Wendy Casetta

Nicholas Co. employs a fundamental, bottom-up approach to security selection with a long-term investment horizon. Their process focuses on identifying securities offering secular growth characteristics, strong financial bases, reasonable valuations and downside risk. The firm’s long-term approach deemphasizes the short-term impact of day-to-day market volatility and maintains a focus on the long-term potential of the securities in their portfolios.

The firm's portfolio managers, research specialists and traders are organized into teams by asset class. SCM provides several different investment approaches to both its international and domestic equity portfolios. For its capital appreciation equity management, the firm emphasizes current economic environment and secular themes. In particular, long-term economic trends, Federal Reserve policy and market liquidity serve as a macroeconomic backdrop to the overall direction of the markets. For equity stock selection, disciplined, fundamental research with emphasis on the following characteristics are practiced: strong fundamentals, accelerating earnings and sales, accelerating return on equity, expanding market share, low cost producers, quality management and positive earnings surprises. Its bottom-up security analysis emphasizes management, cash flow, earnings growth, balance sheet strength, competitive position, discounted cash flow and relative p/e ratio.

Allspring utilizes proprietary investment allocation systems in conjunction with the securities selection services provided by their portfolio managers to create and maintain actively managed investment portfolios intended to meet the requirements of its clients’ investment needs. The firm offers a variety of equity, multi-asset, and fixed income investment strategies. These investment strategies (collectively) may invest in a wide variety of financial instruments. Allspring employs bottom-up company specific analysis to find securities with under-appreciated prospects.

National Exchange Bank & Trust manages separate diversified portfolios of equity and fixed-income instruments. The firm's products include: (1) mutual funds (2) tax-deferred annuities (3) self-directed IRAs (4) stocks (5) bonds (6) life insurance ad (7) long-term care insurance. Investment advisory services are offered through Raymond James Financial Services Advisors, Inc. and securities are offered through Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.

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Functions as a College/University