Jeff Strong

Nicholas Co. employs a fundamental, bottom-up approach to security selection with a long-term investment horizon. Their process focuses on identifying securities offering secular growth characteristics, strong financial bases, reasonable valuations and downside risk. The firm’s long-term approach deemphasizes the short-term impact of day-to-day market volatility and maintains a focus on the long-term potential of the securities in their portfolios.

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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