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Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust (MIMBT) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1988 and formerly known as Delaware Management Business Trust. They are a subsidiary of Delaware Investment Management Co. LLC, ultimately held by Macquarie Group Ltd. (ASX: MQG) in Australia. MIMBT advises a variety of institutional clients. The firm also provides investment services to certain affiliates and acts as a sub-advisor to unaffiliated sponsors and investment products.

Cargill, Inc. engages in the provision of food, agricultural, financial, and industrial products and services. It specializes in food service, agriculture, meat and poultry, transportation, pharmaceutical ingredients, and beauty products. The company was founded by William Wallace Cargill in 1865 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Founded in 1997, Aviva Investors Americas LLC is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. The firm was also previously known as Aviva Capital Management, Inc. Aviva Investors Americas is a subsidiary of Aviva USA Corp. and their ultimate parent is London-based Aviva Plc (LSE: AV). The firm manages assets for life insurance and annuity companies, re-insurance companies and other institutional clients.

DWS Investment Management Americas, Inc. (DIMA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of DWS USA Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (ETR: DBK) in Germany. The firm was founded in 1984 and formerly known as Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. In 2018, they changed their name into DWS as part of the rebranding of Deutsche Asset Management. DIMA provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to various institutional clients. They also provide investment advisory services for its municipal bond strategies through wrap fee programs.

Founded in 1999, Credit Suisse Asset Management LLC (CSAM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE: CS), a publicly owned foreign bank holding company based in Switzerland.

Eagle Capital Management LLC (Eagle) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1988 by Beth and Ravenel Curry. They provide asset management services to public funds, corporate clients, endowments and foundations, union plans, pension funds, high-net-worth individuals, and pooled investment vehicles. Eagle is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Nuveen Securities LLC, formerly known as the John Nuveen & Co., Inc., is the brokerage subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc., ultimately held by TIAA Board of Overseers in the US. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm engages in the asset management and related research, as well as the development, marketing, and distribution of investment products and services for the institutional market segments. Investment products and services include closed-end exchange-traded funds, mutual funds and individually managed accounts.

Exchange Traded Concepts LLC (ETC) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The firm was founded in 2011 by Garrett Stevens as FaithShares Advisors LLC. They are principally owned by Cottonwood ETF Holdings LLC. ETC offers both passive and active discretionary investment advisory services for the (i) US-registered exchange traded funds (ETFs) and (ii) pooled investment vehicles that are not US-registered mutual funds (e.g., a private investment vehicle and offshore funds).

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

UBS Asset Management (Australia) Ltd. (UBS AM Australia) is the Australian asset management subsidiary of UBS AG (SWX: UBSG; NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. The firm was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Sydney. UBS AM Australia manages a comprehensive range of investment funds across all major asset classes; investment management services are offered in the form of segregated, pooled and advisory mandates and through a variety of registered investment funds. Their clients include superannuation funds, financial institutions, corporates, financial intermediaries and private clients.

Employers Mutual Casualty Co. provides property and life insurance and reinsurance services. It offers business, personal, life, reinsurance, and loss control services. The company was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in Des Moines, IA.

A.T. Kearney, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. Its services include strategic, operational and technology consulting executive search services. The company was founded by Andrew Thomas Kearney in 1926 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Federated Investment Management Co. (FIMCO) is a mutual fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm is a subsidiary of FII Holdings, Inc., owned by Federated Hermes, Inc. (NYSE: FHI). FIMCO offers domestic and international equity, fixed-income and money market mutual funds, and a variety of separate account options for many investors.

Principal Global Investors (Hong Kong) Ltd. (PGIHK) is an asset management firm headquartered in Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 1981 and is a subsidiary of Principal Global Investors LLC, which is ultimately owned by Principal Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFG) in the US. PGIHK provides investment advisory services to institutional investors on a discretionary or non-discretionary basis.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. operates as a wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm. It offers equity research, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, public financing and fixed income services. The firm serves individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. The company was founded by Robert Wilson Baird in 1919 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

Founded in 2001, Quantitative Services Group LLC (QSG) is a research firm located in Naperville, Illinois. The firm is a subsidiary of Markit Group Holdings Ltd. They seek to leverage the latest technology, construction techniques and specialty data to provide institutional investors a variety of global stock selection models focused on outperformance. QSG's Value Momentum Model provides a balanced approach to stock selection within the U.S. market. This model favors stocks with strong earnings quality, good valuation, strong balance sheets, positive momentum, and good earnings growth. The Value Momentum Model's approach is best for investors seeking broad exposure to a variety of proven stock selection methods and a core approach portfolio construction. The model is applied across all market-caps, investment styles and asset classes. The firm's Relative Value Model includes themes of price multiples, profitability, earnings expectations, intrinsic value and financial strength. This model is designed to avoid value traps, augment sector-relative and industry-relative viewpoints and provide a consistent source of value. QSG's Price Momentum Model provides a powerful, consistent 1- to 3-month investment signal. This model leverages put and call options and trading volume information to reduce the inherent risk-seeking nature of momentum-based strategies. The firm's GARP Model identifies growth stocks with strong value characteristics. The model consists of a proprietary combination of long-term earnings growth and relative value signals. It employs first-order partial correlation to create a blend of sustainable earnings growth and current cheapness. This model is best for strategies targeting stocks that demonstrate high long-term growth potential and the sustainability to realize that potential. QSG's Deep Value Model is a proven approach to selecting undervalued stocks across the broad US market. The Deep Value Model is designed to select future out performers over the next 9 to 12 months. The firm's Deep Value Model uses free-cash-flow, dividend yield and asset turnover to identify stocks that are currently trading at a deep discount to their intrinsic value. The Deep Value model provides discriminatory power for both long-only and long-short strategies and compliments more short term-oriented momentum and growth strategies. QSG's Earnings Momentum Model uses a proprietary search algorithm to combine analyst forecasts with the company's past earnings strength, along with several indicators of future earnings potential. The Earnings Momentum model has consistently outperformed in both pre- and post- Regulation FD environments. Utilizing a unique k-clustering factor selection technique, QSG's Historical Growth Model selects stocks with an above-average track-record of earnings growth, strong sales growth and high sustainable growth. This blended approach enables the model to identify traditional growth stocks, as well as value stocks on the verge of growth.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

ETF Managers Group LLC (ETFMG) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Summit, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Sam Masucci in 2014 and is a subsidiary of Exchange Traded Managers Group LLC. ETFMG develops innovative thematic ETFs that provide investors unique exposure to new markets.

Huatai-PineBridge Fund Management Co., Ltd. (Huatai-PineBridge FM) is an independent Chinese fund management firm which was founded in 2004 through a joint venture between Pinebridge Investment Co., Huatai Securities Co., Ltd. and Suzhou New District Hi-Tech Industrial Park Co., Ltd. Formerly known as AIG Huatai Fund Management Co. Ltd., the firm changed their name to Huatai-PineBridge Fund Management Co., Ltd. in 2010. Huatai-PineBridge FM is headquartered in Shanghai and manages a range of funds for individual and institutional investors.

Cary Group AB provides sustainable damage repair and car care services. It specializes in the repairing and changing of car glass, with complementary services such as the repairing of bodywork and paint damage. The company was founded by Kenneth Gustavsson in 1947 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

AXS Investments LLC is a registered asset management firm headquartered in Port Chester, New York. The firm was founded in 2019 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AXS Holdings LLC, which is owned by SR Partners LLC. AXS Investments provides investors and financial advisors access to institutional-quality alternative investments and education to drive improved portfolio outcomes.