AAMA was incorporated in December 1998 and began managing assets for clients
(each a “client” or collectively the “clients”) on January 1, 1999. AAMA provides
investment advisory services to clients that include individuals and families,
individual retirement accounts (IRAs), corporations, retirement plans (pension,
profit sharing, and 403b Plans), other investment advisors, broker dealers, and
charitable organizations. AAMA also provides investment advisory services to clients
that are registered investment companies (the “Affiliated Mutual Funds”).
The firm is a privately held corporation, primarily owned by Robert D. Baker and
Philip A. Voelker. As of December 31, 2022, the firm had $924,320,678 assets
under management and advisement ($684,745,448 regulatory assets under
management and $239,575,230 of non-discretionary assets under advisement).
AAMA offers clients customized portfolios, market neutral portfolio strategies, and
several Life-Style Portfolios including Stable, Fixed Income, Moderate Fixed Income,
Balanced, Strategic Balanced, Moderate Growth, Growth, Aggressive Growth,
International Growth and Frontier (Alternative Asset Class) Disciplines. clients may
complete a risk/return profile questionnaire, which helps determine which of the
above portfolios might be appropriate for the management of the client’s assets.
Each client selects one or a combination of the above portfolio disciplines. Each
client acknowledges and agrees to the selected portfolio discipline(s) by their
execution of the Asset Management Agreement.
While AAMA provides ongoing investment management services, clients may
impose reasonable restrictions in writing on their accounts, such as investing in
certain securities or types of securities. In addition, a client may assign assets for
management, which may include “directed” assets that do not involve investment
supervisory services. Fees are charged on the same basis.
AAMA occasionally
assists clients in limited financial planning discussions. These
services are limited and considered incidental to AAMA’s investment management
services.
Some of AAMA’s clients are sponsors of strategist programs where AAMA serves as
a strategist and provides recommendations regarding the purchase or sale of
specific securities, at specific weights for each individual security, in a model
portfolio (the “Strategist Programs”). The sponsor of the program pays AAMA a fee
for providing the recommendations and will use these recommendations in
managing the underlying client accounts for which the sponsor through their
relationship with other investment advisors has discretionary authority; however,
the decision regarding the timing and magnitude of purchases or sales rests solely
with the sponsor or the other investment advisor. The model portfolios provided to
the sponsors of these programs are similar to the model portfolios used by the Firm
in its various strategies. The model portfolios provided to sponsors may recommend
that the sponsor invest clients’ assets in the Affiliated Mutual Funds managed by
AAMA. Model portfolios currently implemented for other clients do not allocate any
assets to the Affiliated Mutual Funds. These model portfolios are invested in
unaffiliated mutual funds. AAMA strives to select the lowest cost, no-transaction fee
shares of unaffiliated mutual funds for which its clients qualify, depending upon the
Custodial Platform.
AAMA provides investment supervisory services to the Affiliated Mutual Funds under
the terms of its management agreement with each Fund, subject to the supervision
of the Funds’ Boards of Trustees, and has overall responsibility for directing the
investments of each Fund in accordance with its investment objectives, policies,
and restrictions as provided in the Funds’ registration statements filed with the
SEC. The Affiliated Mutual Funds pursue equity and fixed income strategies.