Drew Richard Sweeney

The TCW Group, Inc. provides investment management services. The firm's clients include corporate and public pension plans, financial institutions, endowments and foundations in the United States, as well as a number of foreign investors and individuals. It works in partnership with financial advisors to help build the businesses and meet the needs of clients. The company was founded by Robert Addison Day in 1971 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Bradford & Marzec is a global, fixed-income manager. The firm employs a traditional, top-down, conservative sector rotation style with a bottom-up component to capture market inefficiencies. They seek to add value by shifting between bond market sectors to capture undervalued opportunities and to avoid overvalued sectors.Bradford & Marzec manages core, core plus and high-yield fixed income portfolios utilizing a long-only investment style and limited use of derivatives. The firm has particular expertise in credit analysis. They focus on fixed-income securities ranging from higher-grade, high yield securities to investment grade securities.The firm's security selection process relies on technical and quantitative analysis to diversify portfolios across high yield securities and non-dollar investments according to each client's guidelines. High yield investments are made in securities rated B or better. Non-dollar investments are made in the sovereign debt or investment grade credit of developed countries. Currency strategies are also actively managed for hedging purposes and to add value when appropriate. Bradford & Marzec uses scenario modeling to insure against surprises and control risk.