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AllianceBernstein Holding L.P.

AllianceBernstein Holding provides research, investment management and related services to a range of clients. The company's principal services include: institutional, which services institutional clients, including private and public pension plans, foundations and endowments, insurance companies, and central banks and governments; retail, which services retail clients, primarily by means of retail mutual funds; private wealth management, which services private clients, including high-net-worth individuals and families, trusts and estates, and partnerships; and Bernstein research services, which services institutional investors, such as pension fund, and hedge fund and mutual fund managers.

Amdocs Limited

Ameriprise Financial Inc.

Ameriprise Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of products and services to individual and institutional clients. The company's segments are: Advice and Wealth Management, which provides financial planning and advice, as well as brokerage services, to retail clients through its advisors; Asset Management, which provides investment management, advice and products to clients through the Columbia Threadneedle Investments? brand; Annuities, which provides variable and fixed annuity products to clients; and Protection, which provides products to address the protection and risk management needs of the company's retail clients including life, disability income insurance.

Anaplan

Anaplan provides a cloud-based connected planning platform that helps connect organizations and people to make decisions. The company delivers its application over the Internet as a subscription service using a software-as-a-service model. The company also provides services related to implementing and supporting its application.

AppFolio Inc Class A

AppFolio provides industry-specific, cloud-based business software solutions, services and data analytics. The company's solutions include: AppFolio Property Manager, a cloud-based software solution that provides tools and services designed to streamline their property management businesses; AppFolio Investment Management, a cloud-based software solution for real estate investment managers of various sizes providing tools and services designed to streamline their real estate investment management businesses; and MyCase, a cloud-based software solution for the legal market that provides small law firms tools and services designed to streamline their legal practice and manage their caseload.

Ares Management Corporation

Ares Management is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an alternative asset manager. The company provides its investors a range of investment strategies. The company's three complementary investment groups are: the Credit Group, which provides solutions for investors seeking to access a range of credit assets, including syndicated loans, bonds, alternative credit products and direct lending markets; the Private Equity Group, which categorizes its investment activities into four strategies consisting of Corporate Private Equity, Infrastructure and Power, Special Opportunities and Energy Opportunities; and the Real Estate Group, which manages equity and debt strategies.

Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. Class A

Artisan Partners Asset Management is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an investment management firm. The company manages a range of United States, non-United States and global investment strategies that are diversified by asset class, market cap and investment style. The company provides its investment management services primarily to institutions and through intermediaries that operate with institutional-like decision-making processes by means of separate accounts and pooled vehicles. The company also provides investment advisory services to range of investors, including non-United States investors with access to several of its investment strategies.

Atlassian Corp. Plc Class A

BLACKROCK INC.

BlackRock is an investment management firm. The company provides a range of investment and technology services to institutional and retail clients worldwide. Products are provided directly and through intermediaries in a variety of vehicles, including open-end and closed-end mutual funds, iShares? exchange-traded funds, separate accounts, collective investment trusts and other pooled investment vehicles. The company also provides technology services, including the investment and risk management technology platform, Aladdin?, Aladdin Wealth, eFront, Cachematrix and FutureAdvisor, as well as advisory services and solutions to a base of institutional and wealth management clients.

Blackstone Group Inc.

Blackstone Group, together with its subsidiaries, is a global manager of private capital. The alternative asset management business includes the management of private equity funds, real estate funds, real estate investment trusts, funds of hedge funds, hedge funds, credit-focused funds, collateralized loan obligation vehicles, separately managed accounts and registered investment companies (collectively referred to as the Blackstone Funds). The company's business is organized into four segments: Real Estate, Private Equity, Hedge Fund Solutions and Credit.

Cohen & Steers Inc.

Cohen & Steers is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an investment manager focusing on liquid real assets, including real estate securities, listed infrastructure, commodities and natural resource equities, as well as preferred securities and other income solutions. The company manages three types of investment vehicles: institutional accounts, which represent portfolios of securities it manages for institutional clients; open-end funds, which provide and issue shares continuously as assets are invested and redeem shares when assets are withdrawn; and closed-end funds, which are registered investment companies that have issued a fixed number of shares through public offerings.

GUIDEWIRE SOFTWARE INC

Guidewire Software provides a technology platform, composed of software, services, and a partner ecosystem, for the property and casualty insurance industry. Guidewire InsurancePlatform? consists of cloud and on-premise applications to support core operations, data management and analytics, and digital engagement and is connected to various data sources and third party applications. The company's operational platforms include: Guidewire InsuranceSuite, which comprises of PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and ClaimCenter applications; and Guidewire InsuranceNow, which provides policy, billing and claims management functionality to insurers that prefer to subscribe to a cloud-based, all-in-one solution.

Hamilton Lane Incorporated Class A

Hamilton Lane is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is private markets investment solutions provider. The company provides a variety of investment solutions across a range of private market. These solutions are constructed from a range of investment types, including primary investments in funds managed by third-party managers, direct/co-investments alongside such funds and acquisitions of secondary stakes in such funds. These solutions are provided in a variety of formats covering some or all phases of private markets investment programs: customized separate accounts, specialized funds, advisory services, distribution management, as well as reporting, monitoring, data and analytics.

Hercules Capital Inc.

Hercules Capital is a specialty finance company focused on providing senior secured loans to venture capital-backed companies in a variety of technology, life sciences and sustainable and renewable technology industries. The company invests primarily in structured debt with warrants and, to a lesser extent, in senior debt and equity investments. The company invests primarily in private companies but also has investments in public companies. The company also makes investments in qualifying small businesses through Hercules Technology III, L.P., which is its wholly-owned small business investment company.

International Business Machines Corporation

International Business Machines provides integrated solutions and products that utilize data, information technology, capability in industries and business processes. The company has five segments: Cloud and Cognitive Software, which provides a range of software offerings; Global Business Services, which provides consulting, systems integration, application management and business process outsourcing services; Global Technology Services, which provides project services, managed and outsourcing services, cloud-delivered services, and technical and IT support services; Systems, which provides technology and service; and Global Financing, which provides client financing, among others.

Magic Software Enterprises Ltd.

Magic Software Enterprises is a provider of: proprietary application development and business process integration platforms; selected packaged vertical software solutions; as well as a vendor of software services and Internet Technology outsourcing software services. Co.'s software technology is used by customers to develop, deploy and integrate on-premise, mobile and cloud-based business applications. Co. provides a portfolio of services in the areas of infrastructure design and delivery, application development, technology consulting planning and implementation services, support services, cloud computing for deployment of applications and API's and supplemental outsourcing services.

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft is a technology company. The company develops and supports software, services, devices, and solutions. The company provides an array of services, including cloud-based solutions as well as solution support and consulting services. The company also delivers relevant online advertising. The company's products include operating systems; cross-device productivity applications; server applications; business solution applications; desktop and server management tools; software development tools; and video games. The company also designs, manufactures, and sells devices, including personal computers, tablets, gaming and entertainment consoles, other devices, and related accessories.

Pegasystems Inc.

Pegasystems develops, markets, licenses, hosts, and supports enterprise software applications that help organizations transform the way they engage with their customers and process work across their enterprise. The company also licenses its low-code Pega Platform? for application development to clients to build and extend their own business applications. Pega Infinity? helps connect enterprises to their customers in real-time across channels, streamline business operations, and adapt to meet changing requirements. The company's applications and platform intersect with and encompass several software markets, including: customer engagement, digital process automation, and robotic process automation.

ServiceNow Inc.

ServiceNow provides enterprise cloud computing services that define, structure, manage and automate digital workflows for global enterprises. The company markets its services to enterprises in a variety of industries, including consumer products, education, financial services, government, health care, information technology (IT) services and technology. The company sells its subscription services through direct sales and, to a lesser extent, through indirect channel sales. The company also provides a portfolio of personnel and other services, both directly and through its network of partners. The company's products include IT service management, IT operations management, IT business management, and security operations.

SHOPIFY INC.

Shopify provides a cloud-based commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants use its software to run their business across all of their sales channels, including web, tablet and mobile storefronts, social media storefronts, and brick-and-mortar and pop-up shops. Co. provides a platform for merchants to create an omni-channel experience that helps showcase the merchant's brand and grow its business. Co.'s platform provides merchants with a single view of their business and customers across all of their sales channels and enables them to manage products and inventory, process orders and payments, build customer relationships and leverage analytics and reporting.

T. Rowe Price Group

T. Rowe Price Group is a financial services holding company that provides global investment management services. The company provide a range of United States mutual funds, subadvised funds, separately managed accounts, and other T. Rowe Price products. The company also provides certain investment advisory clients with related administrative services, including distribution, mutual fund transfer agent, accounting, and shareholder services; participant recordkeeping and transfer agent services for defined contribution retirement plans; brokerage; and trust services. The company also provide non-discretionary advisory planning services to fund shareholders and potential investors.

The Carlyle Group, Inc.

Workday Inc. Class A

Workday is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. The company's products include: Workday Financial Management, an application with financial capabilities, analytics and metrics, and auditable process management; and Workday Human Capital Management, which includes global human resources management (workforce lifecycle management, organization management, compensation, absence, and employee benefits administration) and global talent management (goal management, performance management, succession planning, and career and development planning). The company's other solutions include Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud, as well as Workday Data-as-a-Service.

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Vermilion Research
Vermilion Research

Vermilion Research delivers timely, actionable, and unique research inputs to professional investors. Our research strategists highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various proprietary technical indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. We believe our research methodology, which is not limited by industry sector or market capitalization, enables us to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing all actively traded stocks into coherent sectors, then into logical industry groups. We then apply our proprietary relative strength tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sectors or groups, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. Vermilion offers U.S. and global equity market research products. Vermilion’s research team, which has received numerous awards and accolades, has a combined 70 year of experience in the analysis of investment securities.

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