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DWS Investment Management Americas, Inc. (DIMA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of DWS USA Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (ETR: DBK) in Germany. The firm was founded in 1984 and formerly known as Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. In 2018, they changed their name into DWS as part of the rebranding of Deutsche Asset Management. DIMA provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to various institutional clients. They also provide investment advisory services for its municipal bond strategies through wrap fee programs.

Exchange Traded Concepts LLC (ETC) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The firm was founded in 2011 by Garrett Stevens as FaithShares Advisors LLC. They are principally owned by Cottonwood ETF Holdings LLC. ETC offers both passive and active discretionary investment advisory services for the (i) US-registered exchange traded funds (ETFs) and (ii) pooled investment vehicles that are not US-registered mutual funds (e.g., a private investment vehicle and offshore funds).

Principal Global Investors LLC, dba Principal Asset Management (Principal AM), is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Principal Global Investors Holding Co. (US) LLC and their ultimate parent is Principal Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFG). Principal AM provides investment advisory services to institutional investors and individuals on a discretionary or non-discretionary basis.

Founded in 2001, Quantitative Services Group LLC (QSG) is a research firm located in Naperville, Illinois. The firm is a subsidiary of Markit Group Holdings Ltd. They seek to leverage the latest technology, construction techniques and specialty data to provide institutional investors a variety of global stock selection models focused on outperformance. QSG's Value Momentum Model provides a balanced approach to stock selection within the U.S. market. This model favors stocks with strong earnings quality, good valuation, strong balance sheets, positive momentum, and good earnings growth. The Value Momentum Model's approach is best for investors seeking broad exposure to a variety of proven stock selection methods and a core approach portfolio construction. The model is applied across all market-caps, investment styles and asset classes. The firm's Relative Value Model includes themes of price multiples, profitability, earnings expectations, intrinsic value and financial strength. This model is designed to avoid value traps, augment sector-relative and industry-relative viewpoints and provide a consistent source of value. QSG's Price Momentum Model provides a powerful, consistent 1- to 3-month investment signal. This model leverages put and call options and trading volume information to reduce the inherent risk-seeking nature of momentum-based strategies. The firm's GARP Model identifies growth stocks with strong value characteristics. The model consists of a proprietary combination of long-term earnings growth and relative value signals. It employs first-order partial correlation to create a blend of sustainable earnings growth and current cheapness. This model is best for strategies targeting stocks that demonstrate high long-term growth potential and the sustainability to realize that potential. QSG's Deep Value Model is a proven approach to selecting undervalued stocks across the broad US market. The Deep Value Model is designed to select future out performers over the next 9 to 12 months. The firm's Deep Value Model uses free-cash-flow, dividend yield and asset turnover to identify stocks that are currently trading at a deep discount to their intrinsic value. The Deep Value model provides discriminatory power for both long-only and long-short strategies and compliments more short term-oriented momentum and growth strategies. QSG's Earnings Momentum Model uses a proprietary search algorithm to combine analyst forecasts with the company's past earnings strength, along with several indicators of future earnings potential. The Earnings Momentum model has consistently outperformed in both pre- and post- Regulation FD environments. Utilizing a unique k-clustering factor selection technique, QSG's Historical Growth Model selects stocks with an above-average track-record of earnings growth, strong sales growth and high sustainable growth. This blended approach enables the model to identify traditional growth stocks, as well as value stocks on the verge of growth.

Scottrade Investment Management, Inc. (SIM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri and was founded in 2014. The firm is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: AMTD) and a direct subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Investment Management LLC. Scottrade, Inc. and SIM are separate entities but are affiliated subsidiaries of TD Ameritrade. SIM's Advisor Access program is available to clients who hold, or will hold, Scottrade brokerage accounts. Clients may include individuals, institutions, pension plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other entities, other than government entities. SIM's Guidance Solutions program provides services to include individuals, trusts, estates, investment clubs, corporate and other entity organization accounts, and SEP, Traditional and Roth Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs).

ETF Managers Group LLC (ETFMG) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Summit, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Sam Masucci in 2014 and is a subsidiary of Exchange Traded Managers Group LLC. ETFMG develops innovative thematic ETFs that provide investors unique exposure to new markets.

AXS Investments LLC is a registered asset management firm headquartered in Port Chester, New York. The firm was founded in 2019 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AXS Holdings LLC, which is owned by SR Partners LLC. AXS Investments provides investors and financial advisors access to institutional-quality alternative investments and education to drive improved portfolio outcomes.