SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwire) — 01/19/12 — Strategic Income Management (“SiM”) today announced the firm-s advised and sub-advised mutual fund assets under management now exceeds $85 million. SiM-s three new asset allocation mutual funds: SiM Dynamic Allocation Diversified Income Fund (SDDAX), SiM Dynamic Allocation Balanced Income Fund (SDBAX), and SiM Dynamic Allocation Equity Income Fund (SDEAX) (the “DA Funds”), are available to investors on the Wells Fargo Advisor and US Bank mutual fund platforms, in addition to other fund platforms of select regional investment advisory and broker-dealer firms.
SiM-s CEO, Randy Yoakum, is pleased with the firm-s progress:
“We are very excited that Wells Fargo Advisor and US Bank mutual fund investors will now have access to all share classes of our DA Funds. We are pleased to be one of the select fund families that have been chosen for inclusion on the Wells Fargo Advisor and US Bank platforms. We are proud to have been selected by, and to be associated with, both of these high quality financial services firms.
Our goal is to provide outstanding service and support to the financial adviser community, and investment products that will serve their clients well for years to come. Availability of our funds on these two premier mutual fund platforms will allow us to serve a broad range of advisers and their clients on a nationwide basis.”
The DA Funds are funds of funds that will invest primarily in ETFs. The Funds will provide investors and their financial advisers with an array of asset allocation models which can be used to build core holdings for a broad spectrum of investors.
Although each of the Funds will have varying degrees of exposure to equities and fixed income, all of the Funds will have a value driven, income bias. The Diversified Income Fund is a conservative strategy focusing on the generation of current income. The Balanced Income Fund is a moderate strategy balancing equities and income producing securities, while the Equity Income Fund will be the most aggressive strategy in the lineup, emphasizing equities.
SiM was founded in 2010 by Randy Yoakum and Gary Pokrzywinski. Mr. Yoakum is the former Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager – Asset Allocation at Principal Financial/Edge Asset Management (formerly WM Advisors), and Mr. Pokrzywinski is the former Managing Director Fixed Income – Senior Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer for Principal Financial/Edge. Randy and Gary are joined at SiM by senior members of their research teams from Principal/Edge. Each of the Funds will utilize the disciplined, time tested, proprietary investment strategy and process developed by Randy and Gary over their 25+ year careers in investment management, including their time together at Principal/Edge, and its predecessor WM Advisors. All of the Funds will incorporate the High Yield expertise of Gary and his high yield team at SiM. For more information on SiM visit .
SiM has entered into a marketing services agreement with Piedmont Capital Distributors, LLC in relation to the marketing and wholesaling of the Funds. Piedmont is a national marketing firm with extensive experience serving the needs of asset managers in the US. Piedmont-s founders and senior management, as well as several members of its nationwide wholesaling team, were formerly key components of Principal Financial/WM Advisors- wholesaling efforts.
The SiM Dynamic Allocation Funds are distributed by Quasar Distributors, LLC. Quasar Distributors, LLC and U.S. Bank are affiliated.