Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.

PCM seeks to provide clients with consistently superior risk-adjusted rates of return through implementing event-driven strategies. Their investment strategies generally focus on an event or a catalyst that will move an equity price, an equity spread, a credit spread, or an implied volatility spread. Their investment strategies may include: merger arbitrage, catalyst-driven credit investing, special situation investing and distressed investing. Catalyst events may include mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, carve-outs, tender offers, split-off exchange offers, share class spreads, re-organizations and corporate distress. PCM seeks to trade in all forms of the capital structure of companies involved in catalysts and events and to create the best risk/reward trade possible within the corporate capital structure. They attempt to limit risk through diversification and hedging. The firm may choose to take control positions in an attempt to create their own catalyst or event. In managing the fund’s portfolio, PCM relies on fundamental analysis supplemented by quantitative analytics and portfolio management techniques. They take both long and short positions for their clients in a broad range of public and private debt securities, equity securities, options, derivatives and credit derivatives (including credit default swaps), trade claims, bank debt participations and other instruments. PCM invests within and outside of the US, as well as in issuers in various stages of financial distress.

Alpine Associates Management manages the investment portfolios of the Alpine Funds and the accounts of their other clients using several strategies. Their main strategies are merger arbitrage and long/short equity trading. Alpine also uses other strategies including convertible arbitrage and investing in bankruptcy and other credit opportunities. Alpine seeks to produce superior risk-adjusted returns with low volatility in all types of market environments.Alpine's long/short equity trading strategy involves the purchase and sale of actively traded common stocks. They also trades in stock index futures and other derivatives, options, preferred stocks, corporate and government bonds, swaps, other securities and financial instruments and currencies. Alpine may engage in pairs trading. A major part of this strategy involves the creation of synergistic positions in connection with Alpine's merger arbitrage and bankruptcy and other credit opportunities strategies. The firm seeks to capitalize on market dislocations caused by mergers and other corporate transactions and events. They also engage in general equity trading, using technical and fundamental analysis to identify stocks that are underpriced or overpriced relative to their peers or on an absolute basis.Alpine's merger arbitrage strategy focuses on the purchase of securities sought in cash tender offers, exchange offers, mergers or other extraordinary transactions, and the tendering or exchange of these securities for cash or new securities. When a new security is offered in exchange for a purchased security, Alpine simultaneously takes an offsetting short position that is covered with the new security when it is received. This strategy may involve purchasing or selling options, swaps and other derivative instruments to enhance returns or limit risk. Alpine's merger arbitrage strategy focuses on publicly announced transactions with definitive merger agreements.

Magnetar Financial implements a variety of different strategies in managing private investment funds and separately managed accounts (SMAs) which designed to achieve attractive risk-adjusted rates of return. Some of the funds and SMAs employ a multi-strategy approach, utilizing a wide range of strategies across a range of geographies, while others focus on one or just a few strategies. It may hold both long and short positions in a broad range of securities, derivatives, and other assets. In executing their investment strategies, the funds and SMAs may enter into joint venture or co-investment arrangements, participate in pooled investment vehicles, invest with affiliated or unaffiliated advisors or managers, or make direct investments in operating entities. The firm’s main investment strategies are divided into the following categories: relative-value, event-driven, directional, hybrid and other investment strategies.

Foresite Capital invests in public and private healthcare companies. The firm targets the companies in the fields of biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, drug/device combinations & medical devices, genomics, tools & data-science, healthcare services and pharmaceuticals. They are managing $3 billion assets.

FMR may use a variety of methods of security analysis in managing client assets to select investments including fundamental analysis, quantitative analysis and cyclical analysis. They may also use general macro-economic analysis as a component of its security analysis methods. In addition to relying on public financial statement information, the firm may use extensive corporate visits and interviews with issuer management teams in conducting research. When it comes to the management of the client assets according to the investment objectives, FMR may use a variety of investment strategies including, but not limited to, investing in stocks and other public and private equity securities, bonds and other debt securities of all types and repurchase agreements for those securities, real estate related investments of all types, derivatives, currency spot and forward trading, other investment funds, including exchange traded funds and FMR’s or its affiliates’ central funds. They may also engage in securities lending to parties such as broker-dealers or other institutions.

ACM manages the Adage Capital Partners Fund (ACP). The firm seeks to achieve its objective through stock selection based primarily on intra-industry fundamental analysis with a dedicated focus on intra-industry valuation methodologies. Primary research is a central component of their investment process. ACM utilizes a staff of portfolio managers and equity analysts dedicated to tracking specific sectors represented within the Index that utilize a stock valuation methodology designed for each specific sector in selecting the investments of ACP. The firm currently utilizes one non-industry specific analyst, focusing on risk arbitrage opportunities for ACP. They may employ additional analysts and/or portfolio managers in the future, focusing on non-industry specific methodologies for identifying investments for ACP, and in connection with such methodologies ACM may cause ACP engage in additional types of investments, such as leveraged trading and/or risk arbitrage or other event driven trading.