Tatton Investment Management Due Diligence Document Completed by: Sean Bryan

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1 Tatton Investment Management Due Diligence Document Completed by: Sean Bryan Version: 02/07/13

2 Basic Information 1. Contracted Entity Cambridge Investment Management Ltd trading as Tatton Investment Management 2. What is your corporate background? Tatton Investment Management was founded in October 2012 and is part of the Paradigm Group of companies. We are a specialist investment manager that provides portfolio management services sourced from the whole of the investment management industry to a wide range of customers, including private clients, trusts and pension funds. It was established by Lothar Mentel, chief investment officer (CIO), who has 19 years of investment industry experience. Lothar also serves as CIO for the Paradigm Group. Though at the early-stage of development, Tatton has already rolled out a successful range of partnered solutions with a number of expert providers. We provide solutions only through professional advisers and ensure that clients needs and requirements are constantly taken into account. We believe, this gives you complete peace of mind that your investments and future investment goals are our priority. Our approach involves the daily monitoring and management of a client s portfolio and exposure to all relevant asset classes. Portfolios are constructed in line with leading adviser technology, which we argue ensures that there is a clear link between your portfolio and your investment objective, time horizon, attitude to and capacity for risk. 3. What is your investment approach? We analyse the global macroeconomic outlook and the potential impact(s) on client portfolios on a daily basis. We utilise research from some of the major financial institutions in the world to help guide our views. These include Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, BNP, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and UBS. This is also backed up with the use of data from highly respected research companies such as MRB Partners and BCA. We monitor the performance of the underlying fund managers on a daily basis. We regularly review the level of drift within the portfolios. This is on a fund and asset class basis. The investment decisions of TIM are made by its investment committee. This is made up of the following:- Lothar Mentel Chief of Investment Office of Paradigm Group 2

3 Chris Gough-Goodman Managing Director of Cambridge Investments Limited Stephen Keshishoghli Senior Portfolio Manager James Bruce Investment Manager Samuel Leary Investment Communications Alistair Coward Assistant Portfolio Manager Sean Bryan Compliance Manager The investment committee meets frequently and at least a monthly basis. The meetings follow a simple three step process as detailed below:- 1. Reviewing existing investments in the portfolio context. We compare the relative performance of various asset classes and funds against each other, along with appropriate benchmarks. 2. We analyse all available economic data and discuss potential scenarios and derive a common framework. 3. Funds and asset classes that cause an issue are then decided upon. If no decision is made, due to a lack of alternatives, further research will be conducted and the investment committee will reconvene in five days. All decisions are risk assessed in our Dynamic Planner and MorningStar tools to ensure that all investments meet their respective risk profiles. Given that our investment objective is to provide investors with the best possible returns for their chosen level of investment risk and time horizon, we believe this is best achieved through a well-diversified global portfolio of regulated investment funds, managed by the experts in their field. For each risk-rated portfolio, a well-defined strategic asset allocation sets the long term framework for our portfolio management service. This can help keep the portfolios on track even through the most challenging market conditions. Our active management portfolio overlay service is designed to protect investors against unintended risks that can arise when making an investment. This guardianship service is key to understanding the ethos of Tatton. In particular, we recognise that temporary irrational investor interest in individual asset classes can lead to dangerous 3

4 overvaluations colloquially asset bubbles. Historically, these asset bubbles have always fallen back to their long term average. We therefore focus our active investment management on tilting the long term strategic asset allocations of the portfolios in such a way as to avoid exposure to heavily overvalued asset classes. In our experience, a protective investment management approach is more likely to add significant value to clients investment portfolios. This strategic approach does not lose the long term benefits of the chosen asset allocation and can be superior to the more aggressive active approach of trying to identify and bet on asset classes which are expected to rise most in the near future. 5. Key Contact Full Name Tel No Address Head of Investment Strategy Lothar Mentel [email protected] Lombard Street, London EC3V 9HD Training Consultant Phillipa Hatt [email protected] As above Compliance Manager Sean Bryan [email protected] As above 4

5 Corporate Structure and Strategy Your business information related to contracted entity only Cambridge Investments Limited is one of the longest established investment management boutiques in the United Kingdom. Since 1971, Cambridge Investments Limited has been managing clients assets and can promote refreshing longevity amongst its employees. We deliberately shun the marketing hype, instead concentrating on working closely with our clients to understand their financial objectives and investment needs. Cambridge Investments Limited was established by Christopher Gough-Goodman as a provider of discretionary investment advice. 1. Please provide a brief history of the company. Cambridge Investments was an early contributing member of The National Association of Securities Dealers and Investment Managers (NASDIM). The company is an Authorised Discretionary Investment Management firm and is a member of The Association of Private Clients Investment Managers and Stockbrokers (APCIMS). The combined investment experience of the discretionary investment managers is over 60 years. The company has enjoyed a high client retention ratio over many years focusing on prudent management of family and trust assets. The emphasis is very much on quality as opposed to quantity. Clients of Cambridge Investments Limited can be confident that the fund managers will constantly manage the performance of their investments and, utilising their considerable experience, make instant decisions about how best to protect and/or grow your investments 5

6 2. Cambridge Board of directors. Phillip Carr, Peter Craddock, Christopher Gough-Goodman & Damian Keeling 3. Parent Entity Perspective Financial Group Limited Perspective Financial Group Limited is a leading national financial advisory group. Perspective s advisory offices offer whole of market, fee based, financial advice throughout the UK. 4. Parent Company Ethos Perspective is a top 15 financial advisory group consisting of high quality and well qualified advisers through local offices. Our advisory ethos is to provide clients with the appropriate tailored advice to achieve financial objectives. Whether retirement planning, asset management, personal wealth or corporate planning; Perspective advisers aim to provide whole of market options and best advice to clients. Whilst benefitting from the support and expertise of a highly regarded national Group, Perspective offices are managed at a local level to ensure that clients receive the local management and service that they expect. On joining the Group, Perspective firms maintain their local branding and their local presence. Lothar Mentel Head of Investment Strategy 5. Short biography of key Individuals within Tatton Investment Management Lothar Mentel is chief investment officer for the Paradigm Group and Tatton Investment Management. Prior to joining Paradigm, Lothar was the CIO for Octopus Investments since 2008, where he built a multi manager fund business that he grew to 1.6bn. Here he won Best Multi Manager Provider for his OMNIS funds. Before that, he held senior positions with Commerzbank Asset Management, Barclays Wealth, Threadneedle and NM Rothschild. He began his career in Germany as a performance and risk analyst and later designed and launched the Barclays Multi Manager funds. He has over 18 years experience working in the investment industry. 6

7 Steven Keshishogli Portfolio Manager Steven is Senior Portfolio Manager at Tatton Investment Management. He has over 9 years of investment industry experience. Prior to joining he was a member of the investment strategy team responsible for running the 18bn UK Railways Pension Scheme, an economist for the British Government planning future pension provision (NEST) and an investment consultant for a boutique private wealth management firm. He holds a First Class in BSc Economics, an MSc in Economics from The London School of Economics and a second MSc in International Securities, Investment & Banking from the ICMA Centre Business School. He is a CFA charterholder. Alistair Coward Assistant Portfolio Manager Alistair joined Tatton Investment Management in March 2013 as Assistant Portfolio Manager. He has previously worked at Slater Investments in compliance and client support and more recently Collins Stewart Wealth Management. He has a BSc in Physical Geography from the University of Exeter. Samuel Leary Investment Communications Sam manages the investment communications function at Tatton Investment Management. Prior to joining Tatton, he was the lead project manager for the Oasis Trust, where he was setting up a Credit Union in Waterloo. He bagan his career at Bank of America and was invlolved in Six Sigma process improvement efforts in the global corporate client services unit. He then transitioned to Barclays Wealth and spent five years as a quantitative equity analyst and fund manager for a bespoke long-short global equity portfolio. He was jointly responsible for communications, engaging directly clients and keeping investors updated by producing daily and weekly global market commentaries. He regularly wrote both stock notes and thematic publications for a Private Client audience. He specialised in North American, Asian and developing market equities. In 2010, he helped set up the charities advice team at Octopus Investments. Sam was responsible for creating all client letters and has written numerous sales aids and provided content for the teams Investment Knowledge website. He also 7

8 assisted with the weekly market commentaries. He has a BSc in Engineering Management from the University of Hertfordshire and he also holds the Investment Management Certificate (IMC). Phillipa Hatt Training Consultant Phillipa began her financial services career as a Mortgage Advisor for Lloyds TSB in 2003, before moving to Bradford and Bingley as a Mortgage & Protection Broker. Phillipa joined Paradigm in 2008 as a technical trainer for the Paradigmrelated software packages. Following a successful period, Phillipa took up an IDC role where she helped members develop their usage and understanding of the Wrap proposition. Phillipa s varied roles and experience both inside and outside Paradigm makes her ideally suited to the role of Training Consultant for the Tatton Proposition and associated technology. Sean Bryan Compliance Manager Sean is the compliance manager for Tatton Investment Management. He has worked in the financial services industry since 2001, having began his career within the pensions business of a life company. Sean has focused his career on the technical areas of the business and helped manage the readiness program for A-day. Since 2006 he has focused on compliance consultancy services and joined Paradigm in 2008 as a Business Consultant. Sean has a very broad compliance, product and business knowledge allowing him to provide value and guidance to all areas of the Investment and adviser industry. Sean is Level 4 qualified and holds the certificate in discretionary Management. The following can be provided on request:- Company structure chart Team Structure Latest Report & Accounts 8