Governance

The team’s purpose is to ensure client alignment is intentionally embedded into all operations. The leadership team also provides clarity and guidance on where associates should focus to continue fostering an environment of excellence and client outcomes that surpass expectations.

In performing its duties, the corporate board is guided by three key pillars — oversight, insight and foresight. These pillars form a framework to ensure our business is successful in all respects by fostering sustainable, long-term business objectives, strategies and performance. In fulfilling its duties to our clients and public company shareholders, the corporate board regularly interacts with management to ensure the firm is managed with this long-term perspective in mind.

Six of the seven directors on the corporate board are independent, including the board chair, and meet the applicable independence requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission and NASDAQ.

Each of the roles and duties of the corporate board chair and the CEO are separate and occupied by different people.

The trustees, along with fund officers, are constantly guided by their fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interests of fund shareholders and to provide rigorous oversight of the management and operation of the SJF Funds and the SJF Securitized Credit Fund. We recognize that trust is key to our relationship with fund shareholders. To build this trust, we are committed to providing full disclosure and transparency regarding fund governance.

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We believe cognitive diversity — having a variety of viewpoints and ways of processing information — is beneficial for organizational decision making, problem solving and our sustained competitiveness. As a result, all members of our corporate board and fund board have deep industry experience as well as unique skills, perspectives and backgrounds.

Additionally, we believe a board’s composition should, at a minimum, reflect the diversity of its stakeholders, and that including perspectives of historically under represented groups, such as women and minorities, can contribute to long-term, sustainable value creation and reduce risk over time. Therefore, in addition to cognitive diversity, SJF is committed to continue making diversity of gender, race, ethnicity and other under-represented groups a priority for our corporate board and fund board.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion