HARTFORD INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CO

The Hartford Investment Management Company is an investment management firm based out of Hartford, Connecticut. The company was established in 1995 and has grown and expanded since then to have locations in Fresno and Boston. Hartford Investment Management currently operates as a subsidiary of the Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Brion Scott Johnson heads the company as the President and CIO and the company now has 358 employees with 226 of them being investment professionals. Hartford Investment Management Company conducts its research internally, utilizing long/short strategies with value investing to make its investment decisions. The company invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets on a global scale, benchmarking its performance against various Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch, S&P 500, Russell, and MSCI Indexes. Hartford Investment Management invests most heavily in the information technology sector, which alone makes up approximately a fifth of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the finance, health care, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, industrials, energy, and utilities and telecommunications sectors, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. The company currently holds over $113 billion in total assets under management spread across 226 accounts, all of which are discretionary except for 5 that make up a minor $100 million of its assets. Both of Hartford Investment Management’s total number of accounts and total assets under management have been decreasing in recent years with its total assets under management being once as high as $168.7 billion. The company mainly caters to insurance companies, which alone makes up over half of its client base, and also provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans and pooled investment vehicles, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing clientele. Hartford Investment Management’s family of funds currently includes its Capital Appreciation, Healthcare, Growth opportunities, Emerging Markets Equity, International Value, Real Total Return, High Yield, and Growth Allocation funds, among many others.