Individual Investor ADVISOR CENTER OUR FIRM OUR PRODUCTS OUR PERSPECTIVES SERVICES SEARCH Mutual Funds Home Products NAVs & Assets Performance Yields Distributions Literature Resources HOME MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT PROCESS Team of Investment Teams An example from the military describes our dynamic investment process. DOWNLOAD REPORT The structure, organization, and decision-making process of our investment team can help explain performance. Inside Guggenheim’s Team of Investment Teams In his book, “Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World,” General Stanley McChrystal explained how, as head of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) operating in Iraq and Afghanistan, he created an organizational model that could contend with a new kind of unconventional adversary that was decentralized, fast-moving, and networked. McChrystal called the organizational structure that he developed “The Team of Teams.” This phrase also aptly describes the dynamics of the Guggenheim investment process. For an organization to respond to a complex system like the intertwined global economy and financial markets, our team-based investment process must be able to evaluate dense data patterns and a diverse array of linkages and connections to make investment decisions. The same process is followed for all of our actively managed fixed-income vehicles, from institutional separate accounts to packaged investment products. Report Highlights: We created our team-based approach in order to make better decisions and express our best ideas in actively managed portfolios. The dynamism of this process is captured in the formal and informal interaction of our four specialized teams: Macroeconomic Research, Sector Teams, Portfolio Construction, and Portfolio Management. Constant communication within each of the investment teams, as well as between and among the teams, is essential. Similarly, Gen. McChrystal created a process that fostered constant communication between teams of specialists. Whether markets are moving quickly, like during the pandemic market volatility, or when they are less volatile, the same disciplined process is called upon to make investment decisions. We believe that our investment process is predictable, repeatable, and scalable. DOWNLOAD REPORT About Guggenheim Investments $259+ Billion Total Assets* $225 Billion** Fixed Income Assets 260+ Investment Professionals** 845+ Guggenheim Investments Employees** 10 Investment Sector Teams*** Important Notices and Disclosures Dry powder refers to highly liquid assets, such as cash or money market instruments, that can be invested when more attractive investment opportunities arise. 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Any adverse event could materially and negatively impact the value and performance of our strategies and their ability to achieve their investment objectives. Investments in fixed-income instruments are subject to the possibility that interest rates could rise, causing their values to decline. High yield and unrated debt securities are at a greater risk of default than investment grade bonds and may be less liquid, which may increase volatility. *Assets under management as of 9.30.2021 and include leverage of $17.9bn. Guggenheim Investments represents the following affiliated investment management businesses of Guggenheim Partners, LLC: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC, Security Investors, LLC, Guggenheim Funds Distributors, LLC, Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC, Guggenheim Corporate Funding, LLC, Guggenheim Partners Europe Limited, Guggenheim Partners Fund Management (Europe) Limited, Guggenheim Partners Japan Limited, GS GAMMA Advisors, LLC, and Guggenheim Partners India Management. ** 9.30.2021 *** Investment-Grade Corporate Credit, High-Yield Corporate bonds, Bank Loans, ABS & CLOs, Non-Agency RMBS, CMBS, CRE Debt, Municipals, Agency RMBS, Rates The Funds may not be suitable for all investors. • The Funds' market value will change in response to interest rate changes and market conditions, among other factors. 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