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Iridian Asset Management is an independently owned, value-oriented investment management firm focused on active equity investment strategies for institutional investors, including foundations and endowments, corporate and public pension funds, sub-advised and Taft Hartley funds. As of September 30, 2012, assets under management totalled $7.7 billion in U.S. mid-cap, large-cap and small-cap equity strategies. Iridian was founded in 1996 by David Cohen and Harold Levy, two seasoned investment professionals who have worked side-by-side in the investment industry for over 20 years. Our unique "private business value" approach to investing, which drives our mid-cap and large-cap strategies, has its roots in their early investment careers, which encompassed direct experience in private equity, venture capital, distressed debt and bankruptcy takeovers. In analyzing investment opportunities, our founders learned the importance of focusing on cash-related metrics and in-depth, critical assessment of a company's management — two key factors that have been fundamental in shaping a shared and distinctive investment philosophy. In December 2009, the co-portfolio management team of Jordan D. Alexander and Stephen A. Friscia, Jr. joined Iridian to manage a Small-Cap Value strategy. Jordan and Stephen have worked together since 1998 and have co-managed small cap value strategies as a team since 2000. Today, Iridian is built around a collaborative team of experienced investment professionals managing a range of traditional investment strategies for institutional investors.

FTAM uses both fundamental and quantitative research as methods of analysis for their investment strategies; however, their investment approach does not fall into either the traditional fundamental or quantitative categories. The firm believes that while stock markets are efficient most of the time, behavioral anomalies can arise under certain circumstances, resulting in exploitable mispricing opportunities. FTAM’s strategies primarily invest in US listed companies and are a long only or a long/short strategy and may employ futures, ETFs and leverage. Their investment strategies include small-cap growth, small-cap value, small-cap core, behavioral small-cap equity, mid-cap value, micro-cap, low volatility behavioral equity market neutral and behavioral unconstrained equity.

Maverick Capital’s investment process is driven by intensive, fundamental bottom-up research. They deploy capital to individual investment opportunities that it believes offer the highest returns relative to risk, regardless of index weightings, market capitalization or style orientations. Their research is augmented by a top-down view of individual industries, as well as the efforts of their quantitative research team. While fundamentals still drive security selection, the quantitative research effort plays an important role in Maverick’s portfolio construction, security selection and risk management. The firm’s investment team is organized into six industry sector teams: Consumer, Financials, Healthcare, Industrials, Media & Telecom and Technology. The industry sector teams are supported by two discipline research teams: private investments and quantitative. The firm’s founder – Lee S. Ainslie III – has ultimate responsibility for all portfolio decisions for Maverick Funds and related Separate Account Clients.

CHS focuses exclusively on investments in middle-market companies. They invest in the business and consumer services, consumer products, distribution and infrastructure and industrial products sectors. The firm prefers to make control investments, but they may also make minority investments. CHS also seeks add-on acquisitions of any size for their existing portfolio companies. The firm does not invest in turnarounds or venture capital opportunities. CHS looks for companies operating in industries where end-use demand is growing. They also look for companies with exceptional management teams, sustainable competitive advantages and multiple opportunities to increase sales and earnings, both internally and through add-on acquisitions. The firm requires the companies in which they invest to have systems and controls in place that allow performance to be evaluated against detailed business plans.