Lesley A. Bunim

Oaktree Capital Management (OCM) focuses on investments in less efficient markets and alternative investments. The firm employs a proprietary, bottom-up investment approach. They use overall portfolio structuring as a defensive tool to help avoid dangerous concentration. The firm tends to invest in companies in the energy minerals, consumer non-durables and finance sectors. OCM invests globally across all market-caps and maintains a medium turnover rate. Their strategies include: convertibles, high yield bonds, private equity, real estate, distressed debt and emerging markets listed equities. OCM's bottom-up approach to investing in convertibles emphasizes identifying those which are likely to capture a high percentage of the appreciation of the stocks into which they are convertible while exposed to a lower percentage of any declines which may occur. The firm manages three convertibles strategies that focus on different regions and market sectors: US, international and high income. The firm's approach to high yield bond seeks the potential high yields offered by these bonds with as little risk as possible. Their high yield portfolios purchase only the debt of solvent US and Canadian corporations with a focus on senior, cash-paying securities and thorough diversification. OCM offers strategies that focus on US and European high yield bonds, as well as a high yield plus strategy, senior bank loans strategy, a European senior loans strategy and a mezzanine finance strategy. All of OCM's strategies employ fundamental credit analysis with a bias toward risk control. OCM's distressed debt investment approach seeks to combine the protection against loss that comes from buying claims on assets at bargain prices with the substantial gains achievable from returning companies to financial viability through restructuring. The firm offers two distressed debt strategies: distressed opportunities and value opportunities. The firm's private equity strategies combine a traditional private equity approach with a distress-for-control approach. The firm invests at any level of the capital structure and the use of leverage is limited. In addition to their main private equity strategy, OCM also manages strategies that focus on investments in Europe, Asia and power infrastructure. The firm makes opportunistic, bargain-oriented real estate investments with emphasis on smaller, less prominent transactions. They diversify investments thoroughly and limit the use of leverage. OCM targets a variety of global opportunities including direct property investments, corporate investments, undervalued debt, real estate-related equity securities and real estate development. Their real estate strategies emphasize risk control while focusing on the following areas: distress, inefficiency, value added and long-term growth. OCM believes that inefficiencies and price volatility in emerging markets provide opportunities to invest in misvalued securities. Their emerging markets strategy seeks opportunities in the Asia Pacific region, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia. OCM combines a bottom-up, value-driven approach with top-down risk management. The firm also employs a long/short investment strategy that seeks substantial absolute returns.

RS Investments provides investment advice to separately managed accounts and pooled investment vehicles across a range of investment strategies and styles. The firm offers value strategies, growth strategies, emerging markets, and international developed markets. In addition, they oversee the management of various fixed income strategies and a natural resources strategy (offered through the RS mutual funds). Sub-advisers manage the day-to-day investment programs of these strategies.

Victory Capital-IM is a diversified global investment management firm offering a wide array of independent investment approaches and innovative solutions designed to drive better investment outcomes.

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J. H. Whitney Investment Management seeks high absolute risk-adjusted returns in a few highly-specialized investment strategies in the public markets. The firm focuses on Asian markets, global commodity and macro markets, the US equity volatility complex and US small-cap deep value equities. J.H. Whitney offers single manager, single strategy investment alternatives, multi-manager regional-focused funds, multi-manager sector-focused funds and a multi-manager, multi-strategy fund of funds. Though not limited by sector, the firm tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the producer manufacturing, process industries, healthcare technology and finance sector. Their Pan Asia Strategy is a multi-strategy focused on Asia Pacific investments. They focus on market inefficiencies and the ability to add value through a disciplined investment process. They invest in 20-30 of the region's premier managers across the strategy spectrum. J.H. Whitney seeks to produce high risk adjusted returns, protect capital in difficult market environments and participate in upside when available. J.H. Whitney's US Long/Short Small-Cap strategy is a concentrated US long/short small-cap fund with a long-term investment focus. They seek to take advantage of public market investment ideas identified through private equity activities that J.H. Whitney was previously unable to pursue. They focus on capitalizing on inefficiencies in the small- and micro-cap segments of the public markets. Their Japanese Long Only strategy is value-orientated to take advantage of the dramatic compression of multiples. The portfolio is not limited to smaller companies; however, J.H. Whitney has identified approximately 50-75 opportunities in the small- and mid-cap space where current price levels are compelling. They have also selected some larger companies that meet their criteria. Although they look at value, they do not expect to focus narrowly on traditional deep value stocks. The firm's Japanese Long/Short strategy seeks to take advantage of inefficiencies and opportunities that exist in a liquid/developed equity market. They employ fundamentally driven stock selection, taking into consideration net investment flows. The strategy employs technical and quantitative tools as an overlay. The portfolio is focused on risk/return, with an emphasis on liquidity and diversification and seeks to generate consistent, non-correlated and risk-adjusted returns. J.H. Whitney's Asian Healthcare Long/Short strategy seeks to take advantage of favorable demographics during rapid technological advances in stocks across sub-sectors and markets. The approach is fundamentally driven and seeks to capitalize on Westernization trends and rising standards of living across the region.