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   PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW (As of Dec 31, 2011)   

  
  • Style Benchmark: Barclays Capital Aggregate
  • Style Assets: $663 million
  • Average Duration: 3.5 - 5.5 years
  

 
   FIRM INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY
 		  
   Theoretically, the yield curve has a "normal" shape of a gradual, upward-sloping curve. After a yield curve has been distorted or torqued by cyclical, monetary or market pressures, it will tend to revert to its normal shape as these forces weaken or disappear. PIA's investment discipline of risk-adjusting the yield curve is based on the recognition of the inefficiencies created by those cyclical forces. Our investment process was designed to exploit these inefficiencies by capitalizing on the periodic opportunities to achieve above average yields adjusted for risk and the potential for capital gains, as the yield curve reverts to its normal shape.   

 
   SECTOR ALLOCATION (As of Dec 31, 2011)   

 
  

  

  PORTFOLIO CHARACTERISTICS (As of Dec 31, 2011)
  PIA
 		Barclays Capital Agg
Duration 4.2 yrs 4.7 yrs
Wtd. Avg. Life 5.8 yrs 7.0 yrs
Avg. Credit Rating AAA AA+
* Return and yield information available upon request.
   INVESTMENT PROCESS
  
  
Our methodology analyzes the shapes of the yield curves for all the major bond market sectors. While the concept of a "yield curve" is generally associated with Treasury securities, an important aspect of PIA's investment process is our application of yield curve analysis to other yield curves such as those in the industrial, financial, government agency and mortgage-backed sectors. We maintain and analyze a database of over 75 bond market sectors, which provides insight into the probabilistic nature of shifts in these yield curves.

We structure portfolios to emphasize sectors that we believe are most likely to benefit from declines in relative yields as the various yield curves revert to their normal shape. We view a sector of the yield curve to be attractive when it provides above average yield after adjusting for risk. We structure portfolio maturities based on the shape of the "risk-adjusted" yield curve. Normally, when the yield curve is steep, portfolio maturities tend to be longer than average. When the yield curve is flat or inverted, portfolio maturities tend to be shorter than average.

The Bond Strategy Group meets to review the credit quality of portfolio holdings and analyze securities under consideration. We employ several strategies to select securities within the undervalued sectors. Optimization and barbell/bullet strategies are used to select Treasury securities. For corporate fixed income securities, we employ fundamental analysis combined with analysis of the credit-spread curve. We select Mortgage-backed securities utilizing several quantitative measures including: OAS analysis, cash flow sensitivities, effective duration, convexity, and prepayment and volatility durations.

PIA purchases securities that assist in achieving the composition goals of the portfolio, i.e. a) securities that are consistent with the client's governing Statement of Guidelines; b) securities in sectors that we rank as undervalued on a risk-adjusted basis. We construct investment grade portfolios utilizing all major fixed income sectors, which include Treasury, Agency, Corporate, Asset- backed and Mortgage-backed securities. PIA will sell a security if it and/or its sector appreciates on a relative price basis and becomes overvalued on a risk-adjusted basis.

  
 

Fixed Income Index Definition (The Index) — Last Updated Feb 19, 2010

Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an unmanaged index that covers the investment grade fixed rate bond market with index components for government and corporate securities, mortgage pass-through securities, and asset-backed securities. The issues must be rated investment grade, be publicly traded, and meet certain maturity and issue size requirements. You can not invest directly in an index.

The portfolio characteristics shown above relate to a single account as of the date noted above, deemed by Pacific Income Advisers to be generally representative of its standard account. Not every client’s account will have these exact characteristics. The actual characteristics with respect to any particular client account will vary based on a number of factors including but not limited to: (i) the size of the account; (ii) investment restrictions applicable to the account, if any; and (iii) market exigencies at the time of investment. The supplemental information compliments the Composite’s full disclosure presentation.