Industry Recognized for Our Risk-Focused Approach

Amid changing and oftentimes volatile market conditions, we believe the three pillars of our investment process — Fundamentals, Valuations and Technicals — help us both avoid investment pitfalls and identify opportunities. Our focus on the balance between risk and return, or what we refer to as return symmetry, is a natural extension of our investment process. We believe the PSN awards are a direct reflection of our risk-focused approach.

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PSN Rankings: The PSN universes were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and use only gross of fee returns. PCA pays a subscription fee for access to Informa data, but no fee is paid to participate in a PSN ranking universe. Mutual fund and commingled fund products are not included in the universe. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim that they are GIPS compliant.

PSN Manager of the Decade Criteria: The PSN universes were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and use only gross of fee returns. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim that they are GIPs compliant. Mutual fund and commingled fund products are not included in the universe. Products must have an r-squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the latest ten year period. Moreover, products must have returns greater than the style benchmark for the latest ten-year period and also standard deviation less than the style benchmark for the latest ten-year period. At this point, the top ten performers for the latest ten-year period become the PSN Top Guns Manager of the Decade. The PSN Short Maturity Universe is composed of 135 firms and 248 products.

PSN Six Star Top Guns Criteria: The peer groups were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and uses only gross of fee returns. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim that they are GIPs compliant. Products must have an R-Squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the recent five year period. Moreover, products must have returns greater than the style benchmark for the three latest three-year rolling periods. Products are then selected which have a standard deviation for the five year period equal or less than the median standard deviation for the peer group. The top ten information ratios for the latest five-year period then become the TOP GUNS.

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