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RiverSource Investments combines macroeconomic, geopolitical analysis with fundamental research to identify the most promising investment opportunities across global regions, markets, sectors and stocks. Stocks are selected based on their ability to outperform in the context of the firm's economic outlook. Stocks are sold when there is a change in their fundamental characteristics and when they are no longer expected to outperform in the existing economic climate. All of RiverSource's strategies incorporate the use of both top-down and bottom-up analysis. The firm's equity strategies include: the RiverSource Contrarian 120/20 Strategy, the RiverSource Dividend Opportunity Strategy, the RiverSource Mid-Cap Growth Strategy, the RiverSource Mid-Cap Value Strategy, the RiverSource Opportunity Value Strategy, the RiverSource Value Strategy and the Seligman Small-Cap Value Strategy. Though not limited by sector, RiverSource tends to invest in the stocks of mid-cap and large-cap companies in the finance, electronic technology, technology services and health technology sectors. The firm maintains a low turnover rate. The RiverSource Contrarian 120/20 strategy's structure allows for focus on opportunities without style confinement. It is a short portfolio that seeks to achieve efficient risk management and increased informational efficiency through investments in ETFs and index/basket securities combined with a long portfolio that seeks to generate total return. The RiverSource Dividend Opportunity strategy employs a disciplined contrarian approach that employs collaborative analysis that incorporates intrinsic value and behavioral insights with disciplined risk management. The strategy seeks to provide competitive performance over the long-term. The RiverSource Mid-Cap Growth strategy seeks to achieve competitive risk-adjusted returns over full market cycles through investments in high-quality growth companies with solid fundamental strengths including proven management teams, sustainable franchises, earnings improvement, sufficient free cash flow and reasonable valuations. The RiverSource Mid-Cap Value strategy employs a disciplined contrarian approach that employs collaborative analysis that incorporates intrinsic value and behavioral insights and disciplined risk management. The strategy seeks to provide competitive performance over the long-term. The RiverSource Opportunity Value strategy employs a disciplined contrarian investment approach that focuses on investments in the stocks of large-cap companies. The strategy is based on a disciplined contrarian approach that employs collaborative analysis which incorporates intrinsic value and behavioral insights and disciplined risk management. The strategy seeks to provide competitive performance over the long-term. The RiverSource Value strategy employs a disciplined large-cap value contrarian investment approach that is based on collaborative analysis which incorporates intrinsic value and behavioral insights and disciplined risk management. The strategy seeks to provide competitive performance over the long-term. The Seligman Small-Cap Value strategy seeks to generate competitive returns over a 3 to 5 year time horizon through investments in undervalued companies with improving fundamentals and market-caps of $3 billion or less. RiverSources' fixed-income strategies include: the RiverSource Bank Loan Strategy, the RiverSource Core Fixed-Income Aggregate Strategy, the RiverSource Core Plus Fixed-Income Aggregate Strategy, the RiverSource Currency Alpha Absolute Return Strategy, the RiverSource Global Aggregate Fixed-Income Strategy, the RiverSource Global Government Fixed-Income Strategy, the RiverSource Global Inflation Protected Securities Strategy, the Institutional High Yield Fixed-Income Strategy, the RiverSource Investment Grade Corporate Fixed-Income Strategy and the RiverSource US Inflation Protected Securities Strategy. The RiverSource Bank Loan strategy invests in a broadly diversified portfolio that seeks to maximize returns and minimize default risk over the long-run. The RiverSource Core Fixed-Income Aggregate strategy seeks to produce consistent excess returns over a client's benchmark within a risk-managed framework that is consistent with the client's objectives. The RiverSource Core Plus Fixed-Income Aggregate strategy seeks to produce excess returns over a client's benchmark within a risk-managed framework that is consistent with the client's objectives through investments that include high yield, non-dollar and emerging markets opportunities. The RiverSource Currency Alpha Absolute Return strategy seeks to achieve positive absolute returns in excess of the return on cash, with a low correlation to traditional asset classes. The RiverSource Global Aggregate Fixed-Income strategy seeks to generate alpha in a risk-controlled framework by focusing on multiple and uncorrelated sources of active risk. The RiverSource Global Government Fixed-Income strategy seeks to generate alpha in a risk-controlled framework by focusing on multiple and uncorrelated sources of active risk, through investments that focus on global government and government-related securities. The RiverSource Global Inflation Protected Securities strategy seeks to provide positive risk-adjusted returns relative to the benchmark by focusing on duration management, yield curve and country selection across global markets. RiverSource's Institutional High Yield Fixed-Income strategy seeks strong and consistent risk-adjusted returns with a focus on generating alpha and actively managing downside risk. The RiverSource Investment Grade Corporate Fixed-Income strategy seeks credit opportunities in the investment grade corporate bond market that can be exploited to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns. The strategy focuses on investments in securities with solid fundamental credit, a reasonable time horizon and the ability to withstand short-term volatility. The RiverSource US Inflation Protected Securities strategy seeks to provide positive risk-adjusted returns relative to the benchmark by focusing on duration management, yield curve and security selection in domestic markets.

OFI focuses on delivering long-term results through active management and seeing opportunities where others may not. The firm’s methods of security analysis may include economic analysis, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, quantitative analysis and top-down analysis. OFI’s investment strategies may also be guided by (a) the investment objectives, policies, strategies, and restrictions set forth in an advisory or sub-advisory agreement, (b) any offering document or other governing document applicable to a client for whom OFI provides advisory services, and (c) applicable legal and regulatory requirements. OFI offers investment strategies in the following broad asset classes: equities, fixed income, alternatives and multi-asset. Equities include main street equity, small and mid cap growth equity, value and income equity, emerging markets equity and global equity. Fixed income has investment grade debt, high yield corporate debt, global debt, Rochester municipals, multi-sector fixed income and cash strategies. Alternatives asset class includes alternative strategies, real estate, gold and special minerals and global infrastructure securities.

OFI Institutional Asset Management (OFI) focuses on delivering long-term results through active management and seeing opportunities where others may not. The firm employs a variety of investment analyses including economic, fundamental, technical, quantitative and top-down. OFI's equity investment strategies include: Large-Cap Core, Small & Mid Cap Growth Equity, Value & Income Equity, Emerging Markets Equity, and Global Equity. Their fixed income strategies include: Investment Grade Debt, Global Debt, Rochester Municipals, Multi-Sector Fixed Income, and Cash Strategies. OFI also offers Alternative and Global Multi-Asset investment strategies.

Holland Capital Management (HCM) employs a high quality, conservative growth equity strategy fully invested in about 50 stocks. The investment process incorporates specific investment criteria with a focus on companies with double-digit earnings growth, reasonable valuations, superior management teams, strong financial condition, niche products or services, that possess superior competitive positioning and significant insider ownership. HCM's security selection process is bottom-up based on their analysts’ fundamental internal and external research. The firm offers two investment strategies, US Equity Large-Cap Growth and US Equity Mid-Cap. They generally manage all their equity accounts in the same manner, but do have clients that impose restrictions which exclude from their portfolios the stocks of companies whose revenues are derived from the sales of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, etc. HCM's equity investment process employs rigorous, fundamental bottom-up research combined with top-down theme identification, and a team approach to manage and mitigate stock- and sector-specific risk.

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AAI offers innovative investment solutions designed to help advisors and investors build better portfolios. Through both their alternative investment products and access to specialty asset managers, the firm seeks to deliver portfolio solutions that allow investors to diversify their core holdings and obtain exposure to attractive investment themes. The firm’s exposure to alternatives and specialty managers is achieved primarily through ETFs, exchange-traded products, closed-end funds and open-end funds with the goal of providing access that is registered, liquid and fully transparent.

CMIA manages no-load mutual funds and separate client-focused equity, fixed-income and balanced portfolios. The firm invests in the growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap domestic and international companies. Their investment strategy combines a top-down approach and thematic and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock selection process. CMIA’s fixed-income investments focus on short-term, intermediate-term and long-term high-quality debt instruments including US Treasuries, MBS, ABS, municipal bonds and agency bonds. Their balanced investment approach is a blend of their equity and debt strategies. Portfolios are benchmarked against the S&P 500 Index and the Barclays Capital Aggregate Index (formerly the Lehman Aggregate Index).