Craig Shapiro

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Ospraie Management focuses on directional investing in basic industry equities and commodities on a global basis. The firm relies on fundamental research to select and monitor commodities investments. They seek to determine microeconomic imbalances or inevitabilities that will drive a commodity's price over a medium or long term cycle. Ospraie's research process attempts to incorporate multiple variables that determine the end price of a commodity, including, but not limited to, the available supply of the commodity and the cost of production including extracting or harvesting, transporting, processing and distributing such commodity. It also incorporates current and projected demand for the commodity based on relative and absolute price levels and global economic factors. In addition, the relative availability of inventory in respect to a specified commodity to the world markets is factored into Ospraie's analytical model.

Plural Investments manages a multi-strategy hedge fund. The firm tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the process industries, producer manufacturing and healthcare services sectors. Plural Investments invests across all market-caps, with emphasis on the stocks of mid-cap and large-cap companies. Most of their investments are in US companies, but they also invest in Europe and Asia. Plural Investments maintains a high turnover rate

Union Avenue Advisors manages a global equity hedge fund that invests in the international financial markets with a specific focus on the Asian, Latin American and EAME (Europe/Africa/Middle East) equity markets.