Mark A. Mitchell

GE Asset Management's (GEAM) core investment strategies include US equities, international equities, fixed-income, real estate and private equity. The firm follows a disciplined, fundamental, bottom-up approach to investing in US equities. Their US equity investment approach involves rigorous analyses of financial data, including industry, sector and company information, as well as qualitative assessments of management and their ability to execute business plans. Generally, GEAM invests in companies that are industry leaders with high quality earnings and a history of creating shareholder value. GEAM's international equities approach includes a variety of strategies such as International Equity, Global Equity and Emerging Markets Equity, as well as regional and country specific mandates for Canada, Europe, Euroland, China and India. All strategies are driven by a bottom-up, fundamental research process. GEAM's fixed-income team manages a variety of investment styles and strategies that span the yield curve and credit quality universe. The firm manages a variety of products designed to meet various customer risk/return parameters. GEAM's fixed-income team follows a relative value approach, emphasizing a fundamental, bottom-up process with the objective of enhancing returns while limiting volatility. The firm's International Private Equity team invests in companies domiciled and doing a substantial portion of their business outside of the US. They focus primarily on corporate buyouts and growth-equity investments, but they also selectively consider later-stage venture capital investments. GEAM considers investment opportunities across a broad range of industrial sectors and geographic areas and pursues potential investment opportunities in both developed and emerging markets.

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Security Investors seeks to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns through investments in domestic equities, global equities, fixed-income securities and alternative investments. The firm's domestic equity strategy follows a value-oriented approach and target companies where the stock price does not reflect their internal assessment of intrinsic value, based on their assessment of long-term fundamental expectations and/or risk profile. Their global equity strategy employs a bottom-up stock selection process in a global context. Security Investors fixed-income strategy focuses on the selection of issues based on both structure and credit. They employ top-down decision-making, fundamental analysis and rigorous management of credit risk.

GE Capital Equity seeks investment opportunities in middle market companies located in the United States with EBITDA of USD 5 million and revenue of USD 35 million. The firm targets companies operating across a broad range of sectors. It provides financing for buyouts, growth and special situations capital requirements with an investment size of USD 1 - 15 million in the form of equity and debt. It takes co-investor and minority investment.

Citigroup Private Bank's global investment opportunities across asset classes via capital markets strategies, discretionary portfolios, and third-party managers. They utilize a core and opportunistic wealth framework, in which they identify a broadly diversified core portfolio based on the long-term plan they create using their proprietary asset allocation methodology.