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Advisor Information for LFMIX

Fund Inception03/24/2011
Name of IssuerLoCorr Funds
Fund Advisor(s)LoCorr Fund Management, LLC
Sub-Advisor(s)Millburn Ridgefield LLC
R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management Inc
Nuveen Asset Management, LLC
Revolution Capital Management LLC
Tages Capital LLP
DG Partners LLP

Fund Managers for LFMIX

Jon Essen
Portfolio Manager since 03/22/2011
Mr. Essen has served as Chief Financial Officer of the Adviser since it was founded in November 2010. Mr. Essen also serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Octavus Group, LLC, and as a Registered Representative of LoCorr Distributors, LLC, positions both held since April 2008. Mr. Essen also began serving as Principal and Chief Compliance Officer of LoCorr Distributors, LLC in September 2008. Mr. Essen also served as Chief Operating Officer of the Adviser and affiliates from 2008 to 2016. Previously, Mr. Essen served as Chief Operating Officer of a commercial finance enterprise from May 2002 to April 2008. Additionally, Mr. Essen was Chief Financial Officer of Jundt Associates, Inc. from 1998 to 2002.
Michael Mundt
Portfolio Manager since 03/11/2016
Michael Mundt, Principal and Chief Compliance Officer. Michael’s tasks at Revolution primarily consist of model development, business/marketing, and coordinating Revolution’s overall business and trading strategy. Michael’s background is in engineering and applied science. He received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1989. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in 1993, also from the University of Colorado; his thesis involved the exploration of chaos and turbulence in simple weather/climate models. After the completion of his academic studies, Michael transitioned into the technology industry. He was employed by Seagate Technology (a hard-disk drive company) as an engineer specializing in computational fluid mechanics between March 1998 and July 2007. He currently holds nineteen U.S. patents in the area of disk-drive head/disk mechanics. Michael has been registered with the National Futures Association as an Associated Person since 2004 and has been a listed Principal of Revolution since December 2004.
Theodore Olson
Portfolio Manager since 03/11/2016
Rob oversees the architecture and development of the hardware and software computing infrastructure at Revolution. Rob received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Arizona in 1989. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado in 1992 and 1996, respectively. Rob was employed at Raytheon Technology, an aerospace defense contractor, from June 1996 through June 2006. His primary job duties included code/software development, data analysis, and the development of statistical algorithms to process high-frequency, real- time data. Rob is familiar with a wide range of computing languages (e.g. Fortran, C, C++, Java), operating systems (e.g. Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X), and application software (e.g. Perl, Matlab, Tcl/Tk). Rob has been registered with the National Futures Association as an Associated Person since 2008 and has been a listed Principal of Revolution since September 2005.
Barry Goodman
Portfolio Manager since 03/11/2016
Barry Goodman, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Trading. Mr. Goodman is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Trading of Millburn Ridgefield LLC and serves as a member of Millburn’s Executive and Investment Committees. Mr. Goodman joined the firm in November 1982 as Assistant Director of Trading and thereafter served as Director of Trading and then Executive Vice-President until November 1, 2015. Mr. Goodman plays an integral role in business and product development, and in setting the strategic direction of the firm. His responsibilities include overseeing the firm’s trading operations and managing its trading relationships, as well as providing input into the design and implementation of trading systems. From September 1980 through October 1982, he was a commodity trader at the brokerage firm of E.F. Hutton & Co., Inc. (“E.F. Hutton”). At E.F. Hutton, he also designed and maintained various technical indicators and coordinated research projects pertaining to the futures markets. Mr. Goodman graduated magna cum laude from Harpur College of the State University of New York in 1979 with a B.A. in economics.
Harvey Beker
Portfolio Manager since 03/11/2016
Mr. Beker is Chairman of Millburn Ridgefield LLC and serves as a member of Millburn’s Investment Committee. Mr. Beker has been employed by Millburn since June 1978. In the past, he has held various other positions with the firm, including Director of Operations and Co-Chief Executive Officer. During his tenure at Millburn (including its affiliates), he has been instrumental in the development of the research, trading, and operations areas. Mr. Beker has served as a principal of the firm since 1982. From June 1975 to July 1977, Mr. Beker was employed by the investment bank Loeb Rhoades, Inc. where he developed and traded silver arbitrage strategies. From July 1977 to June 1978, Mr. Beker was a futures trader at the commodities and securities brokerage firm of Clayton Brokerage Co. of St. Louis. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from New York University (“NYU”) in 1974 and a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from NYU in 1975.
Grant Smith
Portfolio Manager since 03/11/2016
Grant N. Smith, Co-Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Smith is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Millburn Ridgefield LLC and serves as a member of Millburn’s Executive and Investment Committees. He joined a predecessor entity to Millburn in June 1975, and has been continuously associated with the firm and its affiliates since that time, including as the Executive Vice-President until November 1, 2015, as Director of Research until May 31, 2016, as Chief Investment Officer until March 1, 2024, and Co-Chief Investment Officer until March 1, 2025. He received a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”) in 1974 and an M.S. degree from MIT in 1975. While at MIT, he held several teaching and research positions in the computer science field and participated in various projects relating to database management.
Sean Katof
Portfolio Manager since 03/28/2016
Sean Katof, CFA, has served as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager for the Funds since 2016. Prior to joining LoCorr, Mr. Katof served as Director of Capital Markets at SLOCUM, an institutional consulting firm, from 2005 to 2015. Prior to joining SLOCUM, Mr. Katof served as Portfolio Manager at Devenir Investment Advisors where he managed the Industry Leaders Core Equity portfolio from 2004 to 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Katof was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at INVESCO Funds Group where he worked from 1994 to 2003. Mr. Katof received his B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.S. in Finance from the University of Colorado at Denver. Mr. Katof holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (“CAIA”) designations.
Tony Rodriguez
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2017
Tony Rodriguez, Portfolio Manager. Mr. Rodriguez joined Nuveen in 2002 and serves as co-head of fixed income. Mr. Rodriguez served as a head of global corporate bonds for Credit Suisse Asset Management and managing director and head of corporate bonds for Prudential Global Asset Management. He received a B.A. in economics from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. in finance from New York University
Peter Agrimson
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2018
Peter Agrimson, CFA, Portfolio Manager. Mr. Agrimson joined Nuveen in 2008 and is the lead manager of the Short Duration Multi Sector strategy and is a member of the Securitized Debt Sector Team. Prior to his current role, he was a member of the securitized debt sector team, responsible for trading mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and commercial mortgage-backed securities. Peter also performed credit analysis and surveillance for the firm’s mortgage backed securities and asset-backed securities portfolios. Before joining the firm in 2008, he served as credit analyst at Long Lake Partners, LLC, where he performed credit analysis for the company’s structured products portfolio. Peter graduated with a B.S. in Finance from Northern Illinois University. He holds the CFA® designation and is a member of the CFA® Institute.
Roy Niederhoffer
Portfolio Manager since 01/25/2022
Mr. Niederhoffer leads the Management Committee and brings over 35 years of experience in the hedge fund industry. Roy Niederhoffer founded R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, Inc. in 1993. Mr. Niederhoffer is a 1987 graduate of Harvard University, magna cum laude, where he received a BA in computational neuroscience. From June 1987 until October 1989, Mr. Niederhoffer was employed by NCZ commodities, Inc ("NCZ"), a US commodity trading advisory firm which managed both proprietary and customer funds. In October 1989, NCZ changed its name to and became Niederhoffer Investments, Inc ("NII"). At both NCZ and NII, Mr. Niederhoffer was engaged as a trader, researcher, and information technology and software developer until January 1993. Mr. Niederhoffer was responsible for the development of trading systems and research software. In addition, he was responsible for managing trading accounts based on the systems he developed. In January 1993, Mr. Niederhoffer left NII.
Michael Soss
Portfolio Manager since 04/30/2024
Michael Soss, Phd. Chief Investment Officer. Dr. Soss is Chief Investment Officer of Millburn Ridgefield LLC and serves as a member of Millburn’s Investment Committee. He joined Millburn in January 2022 and is responsible for management of the firm’s systematic research and development functions, including system design, modeling, data management and trade execution. Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Soss was employed by Point72 Asset Management, from March 2015 to January 2021, in leadership roles spanning risk and trading research, and most recently headed the firm’s Fusion group, a quant trading division focused on internal alpha capture. From September 2013 to March 2015, he was an executive director at J.P. Morgan. His other experience includes SECOR Asset Management from April 2012 to September 2013, and Goldman Sachs from August 2003 to March 2012. Dr. Soss received an AB in mathematics from Harvard University in 1996, and MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1998 and 2001, respectively.
Nikhil Mathur
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2026
Scott Watson
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2026
David Gorton
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2026
Adrian Owens
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2026
Adrian Owens is an Investment Director, managing fixed income and currency-based hedge funds, and related strategies. Prior to joining GAM in May 2009, Adrian was at Julius Baer Investments Limited and was based in its New York office from 2001 until 2002, where he oversaw the US fixed income funds. Upon his return to London, he worked as co-head of the company's fixed income investments before launching an in-house fixed income and currency-based hedge fund in January 2004. Prior to that, Adrian was the European economist at Yamaichi International (Europe). He spent the early part of his career working as an economist for the UK Department of Employment and then the HM Treasury. Adrian holds a Masters in Economics from McGill University, Montreal. He is based in London.