Meredith Cabell Jones

Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America engages in the provision of individual annuities and life insurance products. It operates through the following segments: Individual Annuities, Life, Questar, and Legacy. The Individual Annuities segment includes fixed, fixed-indexed, variable, and variable-indexed annuities that are provided through independent distribution channels made up of agents and registered representatives. The Life segment issues fixed-indexed universal life insurance products, as well as maintains term and whole life in-force blocks that the company no longer sells or distributes. The Questar segment distributes a range of securities products, including mutual funds, variable life insurance, and annuity contracts; and also processes general securities transactions through a clearing arrangement with a third-party provider. The Legacy segment consists of closed blocks of long-term care and special markets products. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Minneapolis. MN.

Founded in 1995, Moloney Securities Co., Inc. is a dually-registered broker/dealer and investment advisor, as well as a licensed general insurance agency. The firm is headquartered in Manchester, Missouri. Moloney Securities Co., Inc., the registered investment advisor, has relationships with independent advisors who provide personalized investment advice to the firm's clients. These advisors do business as "Moloney" or under different dba names such as: St. Croix Capital Management, Warren Financial Services, Arlington Financial Services, Heritage Investment Management LLP, Synergistic Financial, Moloney Securities Asset Management and others. ^Moloney is member of FINRA, the SIPC and the MSRB. They provide a wide range of investment and insurance products and services to middle and upper income individuals, as well as small companies. Their products and services include stocks, mutual finds, managed portfolios, bonds, variable annuities, fixed annuities, preferred and convertibles, variable life products, long-term healthcare, health insurance, general insurance planning, in-house money management and investment planning. Moloney's clients include individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, or charitable organizations, corporations or business entities.

Hancock Securities Group LLC is a private company based in St. Louis, MO.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

Detalus Advisors LLC (Detalus) is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was founded by Steven Rull and Joseph Garea in 2001 as Hancock Investment Advisors LLC. They were formerly owned by Manchester Holdings, Inc. Detalus provides financial advisory services to individuals, families, businesses, and nonprofit organizations.