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Thornburg actively manages high-conviction portfolios for consistent risk-adjusted outperformance through objective observation and systematic analysis of the global markets. Their equity funds focus on a limited number of securities so that each holding can impact performance. Thornburg's equity team searches for firms that are believed to have a promising future and they seek to buy shares of those companies at a discount to their intrinsic value. On the fixed-income side, the firm conducts fundamental, bottom-up research to identify bonds they believe provide the best return for a given level of risk.

WCM aims to generate long-term, sustainable excess returns for clients. The firm seeks quality growth businesses with superior growth prospects, high returns on invested capital, and low or no debt. They employ a bottom-up, fundamental method of analysis that emphasizes long-horizon growth prospects, competitive advantages, and company cultures conducive to attracting great people.

Thornburg actively manages high-conviction portfolios for consistent risk-adjusted outperformance through objective observation and systematic analysis of the global markets. Their equity funds focus on a limited number of securities so that each holding can impact performance. Thornburg's equity team searches for firms that are believed to have a promising future and they seek to buy shares of those companies at a discount to their intrinsic value. On the fixed-income side, the firm conducts fundamental, bottom-up research to identify bonds they believe provide the best return for a given level of risk.

Turner Investments manages a variety of investment strategies focused on growth, including US domestic, global, international and long/short research-driven equity strategies. The firm also manages and administers the Turner Funds, a family of US mutual funds, and the Turner Funds plc, a family of two UCITS funds administered in Dublin, Ireland. Turner Investments' investment philosophy focuses on the long-term and seeks to achieve consistently superior investment returns. The firm employs a disciplined, systematic investment processes for each of their investment strategies and actively manages client portfolios to balance risk and return. Their investment processes are primarily based on in-depth, bottom-up fundamental research analysis, complemented by quantitative and technical analysis.

BlackRock Advisors offers investors around the world a variety of investment products that span across asset classes, market-caps, investment styles and geographic regions. Their mandates include cash management, equity, fixed income, alternative, multi-asset and quantitative equity strategies.

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.