Positive Impact Strategy

Socially responsible, high-quality intermediate maturity, tax-exempt municipal bond portfolios

To provide the socially responsible investor with an investment option that supports positive social and environmental solutions while maximizing tax-exempt income. Managed for after-tax total return, this strategy seeks to add value through purchasing tax-exempt municipal green bonds, issued by state and local governments specifically to fund projects with clear environmental benefits. Bonds selected for this strategy have maturities within 1 to 15 years.

Asset Preservation Advisors

Manager

October 2018

Inception of Strategy

USD

Base Currency

Investment Philosophy

APA believes that persistent pricing inefficiencies exist in the municipal bond market, especially in the secondary market where the firm can be nimbler. They seek to capitalise on these inefficiencies to identify investment opportunities and create value through rigorous credit research, active portfolio management and relative-value trading discipline.

The APA Enhanced Intermediate strategy seeks to deliver a higher level of tax-exempt income through a diversified exposure to lower investment-grade rated municipal bonds and an intermediate duration structure. The strategy aims to take advantage of investment opportunities using relative-value and fundamental credit analysis to maximize total return. Investment opportunities are pursued through an investment process that has been in place for over 30 years.

Conducted thorough relative-value and fundamental credit analysis to take advantage of pricing inefficiencies in the market. Bottom-up fundamental credit research is the cornerstone of our approach to investing in lower-rated, higher-yielding municipals. We combine our credit research with an investment process that emphasizes risk management and relative-value investing to achieve competitive risk-adjusted returns.Provide ongoing internal analysis of credit quality and underlying fundamentals.

The Team

Kenneth R. Woods

Asset Preservation Advisors
Chairman &Partner

Kevin Woods

Asset Preservation Advisors
Co-CEO, CIO & Partner

Charles Doty

Asset Preservation Advisors
CO-CEO &Partner

Patricia Hodgman

Asset Preservation Advisors
President & Partner

Kyle Gerberding

Asset Preservation Advisors
Managing Director
Portfolio Manager & Partner

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Past performance is not indicative of future results. This material is not financial advice or an offer to sell any product. Not every client’s account will have these exact characteristics. The actual characteristics with respect to any particular client account will vary based on a number of factors including but not limited to: (i) the size of the account; (ii) investment restrictions applicable to the account, if any; and (iii) market predicaments at the time of investment.

APA reserves the right to modify its current investment strategies and techniques based on changing market dynamics or client needs. The information provided in this report should not be considered a recommendation to purchase or sell any particular security. There is no assurance that any securities discussed herein will remain in an account’s portfolio at the time you receive this report or that securities sold have not been repurchased. The securities discussed may not represent an account’s entire portfolio, and in the aggregate may represent only a small percentage of an account’s portfolio holdings. It should not be assumed that any of the security transactions, holdings or sectors discussed were or will prove to be profitable, or that the investment recommendations or decisions we make in the future will be profitable or will equal the investment performance of the securities discussed herein. Investing involves risk including the potential loss of principal.

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