Charles Carmody

Calamos Advisors LLC is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Naperville, Illinois. The firm was founded by John Calamos, Sr. in 1977 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Calamos Investments LLC, ultimately held by Calamos Family Partners, Inc. Calamos Advisors provides investment management services to institutional clients such as corporations and financial institutions, registered investment companies or mutual funds, closed-end funds, charitable institutions, foundations and endowments, corporate pensions, profit sharing and other retirement plans, municipalities, individuals, Taft-Hartley plans, and pooled investment vehicles.

Van Kampen Investments, Inc. operated an investment management company that offered management and supervision of assets, open-end and closed-end mutual funds, unit investment trusts, retirement products and investment platforms. It was founded in 1968 and was headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.

Founded in 1988, Arbor Research & Trading LLC is an institutional research and brokerage firm located in Barrington, Illinois. The firm produces innovative research across a broad range of global fixed-income, equity, currency and commodity markets. In addition, Arbor's trading desk provides comprehensive issue discovery and high quality execution in the fixed-income and currency markets. The firm offers objective viewpoints and intelligent solutions for portfolio managers and traders worldwide through a proprietary menu of independent and innovative research products designed to work in conjunction with clients and their systems.