Carolyn Patton

MIMBT maintains a flexible strategy designed to conform with various clients’ individual investment objectives. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, debt, and balanced portfolios. They invest in the public equity and debt markets of the US, non-US, and other emerging economies. MIMBT seeks growth-oriented value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap companies. The firm selects countries by utilizing a top-down approach and selects stocks using fundamental analysis with a bottom-up approach.

JHIUS offers US equity, global and international equity, fixed income, asset allocation and alternative investment strategies, including long-short portfolios. For their fundamental investment strategies, the firm seeks to add value versus benchmarks by actively pursuing alpha generation through their own intensive fundamental research. They utilize two complementary processes: a top-down macro analysis and a bottom-up risk/reward analysis.

Turner Investment Partners (TIP) provides investment management and distribution services. The firm's investment strategies include: US growth equity, international/global growth equity, long/short equity, 130/30 equity, core/value equity and quantitative equity. TIP invests in growth and value stocks of all market-caps and in bonds of various maturity averages. The firm applies uniform investment processes to all their stock and bond portfolios and mutual funds. Their investment process maintains a strong sector focus. They employ a three-step investment process begins with a proprietary model that uses over 70 factors to screen securities. An analysis that is updated monthly determines which factors can predict strong earnings and growth in each sector. Only those securities that are identified in the top third of their asset class in each sector are targeted for potential purchase. TIP then performs thorough fundamental analysis on potential companies. TIP track a company's money flow and strength relative to its peers and its overall sector. When the fundamentals are strong, the firm uses technical analysis to identify the best time to buy a security. For those products closely tied to a specific benchmark, Turner maintains sector weightings totally in line with the benchmark. A security may be sold if: (1) earnings are lower than expected (2) fundamentals deteriorate and/or (3) if better investment opportunities are identified.

SIMC's strategic focus is on active asset management, which consists of five key components: asset allocation, portfolio design, sub-advisor selection, portfolio construction and risk management. Their philosophy and process offer clients personalization, diversification, coordination and management and represents a strategy geared toward achieving long-term investment goals in various financial climates. The firm manages products across a very wide range of investment strategies.

Functions as a College/University

MSIM is an active manager which works to outperform the market and deliver results for their clients. The firm performs bottom-up fundamental research to analyze the industries and companies in which they invest.