Keith Thomas Banks

Columbia Management Advisors invests in the US public equity and debt markets. They focus on growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies selected on the basis of a top-down approach and thematic and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create their equity portfolio mix. The firm benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolios against the S&P 500 Index. Columbia Management Advisors invests in short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term high-quality debt instruments including treasuries, mortgage-backed securities, municipal bonds, agency bonds and asset backed securities to create their debt portfolio mix. The firm uses a combination of their equity and debt strategies to manage balanced portfolios and benchmarks performance against the S&P 500 Index and Lehman Aggregate Index. Though not limited by sector, the firm tends to invests in the stocks of large-cap companies in the technology, energy minerals and consumer non-durables sectors. They maintain a low turnover rate.

Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust

JPMIM seeks to generate positive excess return through both a bottom-up approach emphasizing security selection and a top-down approach focusing on macro investment themes and trends to aid in determining sector weightings, currency, and yield curve weighting where appropriate. The firm offers a broad range of US, non-US and global investment management products and provides different strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes including equity, fixed-income, cash liquidity, currency, real estate, hedge funds and private equity.

Operates as a bank holding company whose subsidiaries provides consumer and global banking, markets brokerage & wealth and investment management services

Individually managed equity portfolios emphasize long-term growth and are constructed from a list of between 30 and 50 stocks carefully selected from a universe of about 300 companies. Typically large capitalization, these stocks are identified through a process that combines bottom-up company-by-company analysis with top-down screening. Approved stocks are combined in a portfolio that is deliberately diversified across economic sectors to manage risk while capitalizing on long-term economic expectations and demographic trends. Equities: The firm methodology for equities investing includes a systematic analysis of macroeconomic conditions. To be included in a portfolio a company must: 1) have historically low relative p/e ratio of stock to industry, stock to market and stock to GNP; 2) be growing at a rate greater than its current p/e multiple; 3) have a strong cash flow; 4) have increasing levels of dividends. Stocks are sold when they reach an extreme in the established price range, the fundamentals deteriorate, or there are more compelling buying opportunities available. Balanced & Fixed: The firm uses a combination of economic, international, and political analysis to begin to determine the proper asset allocation between fixed-income and equity investments. Fixed-income parameters are based upon forecasts of trends in economics and interest rates and other technical considerations. The equity portion of the portfolio is determined by establishing a likely range for the market based upon forecasts of earnings, inflation, and corporate price-earnings. In addition, consideration is given to the clients' investment objectives.

Functions as a College/University

Operates as a nationally chartered commercial bank

Provides card services

Federally chartered commercial bank