Investment StrategY | APERTURE ADVISORS

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At Aperture, we deliver strong, risk-adjusted returns through a disciplined, research-driven process. Our portfolios are built around our highest-conviction ideas — not diluted across hundreds of holdings. Concentration, paired with rigorous risk management, is the advantage.

At Aperture, our philosophy is built on three uncompromising principles: focus, transparency, and alignment. Concentrated, high-conviction investing produces stronger risk-adjusted outcomes than diversification across mediocre ideas. Investors deserve complete transparency into every holding and every cost. Liquidity matters — our investors access their capital when they need it, without lockups or gates.

We manage capital through Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) — a structure that combines institutional rigor with investor control. SMAs give investors direct ownership of their securities, daily transparency into every position, and straightforward tax reporting. Unlike traditional hedge funds or private funds, SMAs avoid long lockups, pooled structures, and complex K-1s — ensuring flexibility and alignment remain with the investor.

Our approach delivers institutional-quality portfolio management through a structure built entirely around the investor. Capital is always liquid, always transparent, and always yours.

Superior risk-adjusted returns require protecting capital as carefully as growing it. Every decision at Aperture is made with a clear understanding of both potential return and downside risk. Our discipline includes:

• Concentration as clarity — broadly diversified portfolios breed uncertainty and panic selling because investors don’t know what they own. We know exactly what we own. When markets sell off, we can assess whether declines reflect genuine deterioration or disconnected sentiment. This clarity allows us to act with conviction when others panic.

•  Position sizing — allocating capital with intention, sized by conviction and risk-adjusted opportunity.

• Differentiated return drivers — focusing on asymmetric opportunities rather than adding names for the sake of breadth.

• Ongoing monitoring — continuously reviewing portfolio exposures, correlations, and volatility as conditions evolve.

• Liquidity — avoiding lockups and illiquid structures, ensuring capital can be accessed and redeployed when needed.

• Tax sensitivity — concentrated portfolios that perform generate embedded gains. We manage this through disciplined rebalancing and a continuous awareness of after-tax returns. Our goal is to preserve as much of the return as possible on a net basis.

This discipline allows us to pursue our best ideas while maintaining portfolios built to weather uncertainty and deliver superior risk-adjusted returns over time.