NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT CO

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. is a limited purpose federal savings bank that provides a variety of investment management, trust services, and fee based financial planning. The company was established, and continues to operate as, a subsidiary business unit of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co is based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has expanded to have locations in Chicago, Grand Rapids, Summit, Richmond, and San Francisco. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co, along with affiliated subsidiaries Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company and Northwestern Mutual Investment Services LLC, are parts of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company that allow the company to provide a full range of financial services and solutions. The parent company can trace its history back to 1857, when John Johnston founded a life insurance company in Janesville, Wisconsin. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co provides a wide array of trust services including “investment management, distribution management, custody of assets, tax reporting, and other services” and provides investment advisory solutions through its Signature Advisory Program platform. The company conducts its research internally and through the platform that it shares with its parent Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co invests in the public equity and fixed income markets within the U.S., focusing on a wide variety of securities including mutual funds, exchange traded funds, government, and corporate securities. The company invests most heavily in the finance sector, which alone makes up almost three quarters of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the information technology, health care, consumer staples, and real estate sectors, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co’s top 10 holdings make up over a third of its total holdings and the company has a low turnover rate of approximately 4.2%.