PROMETHOS CAPITAL, LLC


management and added that Promethos Capital is a “Women Owned” firm. Item 8 – Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss. Added disclosure to Hedging Risk. Promethos Capital was established in 2019 as a limited liability company under the laws of the state of Delaware to provide investment management services. Promethos Capital is employee-owned and managed. Promethos Capital is a “Women Owned" firm. It is beneficially owned by Iva Kalus-Bystricky, Jacqueline Linnehan, John Linnehan and Joseph Sylvester. Promethos Capital provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management services to institutional and individual clients. Under a discretionary arrangement, subject to the investment objectives, guidelines and limitations of the account, Promethos Capital is granted full power by the client to supervise and direct all of the investment of assets in the client’s account, select broker-dealers to execute securities transactions and to place securities transactions in the client’s account without prior consultation with the client. Under a non‐ discretionary arrangement, Promethos Capital offers buy/sell/hold recommendations and the client or the client’s financial advisor is responsible for making the decision to implement the recommendations and to select the broker-dealer to execute the transaction. Non-discretionary clients include participants in certain model account and wrap fee programs and clients who have retained trading authority over the account. See Item 7. Types of Clients below for additional information.

Promethos Capital currently offers the following investment strategies:

The Global Equity Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing globally in a diversified portfolio of quality companies that exhibit consistent growth with attractive risk/return profiles and favorable ESG characteristics. Emphasis is on investments that offer above-average growth prospects at reasonable relative valuations. The Strategy may invest in up to 20% of total assets in Emerging Markets. The Strategy seeks to deliver returns in excess of the MSCI ACWI benchmark within a risk-controlled framework.

The Global Ex‐US Equity Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing in a diversified portfolio of quality companies outside of the United States (with the exception of U. S.-listed but foreign-domiciled securities such as ADRs and U. S. -listed securities with at least 70% of their sales or operations outside the U. S.) that exhibit consistent growth with attractive risk/return profiles and favorable ESG characteristics. Emphasis is on investments that offer above-average growth prospects at reasonable relative valuations. The Strategy may invest up to 25% of total assets in Emerging Markets. The Strategy seeks to deliver returns in excess of the MSCI ACWI ex USA benchmark within a risk-controlled framework. The U.S. Large Cap Blend Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing in a diversified portfolio of growth and value equity securities of large cap U.S. companies. The Strategy may invest up to 10% of its assets in non-U. S. large cap companies. Large cap are companies with a market capitalization of more than $10 billion. A growth company is one that exhibits signs of above-average growth and generally trades at prices that appear expensive in terms of metrics such as price-to-book or price-to-earnings ratios. A value company is one whose stock appears to trade for less than its intrinsic or book value. The Smart Beta Global Equity Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing in a global portfolio broadly diversified across issuers, market capitalizations, countries, regions, sectors and industries. The Strategy does not invest in Emerging Markets. The Strategy seeks to deliver returns in excess of the MSCI World Index within a risk- controlled framework by strategically choosing, weighting and rebalancing the companies in the index based upon objective factors.

The Values‐based Investment Strategy The Global Equity, Global Equity Ex U.S. , Smart Beta Global Equity and U.S. Large Cap Blend Strategies can be customized to meet the investment guidelines that are consistent with client-specific beliefs and values, be they religious or secular, proactive or exclusionary.

The Women Leadership Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing globally in a diversified portfolio of companies committed to promoting gender diversity and women to leadership positions. Promethos Capital believes that companies with more women in senior positions and leadership roles have higher returns on capital, greater innovation, increased productivity and higher employee retention and satisfaction. The companies the Strategy invests in typically must have at least 2 women on their boards, have at least 30% women in management ranks, and have adopted policies that actively encourage the hiring and promotion of women. At least 20% of portfolio companies will have a woman CEO and/or CFO. The Strategy may invest in up to 20% of total assets in Emerging Markets. The Strategy seeks to deliver returns in excess of the MSCI ACWI benchmark within a risk-controlled framework.

The Climate Change Strategy seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing globally in a diversified portfolio of companies dedicated to policies, products and services that mitigate climate change and ecological damage. Companies are evaluated on several factors, including their GreenHouse Gas Emissions, waste recycling and minimization policies, and contribution to a hydrocarbon-free economy. The Strategy will not invest in any companies involved in the extraction, processing or sale of hydrocarbons. The Strategy may invest in up to 20% of total assets in Emerging Markets. The Strategy seeks to deliver returns in excess of the MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target Index within a risk-controlled framework.

By including ESG criteria in the screening as well fundamental evaluation of securities considered for all Promethos portfolios, all Promethos Capital’s Strategies, including the Global Equity, Global Equity Ex U.S., Smart Beta Global Equity and U.S. Large Cap Blend Strategies are consistent with the principles and criteria associated with socially responsible investing, also known as environmental, social and governance ("ESG") investing. See Item 8. Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss below for additional information. Promethos Capital also provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management services for model-based programs and wrap programs as more fully described below. Model‐Based Programs Promethos Capital offers institutional model-based programs in which we provide the program sponsor or overlay manager a strategy through model portfolios and may be responsible for certain trading and other functions. In many instances, the model-based program sponsor or overlay manager generally exercises investment discretion and often brokerage discretion. Promethos Capital is not responsible for overseeing the client relationship, the model-based program sponsor or overlay manager is. Wrap‐Fee Programs Promethos Capital does not sponsor wrap fee programs. Rather, Promethos Capital provides portfolio management services as sub-adviser to a wrap fee program sponsored by financial intermediaries such as broker-dealers or other financial services companies. Clients participating in a wrap fee program are generally assisted by the sponsor in selecting a particular strategy for their account (or a portion thereof). Wrap fee accounts in a particular strategy may be managed differently than non-wrap fee accounts. Promethos Capital is compensated by the sponsor of the wrap fee program. In general, wrap fee clients will have both an agreement with the plan sponsor and an advisory agreement with Promethos Capital which will outline Promethos Capital’s investment management fee. Directed Brokerage. In a typical wrap fee program, all brokerage transactions are directed to the broker-dealer administering the program. Also, clients may instruct Promethos Capital to place all brokerage transaction in the account with a particular broker-dealer. See Item 12. Brokerage Practices below for additional information.

Promethos Capital commenced operations on February 22, 2019. As of September 1, 2019, Promethos Capital had $25.5 million in regulatory assets under management ($10.2 million in discretionary assets and $15.3 in non-discretionary assets under management). please register to get more info

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