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Founded in 2007, Hilliard Lyons Capital Management LLC, formerly Hilliard Lyons Asset Management, is a registered investment advisor located Louisville, Kentucky. The firm is a subsidiary of HL Financial Services. Hilliard Lyons specializes in asset management for foundations and endowments, corporate pension and profit sharing funds, Taft Hartley plans and public funds. The firm is an affiliate of JJB Hilliard, WL Lyons LLC, a regional financial services firm founded in 1854 and Hilliard Lyons Trust Company LLC. Hilliard Capital Management and their affiliates are divisions of HL Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Hilliard Lyons employees, a limited number of outside investors and financial partner Houchens Industries LLC, one of America's largest 100% employee owned companies. On March 31, 2008, The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. sold Hilliard Lyons Capital Management and their affiliates JJB Hilliard, WL Lyons LLC and Hilliard Lyons Trust Company LLC to HL Financial Services.

Regions Investment Management, Inc. (RIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The firm was founded in 1971 as Morgan Asset Management, Inc. In 2016, they became a wholly owned subsidiary of Regions Bank, which is another wholly owned subsidiary of Regions Financial Corp. (NYSE: RF). RIM provides model strategies and provides portfolio management to Regions Wealth Management (RWM), a business unit of Regions Bank, for use by RWM with their clients.