Roger Crandall

Barings? investment decisions across all asset classes incorporate a comprehensive analysis that uses or combines top-down and/or bottom-up approaches to investment analysis. The firm utilizes economic, fundamental, technical/cyclical, and quantitative analyses, along with a sound understanding of both macro drivers and micro considerations in its investment decision-making process and to manage risk. They invest in a variety of fixed income and financing instruments across various industries as well as credit qualities and maturities in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa/Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Barings manages portfolios of public equity securities and equity-related securities of issuers of all sizes. The firm has teams focused on three alternative investment sectors: Real Estate, Private Equity & Real Assets, and Funds & Co-Investments.

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Baring North America's (BNA) investment approach focuses on identifying favorable earnings surprise and valuation characteristics through fundamental research. They seek companies and markets whose attractive growth prospects are not fully reflected in their prices. The firm's core equity portfolios are diversified large-cap portfolios that typically offer above market growth characteristics at or at a reasonable premium to market valuations. BNA's growth criteria embrace companies delivering growth in earnings per share in the top 60% of their universes. The firm's systematic equity investment process embraces hands-on fundamental stock research and analysis to generate proprietary earnings forecasts and relative valuation targets and quantitative analysis and screening to focus their research and generate buy and sell ideas. BNA's investment teams use a common framework and template for equity research, which focuses on growth, management, value creation and valuation criteria. Their regional equity teams are responsible for portfolio strategy and stock selection for specialist regional equity portfolios as well as the regional portion of their global and multi-asset mandates. The asset allocation team is responsible for regional/country strategy in their global and multi-asset portfolios and for sector policy at the global and multi-asset mandate level. The output of their fundamental and quantitative research is used to rank each stock and to shape buy and sell decisions. Teams review stocks continuously following company meetings and announcements. BNA's fixed-income processes are characterized by fundamental research and disciplined portfolio construction techniques. They also use technical analysis, particularly in currency allocation research. The firm's credit research leverages off the equity research capabilities of the firm. They invest in bonds issued by governments, agencies, corporates as well as emerging market sovereign, mortgages and asset-backed securities. BNA includes bonds across the rating spectrum from Aaa to Caa, according to the risk tolerance and guidelines of their clients.

Barings Real Estate Advisers (BREA) offers investment services through open and closed end private funds, separate accounts, co-investment programs, joint ventures, and mutual funds. BREA's equity investment strategy is based on the premise that real estate is cyclical in nature, and as a result, different property types and economic regions respond independently to market dynamics. All of the firm's strategies are infused with a barrier market approach, as barrier markets have the potential for higher income growth over time that is not always reflected in current pricing. The firm's private equity investment philosophy is a value-based approach based on well informed purchases of undervalued real estate, analyzing investment fundamentals and with a focused strategy supported by research and hands-on market knowledge. Their debt investment strategy has a fundamental value orientation and seeks to determine where value exists within and between markets, based on bottom up analysis of individual investments and how they compare to alternatives in a risk/reward framework. BREA seeks to capitalize on market inefficiencies that may affect individual investments, and attempts to capture incremental return advantages to provide more consistent long-term investment results. Prudent diversification is employed to safeguard against unforeseen adverse events. Brea offers advisory services in the following real estate-related investment sectors: Public Real Estate Securities; Model Portfolios; Equity Investments in Real Estate; Real Estate Debt and Alternative Investments; Mortgage Loan Servicing; and Private Investment Funds. The firm has affiliate and/or sub-advisory relationships with OppenheimerFunds, Inc., Barings Capital Real Estate Asia Ltd. (formerly known as Babson Capital Cornerstone Asia Ltd.), and Barings Real Estate Advisers Europe Finance LLP.

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