Karl John Zeile

The firm's portfolio managers, research specialists and traders are organized into teams by asset class. SCM provides several different investment approaches to both its international and domestic equity portfolios. For its capital appreciation equity management, the firm emphasizes current economic environment and secular themes. In particular, long-term economic trends, Federal Reserve policy and market liquidity serve as a macroeconomic backdrop to the overall direction of the markets. For equity stock selection, disciplined, fundamental research with emphasis on the following characteristics are practiced: strong fundamentals, accelerating earnings and sales, accelerating return on equity, expanding market share, low cost producers, quality management and positive earnings surprises. Its bottom-up security analysis emphasizes management, cash flow, earnings growth, balance sheet strength, competitive position, discounted cash flow and relative p/e ratio.

CGTC employs a long-term investment approach that is based on rigorous fundamental research. The firm uses a system of multiple portfolio managers in managing most separate account and fund assets. Under this approach, the portfolio of an account or fund is divided into segments managed by individual managers who decide how their respective segments will be invested. In addition, investment analysts may make investment decisions with respect to a portion of the portfolio. The firm offers equity, fixed-income, balanced, and other customized investment strategies based on the investment objectives of CGTC clients. CGTC's equity strategies include: US Equity, International Equity, Global Equity, All Country World Equity, International All Countries Equity, and Emerging Markets Equity. The firm's fixed-income strategies include: US Core Fixed-Income, Long Duration Government, Long Duration Credit, US High-Yield, International Fixed-Income, Global Fixed-Income, Global High-Income Opportunities, and Emerging Markets Debt. CGTC's balanced and total opportunities strategies include: US Balanced, Global Balanced, Absolute Income Grower, World Dividend Growers, and Emerging Markets Total Opportunities.

EVM invests in a wide range of financial instruments and asset classes. Their evaluation of investment alternatives places primary emphasis and reliance upon fundamental analysis of issuers of equity and debt securities; political, economic, and industry developments; money and capital market conditions, with attention to interest rate patterns; and any other factors that, in EVM’s judgment, may have an impact on the value of an investment.

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CRMC-FII manages fixed income portfolios that seek to capture the risk and return characteristics of other investment vehicles with the same investment strategy. To manage this type of portfolio, they implement a proprietary solution that utilizes a commercially available third-party risk model to help identify the characteristics of the underlying holdings of the strategy. The firm’s fixed-income investment strategy takes a more top-down view of the factors impacting the markets. Core fixed-income portfolios are constructed based on duration, sector allocation and security selection.