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in Colombia serving as a financial consultant to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit. Mr. Gomez was named one of the
rising stars of mutual funds by Institutional Investor News (2009). He is chairman of the oversight committee for the Markit GEMX
emerging markets indices and also serves on other committees pertaining to emerging markets. He has 17 years of investment
experience and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also received his
undergraduate degree.
PIMCO: Inflation-Indexed Securities Segment. Mr. Worah is a managing director in the Newport Beach office, a portfolio
manager, and head of the Real Return portfolio management team. He was previously a member of the analytics team and
worked on real and nominal term structure modeling and options pricing. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2001, he was a postdoctoral
research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where he built models to
explain the difference between matter and anti-matter. He has 10 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical
physics from the University of Chicago.
First Quadrant: Global Macro Segment and Currency Segment. As a quantitative manager, First Quadrant employs a centralized
team-based approach to investment research and portfolio management. Both functions are internal to FQ and not reliant on
third-party providers. The mission of the internal Investment Research team is to continuously improve the multi-factor models
used across First Quadrant strategies.
Ken Ferguson, Dori Levanoni, and Ed Peters are primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the global macro segment
of the Academic Strategies Portfolio.
Ken Ferguson, PhD, is one of two First Quadrant partners co-heading the firm’s global macro research function. He is involved in
all aspects of product development: model building, risk measurement, risk allocation, and portfolio optimization. On joining First
Quadrant in 1994, Mr. Ferguson was initially focused on tactical asset allocation, currency, and global macro strategies.
Dori Levanoni is a First Quadrant partner co-heading the firm’s global macro research function. He also is involved in all aspects
of product development: model building, risk measurement, risk allocation, and portfolio optimization. On joining the investment
research team in 1998, Dori was initially focused on tactical asset allocation, currency, and global macro strategies and
subsequently served as manager of currency research and director of the currency product.
Ed Peters is a First Quadrant partner co-heading the firm’s Global Macro Strategies. He is involved in all aspects of product
development: model building, risk measurement, risk allocation, and portfolio optimization. Prior to joining First Quadrant he
spent 23 years with PanAgora Asset Management where he was, over time, an equity portfolio manager, Director of Tactical Asset
Allocation, Chief Investment Officer of Macro Investments, and Chief Investment Officer.
Ken Ferguson, Dori Levanoni and Jeppe Ladekarl are primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the currency
segment of the Academic Strategies Portfolio. Biographies for Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Levanoni are included above.
Jeppe Ladekarl joined First Quadrant as a Director and a member of the Global Macro investment team in November 2009.
Before joining First Quadrant Jeppe Ladekarl was the Principal Portfolio Manager for the currency and global tactical asset
allocation portfolios managed by the World Bank Pension and Endowments Department. Mr. Ladekarl managed the team that
allocates funds to external GTAA and active currency managers. In addition, he was responsible for the internally managed global
macro strategy investing and traded in a broad array of FX, fixed income, credit and equity markets.
AlphaSimplex: Hedge Fund Replication Segment. Andrew W. Lo founded AlphaSimplex in 1999 and currently serves as the firm’s
Chief Investment Strategist. He is also Chairman of AlphaSimplex’s Investment Committee and a member of AlphaSimplex’s Risk
Committee. Dr. Lo is the Harris & Harris Group Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of MIT’s
Laboratory for Financial Engineering.
Jeremiah H. Chafkin has served as President of AlphaSimplex since 2007. He is also a member of AlphaSimplex’s Investment
Commitee and Risk Committee. From 2006 until November 2007, Mr. Chafkin was President and Chief Executive Officer of the
U.S. division of Natixis Global Asset Management. Prior to that time, he headed investment advice and research for Charles
Schwab & Co. and served as president of Charles Schwab Investment Management.
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