Carlos Yearwood

Founded in 1993, IFS Securities, Inc. is an independent, full-service, registered broker-dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm is a subsidiary of IFS Group, Inc. Their Capital Markets operations is managed from their Equity Trading Desk in Orlando, Florida and their Fixed Income Desk in Chicago. IFS Securities' institutional fixed-income sales and trading operations offer a high level of personalized oversight from pre-trade analysis to completion and settlement of a variety of securities. The fixed-income desk provides competitive bids and offers by maintaining constant contact with customer portfolios and the Street. Through their relationships with money managers, corporations, financial institutions, and corporate and public treasurers, the company can provide the best possible bid-offer spreads. The firm's trading desk is a diversified operation, offering such products as: Government securities, investment-grade corporate securities, corporate bonds, money-market instruments, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, and municipal securities. IFS Securities' equity sales and trading desk focuses on responsive order execution for exchange-listed services, as well as routinely executed third-market trades. Over-the-counter orders are executed on an agency basis through their access to the Level III NASDAQ system. Stock Repurchase Programs for major corporations are executed as directed by the client and in compliance with SEC Rule 10b.18. Sales and trading services include both domestic and international equity executions as well as stock buy-back services. The IFS Equity Research Group analyzes markets, securities and economics to provide insights and analysis for their clients. Services provided by the IFS Equity Research Group include: market analysis, theme reports, proprietary daily commentaries, company-specific initiating research reports/results updates, sector allocation and model portfolios, and integration of sector research with macro coverage of industries. IFS Securities covers companies with up to $1 billion market cap (average is $600 million) that have a double-digit growth rate objective. The 120 companies they track include: innovative/disruptive technologies (industrial, IT/internet and healthcare/life sciences) and public companies based in Georgia.