SOUTHERNSUN ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC

SouthernSun Asset Management, LLC, founded in 1989 by Michael W. Cook, is located in Memphis, Tennessee. The firm is wholly owned by its employees, with Michael W. Cook and Phillip W. Cook each owning over 25% of the firm's equity. SouthernSun's Investment Team is comprised of generalists who are well-versed in the firm's holdings. Each team member is assigned primary responsibility for a subset of companies, including updating models, leading communications with company management, and maintaining notes on communications and material events. While the firm's investments are primarily in U.S.-based companies, they also have operations and interests worldwide. Therefore, each team member is responsible for understanding and monitoring global issues that could affect portfolio companies. New investment ideas are sourced through research on existing holdings, industry trade publications, industry conferences, and general market research.

SouthernSun is a research-driven investment management firm that implements long-only domestic equity strategies for institutions and individuals. They are absolute-return oriented, investing with a value approach and long-term perspective through disciplined, bottom-up, fundamental analysis and on-site research. They generally invest in niche-dominant, attractively-valued companies with financial flexibility and well-fitted management teams. SouthernSun believes that careful, in-depth analysis of a company's financial strength, market position, and human capital is the most comprehensive method of assigning proper valuations, identifying opportunities, and reducing the risk of investment. They focus on companies with a market cap range appropriate for the strategy and source new ideas through research on existing holdings, industry trade publications, industry conferences, and general market research.

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