Chris Blakely

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.

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NBW Capital seeks to find companies with long-term fundamental drivers that will create value over many years. The firm aims to deliver investment portfolios that outperform their benchmarks. They offer a variety of strategies that can be combined to meet their clients’ individual risk tolerances. NBW Capital’s top-down macro and bottoms-up micro approach is a rigorous part of their risk management process and seeks to eliminate underperforming groups and securities.

Waverly Advisors primarily allocates client investment assets among various mutual funds, ETFs, fixed-income securities and independent managers on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis based on the client's specific investment objectives.