Craig Mauermann

Thornburg actively manages high-conviction portfolios for consistent risk-adjusted outperformance through objective observation and systematic analysis of the global markets. Their equity funds focus on a limited number of securities so that each holding can impact performance. Thornburg's equity team searches for firms that are believed to have a promising future and they seek to buy shares of those companies at a discount to their intrinsic value. On the fixed-income side, the firm conducts fundamental, bottom-up research to identify bonds they believe provide the best return for a given level of risk.

The firm's portfolio managers, research specialists and traders are organized into teams by asset class. SCM provides several different investment approaches to both its international and domestic equity portfolios. For its capital appreciation equity management, the firm emphasizes current economic environment and secular themes. In particular, long-term economic trends, Federal Reserve policy and market liquidity serve as a macroeconomic backdrop to the overall direction of the markets. For equity stock selection, disciplined, fundamental research with emphasis on the following characteristics are practiced: strong fundamentals, accelerating earnings and sales, accelerating return on equity, expanding market share, low cost producers, quality management and positive earnings surprises. Its bottom-up security analysis emphasizes management, cash flow, earnings growth, balance sheet strength, competitive position, discounted cash flow and relative p/e ratio.

M&I Investment Management Corp. offers a variety stock, bond and money market fund options. They invest across the risk/reward spectrum and use a variety of asset allocation strategies. M&I manages risk by avoiding concentrations in a single stock or sector and emphasizes long-term results across all market cycles. In general, M&I tends to invest in the stocks of US companies in the electronic technology, finance, energy minerals, technology services and producer manufacturing sectors. The firm invests across all market-caps with emphasis on the stocks of large-cap companies. M&I maintains a low turnover rate. M&I uses a disciplined fixed-income investment approach that seeks to capture excess returns. The firm evaluates the risk-return characteristics of individual securities in a wide range of sectors and manages risk through diversification and ongoing credit analysis. Their investment process involves the evaluation of sectors offering the greatest opportunity given the economic climate and the selection of securities based on current and historical spread relationships. Duration is managed relative to market benchmarks and trends in interest rates. They seek to identify the optimal positioning along the yield curve and to manage portfolios based on their assessment of current and anticipated changes in interest rates.

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BMO AM actively manages equity, fixed-income, short duration/cash and asset allocation strategies for their clients. The firm employs a variety of security analysis methods in managing client accounts, including fundamental and quantitative (technical) analysis. They provide advice regarding the following types of securities as part of its principal investment strategies: equity securities, debt securities, commercial paper, municipal securities, government securities, mutual funds, ETFs, futures and options contracts, collateralized loans and private placements.