Tim Escott

National commercial bank

BNY Mellon Wealth Management believes that consistently superior returns can be achieved through a focus on superior stock selection. The firm combines asset classes that unite long-term views, short-term insights and a robust design to help clients successfully achieve their goals in a variety of market environments.

Buckhead Capital aims to achieve long-term goals by building portfolios that are designed to outperform the market with less overall risk. The firm invests primarily in traditional equity securities (common and preferred stocks and equivalents) and fixed income securities. Their main equity portfolio strategies focus on mid and large-cap stocks, while their principal fixed income strategy focuses on high quality government, agency, corporate, mortgage, and municipal debt securities. With regards to their equity strategies, Buckhead Capital performs bottom-up, fundamentally-focused analysis to identify securities that trade at attractive valuation multiples, have solid underlying business fundamentals, and have catalysts that will likely drive both the company’s business and its price. Their fixed income strategies utilize both a bottom-up and a top-down approach to investing.

Provides investment advice

Wachovia Capital Management (WCM) invests primarily in the stocks of US large-cap companies in the health technology, consumer non-durables, energy minerals and finance sectors. The firm maintains a very low turnover rate. WCM's Advantage approach incorporates traditional equity and fixed-income managers, as well as alternative investments in hedge funds, real estate, commodities and private equity funds. The firm coordinates both asset allocation and manager selection with a focus on the efficiency and correlation of the investment managers they use.

Functions as a College/University

Maple Capital creates portfolios for their clients using individual stocks, bonds, mutual funds and/or ETFs. Their investment philosophy is based on the premise that equity market inefficiencies can result in stocks trading at significant discounts or premiums to their intrinsic values. Bonds are used in client accounts to generate income and preserve capital. The firm utilizes quantitative and qualitative methods to perform due diligence screening and selection of open- and closed-end mutual funds and exchange trades funds (ETFs).

Functions as a College/University