William Glavin

Barings? investment decisions across all asset classes incorporate a comprehensive analysis that uses or combines top-down and/or bottom-up approaches to investment analysis. The firm utilizes economic, fundamental, technical/cyclical, and quantitative analyses, along with a sound understanding of both macro drivers and micro considerations in its investment decision-making process and to manage risk. They invest in a variety of fixed income and financing instruments across various industries as well as credit qualities and maturities in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa/Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Barings manages portfolios of public equity securities and equity-related securities of issuers of all sizes. The firm has teams focused on three alternative investment sectors: Real Estate, Private Equity & Real Assets, and Funds & Co-Investments.

The Boston Company Asset Management (TBCAM) offers both traditional and alternative equity investment products that encompass a variety of US, non-US and global strategies. The firm provides investment advice for the following types of strategies: US domestic equity, balanced, non-US equity, emerging markets equity and long/short equity. Portfolios generally are composed of individual securities. TBCAM seeks consistent delivery of alpha across a broad range of investment strategies. They are committed to a value-oriented, research-driven and risk-aware investment approach. TBCAM seeks to identify attractive stocks through rigorous quantitative and fundamental analyses blended with analysis of current business momentum and places controls on sector selection and, if applicable, country selection. Short sales and similar strategies are considered part of their overall investment strategy; however, they are not used across the account base in the management of account assets. The firm may use these strategies for certain accounts consistent with the client's guidelines, objectives, and restrictions.

Operates chain of department stores

BNYMIA’s investment approach is a team approach where portfolio managers and the research team share information to form a disciplined and consistent strategy that meets the client’s diversification, credit quality, liquidity and average weighted maturity requirements. The firm’s credit research function is fully independent from portfolio management and their dedicated research team employs a deliberately conservative policy, when evaluating individual credits, to help support portfolio credit quality and stability.

Provides life insurance and financial & retirement planning services

Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust

OFI focuses on delivering long-term results through active management and seeing opportunities where others may not. The firm’s methods of security analysis may include economic analysis, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, quantitative analysis and top-down analysis. OFI’s investment strategies may also be guided by (a) the investment objectives, policies, strategies, and restrictions set forth in an advisory or sub-advisory agreement, (b) any offering document or other governing document applicable to a client for whom OFI provides advisory services, and (c) applicable legal and regulatory requirements. OFI offers investment strategies in the following broad asset classes: equities, fixed income, alternatives and multi-asset. Equities include main street equity, small and mid cap growth equity, value and income equity, emerging markets equity and global equity. Fixed income has investment grade debt, high yield corporate debt, global debt, Rochester municipals, multi-sector fixed income and cash strategies. Alternatives asset class includes alternative strategies, real estate, gold and special minerals and global infrastructure securities.

Designs, manufactures and sells online sports apparel, shoes & equipment

SSBT’s Fund aims to gain exposure to the price of bitcoin, less expenses and liabilities of their operations. In seeking to achieve its investment objective, the Fund will hold bitcoin and will value its Shares daily based on the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate – New York Variant, which is an independently calculated value based on an aggregation of executed trade flow of major bitcoin spot platforms.