David VonHolten

Founded in 1987, SAMCO Capital Markets, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Austin, Texas with additional offices in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, New York City and Edmund, Oklahoma. The firm specializes in serving financial institutions. Their expertise lies in public finance and trading, institutional sales, taxable fixed-income trading, high yield and public funds management. SAMCO provides advisory services to issuers of municipal debt in the Southwest and Southeast U.S. Their traders and underwriters make primary and secondary markets in municipal bonds on a national basis. The firm provides advisory services to issuers of municipal debt in the Southwestern and Southeastern U.S. SAMCO's institutional sales department provides coverage of both tier-one national accounts, regional banks and trust departments. They are a leading distributor in the Southwestern U.S. for bank-qualified new issuances. The firm is active in trading and positioning taxable fixed-income securities, including U.S. Treasuries, Agencies, mortgage backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, corporate securities and municipal bonds, including high yield. SAMCO's public funds management group specializes in investment, financial management and banking for public entities such as counties, cities and school districts.