Cliff Corso

Provides financial guarantees and investment management services

1838's portfolio management team practices a bottom-up decision-making process along with quantitative screens. They do not market time, style rotate or sector rotate. Rather, they are fully invested at all times and remain sector neutral to the benchmark S&P 500. For fixed-income, the 1838 team focuses on yield curve analysis. They allocate funds from among U.S. treasuries, corporates and mortgage backed securities using a spread model that reflects 15 years of performance history. They screen each security for its structural soundness and long-term performance potential.

Cutwater Investor Services specializes in fixed-income asset management. The firm offers traditional fixed-income investment strategies and manages investments in structured finance securities. Cutwater's Traditional Strategies Group provides retail and institutional investors with investment services ranging from money market vehicles to broad multi-sector fixed-income strategies. Their take a long-term approach to identifying value in the fixed-income markets. Cutwater offer traditional fixed-income strategies in the following formats: separate accounts, institutional funds and retail mutual funds. These strategies include: (1) Local Government Investment Pools (2) Total Return (3) Insurance and Tax Efficient and (4) Bonds Funds. Cutwater's Local Government Investment Pools focus on safety, liquidity and yield for investment of public funds. These strategies involve active management of portfolio exposures to maximize risk-adjusted returns. The firm's Insurance and Tax Efficient strategies provide exposures managed to match liabilities or maximize after-tax returns. Their Bond Funds are income-focused, closed-end funds managed with the goal of providing a high level of income. Cutwater's structured finance strategies include: (1) Alternative Products/Funds (2) CDO Management (3) liability-Driven Investments and (4) Structured Funding Platforms. The firm's Alternative Products/Funds employ opportunistic strategies that seek attractive relative value and risk-adjusted returns through investments in ABS. They are a leader in leader in the purchase, structuring and management of complex CDOs. The firm employs proprietary models to manage Liability Driven Investing (LDI) strategies for a diverse client base. Cutwater manages structured finance platforms off a single, integrated desk, providing clients and investors with structuring, marketing and management across a range of industry sectors including bank/finance, structured/ABS, CDO/CSOs and public funding.

AAM offers access to alternatives, exchange-traded funds, fixed income markets, managed accounts, mutual funds, structured products, and unit investment trusts.

Acts as Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust

AB is a research-driven investment adviser that is global in scope and client-centered in their approach. The firm’s global team of research professionals, whose disciplines include economics, fundamental equity, fixed income and quantitative research, gives them a competitive advantage in achieving investment success for their clients. Within these research disciplines, they also have investment professionals that focus on multi-asset, wealth management and alternative investment strategies.

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