Johann Ropers

AXA IM-UK focuses on investment areas where they have a competitive edge within each asset class. They are organized in small investment teams dedicated to a specific instrument, sector, region or strategy. Each team is supported by a shared pool of fundamental research resources and empowered to make investment decisions. With fundamental research at the core of their process, their investment professionals seek out and develop sources of alpha across world markets. AXA IM-UK's research is organized along investment strategy, equity and fixed-income and is supported by proprietary quantitative resources and an extensive company visit program.

Soditic AM is an absolute return-oriented investment manager that seeks to provide superior risk adjusted investment returns by focusing on: (1) the preservation of capital; (2) aligning the interests of the management company with those of its investors and employees; and (3) taking a long-term approach to investing by prioritizing investment process over short term results.

PGF is an active, growth-oriented investor and aims to outperform benchmarks on a long-term basis. They manage portfolios invested exclusively in long equity across market caps, sectors and regions. Their main strategies include global equity, Europe mid-cap equity, and US equity. The firm performs bottom-up, fundamental stockpicking. They conduct research in-house and aim to identify global trends and the companies and sectors on which these trends will potentially have an influence. They primarily select companies with successful business models and good growth prospects within expanding industries. Their market timing strategy is based on stringent valuation analyses. PGF controls risk through portfolio diversification and by balancing their holdings at the stock, industry and market levels.