Vincent J. McBride

The portion of Citigroup’s Asset Management segment housed within CGMHI is comprised primarily of two asset management business platforms: Salomon Brothers Asset Management and Smith Barney Asset Management (the “Asset Management Group”). These platforms offer a broad range of asset management products and services from global investment centers, including mutual funds, closed-end funds and managed accounts. In addition, the Asset Management Group offers a broad range of unit investment trusts.

Lord Abbett’s method of analysis varies based on each strategy. They manage a wide range of equity investment products including growth, core, and value-oriented products. The firm manages both domestic and international equity strategies, some focused on specific capitalization ranges while others look for investment opportunities in more than one capitalization category or across all capitalization levels. Lord Abbett's investment approach is based on their belief in active management and risk control. Their approach is grounded in a foundation of fundamental and quantitative research. Lord Abbett invests in fixed-income instruments across the duration and credit spectrums in both the taxable and tax-exempt market places. The firm also offers an emerging markets currency strategy. Some approaches seek investment opportunities across various sectors including government, mortgage, corporate, municipal and emerging market debt, while others are limited to one or more of those sectors. Lord Abbett's fixed-income investment teams generally rely on a combination of fundamental and quantitative research.

GE Asset Management's (GEAM) core investment strategies include US equities, international equities, fixed-income, real estate and private equity. The firm follows a disciplined, fundamental, bottom-up approach to investing in US equities. Their US equity investment approach involves rigorous analyses of financial data, including industry, sector and company information, as well as qualitative assessments of management and their ability to execute business plans. Generally, GEAM invests in companies that are industry leaders with high quality earnings and a history of creating shareholder value.GEAM's international equities approach includes a variety of strategies such as International Equity, Global Equity and Emerging Markets Equity, as well as regional and country specific mandates for Canada, Europe, Euroland, China and India. All strategies are driven by a bottom-up, fundamental research process.GEAM's fixed-income team manages a variety of investment styles and strategies that span the yield curve and credit quality universe. The firm manages a variety of products designed to meet various customer risk/return parameters. GEAM's fixed-income team follows a relative value approach, emphasizing a fundamental, bottom-up process with the objective of enhancing returns while limiting volatility.The firm's International Private Equity team invests in companies domiciled and doing a substantial portion of their business outside of the US. They focus primarily on corporate buyouts and growth-equity investments, but they also selectively consider later-stage venture capital investments. GEAM considers investment opportunities across a broad range of industrial sectors and geographic areas and pursues potential investment opportunities in both developed and emerging markets.