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PIMCO has managed alternatives strategies for institutional clients for more than a decade. Our offerings include hedge funds andopportunistic distressed strategies with total assets of approximately $21 billion as of July 31, 2012. PIMCO’s alternatives strategiesbenefit from the firm’s global resources and investment process and are managed by investment specialists with asset-levelinsights and significant experience in alternative assets. Over 70 investment professionals throughout the firm contribute toPIMCO’s alternatives platform, including portfolio managers, credit analysts, product managers and client-facing personnel inoffices around the globe. PIMCO is a global investment management firm founded in Newport Beach, California, in 1971. The firmserves a wide range of clients around the world, including public and private pension and retirement plans, central banks,educational institutions, financial advisors and foundations and endowments. All investments contain risk and may lose value. Thismaterial has been distributed for informational purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice or arecommendation of any particular security, strategy or investment product. Information contained herein has been obtained fromsources believed to be reliable, but not guaranteed. No part of this material may be reproduced in any form, or referred to in anyother publication, without express written permission. ©2012, PIMCO.ProSharesProShares offers the nation’s largest lineup of alternative ETFs. We enable investors to go beyond the limitations of conventionalinvesting and meet today’s market challenges. We help investors build better portfolios by providing access to alternativeinvestments delivered with the liquidity, transparency and cost effectiveness of an ETF. ProShares’ lineup includes Global FixedIncome, Hedge Strategies, Geared (leveraged and inverse), and Inflation and Volatility ETFs with over $22 billion in total assetsunder management.Protégé Partners, LLCProtégé Partners, LLC ("Protégé") is a specialized asset management firm that was founded in 2002 by Jeffrey Tarrant and TedSeides to focus exclusively on investing in smaller hedge funds. Differentiated from the broader universe of hedge fund investorsthat principally focuses on large, widely held funds, Protégé is recognized as an industry expert in what it believes is the highlyattractive, less efficient, and under allocated universe of smaller hedge funds. By deploying its expertise through a unique model ofinvesting, one that blends seeding and arms-length investments, along with thematic and tactical opportunities, Protégé workswith some of the most sophisticated institutional investors in the world to compliment and complete a robust hedge fundprogram. Headquartered in New York with an office in Singapore, Protégé is 100% employee owned, maintains a substantial coinvestmentalongside clients and currently employs over 40 professionals.Providence Equity PartnersProvidence Equity Partners is one of the world’s leading alternative asset management firms specializing in equity investments inmedia, communications, education, and information companies around the world as well as liquid and illiquid credit investments.The principals of Providence’s private equity and credit platforms manage funds with $27 billion in commitments and haveinvested in several hundred companies globally since the firm’s inception in 1989. Significant existing and prior private equityinvestments include ABTL (Indus Towers), Altegrity, AutoTrader.com, Blackboard, Bresnan Communications, Com Hem, Digiturk,Education Management Corporation, eircom, ikaSystems, Grupo TorreSur, Hulu, Idea Cellular, Kabel Deutschland, NEW Asurion,PanAmSat, ProSiebenSat.1, Study Group, TDC, TVB, UFO Moviez, Univision, VoiceStream Wireless, Warner Music Group, WizeCommerce, World Triathlon Corporation, and Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network. With approximately $4.2 billion of creditassets under management, Providence’s credit platform manages several strategies including opportunistic liquid credit,opportunistic private debt and long-short liquid credit. Providence is headquartered in Providence, RI (USA) and also has offices inNew York, London, Hong Kong and New Delhi. Visit www.provequity.com for more information.Prudential Fixed IncomePrudential Fixed Income is a global fixed income asset manager with more than $356 billion in assets under management as ofSeptember 30, 2012. We offer needs-based solutions across fixed income markets to institutional investors, with a focus on creditstrategies and liability driven investing. We also offer specialized products including hedge strategies and collateralized loanobligations (CLOs). We have managed fixed income accounts for institutional clients since 1928 and currently manage assets for23 of the top Fortune 100 companies, 23 of the 100 largest global pension funds, and 7 sovereign wealth funds, central banks, andlarge government entities. We have affiliated investment offices in the U.S. (Newark, NJ), London, and Singapore. An extensiveglobal presence allows for a broad perspective of the credit markets.Pyramis Global AdvisorsPyramis Global Advisors, a Fidelity Investments company, is an asset management firm focused on developing solutions forinstitutional investors, including corporate and public retirement plans, endowments, foundations, Taft-Hartley and sovereignentities worldwide. Pyramis provides expertise across a broad asset class spectrum and a rigorous risk management platform witha commitment to seeking consistent and repeatable investment performance. Pyramis’ comprehensive global research coverage*includes specialized teams with focused expertise resulting in breadth and depth of research. Pyramis is headquartered inSmithfield, Rhode Island, with additional offices in Boston, London, Hong Kong, Toronto and Montreal. As of September 31, 2012,
Pyramis manages approximately $190 billion in assets for 630 institutional clients around the world. *Reflects combined resourcesof Pyramis and Fidelity Investments as of June 30, 2012. Research professionals include analysts and associates.RRegiment Capital Advisors, LPRegiment Capital Advisors is a Boston-based investment manager that was formed in 1999 by several principals who hadpreviously provided investment management services to the Harvard Management Company. Focused on managing fixedincome credit-related strategies, including high yield hedge funds, bank loan structured products and separately managedaccounts, the firm manages approximately $5.1 billion for investors, including leading endowments, foundations, pension funds,healthcare organizations, insurance companies and family offices. Regiment’s five partners and 27 employees are committed togenerating excellent, risk-adjusted absolute investment returns.SS.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P.S.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P. (together with its advisory affiliates, “SAC” or “the Firm”) is a private investment management firmheadquartered in Stamford, CT. The Firm began in 1992 with nine employees and approximately $25 million in assets undermanagement. As of January 1, 2013, the Firm has grown to over 1000 employees with approximately $15 billion in assets undermanagement. SAC today is a diversified, research-driven investment management firm built around a core position inDiscretionary Long/Short Equities, as well as significant positions in Quantitative and other strategies. The Firm has offices in theUS, Europe, and Asia.Saba Capital Management, L.P.Saba Capital Management, L.P. (“Saba”) is a Registered Investment Adviser launched by Boaz Weinstein in April 2009. The firm is alift-out of the Deutsche Bank proprietary credit trading group which Boaz founded in 1998. Between 1998 and 2009, the groupgrew to become one of the largest investors in the credit markets and developed new strategies in capital structure arbitrage andrelative value credit investing. As of September 2012, the firm manages $5.6 Billion, which includes approximately $4.9 Billion in itsflagship credit long/short strategy and $700 Million in its tail hedge strategy. At Saba, Boaz leads a team of 50 professionals; thesenior members of the group have worked together for over 10 years. Saba’s investment philosophy is to own convexity andoptionality throughout the credit cycles. The investment team blends traditional credit research with an analytical approach totrade construction and focuses on identifying dislocations across capital structures. The flagship fund’s primary strategies areCredit Long/Short, Capital Structure Arbitrage, and Credit Relative Value. The tail hedge strategy seeks to deliver asymmetricpositive returns during periods of market stress and invests primarily in credit default swaps and indices of related to investmentgrade companies.Scopia Capital LLCScopia Fund Management LLC (“Scopia”) is an institutional alternative asset management firm based in New York withapproximately $3.4 billion of assets under management. Founded in 2001 by Matt Sirovich and Jeremy Mindich, Scopia employs afundamentals-based, value-driven long/short equity strategy with the discipline of market neutrality to generate absolute returnsthat are uncorrelated to the broader equity markets. Scopia has been an SEC Registered Investment Adviser since 2003.Senator Investment GroupSenator Investment Group is a private investment firm founded in 2008 by Alexander Klabin and Douglas Silverman (the“Managing Partners”) to pursue opportunistic investments in distressed debt, value equities, event equities, and special situations.The Managing Partners worked together for six years at York Capital Management before founding Senator. Senator received asubstantial initial investment from the Blackstone Strategic Alliance Fund. The firm’s core strength is identifying public marketinvestments across the capital structure that are away from the crowd and private market opportunities that are, in many cases,sole-sourced. The firm has 26 employees of which 12 are investment professionals. As of December 31, 2012, Senator managestwo funds: Senator Global Opportunity Fund with $3.8 billion in AUM, and Senator Sidecar Fund which has approximately $301million of committed capital.Silver Creek Capital Management LLCSilver Creek is a leading alternative investment manager specializing in absolute return, multi-manager funds of hedge funds andprivate credit focused closed-end funds. Silver Creek has a history of managing fund-of-hedge-fund portfolios since 1994. Ownedentirely by its employees, Silver Creek has assembled a team of knowledgeable and tenured investment professionals over theyears to implement what it believes to be best practices in the pursuit of stated investment objectives and client service. SilverCreek’s 18-year history of market-leading performance and cultural integrity continue to serve as distinguishing hallmarks. Today,
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