Dessie Locher

AEIM focuses on a number of investment themes which include External Debt, Local Currency, Corporate Debt, Equities and Alternatives. The firm’s equity themes believe that Emerging and Frontier Markets are highly inefficient and provide strong potential for significant alpha generation through actively managed, high conviction and investment focused approaches. The Investment Committee collectively manages all portfolios and meets formally on a weekly basis to review markets, determine our investment strategy, and manage portfolios. They have a specialist, long-term value-driven approach starting with macro, top-down active management.

1919ic is an active manager who seeks to maximize total return and minimize risk through their core investments capabilities of large- to mid-cap domestic equity and fixed income portfolios. The firm’s equity strategy focuses on high or improving quality stocks and employs a bottom-up approach. Their equity portfolio typically contains 30-60 individual stock holdings. Portfolio managers construct customized portfolios with the help of research analysts, based on client considerations. 1919ic utilizes a total rate of return, disciplined, relative value approach for their fixed income strategies. The duration and term-structure decisions are top-down while sector weighting decisions are bottom-up.

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