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Founded in 1968, SEI is a leading global provider of investment processing, investment management, and investment operations solutions that help corporations, financial institutions, financial advisors, and ultra-high-net-worth families create and manage wealth. Our investment infrastructure platforms, solutions and services help our clients remain relevant and achieve lasting success. As of June 30, 2019, SEI managed, advised or administered $970 billion in hedge, private equity, mutual fund and pooled or separately managed assets. Our corporate headquarters is in Oaks, PA, in suburban Philadelphia. We also operate from offices in Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.seic.com.

Nuveen, the investment manager of TIAA, offers a comprehensive range of outcome-focused investment solutions designed to secure the long-term financial goals of institutional and individual investors. Nuveen has more than $1 trillion in assets under management as of 30 June 2019 and operations in 23 countries. Its affiliates offer deep expertise across a comprehensive range of traditional and alternative investments through a wide array of vehicles and customized strategies. For more information, please visit www.nuveen.com.

Wincrest Capital is an asset management firm founded in 2015 by Chief Investment Officer, Barbara Ann Bernard.  Wincrest employs a fundamental value investment philosophy to global equities.  The investment approach does not change in response to market changes; rather, Wincrest changes markets, if necessary, to remain true to its value investing principles.  Wincrest dedicates time to uncovering undervalued stocks wherever in the world they may be.  As Barbara Ann’s mentor, Sir John Templeton used to explain, then, some other time, when people are overly excited, bidding prices up to higher and higher levels in their anxiety to buy, Wincrest accommodates them and sells those stocks it bought years before.  Wincrest holdings tend to be outstanding niche companies where it finds a strong alignment of interest. Wincrest conducts “go-see” and verify research on companies because Wincrest believes you get what you inspect, not what you expect.

Indus Capital Partners, LLC is an employee-owned international alternative investment management firm, offering long/ short and long-only equity strategies investing primarily in the Asia Pacific region including Japan, and in emerging markets. Indus manages capital on behalf of a diverse client base, including foundations and endowments, corporate and public pensions, high net worth individuals, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, and financial institutions. Indus is headquartered in New York, with offices in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Francisco and Shanghai.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works in more than 190 countries and territories to put children first. UNICEF has helped save more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization by providing health care and immunizations, safe water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more.
UNICEF USA supports UNICEF’s work through fundraising, advocacy and education in the United States. Together, we are working toward the day when no children die from preventable causes, and every child has a safe and healthy childhood.

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BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions, is a leading research based provider of information services to the alternative investment industry. Barclay began publishing fund data for CTAs and hedge funds in 1989 and currently maintains data on more than 26,000+ alternative investment vehicles.  BarclayHedge provides access to its hedge fund, fund of funds, and managed futures databases to thousands of investors worldwide in Excel, Access, and formats compatible with most third party analysis packages. Barclay’s 31 hedge fund indices, 10 managed futures indices, and 7 UCITS indices are universally recognized as alternative investment performance benchmarks and are utilized by investment professionals around the globe.

NICSA is a not-for-profit trade association striving to connect all facets of the global asset management industry in order to develop, share, implement, and advance leading practices. For over fifty years, NICSA has promoted an open and collaborative environment, where members’ and partners’ deep expertise and unique perspectives have come together to help strategically implement and support the industry’s most vital issues. NICSA aims to align industry participants through formal education programs, interactive forums, networking opportunities, and initiatives such as the Diversity Project North America. The goal of the Diversity Project is to accelerate progress toward a more inclusive culture across all demographics including gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age and disability.

InvestmentNews is the leading source for news, analysis and information essential to the financial advisory community. Since 1998, our standard of editorial excellence and deep industry knowledge has allowed us to educate, inform and engage the most influential financial advisers.

Through our weekly newspaper, website, newsletters, research, events, videos and webcasts, InvestmentNews provides exclusive and up-to-the-minute news, as well as actionable intelligence, that empowers financial advisers to serve their clients and run their businesses more effectively whenever, however and wherever they need it.

InvestmentNews’ headquarters is located in New York, with offices in Chicago and Washington D.C. InvestmentNews is part of London-based Bonhill Group plc.