Paul Rizzo

Fitch Ratings, Inc. is a global rating agency and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by John Knowles in 1913 as Fitch Publishing Co. They are a subsidiary of Fitch Group, Inc., ultimately owned by The Hearst Family Trust. Fitch Ratings seeks to provide independent and prospective credit opinions, research and data to the world's credit markets. Their approach is based on a foundation of local market experience that covers capital markets in over 150 countries. The firm's ratings analysis and rating decisions are based on established criteria, methodologies and ratings definitions which they apply in a consistent manner. Fitch Ratings provides coverage of the following markets: Economics, Banks, Insurance, Sovereigns, Corporates, Structured Finance, Public Finance – International, Public Finance – US, Infrastructure & Project, and Finance.

Assured Guaranty Corp. operates as financial guarantor. It is a diversified financial guarantor engages in insuring both public finance and structured finance obligations, including asset-backed securities. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bloomberg LP engages in the provision of business data, news, and financial information services. Its product include Bloomberg terminal, execution and order management, content and data, financial data management, and integration and distribution. The company was founded by Michael Rubens Bloomberg, Charles M. Zegar, Thomas F. Secunda, and Duncan L. MacMillan in 1981 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Radian Asset Assurance, Inc. provides financial guaranty insurance and reinsurance services. It also provides municipal bond insurance and insurance of asset-backed securities and structured transactions. The company was founded in 1985 and is located in New York.

Ziegler Capital Markets Group is a broker/dealer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with an additional office in Chicago. The firm is a subsidiary of Ziegler Capital Management LLC, a registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago. Ziegler Capital Markets Group investment banking, investment advisory, retail brokerage, fixed-income institutional sales and trading and related financial services. These services are provided to institutions, businesses and individuals with a particular focus on the not-for-profit sectors of healthcare, senior living, churches and schools. They do not provide internal research. Ziegler is a member of FINRA and the SIPC.

S&P Global Ratings provides independent credit risk research. It offers issuer credit ratings that provide an opinion on the overall capacity of an entity to meet its financial commitments, issue credit ratings that provide an opinion of the creditworthiness of an obligor with respect to a specific financial obligation(s) or specific financial program and loan ratings. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.