28 January 2014 Brokers. Asset Managers & Exchanges Alternative Asset Manager Initiation Theme I How should the alternative asset managers be valued? A key part of our investment thesis centers on at least modest PIE multiple expansion for the alternative asset managers relative to the traditional asset managers over the next 12 months. We think this will be driven by both cyclical and secular factors. As outlined within the report, the key positive cyclical factor is the current realization cycle, which we think is in about midstream and should continue to grow into 2015 before beginning to wane thereafter. This of course depends on market conditions, which began to improve more meaningfully in 2012 and have been especially favorable in 2013. However, barring a prolonged market downturn, and provided equity markets are not extremely volatile and have a positive direction, conditions for portfolio position exits via IPOs, secondary offerings, and M&A, for example, should remain relatively favorable. This situation is likely to drive considerable improvement in distributable earnings (DE) growth, which is the closest measure to cash flow as it pertains to distributions being paid in cash to unit holders. Hence, we think the market will increasingly focus on this metric, at the expense of the more mark-to- market-driven (and GAAP-like) economic net income (ENI), which forms Consensus and can also form valuations. Thus, the crux of our argument is that the earnings metric to value the Alts should transition to DE, which should be a favorable dynamic for the Alts at this part of the cycle, a condition likely lasting through 2014 and 2015. Figures 15-17 show our earnings forecasts for two different metrics (ENI and DE) for the Alts through 2016, with Figure 15 showing the ratio of DE to ENI. We regard this ratio as somewhat of an earnings quality measure, with a higher ratio of DE to ENI implying a larger proportion of ENI is distributable in