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Mr. Mansharamani, CFA has served as a Partner and Portfolio Manager of LSV since 2006 and as a Senior Quantitative Analyst of LSV
since 2000. He has more than 11 years of investment experience. Prior to joining LSV, Mr. Mansharamani was an Analyst at
Institutional Trust National City Corporation and a Systems Consultant for Maximations, Inc.
PIMCO Segment. Mihir Worah, Scott Mather, and Chris Dialynas are the portfolio managers responsible for the portion of the
Portfolio managed by PIMCO.
Mihir Worah is an Executive Vice President, portfolio manager, and head of the Real Return portfolio management team. He joined
PIMCO in 2001 as a member of the analytics team and worked on real and nominal term structure modeling and options pricing.
Previously he was a post doctoral research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, where he built models to explain the difference between matter and anti-matter. He has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from
the University of Chicago and is the author of numerous scientific papers.
Scott Mather (Hedged International Bond) is a Managing Director, member of PIMCO’s Investment Committee and head of global
portfolio management. Prior to this he led portfolio management in Europe, managed Euro and pan-European portfolios and worked
closely with many Allianz related companies where he also served as a Managing Director of Allianz Global Investors KAG. Prior to
that, he co-headed PIMCO’s mortgage and ABS team. Mr. Mather joined the firm in 1998, previously having been associated with
Goldman Sachs in New York, where he was a fixed income trader specializing in a broad range of mortgage backed securities. He
has fourteen years of investment experience and holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering from the University of
Pennsylvania, as well as a bachelor’s degree in finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Chris P. Dialynas (U.S. Fixed-Income) is a Managing Director, portfolio manager, and a senior member of PIMCO’s investment
strategy group. He joined PIMCO in 1980. Mr. Dialynas has written extensively and lectured on the topic of fixed income investing.
He served on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Portfolio Management and was a member of Fixed Income Curriculum Committee
of the Association for Investment Management and Research. He has over thirty years of investment experience and holds a
bachelor’s degree in economics from Pomona College, and holds an MBA in finance from The University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business.
QMA Segment. Marcus Perl and Edward L. Campbell are primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the portion of the
Portfolio directly managed by Prudential Investments.
Marcus M. Perl is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for Quantitative Management Associates (QMA) and a member of the asset
allocation team and the investment committee. In addition to portfolio management, Marcus is responsible for research, strategic
asset allocation and portfolio construction. Marcus was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Prudential Investments; earlier, he
was a Vice President at FX Concepts Inc. Marcus holds an MA in Economics from the University of Southern California and an MA in
Economics from California State University Long Beach.
Edward L. Campbell, CFA, is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager for Quantitative Management Associates (QMA) and a member
of the asset allocation team and investment committee. In addition to portfolio management, Ed is a specialist in global
macroeconomic and investment strategy research. He has also served as a Portfolio Manager with Prudential Investments (PI) and
spent several years as a Senior Analyst with PI’s Strategic Investment Research Group (SIRG). Prior to joining PI, Ed was a Partner and
Vice President at Trilogy Advisors LLC. He earned a BS in Economics and International Business from The City University of New York
and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
AST AllianceBernstein Core Value Portfolio
The management of and investment decisions for the Portfolio are made by the US Value Investment Policy Group, comprised of
senior US Value Investment Team members. The US Value Investment Policy Group relies heavily on the fundamental analysis and
research of the Subadviser’s large internal research staff. No one person is principally responsible for making recommendations for
the Portfolio. The members of the US Value Investment Policy Group with the most significant responsibility for the day-to-day
management of the Portfolio are: David Yuen, Christopher W. Marx, and John D. Phillips.
Joseph G. Paul; Co-CIO of US Large Cap Value Equities and CIO of North American Value Equities. He is also the Global Head of
Diversified Value Services, responsible for product design research for our diversified value services. Previously, he was CIO-
Advanced Value Fund (1999-2009), CIO-Small and Mid-Cap Value (2002-2008), and Co-CIO-Real Estate Investments (2004-2008).
Additionally, he was the Director of Research for the Advanced Value Fund, a US long/short equity hedge fund, for two years. In this
role, he was instrumental in the genesis of the Advanced Value leveraged hedge fund. Mr. Paul joined Bernstein in 1987 as a research
analyst covering the automotive industry. He was named to the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team every year from
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