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Freeman Investment Management Co.'s investment approach is based on the idea that low volatility stocks offer higher risk-adjusted returns. The firm believes that while most of the equity market, as defined by the Russell 3000 Index, is efficiently priced, about one-third of it is not. They believe that investors are rarely, if ever, adequately compensated for the risk accompanying the most volatile stocks. The firm offers market beta, alternative beta and zero beta strategies. Their market beta strategies include: Large-Cap Core, Large-Cap Core Value and Large-Cap Value. Freeman's Alternative Beta strategies include: Efficient Value and Small-Cap Efficient Value. The firm's Zero Beta strategy is referred to as Fair Value. The firm's flagship market beta strategies, Large-Cap Core and Large-Cap Core Value, are benchmarked against the S&P 500 index and maintain a value bias while seeking to outperform the Russell 1000 without style restrictions. Their Large-Cap Value market beta strategy employs a pure value investment approach that is benchmarked against the Russell 1000. Freeman's Alternative Beta Efficient Value strategy invests in a portfolio of the most stable and fundamentally attractive stocks with low volatility/downside risk that offer much more compelling risk -adjusted returns than the benchmark. Their Alternative Beta Small-Cap Efficient Value strategy seeks to add value while simultaneously reducing exposure to uncompensated total volatility. Freeman's Zero Beta Fair Value investment strategy is a deep value, low beta strategy that seeks to capitalize on the respectively high and low risk-adjusted returns to low and high volatility stocks. Though not limited by sector, the firm tends to invest in the stocks of US companies in the finance, consumer non-durables and health technology sectors. Freeman invests across all market-caps. They maintain a high turnover rate.

Analytic Investors employs a quantitative investment approach through which investment recommendations are model-driven. The firm seeks to meet their clients' objectives through rational, systematic identification of market opportunities, while minimizing the impact of human emotions that often dominate investment decision-making. Analytic Investors' quantitative methods bring together the best attributes of individual security selection and unbiased portfolio modeling, yielding a management style that is both disciplined and responsive. In providing investment management services, the firm manages client assets which include long-only and long-short mandates. Analytic Investors offers Low Volatility, Benchmark-Oriented, and Options Programs. Their Benchmark-Oriented strategies include: US Core Equity, US Core Equity Plus, Global Core Equity Plus, US SMID 130/30 Equity, US Value Equity, US Enhanced Equity, and Japan Equity. Their Low Volatility Programs include US Low Volatility Equity, US Small Cap Low Volatility Equity, US All Cap Low Volatility Equity, Global Low Volatility Equity, Global Small Cap Low Volatility Equity, Global All Cap Low Volatility Equity, ACWI Low Volatility Equity,, and Emerging Markets Low Volatility Equity. The firm's Absolute Return Programs include US Market Neutral, Japanese Equity Market Neutral, and Global Long/Short.

Ten Asset Management's research process combines a quantitative factor-driven value style with a relative value approach within each industry and sector. They seek to identify well managed companies with discounted fundamental valuations and significant growth potential. The firm evaluates stocks on the following factors: fundamentals, technical analysis, market opinion and management behavior. They look for firms selling at a discount on a number of basic valuation measures. They also look for stocks with strengthening patterns of analyst earnings revisions. They avoid companies that appear cheap due to significant price declines and seek to capitalize on market overreaction to short term news and under reaction to long term developments.

Denali Advisors is a quantitative-based, institutional investment management firm which specializes in US value equities. Their approach focuses on identifying equity securities that possess high earnings coupled with lower relative liquidity. The firm uses non-biased, fundamental research in a scalable, systematic process based on their Network Value theory of investing. They seek out underappreciated, high earning stocks that have lower trading volume relative to their comparable which strives to build risk-controlled portfolios that outperform in various market environments.

Functions as a College/University

Functions as a College/University