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Barings LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded in 1940, the firm is direct subsidiary of MM Asset Management Holding LLC and their ultimate parent is Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (MassMutual). MassMutual?s affiliated companies include financial services companies that provide investment management services and individual protection insurance to clients worldwide. Barings provides a broad range of investment advisory and management services to institutional clients, registered investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles.

Fidelity Management & Research Co. (FMR) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1946 and is a subsidiary of FMR LLC, also known as Fidelity Investments. FMR provides investment supervisory services, which include sub-advisory services, to Fidelity's family of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, qualified tuition programs, privately offered unregistered investment funds, separately managed account clients, and various other institutional accounts.

Protective Life Insurance Co. operates as a stock life insurance company. It engages in the provision of financial services. It operates under the following segments: Real Life and Annuity, Acquisitions, Stable Value Products, Asset Protection, and Corporate and Other. The Retail Life and Annuity segment markets fixed universal life, indexed universal life, variable universal life, traditional, fixed annuity, and variable annuity. The Acquisitions segment focuses on acquiring, converting, and/or servicing contracts from other companies. The Stable Value Products segment sells fixed and floating rate funding agreements. The Asset Protection segment deals with the marketing of extended service contracts. The Corporate and Other segment is consisted of net investment income on assets. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Wellington Management Co. LLP (WMC) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1928 and is a subsidiary of Wellington Investment Advisors Holdings LLP, ultimately held by Wellington Management Group LLP. WMC offers investment management services for a fee to separate account clients and mutual funds sponsored by unaffiliated parties, and to investment vehicles that the firm sponsors.

Westfield Capital Management Co. LP (Westfield) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1989 and is majority-owned by WMS Management LLC. Westfield provides quality investment management services to institutions and wealthy individuals.

Granahan Investment Management LLC (GIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1985 by Jack Granahan, Gary Hatton and Jane White. They are principally owned by GIM Holdings, Inc. GIM provides asset management products and services to registered investment companies, corporations, private and public pension plans, trusts, endowments, and foundations, pooled investment funds, and high net-worth individuals.

The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1935, The OPERS Board of Trustees – the governing body of the system – is responsible for the administration and management of OPERS. They provide retirement, disability, and survivor benefit programs for Ohio’s active and retired public workers and their families throughout the state who are not covered by another state or local retirement system.

Eaton Vance Management (EVM) is a SEC-registered mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1979 when Eaton & Howard merged with Vance, Sanders & Co. They are wholly-owned by Morgan Stanley Capital Management LLC, a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). Prior to March 2021, the firm was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp. EVM offers advisory services in a variety of equity, income, mixed-asset and alternative strategies to institutional clients, mutual funds, other pooled investment vehicles, and retail separately managed accounts.

Roberts, Glore & Co., Inc. (RGCO) is an independent registered investment advisor and wealth manager headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois. The firm was co-founded by William J. O. Roberts and James D. MacDonald in 1984. RGCO provides investment advice to individuals, high-net-worth individuals, trusts, family offices, corporate pensions or profit-sharing plans, and non-profit or charitable organizations.

Gamble Jones Investment Counsel (GJIC) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Pasadena, California. The firm was founded by Jim Gamble in 1956 as Gamble, Jones, Morphy & Bent. In 2023, they were acquired by Cerity Partners LLC, a subsidiary of Palladium Partners LLC. GJIC provides investment advisory services to individuals, family groups, foundations, endowment funds, trusts, pension, and profit-sharing plans.

Van Strum & Towne, Inc. (VST) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1927, VST provides investment counsel and wealth management services to high net-worth individuals, individuals, trusts, foundations, endowments, IRAs, 401(k) plans, partnerships, and pension and profit-sharing plans.

McMorgan & Co. LLC (McMorgan) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1969 and is owned by MCM Holdings LP. McMorgan provides investment management services to institutional clients such as Taft-Hartley pension plans, multi-employer, jointly-trusted benefit plans, public pension plans, and other institutional clients, individual clients, as well as to high-net-worth clients.

Putnam Investments LLC operates as an investment advisory company. The company was founded on May 14, 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Boston Management & Research (BMR) is an investment management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a subsidiary of Eaton Vance Management, ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). BMR was founded in 1924 and provides investment advisory services only to registered investment companies and private funds.

LS Investment Advisors LLC (LSIA) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The firm was founded in 2008 as a spin-off from Natixis Global Asset Management (the parent company of Loomis, Sayles & Co. LP). LSIA provides portfolio management services to individuals, families and institutions.

Eaton Vance Short Duration Strategic Income Fund is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to provide a high level of current income. Its secondary objective is to seek capital appreciation to the extent consistent with its primary goal of high current income. The Fund currently invests in Cash Reserves Fund. The company was founded on November 26, 1990 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Peat Marwick Main & Co. provides audit, tax, and advisory services. The private company is based in San Mateo, CA.

The Boston Economic Club, Inc. is a non-profit organization. It focuses on the economic development of Boston. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.