Rhondda Colombatto

Columbia Management Advisors invests in the US public equity and debt markets. They focus on growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies selected on the basis of a top-down approach and thematic and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create their equity portfolio mix. The firm benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolios against the S&P 500 Index. Columbia Management Advisors invests in short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term high-quality debt instruments including treasuries, mortgage-backed securities, municipal bonds, agency bonds and asset backed securities to create their debt portfolio mix. The firm uses a combination of their equity and debt strategies to manage balanced portfolios and benchmarks performance against the S&P 500 Index and Lehman Aggregate Index. Though not limited by sector, the firm tends to invests in the stocks of large-cap companies in the technology, energy minerals and consumer non-durables sectors. They maintain a low turnover rate.

Operates as a bank holding company whose subsidiary provides commercial banking, consumer lending and wealth management services

McDonnell's Investment Management specializes in fixed income investment management solutions. The firm's fixed income group primarily offers investment grade taxable and tax-exempt strategies as well as blended taxable and tax-exempt strategies. Clients select from investment mandates that encompass: core, limited maturity/duration, multi-sector, and customized benchmark blends. Taxable, tax-exempt and blended strategies are provided to separate accounts, managed account programs (wrap programs), sub-advised mutual funds and private funds. McDonnell employs a disciplined, value-added approach to fixed income management which is intended to outperform the market and dampen volatility in relative rates of return.

State commercial bank