GUGGENHEIM CAPITAL LLC

The Guggenheim Capital company can trace its history back to 1881 when began investing in silver and lead mines, controlling over 80% of the world’s total supply of gold, silver, and lead by the early 1900s. Meyer’s sons would restructure the company in 1916, renaming it Guggenheim Brothers. Guggenheim would grows as accompany focused on innovations, bankrolling Robert Goddard’s research on rockets the lead to modern rocketry and partnering with Frank Lloyd Wright to create the Guggenheim Museum, one of the most recognizable buildings in the world. The company would grow and expand into investment management. Guggenheim Capital today is a financial services and investment management holding company that operates largely through its subsidiaries that include Guggenheim Partners, Guggenheim Investment Advisors, Links Securities, and Liberty Hampshire. Guggenheim Partners and Guggenheim Investment Advisors, as their names suggest, provide investment, asset management, and advisory services to its clients. Guggenheim Partners now has over $240 billion in total assets under management alone, employing over 2500 employees in over 25 offices located around the world, including Dubai, Dublin, Mumbai, Tokyo, London, and Singapore, with headquarters in Chicago and New York. Guggenheim Investments actually acts as the global asset management and investment advisory division of Guggenheim Partners, focusing on “the return and risk needs of insurance companies, corporate and public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, consultants, wealth managers, and high-net-worth investors.” Links Securities acts as a brokerage firm and Liberty Hampshire provides conduit services to financial institutions. Some of the other sub subsidiaries include Guggenheim Securities, providing advisory, financing, sales and trading, and research operations, and Guggenheim Insurance Services that provides advising for asset liability management, M&A strategy and execution, cost structure benchmarks, and others to insurance companies. Some of the mutual funds held under operating subsidiaries include Floating Rate Strategies, Municipal Income, Event Driven and Distressed Strategies, World Equity Income, and Rydex S&P 500, among many others. Its ETFs include its BulletShares Corporate Bond and High Yield Corporate Bond ETFs that range from 2015 to 2022, Emerging Markets Real Estate, and a variety of S&P 500 and Russell Equal Weight ETFs, among others.