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Albemarle Corporation

Albemarle is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of chemicals across a range of end markets including energy storage, petroleum refining, consumer electronics, construction, automotive, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, crop protection and custom chemistry services. The company's segments include: Lithium, which develops and manufactures a range of basic lithium compounds and lithium specialties and reagents; Bromine Specialties, which includes products used in fire safety solutions and other chemicals applications; and Catalysts, which includes Clean Fuels Technologies, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts and additives, and performance catalyst solutions.

Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V. ADS

Benchmark Electronics Inc.

Benchmark Electronics provides engineering services, technology solutions and manufacturing services. The company provides a range of design, engineering, automation, test, manufacturing and fulfillment solutions that support its customers' products from initial concept and design through prototyping, design validation, testing, ramp-to-volume production, distribution and aftermarket support. From initial product concept to volume production, including direct order fulfillment and aftermarket services, the company provides services and solutions to original equipment manufacturers. The company's customer engagement focuses three key areas: engineering services, technology solutions, and manufacturing services.

Caesarstone Ltd.

Caesarstone is engaged in manufacturing engineered quartz surfaces. Co. sells its products under its Caesarstone brand in more than 50 countries, offering a spectrum of design options in the engineered quartz surface industry with different colors, textures and finishes. Its designs range from fine-grained patterns to coarse-grained color blends. Co.'s engineered quartz slabs measure 120 inches long by 56 1/2 inches wide and 130 inches long by 65 inches wide with a thickness of 1/2 of an inch, 3/4 of an inch or 1 1/4 inches. Engineered quartz surfaces consist of approximately 90% natural crushed quartz and approximately 10% polyester and other polymer resin and pigments.

Canadian Solar Inc.

Changyou.com Ltd. Sponsored ADR Class A

Chimera Investment Corporation

Chimera Investment is a real estate investment trust engaged in investing in mortgage assets. The company's investment portfolio includes: Residential Mortgage Loans, which invests in residential mortgage loans through direct and secondary market purchases from banks, non-bank financial institutions, and federally chartered corporations; Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities, which invests in mortgage pass-through certificates issued or guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage Association, Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; Agency mortgage-backed securities; and Other Real-Estate Related Assets.

CORESITE REALTY CORP

The company is a self-administered, and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) and the company conducts certain activities through its taxable REIT subsidiaries. Through its controlling interest in CoreSite, L.P., the company is engaged in the business of ownership, acquisition, construction and operation of data centers in some data center markets in the United States, including the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, the Northern Virginia area (including Washington D.C.), the New York area, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Miami. The company delivers data center and interconnection solutions to a customer ecosystem across eight key North American communication markets.

Digital Realty Trust Inc.

Digital Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company is a global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions for customers across a variety of industry verticals ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and consumer products. The company's Operating Partnership, Digital Realty Trust, L.P., is the entity through which the company conducts its business of owning, acquiring, developing and operating data centers. The company's portfolio of data centers provides available environments for the exchange, processing and storage of electronic information.

Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital Inc.

Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital focused on solutions that reduce carbon emissions and increase resilience to climate change by providing capital and capabilities to the companies in the energy efficiency, renewable energy and other sustainable infrastructure markets. The company focuses its investment activities primarily on: Behind-The-Meter, which includes distributed building or facility projects; Grid Connected, which projects deploy cleaner energy sources, such as solar and wind to generate power; and Other Sustainable Infrastructure, which includes upgraded transmission or distribution systems, water and storm water infrastructure, seismic retrofits and other projects.

Inphi Corporation

Inphi is a provider of analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions for the communications and datacenter markets. The company's analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions provide an interface between analog and mixed signals and digital information in systems such as telecommunications transport systems, enterprise networking equipment and datacenters. The company has a range of products in its portfolio, including products that have commercially shipped, products for which the company has shipped engineering samples and products under development, that perform a range of functions such as amplifying, encoding, multiplexing, demultiplexing, and retiming signals at speeds up to 400 Gbps.

Jabil Inc.

Jabil is a provider of manufacturing services and solutions. The company provides electronics design, production and product management services to companies in various industries and end markets. The company's manufacturing and supply chain management services and solutions include design, planning, fabrication and assembly, delivery and managing the flow of resources and products. The company's segments include: Electronics Manufacturing Services, which utilizes information technology, supply chain design and engineering, technologies centered on primary electronics; and Diversified Manufacturing Services, which provides engineering solutions, with a focus on material sciences, technologies and healthcare.

JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. Sponsored ADR

Lumentum Holdings Inc.

Lumentum Holdings is a provider of optical and photonic products addressing a range of end-market applications including Optical Communications (OpComms) and Commercial Lasers (Lasers) for manufacturing, inspection and life-science applications. The company's segments are: OpComms, which include a range of components, modules and subsystems to support customers including carrier networks of access, metro, long-haul and submarine applications; and Lasers, which provides lasers for the industrial and scientific markets used in a range of original equipment manufacturer applications including diode-pumped solid-state, fiber, diode, direct-diode and gas lasers such as argon-ion and helium-neon lasers.

Mercury General Corporation

Mercury General is an insurance holding company. Through its insurance subsidiaries, the company writes personal automobile insurance. The company also writes homeowners, commercial automobile, commercial property, mechanical protection, and umbrella insurance. The company provides the following types of automobile coverage: collision, property damage, bodily injury, comprehensive, personal injury protection, underinsured and uninsured motorist, and other hazards. The company provides the following types of homeowners coverage: dwelling, liability, personal property, fire, and other hazards. The company sells its policies through a network of independent agents, its insurance agencies, and directly through internet sales portals.

National Health Investors Inc.

National Health Investors is a self-managed real estate investment trust, which focuses on sale-leaseback, joint-venture, mortgage and mezzanine financing of senior housing and medical facility investments. The company's portfolio consists of real estate investments in independent living facilities, assisted living facilities, entrance-fee communities, senior living campuses, nursing facilities, hospitals and medical office buildings. The company's investments are structured as acquisitions of properties through purchase-leaseback transactions, acquisitions of properties from other real estate investors, loans or operations.

NetScout Systems Inc.

NetScout Systems provides service assurance and security solutions that are used by customers to assure their digital business services against disruption. Using its Adaptive Service Intelligence technology, the company's solutions convert network traffic data, often referred to as wire data, into metadata, or smart data, the company's offerings can help customers identify and troubleshoot network and application performance issues, defend their networks from distributed denial of service attacks, and find and isolate network threats. The company's products are categorized as service assurance solutions for network and application performance, and business intelligence analytics and cybersecurity solutions.

NortonLifeLock Inc.

Symantec is a provider of cyber security. The company provides cyber security products, services and solutions to organizations and individuals worldwide. The company's Enterprise Security portfolio includes a mix of products, services and solutions, delivered as part of an Integrated Cyber Defense platform. The company's platform unifies cloud and on-premises security to provide threat protection and information protection across endpoints, networks, email, and cloud applications. The company also provides services, support services, and cyber security services. The company's Cyber Safety solutions from Norton LifeLock help consumers protect their devices, online privacy, identities, and home networks.

Nutrisystem Inc.

Nutrisystem provides weight management products and services, including nutritionally balanced weight loss programs, multi-day kits available at retail locations and digital tools to support weight loss. The company's program customers purchase monthly food packages containing a four-week meal plan consisting of breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks and flex meal plan recipes, which they supplement with fresh fruits, vegetables and dairy. The company provides its pre-selected favorites food pack or personalized plans where customers can hand pick their menu or customize plans to their dietary preference. The company's meal plans feature menu options at different price points including entrees, snacks and shakes.

Procter & Gamble Company

Procter & Gamble provides consumer packaged goods. The company's products are sold primarily through mass merchandisers, e-commerce, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores, department stores, distributors, wholesalers, baby stores, beauty stores, other stores and pharmacies. The company has five reportable segments: Beauty, which includes hair care, and skin and personal care products; Grooming, which includes shave care products; Health Care, which includes oral care and personal health care products; Fabric and Home Care, which includes fabric care and home care products; and Baby, Feminine and Family Care, which includes baby care, feminine care and family care products.

Qorvo Inc.

Qorvo is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company designs, develops, manufactures and markets its products to U.S. and international original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers in two operating segments: Mobile Products, which is a supplier of cellular radio frequency (RF) and Wi-Fi solutions for mobile devices, including smartphones, wearables, laptops, tablets and cellular-based applications for the Internet of Things (IoT); and Infrastructure and Defense Products, which is a supplier of RF and system-on-a-chip solutions for cellular base stations and other wireless communications infrastructure, defense, smart home, automotive and other IoT applications.

Rogers Communications Inc. Class B

Rogers Communications is a holding company operating as a communications and media company. Co. has four segments: Wireless, which provides wireless telecommunications operations; Cable, which provides cable telecommunications, including internet, television, and telephony services; Business Solutions, which provides network connectivity through its fibre network and data centre assets to support voice, data, networking, hosting, and cloud-based services for businesses, governments, and other telecommunications providers; and Media, which consist of media properties, including television and radio broadcasting, shopping, publishing, sports media and entertainment, and digital media.

Tarena International Inc. Sponsored ADR Class A

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