Todd Larson

Closed-end investment company

FTA is a bottom-up manager with an investment philosophy that is based on the belief that a company’s long-term value is determined by the cash flow it generates. The firm’s investment process utilizes both quantitative and qualitative analysis to assess a company’s ability to generate cash flow and its current valuation relative to intrinsic value. Investment strategies involve one or more equity or balanced strategies.

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.

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