Todd Murray

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.

SSBT’s Fund aims to gain exposure to the price of bitcoin, less expenses and liabilities of their operations. In seeking to achieve its investment objective, the Fund will hold bitcoin and will value its Shares daily based on the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate – New York Variant, which is an independently calculated value based on an aggregation of executed trade flow of major bitcoin spot platforms.

Aladdin Capital Management manages alternative fixed-income investments including hedge funds, CDOs and structured investment vehicles. The firm invests globally and provides investors with access to a comprehensive range of credit focused investment products. Their alternative asset management platform offers credit expertise across a range of sectors including investment grade, high yield, bank loans, ABS, RMBS, and CMBS. Within the alternative spectrum, both structured product and hedge fund sub-asset classes are offered. Aladdin also offers cash flow, hybrid and synthetic CDO structures. The firm's products customized to meet each client's specific investment objectives. With regard to CLOs, Aladdin is a value-focused manager that focuses on investments in credits and sectors with stable cash flow profiles and attractive default and recovery histories over the long-term. The firm seeks to maximize risk-adjusted returns through diversified portfolios, strong credit selection, comprehensive knowledge of structures and the application of these skills to each of their CLOs. Aladdin's ABS group manages the firm's exposure to the RMBS, MBS and CMBS securities markets. They have expertise across multiple channels of the origination, securitization and investment portions of the structured products markets and have significant expertise in sourcing, analyzing and investing in products for investors. Aladdin Credit Partners (ACP) is a joint venture between Aladdin's co-founders and Aladdin Capital Holdings LLC. They focus on investments in restructuring-related situations including rescue financing, debtor-in-possession (DIP) credit facilities and DIP-to-POR credit facilities in both the institutional and middle market. Debt structures may include working capital financing, first and second lien enterprise value term loan facilities and other credit-focused credit instruments. ACP invests in a broad range of products, industries and situations to meet their clients' needs. They maintain extensive relationships in the bankruptcy, commercial banking, investment banking, and alternative investment communities in the US and abroad. ACP's approach is constructed around their extensive credit-focused and research expertise and benefits from their affiliation with Aladdin Capital Holdings LLC.

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PCM’s investment strategies are focused on corporate credit, structured products collateralized by corporate credit, and distressed debt and equity. The firm invests primarily in broadly syndicated loans, debt and equity of public and private companies, as well as securities issued by CLOs. PCM identifies and selects investment opportunities using a disciplined assessment of the fundamental value underpinning each security or loan. The firm employs a “buy-and-hold” investment strategy augmented by ongoing relative value portfolio rebalancing.