Barnet Sherman

Van Asset Management is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm traces its origins to 1927 when Kenneth Stevens Van Strum founded Van Strum Financial Service. In 1934, the firm was renamed Van Strum & Towne, Inc. In 1994, Van Kampen Merritt and American Capital merged, creating Van Kampen American Capital. In June 1996, Van Kampen American Capital was acquired by Morgan Stanley. In 1998, Van Kampen American Capital changed their name to Van Kampen Asset Management. Can Kampen Asset Management is a division of Morgan Stanley Investment Banking. Their ultimate parent is Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). The firm's products include mutual funds, closed-end funds, separately managed accounts, 529 portfolios, unit trusts and insurance trusts.

Teachers Advisors LLC (TAL) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1993 and formerly known as Teachers Advisors, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Nuveen Finance LLC, ultimately owned by TIAA Board of Governors. TAL provides services to individual and institutional separately managed account clients primarily through investment advisory programs such as wrap-fee and dual contract arrangements, and Exchange Traded Funds. On occasion, the firm provides portfolio recommendations to sponsors of unit investment trusts which are sold by the sponsor through broker-dealers and other firms.

Braintree Capital Partners LLC specializes in municipal bond portfolio management and investment subadvisory services to high net worth individuals, single and multi-family offices, and registered investment advisors. The company was founded by Arthur J. Wunder and Gayl Mileszko in 2008 and is headquartered in Braintree, MA.

Colonial Group, Inc. provides investment management services. Its services include estate tax planning, estate administration, trust services, personal representative of estates, investment strategy development, professional portfolio management, and corporate retirement planning services. The company was founded by R. B. Cleveland, Julian Calhoun and Thomas Screven in 1913 and is headquartered in Spartanburg, SC.