: (1) event-driven (2) distressed/bankruptcy (3) value and (4) corporate shorts. Investments may be passive, active and control investments in a wide range of industries and countries. Harbinger combines a flexible, innovative approach to uncovering opportunity with a detailed investment process, which emphasizes rigorous fundamental research, thorough vetting of each prospective investment, and the identification of catalysts for value realization.

A Wall Street invesment bank.

Functions as a College/University