ITEM 7: TYPES OF CLIENTS
Chiron currently provides investment advisory services to U.S. registered open-end mutual funds. These
products have various minimum investment requirements. See the applicable offering documents for
each Fund for further details.
ITEM 8: METHODS OF ANAYLSIS, INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND RISK OF LOSS
The following summary of investment objectives, principal investment strategies and material risks are
necessarily limited and are presented for general information purposes in accordance with regulatory
requirements. Consequently, these summaries are in all instances qualified and superseded by the
descriptions of objectives, strategies and risks, portfolio reports and other communications which are
provided to each client.
Chiron provides investment advisory services to Funds, as noted in Item 4-Types of Advisory Services.
Information about each Fund’s investment objectives, strategies and risks are described in their respective
offering documents, including prospectuses; these Fund disclosure documents also supersede the
following descriptions.
Investing in securities involves the risk of loss of money and clients investing their money with Chiron
should be prepared to bear that loss. None of the Pooled Accounts or Funds for which Chiron provides
portfolio management services is a deposit in a bank, nor are those Pooled Accounts or Funds insured or
guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency.
A. Methods of Analysis and Investment Strategies
Chiron’s investment process emphasizes active management and combines fundamental and quantitative
investment research, or Quantamental. Chiron’s research process is an actively managed framework that
allows it to quantify fundamental factors, systematize the approach and apply judgment to asset allocation
and security selection. Chiron looks to discern what action managements are taking and what reactions
this elicits from investors. The asset allocation frame work is structured to seek to anticipate the
conditions that lead to market drawdowns, while also anticipating the conditions that lead to rising
markets.
The security selection framework is built on two fundamental behavior pillars: earnings quality, which is
a measurement of cash flow, profitability, and growth; and dispute: a measurement of investor reaction to
management behavior. Chiron utilizes two proprietary tools, the Chiron Domain Indicator and the Chiron
Dispersion Indicator, to help identify the investment environment within which to allocate capital. These
tools, or indicators, in combination help Chiron to establish an anchor for portfolio construction. By
combining these proprietary tools with fundamental judgment, Chiron believes it can understand the
conditions that lead to successful investment outcomes.
The Chiron Domain Indicator is a quantitative measure of fundamental factors that helps Chiron to detect
what action managements are taking and how investors are rewarding or penalizing those actions. The
output of the Domain Indicator informs which ‘domain’ is being rewarded in the market. Depending on
the ‘domain’, the market rewards characteristics of value, growth or growth at a reasonable price. Chiron
believes this is consistent across capital structure. Chiron believes that value and growth domains create
similar characteristics in stocks and bonds. Chiron’s selection process is agnostic to growth or value;
however, it desires to emphasize the correct attribute when the market is willing to reward it.
The Chiron Dispersion Indicator is a quantitative measure of valuation. The output of the Dispersion
Indicator compares the valuation of both the cheapest and most expensive stocks compared to the market
average. Chiron believes that this creates a ‘bond-like’ measurement spread for equities. During times of
market distress and volatility, the market values companies in a different way. Chiron applies the
Dispersion Indicator to its equity universe across geographies.
The Indicators, in combination, serve as an anchor for Chiron’s investment process; they provide a
starting point to aid Chiron in determining where to allocate capital globally. Chiron believes when it can
recognize what conditions are being rewarded, it can assess the degree to which valuations are
differentiated.
B. Strategies
Chiron provides the following investment strategies:
FS Chiron Capital Allocation Fund: this strategy seeks total return which consists of capital growth and
income.
The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by allocating its assets among equity, fixed income,
precious metals and cash investments, of issuers in markets around the globe. Subject to identified
allocation targets, the combination of a client’s investments will vary from time to time, both with respect
to the types of securities and markets, in response to changing market and economic trends. Chiron may
allocate a substantial portion of the assets to non-U.S. securities, including emerging market issuers. An
emerging market country is any country determined by Chiron to have an emerging market economy.
Chiron may also invest in non-U.S. currencies, cash equivalents or bank deposits. Chiron seeks
diversification across markets, industries and issuers as one of its strategies is to reduce volatility. In
making investment decisions, Chiron tries to identify long-term trends and changes that could benefit
particular markets and/or industries and securities relative to other markets, industries and securities.
Chiron may use derivatives, including options, futures, swaps and currency forward contracts, to attempt
to both increase the return of an account and hedge (protect) the value of an account’s assets. Chiron may
use options to create long or short equity exposure without investing directly in equity securities, while it
may use futures to create long or short equity, fixed income or U.S. Treasury exposure without investing
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