Story: Recognizing the need for better investment manager selection tools, Xponance launched Aapryl, a financial technology company providing cutting-edge analytics. The web-based platform helps asset allocators identify investment managers, build portfolios, and manage risk using predictive algorithms that analyze manager skill versus luck.

Innovation: Proprietary methodology that creates cloned portfolios and predicts future manager performance—reducing manager evaluation time from months to minutes.

Impact: Democratized access to sophisticated quantitative analysis for institutional investors.

Visual Elements:

• Platform screenshot
• Infographic: “From 3 Months to 3 Minutes: The Aapryl Advantage”

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Story: At 20 years, FIS Group had grown to nearly $5 billion in assets under management, earning recognition as a leader in emerging manager strategies.

Awards:

• Savoy Magazine’s “2016 Top 200 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America” (Tina Byles Williams)
• Black Enterprise Magazine’s “75 Most Powerful Blacks on Wall Street” (Tina Byles Williams)
• Markets Media “Achievement in Diversity” Award
• NAASP Maynard Jackson Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Impact: Solidified reputation as one of the premier manager-of-managers firms globally.

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Story: Appointed to the National Women’s Business Council, a federal advisory council to the President, Congress, and U.S. Small Business Administration. Tina chaired the Research Committee, advising on economic issues critical to women business owners.

Impact: Extended Xponance’s influence to national policy discussions on diversity and entrepreneurship.

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Story: Piedmont Investment Advisors was established in Durham, NC, specializing in systematic, risk-controlled active and passive equity strategies, as well as fixed income management. Led by an experienced team of minority and women professionals, the firm would later become a crucial part of Xponance’s integrated platform.

Impact: Established the foundation for systematic equity and fixed income capabilities that would complement FIS Group’s multi-manager approach.

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Story: After serving as Chief Investment Officer for the City of Philadelphia’s $2.5 billion Board of Pensions and Retirement, where she created one of the country’s first emerging manager programs, Tina Byles Williams mortgaged her home to establish Fiduciary Investment Solutions (FIS Group). Her vision: to identify talented, entrepreneurial investment managers—especially those who were diverse and women-owned—and create superior returns for institutional investors.

Impact: Launched one of the first minority and women-owned institutional investment management firms in the United States.

Visual Elements:

• Archival photo: Tina Byles Williams, early office
• Quote card: “I knew there was a hidden opportunity in identifying entrepreneurial firms that were small but talented.”

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