Beth MacLean

Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC (PIMCO) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newport Beach, California. Founded in 1971, the firm is a subsidiary of Allianz Asset Management of America LP and their ultimate parent is Allianz SE (ETR: ALV), a German global insurance company. PIMCO provides discretionary investment management services to a global client base.

Lord Abbett & Co. LLC (Lord Abbett) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett provides advisory services to a variety of institutional clients, the Lord Abbett Funds and other registered investment companies sponsored by third parties, the Lord Abbett UCITS Funds, the Lord Abbett Luxembourg Fund, other foreign funds, privately offered commingled funds and various separately managed accounts.

The Bank of New York is an investment management division of the Bank of New York Mellon (NYSE: BK)

Bank of Hawaii (Asset Management), do-business-as Asset Management Group of Bank of Hawaii (AMG), is a separately identifiable department of the Bank of Hawaii, which is owned by Bank of Hawaii Corp. (NYSE: BOH). Headquartered in Honolulu, AMG was founded in 1897 and offers investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to registered investment companies (mutual funds) and institutional clients that are quasi-governmental agencies whose accounts consist in whole or in part of the proceeds from the issuance of municipal bonds.

Nomura Corporate Research & Asset Management, Inc. (NCRAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1991 as a subsidiary of Nomura Holding America, Inc., itself a subsidiary of Nomura Holding, Inc. (TYO: 8604, NYSE: NMR) in Japan. NCRAM provides both discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services to institutional investors in the US and globally.