Mark Traster

SWIB seeks to produce the long-term, stable asset growth needed to meet the current and future obligations of the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS). The firm has developed a disciplined, prudent, and innovative investment strategy designed to weather a variety of economic environments and protect the members of the WRS from another major reduction, keep contributions stable, and generate reasonable returns. They manage their costs effectively and provide respectable returns by combining active and passive management of the trust funds. Funds in the WRS invests in a broad asset classes, such as stocks, bonds, real estate and other types of investments.

USBAM’s investment process strives to preserve principal, maintain liquidity, manage risk to client parameters, and produce returns commensurate with client goals. The firm primarily utilizes fundamental analysis in managing client assets. They focus on taxable and tax-exempt high-quality fixed income securities with investment objectives of safety, liquidity, diversification and yield.

Principal AM has divided their investment management operations into several unique boutiques. The equities boutiques render advice primarily for equity securities. They utilize internally generated fundamental research that focuses on bottom-up stock selection within a sophisticated comparative framework. The fixed income boutique renders advice primarily for debt securities. Their currency boutiques render advice for active and passive currency. Applying a fundamental-discretionary, macroeconomic theme-based investment approach to portfolio management, the strategies include absolute return as well as base currency hedging strategies.

Operates as an investment professionals firm for charity

NAM provides its services across a broad array of fixed income, equity and other investment strategies, including in the broad categories of municipal bonds, taxable fixed income, global and international, value, growth and core, public real assets, asset allocation, quantitative/enhanced, alternative and customized strategies. Depending on the strategy, the firm invests in a variety of securities and other investments, including in certain cases derivatives, and employs various methods of analysis and investment techniques.

Functions as a College/University