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ING Senior Loan Group

Our primary competitive advantage is the scale and experience of our Senior Loan Group.

We are one of the industry's largest teams dedicated to managing senior loans, with 27 investment professionals managing over US$10 billion in this asset class.

We manage senior loans strictly from the private side of the market, meaning that we have access to material non-public information about borrowers, providing a decided edge over managers that attempt to manage senior loans from the public side as though they were high yield bonds or equities.

Our relatively conservative approach focuses on investing in the best available credits originated in the category and maintaining extensive sector and issuer diversification levels. Rigorous implementation of this strategy, has produced long-term outperformance, in terms of the avoidance of defaults and, in turn, total return.

Additionally, our higher quality approach typically provides for better asset level liquidity and a higher degree of pricing transparency, benefiting our investors.

Our core strengths include:

• A highly experienced management team - one of the largest dedicated teams in the industry
• A focus on consistent results through broad diversification, high relative quality, and liquidity
• A disciplined, consistent investment process and an investment committee approach to decision making and oversight
• The avoidance of defaults through meticulous fundamental credit research
• Proprietary research and portfolio management system
• A dedicated support team of trading, operations, analytics, and legal personnel