Stuart Douglas Bilton

Provides fleet trucking transportation insurance services

Fortis Investment Management's product offerings include investments in equities, fixed-income, currencies, structured finance and alternatives. The firm manages equity portfolios across a range of market-caps and regions using a variety of investment styles. Their fixed-income and currencies investment center manages specialized strategies including credit, duration and currency overlay offered as aggregate and absolute return portfolios. Fortis Investments Management's structured finance group manages a variety of structured fixed-income investment solutions. The firm's alternative investments include a number of investment centers that manage individual alpha strategies, such as sustainable and socially responsible investments and convertible bonds. Though not limited by sector, Fortis Investment Management tends to invest globally, primarily in the stocks of mid-cap and large-cap companies in the finance, electronic technology, health technology sectors, energy minerals and non-energy minerals sectors. The firm maintains a medium turnover rate.

As an active manager, ABN AMRO Asset Management seeks consistent performance within a well-monitored risk environment. Equity investments are biased toward quality growth companies that are expected to outperform over the long term. They favor companies that are dominant in their industries and represent quality among their peers. AAM blends company and sector views with macroeconomic analysis. Their fixed-income investment process takes financial, economic, valuation and sentiment factors into account as well as the macroeconomic climate, shifts in capital flows and trends in the market. This approach is based upon a fundamental approach to duration, yield curve and spread analysis. Portfolio management teams make the final investment decisions based primarily upon internal analyst recommendations. Research is bottom-up and fundamental with quantitative systems and screens used to support and confirm analyst ratings.

Acts as Open-End Investment Fund/Unit Trust

Provides asset management and investment services

Functions as a College/University

Functions as a College/University

Aston Asset Management provides investment management services to the Aston Funds and managed accounts markets by selecting, monitoring, and marketing experienced boutique investment managers using disciplined investment processes and best-in-class business standards. Their funds are distributed nationally through intermediaries including registered investment advisors, model platforms, broker-dealers, consultants, retirement platforms and wealth management teams. Fund asset classes include: Domestic Equity, International Equity, Balanced, Alternatives, and Fixed-Income. Their separately managed accounts are invested in domestic equities. Security selection is based on Aston's proprietary fundamental research and analysis. Aston employs highly-structured investment processes with clear valuation metrics that are designed to achieve strategy or style consistency. In selecting the managers that sub-advise their mutual funds, the firm applies a rigorous due diligence process which examines the following: firm ownership structure, financial stability and business strategy; professional qualifications, experience, depth and stability of the investment team; investment philosophy; performance history; and compliance, policies and procedures. They look for managers with clearly articulated investment philosophies that have been consistently applied over time and definable, repeatable investment processes with appropriate risk control methods and procedures. Aston also looks for managers with returns that are consistent with their investment process and strong, audited performance records. In addition, the firm looks for managers with investment insights that have been developed over a long time period, cultures that foster the idea that average is not good enough and actively-managed, high conviction, distinct investment approaches that have the potential to significantly outperform their benchmarks over time.