Mark Stockwell

Standish Mellon Asset Management Co. is a dedicated fixed income manager that offers a wide range of cash, credit-based and specialty bond strategies. The firm is effectively split into three divisions: the Active Fixed Income Division, the Tax-Sensitive Fixed Income Division and the Stable Value Division. Standish’s Active Fixed Income investment process combines top-down, macroeconomic analysis with bottom-up research to identify attractive securities based on proprietary, fundamental research. Their top-down approach includes macroeconomic research to assess the overall risk environment, and determine broad portfolio themes, industry emphasis, and overall portfolio quality. Standish’s Tax-Sensitive Fixed Income approach has an objective of achieving a high after-tax return on an absolute and risk-adjusted basis versus the benchmark. Their investment process emphasizes the identification of undervalued sectors and securities in the municipal and taxable bond markets. Their focus is to capitalize on yield anomalies among municipal and taxable sectors, identify undervalued securities, and pinpoint relative value between particular bonds. Standish's Stable Value investment process is marked by four key characteristics: a risk-averse style; a disciplined, quantitative approach; a flexible model; and opportunistic management. The objective is preservation of principal and the delivery of stable returns over time.

VGI offers both passive and active discretionary investment advisory services that cover the US and international markets. They employ two types of indexing strategies: replication and sampling. Their active management equity methodology is based on quantitative modeling while fixed income analysis is based on fundamental investment research and research obtained from external investment organizations.

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PCA believes its disciplined, risk-focused approach helps enable consistent client outcomes while allowing for flexibility across mandates to address client-specific objectives. The three key components of their approach to asset management are: (1) client-centered orientation, (2) risk focus, and an (3) integrated team approach. They also provide custom fixed income management capabilities, based upon a client’s specific investment policies, permissible investments, and other portfolio management parameters.

IMA manages customized fixed income portfolios on a discretionary basis by primarily allocating assets among municipal securities, corporate debt securities, US government securities, agency securities, mortgage pass-through securities and money market funds. Their investment process and philosophy is centered on active sector and security selection.