PANAGORA ASSET MANAGEMENT INC

Panagora Asset Management is a private investment manager that was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Boston. The company’s investment philosophy is based on a “disciplined, systematic approach to investing that capitalizes on the insights of talented investment professionals with diverse yet complementary backgrounds.” Panagora Asset Management focuses on four key components: a team approach allows greater insights, creativity and innovation with a holistic approach to research is a necessary foundation, quantitative techniques based on sound fundamental insights relating to “investor behavior, a company’s operations, macro-economic signals, micro structure variables, or other trends in the marketplace” is best for persistent performances, and investment solutions should be flexible and tailored to be evolving needs of clients. Panagora Asset Management conducts its research in house and currently focuses on inefficient capital markets, innovative research with modern financial theory and statistical techniques, an intuitive fundamental approach with quantitative techniques, and clearly defined objectives and transparency as its foundation for its investment strategies. The company currently invests mostly in the services and technology sectors, which combined makes up over 40% of its total assets allocated, and also invests in the financial, healthcare, and energy sectors, among others, in order of decreasing amount allocated. Panagora Asset Management currently has over 100 employees that oversee its nearly $40 billion in total assets under management spread across 170 accounts, almost all of which are discretionary accounts, with the majority of its clients being pension and profit sharing plans and investment companies. While its total accounts held has only made moderate increases from 2010, the company’s total assets under management has more than tripled from its $12.8 billion assets held just five years prior. Panagora Asset Management operates as a subsidiary of Putnam, LLC., and is currently largely owned by Panagora Holdings with smaller holdings by Nippon Life Insurance and various executives. Some of its available strategies include its Diversified Factor Premia, Dynamic Equity Strategies, and Diversified Factor Premia.