Firm Description: Natixis Advisors, LLC (“Natixis Advisors”) was a limited partnership organized on
January 23, 1995 which was converted into a limited liability company on July 30, 2021, under the laws of the
State of Delaware. Natixis Advisors maintains a principal office located at 888 Boylston Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02199 with an additional office at 101 Second Street, Suite 1600, San Francisco, California 94105
that supports some of the services offered by its division, Natixis Investment Managers Solutions
(“Solutions”). Solutions is not a separate legal entity. Natixis Advisors and Natixis Distribution, LLC
(“Natixis Distribution”), a FINRA registered limited purpose broker-dealer affiliate of Natixis Advisors, are
commonly referred to by the umbrella name of Natixis Investment Managers.
Principal Owners: Natixis Advisors is a direct subsidiary of Natixis Investment Managers, LLC, which,
following a modification in corporate structure that took place in January 2024, is a direct subsidiary of Natixis
Investment Managers (“Natixis IM”), an international asset management group based in Paris, France, that is
part of the Global Financial Services division of Groupe BPCE. Natixis IM is wholly owned by Natixis, a French
investment banking and financial services firm. Natixis is wholly owned by BPCE, France’s second largest
banking group. The modification in corporate structure mentioned above was the merger of Natixis Investment
Managers, LLC into Natixis Investment Managers U.S. Holdings, LLC and the subsequent name change of the
holding company to “Natixis Investment Managers, LLC.” The internal reorganization did not change the
ultimate parent of Natixis Advisors or the identity and responsibilities of, or services provided by, either Natixis
Advisors’ or Natixis Investment Managers, LLC’s personnel.
Types of Advisory Services: Natixis Advisors provides advisory services to investment company clients and
managed account clients. These relationships are described in more detail below. In addition, Natixis Advisors
creates proprietary direct indexing separately managed account strategies and multi-asset portfolios comprised
of proprietary and non-proprietary mutual funds, separately managed account sleeves and ETFs. Natixis
Advisors also provides portfolio analysis, consulting, and analytic services to investment professionals, which
services are not contingent on current or future sales or sales targets.
Investment Company Advisory Services: Natixis Advisors is the investment adviser to some of the investment
companies in the Natixis family of funds (the “Natixis Funds”). Each Natixis Fund is a registered investment
company or a series thereof. Natixis Advisors is also the investment adviser to exchange-traded funds (the
“Natixis ETFs”). Each Natixis ETF is a registered investment company.
Natixis Advisors generally subcontracts portfolio management services to one or more affiliated or unaffiliated
registered investment advisers to act in the capacity of subadviser to Natixis Advisors, as listed on Appendix 1.
As set forth in the relevant contract, each subadviser is responsible for the day-to-day investment operations of
the Natixis Fund it subadvises. Natixis Advisors is responsible, subject to the approval of the Natixis Funds’
and Natixis ETFs’ Board, for the selection and oversight of such subadviser. Natixis Advisors will replace
subadvisers as it deems appropriate, subject to the approval, as may be required, of the affected Natixis Funds’
and Natixis ETFs’ Board and/or the affected Natixis Funds’ and Natixis ETFs’ shareholders.
Natixis Advisors provides administrative services to the Natixis Funds, Natixis ETFs, and the Loomis Sayles
family
of funds (the “Loomis Sayles Funds”) (collectively the “Funds”). Natixis Advisors also provides
marketing support services to certain Funds.
Managed Account Advisory Services: Natixis Advisors provides both discretionary and non-discretionary
investment advisory services through sponsor programs and other contractual advisory arrangements.
Natixis Advisors’ investment advisory services are often provided with assistance from affiliated and unaffiliated
registered investment advisers (commonly referred to as model providers). Where Natixis Advisors receives
recommendations in the form of a model portfolio from a model provider but retains investment discretion,
Natixis Advisors follows the recommendations in the model portfolios provided. However, Natixis Advisors can
substitute or otherwise deviate from the model portfolio as it considers appropriate, including to comply with
individual client guidelines or restrictions, to realize losses in taxable accounts, and to provide market exposure
during a wash sale period. Alterations made to accommodate individualized policies or restrictions as well as
trading delays and other timing issues could result in deviations between the holdings and performance of client
accounts and those of the model portfolios. See Appendix 2 for a list of the affiliated model portfolio providers
and unaffiliated model portfolio providers used by Natixis Advisors and/or model portfolio strategies provided
by each.
Bundled and Unbundled Advisory Services:
Natixis Advisors provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis when it is granted sole or shared
authority (whether or not that authority is exercised) to determine what securities or other assets to purchase or
sell on behalf of a client account. Natixis Advisors provides discretionary investment advisory services to
managed account clients that participate in bundled and unbundled sponsor programs. Managed account
programs for which the program sponsor performed due diligence and where the client is charged a
bundled/wrapped fee are commonly referred to as “Bundled Programs.” Managed account programs for
which the program sponsor performs limited due diligence and the client is not charged a bundled/wrapped fee
are commonly referred to as “Unbundled Programs.” These sponsor programs offer managed account clients
the investment advisory services of a number of different investment managers, one of which is Natixis
Advisors. Natixis Advisors participates in programs as a discretionary manager by providing client-specific
investment advisory services.
Model Delivery Services:
Natixis Advisors provides non-discretionary investment advisory services when it is not granted sole or shared
authority to determine what securities or other assets to purchase or sell on behalf of a client account. Natixis
Advisors provides non-discretionary investment advisory services when it delivers model portfolios to program
sponsors for use in the sponsor’s program. In such arrangements, the program sponsor or adviser exercises
discretion over client accounts.
Overlay Portfolio Management Services:
Natixis Advisors provides discretionary and non-discretionary overlay portfolio management services to
sponsors. These services include, but are not limited to, portfolio implementation, product development,
unified managed account portfolio construction, manager selection, and administrative overlay management,
which can be designed by Natixis Advisors to meet a sponsor or client’s specific overlay portfolio management
needs.
Assets Under Management: Natixis Advisors’ regulatory assets under management total $63,770,732,162 of
discretionary assets under management as of December 31, 2023.