Agecroft Partners Competitive Advantages
Experience
Don Steinbrugge's achievements over his 24 year career in institutional investment management sales include serving as the head of sales for one of the world's largest hedge funds, Andor Capital Management, and institutional investment management firms, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Prior to serving as a Managing Director at Ramsey Asset Management, Don was a founding principal of Andor Capital Management, which was formed when he and a number of his associates spun out of Pequot Capital Management. At Andor he was Head of Sales, Marketing, and Client Service and was a member of the firm's Operating Committee. When he left Andor, the firm was ranked by assets under management as the 2nd largest hedge fund firm in a survey by Absolute Return Magazine. Prior to his stint at Pequot, Don was a Managing Director and Head of Institutional Sales for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, which at the time was one of the largest investment managers in the world ranked by assets under management. Don joined Merrill Lynch through the acquisition of Hotchkis and Wiley where he headed up sales and marketing. Previously, Don was Head of Institutional Sales for NationsBank (now Bank of America Capital Management). Don began his career in 1984 with The Travelers selling investment management to large institutional investors.

Don is a member of the Investment Committee for The City of Richmond Retirement System, the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens Endowment Fund and The Science Museum of Virginia Endowment Fund. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, The Science Museum of Virginia, The Richmond Ballet (The State Ballet of Virginia), the Richmond Sports Backers and the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business.

Industry Reputation
Agecroft Partners was recently chosen by Opal Financial Group as the 2008 Third Party marketer of the year. Agecroft Partners has been written about in numerous industry publications. Managing Partner Don Steinbrugge is one of the most frequent speakers at alternative investment conferences. He has spoken on such topics as, the state of the hedge fund industry, institutional investors' use of hedge funds and the due diligence process of hedge funds. This has helped give Agecroft significant credibility in the market place as well as the clients we represent.

Quality of Sales Team
Our four, soon to be five, person sales team's goal is to have in depth product knowledge of the funds we represent and to be able to articulate their investment processes as well as our managers. The professionals at the firm average over 15 years of industry experience. Currently, our four person team includes two people who have completed the CFA program and carry the CFA designation; one person with a Princeton undergraduate degree and a Masters in Business Administration from MIT's Sloan School; and the fourth was on the executive committee of one of the largest Hedge Funds in the world. Our team is able to provide comprehensive global coverage across a multitude of hedge fund strategies for the funds that we represent.

Strong Knowledge of the Institutional Marketplace
Our managing partner has met with a majority of the largest pension funds, endowments, foundations and institutional consulting firms over his 24 year career and a significant number of them have been clients of his in the past. In addition, our sales team has significant relationships throughout the fund of funds, insurance company and family office market places. Our combined efforts have resulted in the creation of a proprietary database of more than 15,000 industry contacts.

Large high quality hedge funds
The firms we represent will primarily be large well established hedge funds with clearly defined investment philosophy, solid pedigrees, and impressive historical performance. Two of the three hedge funds we currently represent have over $1 billion assets under management. Ultimately, the reputation of a third party marketing firm is based on the hedge fund managers it represents.

Agecroft Partners LLC is a registered broker-dealer, and member of the FINRA and SIPC.