Kathryn Hills

Prime Advisors' investment approach seeks to generate after-tax income through crossover trading between taxable and tax-exempt securities, duration selection and after-tax yield pickup swap analysis. The firm's utilizes proprietary systems and dynamic financial analysis models to develop optimal investment strategies. Prime’s credit research process begins at the Investment Committee level. The Investment Committee sets broad risk parameters and mandates that are applied across all portfolios. Then, on the security level, Prime performs independent credit research for securities that they manage. Their credit research team performs bottom-up individual security analysis and must approve an issuer prior to purchase. This team works with the portfolio managers to determine relative value within the corporate bond market, but ultimately the portfolio managers determine if an issuer is appropriate for a client’s portfolio. In addition to conducting fundamental credit analysis, Prime strives to achieve their investment objectives by emphasizing high-quality issuers, diversification and liquidity among market leaders. ^

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AllianzGI US manages client portfolios (directly or through model delivery and wrap fee programs) using traditional and systematic processes across various investment strategies. The firm offers an array of US equity strategies that vary across style and market-cap ranges. Their high yield bond and convertibles strategies employ a fundamental bottom-up process that seeks the early identification of high yield issuers that exhibit the potential for improving fundamental characteristics. AllianzGI US employs rigorous fundamental research and capital structure analysis to construct portfolios that consist of the best companies from a risk/return standpoint. They also offer alternative investment strategies that are designed to achieve absolute return, alpha enhancement and beta hedging.