Merlin W. Tolstyk

Certium Asset Management employs passive, active and quantitative strategies to provide clients with risk controlled exposure to equity markets. Their proprietary models utilize historical data to identify high potential investment candidates they believe possess the best combination of earnings and relative valuation characteristics. Certium offers three risk-controlled investment strategies. They seek to capture outperformance by selecting securities with characteristics they believe are superior to their peers, but with an emphasis on selling those securities that are not meeting expectations. Certium's International Equity Index strategy seeks investment results that correspond to the aggregate price performance of the securities included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International MSCI EAFE GDP- Weighted Index. They employ a stratified sampling of the MSCI EAFE GDP-weighted Index to select stocks and a multi-factor risk model and quadratic portfolio optimization to determine portfolio weights. The portfolio is available through individually managed accounts and sub-advisory relationships. Certium's Domestic Equity strategy seeks to generate investment results that correspond to the S&P 500. This portfolio is available through individually managed accounts. The firm's Large-Cap Quantitative Equity strategy invests in US large-cap companies with the most attractive earnings, growth prospects and valuation characteristics within their respective sector. The portfolio is available through individually managed accounts and sub-advisory relationships. Their International Quantitative Equity strategy invests in international companies with the most attractive earnings growth prospects and valuation characteristics within their respective region and sector. The portfolio is available through individually managed accounts. Certium's Large-Cap US Equity 130/30 strategy seeks to generate alpha (risk adjusted return relative to the benchmark) by establishing long and short equity positions in US companies. The portfolio is available through individually managed accounts. Their International Equity strategy invests primarily in the common stocks and other equity securities of foreign companies that have the best combination of relative value and earnings growth. The strategy utilizes company-specific research and analysis to identify companies whose stocks rank well on quantitative measures and which also have solid business fundamentals. This portfolio is available through individually managed accounts and sub-advisory relationships.

Ridgeworth employs a comprehensive allocation process that enables them to develop an efficient and appropriate asset allocation for each client. The process incorporates an objective analytical framework that three distinct activities: efficient frontier modeling, plus tactical overlay and asset allocation. Through efficient frontier modeling they derive long-term strategic investment solutions using expected returns, standard deviations and cross-correlation matrix analysis. Their plus tactical overlay evaluates asset class performance and looks for extremes and absolute and relative performance. Riverfront's portfolio maintenance strategy maintains the optimal allocation through systematic and unemotional rebalancing.