Daniel S. Solender

Lord Abbett’s method of analysis varies based on each strategy. They manage a wide range of equity investment products including growth, core, and value-oriented products. The firm manages both domestic and international equity strategies, some focused on specific capitalization ranges while others look for investment opportunities in more than one capitalization category or across all capitalization levels. Lord Abbett's investment approach is based on their belief in active management and risk control. Their approach is grounded in a foundation of fundamental and quantitative research. Lord Abbett invests in fixed-income instruments across the duration and credit spectrums in both the taxable and tax-exempt market places. The firm also offers an emerging markets currency strategy. Some approaches seek investment opportunities across various sectors including government, mortgage, corporate, municipal and emerging market debt, while others are limited to one or more of those sectors. Lord Abbett's fixed-income investment teams generally rely on a combination of fundamental and quantitative research.

The Vanguard Group is an American investment management company based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that manages approximately $3.4 trillion[1] in assets. It is the largest provider of mutual funds and now the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the world after BlackRock, with about $451 billion in ETF assets under management, as of March 2015.[3] It offers mutual funds and other financial products and services to retail and institutional investors in the United States and abroad. Founder and former chairman John C. Bogle is credited with the creation of the first index fund available to individual investors,[4] the popularization of index funds generally,[5] and driving costs down across the mutual fund industry.

Nuveen Investments, Inc. provides investment management and related services to retail and institutional investors. It offers investment management capabilities across a diversified set of asset classes and investment strategies through its investment management affiliates, including municipal bond, investment grade, global and high-yield bond, floating-rate bank loan, preferred securities, growth equity, value equity, global and international equity, equity income, core equity, equity index, quantitative and enhanced equity, asset allocation, balanced strategies, real asset and commodity. The company was founded by John Nuveen in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.