George Whitaker

Evergreen Investment Management offers a variety of equity investment products including domestic, international, global and emerging markets portfolios which are available using both fundamental and quantitative investment processes. The firm's domestic and international fixed-income strategies include short-term, money market, municipal, investment grade, high yield and structured solutions. Though not limited by sector or market-cap, the firm tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the finance, electronic technology and health technology sectors. Evergreen invests globally across all market-caps. The firm maintains a medium turnover rate. Evergreen's domestic, international and global strategies are managed by Metropolitan West Capital Management (MWCM). These strategies invest in high-conviction ideas with a long-term focus on value. MWCM employs rigorous research and an objective sell discipline to construct and actively monitor portfolios of high quality companies around the world. Evergreen's enhanced equity strategies are managed by Global Strategic Products. The strategies seek to achieve repeatable, competitive results through a disciplined quantitative approach. Portfolios are designed to seek consistent outperformance of their benchmarks with lower risk. The strategies employ disciplined proprietary analytical tools and systems to identify repeatable sources of value in the equity markets. Strategies include index and enhanced index equity products. The firm's core equity strategies are managed by Golden Capital Management. These strategies use a consistent, risk-controlled approach to core investing through all market cycles with a focus on capital growth and preservation. Portfolios consist of companies with attractive valuations and strong earnings that produce competitive long-term returns with relatively low volatility. The core-style investment process blends quantitative and fundamental analyses. Evergreen's domestic and international equity strategies are managed by Berkeley Street Equity. The strategies use fundamental analysis to identify companies with superior growth and value potential. Berkeley Street Equity constructs and monitors portfolios across the full range of core equity, sector-specific and international mandates. They employ fundamental, bottom-up research to identify quality investments for their growth and value portfolios. In addition to their US market portfolios, Berkeley Street Equity also offers global and international portfolios designed to provide investors with broad global diversification through core, fundamentally-oriented portfolios that are responsive to changing global equity markets. The firm's global fixed-income strategies are managed by First International Advisors. The strategies invest in investment grade, non-US debt securities while also seeking capital appreciation opportunities in emerging markets and below investment grade bonds. The firm pursues a variety of sectors and regions for diversification and offers currency overlay capabilities.

Wachovia Capital Management (WCM) invests primarily in the stocks of US large-cap companies in the health technology, consumer non-durables, energy minerals and finance sectors. The firm maintains a very low turnover rate. WCM's Advantage approach incorporates traditional equity and fixed-income managers, as well as alternative investments in hedge funds, real estate, commodities and private equity funds. The firm coordinates both asset allocation and manager selection with a focus on the efficiency and correlation of the investment managers they use.

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WFCS offers a variety of advisory programs. The firm's separately managed programs give clients the flexibility to select a model-based approach to separate account management or to customize a portfolio of individual professional money managers. Their mutual fund advisory programs are designed to help clients take advantage of the expertise of professional money managers through mutual funds or current market trends through ETFs. Through their financial advisor-directed portfolio management programs, a client's Financial Advisor takes on the responsibility of making day-to-day investment decisions.