Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc.

Artisan is a global multi-asset investment platform founded in 1994, providing high value-added active investment strategies in growing asset classes to sophisticated clients worldwide. The company's business model focuses on attracting, retaining, and developing talented investment professionals by offering resources, support, transparent financial incentives, investment autonomy, and a long-term time horizon. Each investment team, led by experienced portfolio managers, applies its own unique investment philosophy and process. This autonomous structure promotes independent analysis and accountability. Each team manages one or more investment strategies, designed with a clearly articulated and consistent investment process to achieve long-term performance. Artisan has broadened its investment management capabilities by launching new strategies managed by existing teams and by establishing or acquiring new investment teams. New investment strategies utilize a broad array of securities, instruments, and techniques, referred to as degrees of freedom, to differentiate returns and manage risk. New strategies are launched when they have the potential for superior investment performance in areas with sustained client demand at attractive fee rates over the long term. The company maintains the integrity of each strategy's investment process through rigorous adherence to communicated investment parameters.