Michael J. Shearer

American Century Investment Management, Inc. (ACIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm was founded by James E. Stowers, Jr. in 1958 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Century Cos., Inc. ACIM provides portfolio management services to financial advisors, individual investors and institutional clients.

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. (CSIM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1989 and is a subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ: SCHW). CSIM provides investment advice to pooled investment funds such as registered investment companies and non-US funds and to trustees of collective trust funds. They also provide non-discretionary investment management advice to their affiliate, Charles Schwab Bank (CSB).

Cutler Group LLC is a private company that combines expertise in mathematics, technology, and finance to be the most efficient producer of liquidity in the exchange traded equity option space. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company is building a unified system that efficiently trades and risk manages across all listed, electronically-traded, derivative products. The CEO of the company is Jonathan Lee Hill.

Founded by Ronald Sellers in 1992, Atlantic Asset Management LLC is a hedge fund manager headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm offers a range of investment products and services, from traditional fixed-income to hedge funds and derivatives. Their clients include public and private pension funds, labor unions, foundations, endowments, corporations and high net-worth individuals.

Part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., Capital Management Sciences, Inc. makes portfolio management systems. The private company is based in Los Angeles, CA. Capital Management Sciences was acquired by ICE Data Services, Inc., part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. from July 29, 2010 on June 08, 1993 for $24.30 million.

Founded 1992, Atlantic Asset Management LLC (AAM) is a hedge fund manager headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. In April 2015, AAM merged with Hughes Capital Management, whereby the businesses of Hughes and Old Atlantic were combined with the combined firm continuing the operations under the name Atlantic Asset Management LLC. Equity in the firm is wholly-owned by the owners of Hughes, through Atlantic Capital Holdings LLC. AAM may enter into investment advisory contracts with both individual and institutional investors. They generally provide investment advice to state and local pension plans, and government units and plans, corporate pension and profit-sharing plans, Taft-Hartley plans, trusts, charities, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, corporations or other business entities, and state and local municipalities. AAM is [also the investment manager of Atlantic Global Yield Opportunity Fund and the Global Alpha Trust. AAM has an interest in the investment manager and general partner to the Palmer Square Emerging Manager Fund LP and 25 Capital Residential Mortgage Opportunities Fund.