Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc.

Founded in 1994, Artisan is a global multi-asset investment platform focused on providing high value-added active investment strategies in growing asset classes to sophisticated clients around the world. Since our founding, we have maintained a business model that is designed to maximize our ability to produce attractive investment results for our clients, and we believe this model has contributed to our success in doing so. We focus on attracting, retaining and developing talented investment professionals by creating an environment in which each investment team is provided ample resources and support, transparent and direct financial incentives, a high degree of investment autonomy, and a long-term time horizon. Each of our investment teams is led by one or more experienced portfolio managers and applies its own unique investment philosophy and process. We believe this autonomous investment team structure promotes independent analysis and accountability among our investment professionals, which we believe promotes superior investment results. Each of our investment teams manages one or more investment strategies, each of which is designed to have a clearly articulated and consistent investment process that is well-understood by clients and managed to achieve long-term performance. Over our firm’s history, we have broadened our investment management capabilities in a disciplined manner that we believe is consistent with our overall philosophy of offering high value-added investment strategies.