Anand Vankawala

Loomis Sayles bases their overall investment approach on the premise that their disciplined, research-based investment strategies can identify market inefficiencies that can lead to consistent outperformance of benchmarks. The firm's fixed-income research team seeks to identify attractive securities and assign ratings to various issues. Their equity investment approach is based on their belief that equity markets are inefficient. Loomis Sayles employs an intensive bottom-up investment analysis with the goal of delivering superior risk adjusted performance.

Century Capital Management mainly invests in the common stocks of US small- and mid-cap companies. The firm also serves as the advisor to one mutual fund that invests in US companies with mid-to-large market-caps. Century’s primary method of analysis is fundamental, bottom-up research. They analyze a company’s competitive advantage, potential for growth in revenue and earnings, return on equity, quality of management, and the ability of the company’s capital structure to sustain future growth. Quantitative tools are used to augment fundamental research, and each prospective holding is subject to a rigorous intrinsic valuation analysis. The Small Cap Growth strategy and Century Small Cap Select Fund invest primarily in the common stocks of US companies with small market-caps typically not exceeding that of the largest company in the Russell 2000 index over the prior 12 months that have a growth orientation. The Small-Mid Cap Growth strategy and Century Growth Opportunities Fund invest primarily in the common stocks of small and medium-sized US companies with market-caps of $800 million to $6 billion selected for their growth potential. The Small Cap Value strategy invests primarily in the common stocks of companies with small market-caps that have a relative value orientation. The strategy invests in companies across all sectors of the economy and may include investments in foreign securities. Century Shares Trust invests primarily in the common stocks of US companies. The fund typically invests in large and medium sized companies, but may invest in any company without regard to market-cap. The fund invests in companies across all sectors of the economy, but may favor companies in particular sectors or industries at different times. The Small-Mid Cap strategy invests primarily in the common stocks of small and medium-sized US companies with market-caps of $500 million to $10 billion selected for their growth potential.

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