Dan Whalen

Provides investment banking, securities trading and brokerage Services

Develops and manufactures semiconductors & related devices

Harold C. Brown & Co. (HCB) typically allocates their clients' funds to different asset classes to create portfolios that provide diversification and balance, with an emphasis on total return. The firm employs a variety of measures that seek to preserve capital. Once they determine a client's basic investment strategy, they select specific investment vehicles that are expected to perform well in forecasted economic, financial and market environments. HCB invests for the long-term and avoid attempts at market timing. The firm rarely engages in short-term trading. They also avoid the use of highly volatile financial instruments such as derivatives, futures contracts, options, commodities or limited partnerships. The firm's in-house investment research focuses on the economy, financial markets, industries and individual companies. They look for new investment opportunities and monitor the strength of their current investment holdings. HCB's equity selection process is based on a bottom-up fundamental investment approach. The firm seeks to identify companies with high levels of profitability and financial strength across broadly diversified sectors. They employ a blend of growth and value investment styles. Though not limited by sector or market-cap, HCB tends to invest in the stocks of US large-cap companies in the consumer non-durables, health technology, energy minerals, producer manufacturing and finance sectors. The firm maintains a very low turnover rate. The firm's fixed-income investment approach seeks to identify vehicles with the highest of credit ratings that offer maximum current yields. To minimize interest rate and inflation risk, HCB typically buys short- to intermediate duration debt instruments issued by highly rated corporations and municipalities, the US Government and its agencies and money market funds.

MLAM's worldwide approach to equity investing uses a philosophy of identifying relative value among individual stocks and stock markets by focusing primarily on two variables: reinvestment rate and the price-to-book value ratio. There are seven additional screens employed to further refine the process. The factors used to identify value include price-to-cash flow, price-to-earnings ratios, past and future earnings growth and dividend payouts. For asset allocation, a country whose market valuation measurements seem consistently above or below world averages or its own historical averages are over or under-weighted accordingly. The degrees of over or under-weighting are determined by relative economic prospects as measured by the outlook for GNP, inflation and interest rates of each country and their impact on currency movements. By combining a value approach to individual stock selection with asset allocation by country, the firm seeks to achieve consistent performance relative to international equity indexes. MLAM combines top-down and bottom-up analysis and uses proprietary models as part of their research process. Their funds are team-managed.

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Provides brokerage services

Provides brokerage services

Provides brokerage services