Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (“Columbia Management Investment Advisers”), through its
predecessors, was organized in Minnesota in 1985 and is a subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (“Ameriprise
Financial”), which owns 100% of the voting interests of the firm. This Brochure describes the investment advisory
services offered by Columbia Management Investment Advisers and the words “we,” “our,” “us,” “the firm,” “our firm”
and similar words mean Columbia Management Investment Advisers. We are providing this Brochure to persons who
receive or who may receive investment advisory services from us in order to ensure compliance with the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”).
Our General Services
We offer professional advisory services on a discretionary or non-discretionary basis and related services including
trading, cash management and reporting. In addition to traditional advisory services, the services we provide may include
asset-liability management, investment accounting, credit-analysis, and asset allocation services. Nearly all of the
advisory services we provide involve continuous investment advice based on the stated investment objectives and policies
of each client. Our firm does not specialize in any one particular type of advisory service. In certain cases, we hire other
investment advisers to provide discretionary advisory services to our clients in a subadvised capacity. The subadvisers we
hire may be affiliated or non-affiliated. Moreover, while we do not offer financial planning services, we do prepare market
updates that are made available to our clients and to our affiliate that provides financial planning services, Ameriprise
Financial Services, LLC (“Ameriprise Financial Services”). We also provide information that is used by Ameriprise
Financial Services in developing certain asset allocation and financial planning tools. The advisory services we offer are
provided to non-affiliated clients and to our affiliates, including Ameriprise Financial and its subsidiaries.
The discretionary advisory services we offer are available directly to clients who have an investment management
agreement with us. The investment management agreement incorporates investment restrictions and guidelines developed
in consultation with each client as well as any additional services required by the client. These restrictions and guidelines
customarily impose limitations on the types of securities that may be purchased and the percentage of account assets that
may be invested in certain types of securities. Clients may also choose to restrict investment in specific securities or
groups of securities for social, environmental or other reasons. As of December 31, 2023, the amount of client assets
managed (reported as Regulatory Assets Under Management) on a discretionary basis was $426.3 billion and the amount
of client assets managed on a non-discretionary basis was $783.6 million. In addition, we provide investment advisory
services to over $35.1 billion assets within various model delivery programs.
Prospective clients or investors may also choose to obtain our services indirectly by purchasing a securities product that
we or an affiliate advise or subadvise, such as a Private Fund (as defined under “Types of Clients” and which, depending
upon its strategy, may be referred to as a hedge fund), a collective trust fund, an exchange traded fund (“ETF”), a
collateralized loan obligation (“CLO”), a Non-U.S. Fund (as defined under “Types of Clients”) or open-end or closed-end
investment company (each a “Fund”), rather than establishing a direct investment advisory relationship with us. This is
common in the case of retail investors, who typically access our services indirectly by investing in certain of the Funds we
manage, but may also be an attractive investment option for institutional clients.
Clients or prospective clients who are eligible for multiple products or services should consider whether similar or
comparable services are available at a lower overall cost through a different product or service type. Prospective clients
may also wish to consider the different levels of liquidity and transparency of underlying holdings, as well as the different
tax attributes that may be associated with certain products and services. Clients or investors should consider these product
features and their own specific needs and circumstances in identifying the most suitable investment vehicle or investment
services from the available alternatives.
Services Provided to Non-U.S. Clients
We may also act as an investment adviser or subadviser and may conduct marketing activity with respect to clients and
prospective clients domiciled in foreign jurisdictions in some instances without maintaining regulatory licenses or
registrations in those jurisdictions to the extent permitted by applicable law. Clients and prospective clients in these
jurisdictions should consider whether the regulatory framework of their own jurisdiction as it applies to them imposes
restrictions on hiring an investment adviser that does not hold local regulatory licenses or registrations. Clients and
prospective clients should also consider whether the regulatory framework we are subject to provides sufficient
protections given that we may not be subject to the regulatory framework they are familiar with in their own jurisdiction.
Global Asset Management
As we seek to enhance our investment capabilities and the support services provided to our clients, we may utilize
services from, and provide services to, some of our U.S. affiliates (“U.S. Advisory Affiliates”) and non-U.S. affiliates
(“Non-U.S. Advisory Affiliates”).
For example, we engage certain of our U.S. Advisory Affiliates and Non-U.S. Advisory Affiliates that engage in
investment advisory services (collectively, “Advisory Affiliates”) to provide (jointly or in coordination with us) services
relating to client relations, investment monitoring, account administration, investment research, trading and discretionary
investment management (including portfolio management and risk management) to certain of our clients and accounts we
manage, including certain Funds and separately managed accounts. In some circumstances, an Advisory Affiliate may
delegate responsibility for providing those services to another Advisory Affiliate. In addition, we provide certain similar
services to our Advisory Affiliates for accounts they manage. Under personnel-sharing and other arrangements, our
personnel may act on behalf of one of our U.S. Advisory Affiliates for purposes of providing some of those services for
that U.S. Advisory Affiliate to its clients, such as funds and/or separately managed accounts, and some of our U.S.
Advisory Affiliates’ personnel may act on behalf of our clients, including Funds and separately managed accounts.
Certain of our employees and officers are also officers of certain U.S. Advisory Affiliates, and employees and officers of
our U.S. Advisory Affiliates are also officers of ours.
We believe that harnessing the collective expertise of our firm and our Advisory Affiliates benefits our clients. In this
regard, we have certain portfolio management, trading, research, distribution and client servicing teams at both our firm
and certain of our Advisory Affiliates (through subadvisory, delegation or other intercompany arrangements) operating
jointly to provide a better client experience. These joint teams use expanded and shared capabilities, including the sharing
of research and other information by investment personnel (e.g., portfolio managers, analysts and traders) relating to
economic perspectives, market analysis and equity and fixed income securities analysis. The joint teams also have
expanded capabilities to provide services in various local or regional markets.
To facilitate the collaborative approach noted above, we have entered into subadvisory agreements, delegation
agreements, intercompany agreements and “participating affiliate” arrangements with certain of our Non-U.S. Advisory
Affiliates, including Threadneedle International Ltd. (“TINTL”), Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd. (“TAML”),
Threadneedle Management Luxembourg S.A. (“TMLSA”), Threadneedle Investments Singapore (Pte.) Limited (“TIS”),
Threadneedle Investments Services Limited (“TISL”), Columbia Threadneedle Management Limited (“CTML”),
Columbia Threadneedle Fund Management Limited (“CTFML”), Columbia Threadneedle Investment Business Limited
(“CTIBL”), Columbia Threadneedle Netherlands B.V. (“CTNL”), Pyrford International Ltd (“Pyrford”), Thames River
Capital LLP (“Thames”) and Ameriprise India, LLP (“Ameriprise India”), each of which, like us, is a direct or indirect
wholly-owned investment advisory subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial. Each of TINTL, TAML, TMLSA, TIS, CTML,
CTIL, CTFML, CTIBL, CTNL, Thames and Pyrford is registered with the appropriate respective regulators in their home
jurisdictions and Ameriprise India is exempt from such registration. In addition, each of TINTL CTML, and Pyrford is
also registered with the SEC as an investment adviser and TINTL is also registered with the United States Commodity
Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) as a commodity trading advisor.
As part of any “participating affiliate” arrangements, certain employees of our Non-U.S. Advisory Affiliates serve as
“associated persons” of ours when providing certain of these services to our clients, including placing orders for trade
execution, and in this capacity are subject to our oversight and supervision. To the extent that we so engage one or more
of our Non-U.S. Advisory Affiliates in this manner, we remain responsible for and oversee the services provided by
employees of such Non-U.S. Advisory Affiliates(s) to our clients.
In addition to relationships with our Non-U.S. Advisory Affiliates, we have entered into subadvisory agreements,
personnel-sharing agreements, delegation agreements and/or other intercompany arrangements for portfolio management
and certain investment-related services, which may include placing orders for trade execution and/or research sharing with
certain of our U.S. Advisory Affiliates, including Columbia Wanger Asset Management, LLC (“Columbia Wanger”),
Lionstone Partners, LLC (“Lionstone”), and Columbia Cent CLO Advisers, LLC (“CCCA”), each of which is an SEC-
registered investment adviser.
In addition, we may provide certain investment-related support services to Advisory Affiliates and their clients. These
Advisory Affiliates may also provide certain similar services to us and our clients. Such support services include, but are
not limited to, traditional “middle office” and utility functions, such as trade processing, valuation, proxy voting
administration and client and regulatory reporting.
Retail Managed Account Program Services
We also provide discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services in connection with wrap fee programs,
including dual contract programs (“Retail Managed Account Programs”). The Retail Managed Account Programs we
participate in may be sponsored by affiliated or non-affiliated entities and may involve strategies of other outside
managers in addition to our own. In these arrangements, the Retail Managed Account Program sponsor typically has
primary responsibility for client communications and service.
In wrap fee programs, sponsors provide bundled services to clients for a specified fee not based directly upon transactions
in a client’s account. The client enters into an advisory agreement with the program sponsor, and the program sponsor
enters into an agreement with us. We do not have an agreement directly with the wrap fee program client. We provide
discretionary and non-discretionary advisory services through wrap fee programs.
In dual contract programs, sponsors
generally provide bundled services (aside from investments management) and impose
fee structures in a manner similar to other wrap fee programs. The client enters into an investment management agreement
directly with us and a separate agreement with the program sponsor. We provide discretionary investment advisory
services through dual contract programs.
When we provide non-discretionary investment advisory services in a Retail Managed Account Program, we deliver
investment strategies in the form of investment models (“Model-Delivered Strategies”) to the program sponsor and/or
another investment adviser retained by the program sponsor, commonly referred to as an “overlay manager”. The program
sponsor or the overlay manager exercises discretion over client accounts in the Retail Managed Account Program. In
these programs, we provide periodically updated Model-Delivered Strategies to the overlay manager and/or Retail
Managed Account Program sponsor who then exercises discretion and decides whether and how to implement the Model-
Delivered Strategy in a client account which may be made up of other separately managed account strategies and/or
securities products. Therefore, the sponsor or overlay manager may or may not utilize the specific holdings or changes
imbedded in our Model-Delivered Strategies as and when received from us in connection with their management of their
client accounts. In these arrangements, we do not typically have discretion to implement the changes imbedded within our
Model-Delivered Strategies; however, some overlay managers and program sponsors, pursuant to our contract with them,
may be required to implement our services exactly as provided, while maintaining discretion with respect to brokerage.
We do not have an adviser-client relationship with clients participating in these Retail Managed Account Programs when
providing non-discretionary advisory services, nor do we have access to the identity of clients or the composition of a
client’s account. For any Retail Managed Account Program through which we provide Model-Delivered Strategies, we
cannot and do not provide any investment services that are intended to be individualized or suitable or fiduciary in nature
for any specific account within the program.
Any changes in a separately managed account strategy provided to the sponsor or overlay manager through a Model-
Delivered Strategy may also reflect investment recommendations we have made to our other clients for whose accounts
we do have investment discretion and we may be trading at the same time, or before or after the sponsor or overlay
manager acts on changes to a separately managed account strategy we have provided. As a result, our clients or the
overlay manager’s clients may be advantaged or disadvantaged in the marketplace due to execution timing, price
movements, large orders or thinly traded securities.
We may also participate in “hybrid” arrangements that have one or more aspects of these types of Retail Managed
Account Programs.
Clients in Retail Managed Account Programs and other client accounts following a strategy with the same name managed
by the same portfolio management team may be managed differently. For example, a strategy designed for Retail
Managed Account Programs may be structured to hold fewer securities positions than would be held in another client
account following a strategy with the same name managed by the same portfolio management team. Also, the Program
sponsor may impose investment restrictions or administrative requirements upon us in managing accounts that could
cause those accounts to be managed differently from other client accounts in the same strategy managed by the same
portfolio management team that were not subject to those restrictions or requirements. For example, if a Program sponsor
or client imposes investment restrictions on an account for which we provide discretionary advisory services which
prohibits investment in a security that is held in the selected strategy, the security will not be replaced with a comparable
security and the client’s account will hold a larger cash position than other clients in that strategy. Finally, as described in
the section entitled “Trade Aggregation, Allocation and Partial Fills on a Trading Desk”, there are differences in the
trading procedures for accounts in a Retail Managed Account Program compared to other accounts.
Where we provide investment management services in Retail Managed Account Programs that include mutual funds or
other products that are also advised by us, we will provide such services to the extent permitted by applicable law,
including the Employee Retirement Act of 1974 (“ERISA”). As a result of applicable laws, including ERISA, we may be
limited in the scope and timing of our advice, including potentially restricting our ability to provide advice that we would
otherwise seek to implement. Furthermore, when we deliver our investment models on a non-discretionary basis to
financial intermediaries for their consideration, we do not intend to act, and are not acting, as a fiduciary to those
intermediaries or any clients of such intermediaries unless we have specifically agreed otherwise. We generally do not
have sufficient information to be a fiduciary in such situations.
Retail Managed Account Program clients, with assistance from the Program sponsor or their financial adviser, may select
us to provide investment advisory services for their account (or a portion thereof) for a particular strategy. When we have
investment discretion, we normally rely on information provided by the Program sponsor or financial adviser about a
client’s individual needs and financial situation when accepting clients into a strategy.
The Program sponsor pays us a portion of the fee it receives from its clients for our services. More information about
Retail Managed Account Program fees we receive can be found in the “Fees and Compensation” section that follows and
a list of the Retail Managed Account Programs and Program sponsors we have arrangements with can be found in Part 1A
of our Form ADV.
For more information about potential conflicts of interest in providing advisory services through retail Managed Account
Programs that include Columbia funds please see “Code of Ethics, Participation or Interest in Client Transactions and
Personal Trading - Products Sold or Managed by Us in Which We Have an Interest”.
Global Investment Solutions Services
Our Global Investment Solutions offering uses a consultative approach to deliver multi-asset solutions tailored to specific
client needs and objectives. Each account is designed as a bespoke solution managed by a dedicated team of portfolio
construction specialists, manager research experts and asset allocation professionals. Our investment process aligns the
source of return with different types of risk and time horizons, and utilizes three investment components – Strategic Asset
Allocation, Tactical Asset Allocation and Manager Selection - in the construction and design of our multi asset solutions.
Global Investment Solutions has a research-driven philosophy that applies research intensity across the range of
opportunities, combined with an open architecture approach and sophisticated portfolio construction. We cover all global
asset classes, with both internally and externally managed strategies. Our capabilities include active, passive, traditional,
alternative, and real asset investments in both public and private formats. Information regarding the fees for this service
can be found in the “Fees and Compensation” section. A specific application of Global Investment Solutions is Fiduciary
Management/OCIO where an asset owner delegates overall investment authority to our Global Investment Solutions team.
Client portfolios are customized to specific investment policy statements and portfolios are managed toward specific
return and volatility objectives.
Offering Brands
In marketing our services to prospective clients, we use Columbia Threadneedle Investments, the global brand of the
Columbia and Threadneedle group of companies.
We may also use various other offering brands. Columbia Threadneedle Investments North America is the operating
division within our firm that we market to institutional clients. Columbia Threadneedle Investments North America and
Columbia Management Capital Advisers claim compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®).
Columbia Management Capital Advisers is the operating division within our firm that we market to Retail Managed
Account Programs. In accordance with GIPS®, all fee-paying discretionary (as defined by GIPS®) accounts within
Columbia Threadneedle Investments North America and Columbia Management Capital Advisers are included in one or
more composites that consist of accounts with similar objectives, strategies and risk tolerances. GIPS® also sets forth
requirements for calculating and presenting investment manager performance in a fair and consistent manner. We also
market certain strategies and products under the Seligman brand, and from time to time we may market Seligman
Investments as an offering brand within Columbia Threadneedle Investments North America.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
Except in circumstances where an Advisory Affiliate is performing investment management, trading services, back or
middle office services or legal or compliance support for our accounts or we are providing similar services or support for
an Advisory Affiliate’s accounts, we do not otherwise share trade information with our Advisory Affiliates. Similarly, we
do not coordinate or allocate trading activities with the accounts of an Advisory Affiliate unless such affiliate is providing
trading services for our accounts or we are providing trading services for the Advisory Affiliate’s accounts. As a result, it
is possible that we and our Advisory Affiliates may trade in the same instruments at the same time, in the same or
opposite direction or in different sequence. Additionally, in circumstances where trading services are being provided on a
coordinated basis for our accounts and the accounts of one or more Advisory Affiliates in accordance with applicable law,
it is possible that the allocation opportunities available to our accounts may be decreased, especially for less actively
traded securities, or orders may take longer to execute.
As further detailed below under “Methods of Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss”, we maintain an internal
centralized research function for both equity and fixed-income strategies. Investment research we generate is shared with
certain of our Advisory Affiliates at the same time that research is distributed internally. In connection with the sharing of
relevant investment research among our Advisory Affiliates and, in providing services described above under “Global
Asset Management,” investment personnel may have access to nonpublic holdings information of our clients and certain
of our Advisory Affiliates’ clients. Portfolio managers of those Advisory Affiliates may decide to act on such research
before our own portfolio managers do. The sharing of this information may also lead us and certain of our Advisory
Affiliates to place orders in the same securities at the same or different times, if we and those Advisory Affiliates do not
have a collaborative arrangement in place for the relevant client accounts.
We have adopted policies and compliance controls that seek to ensure that our clients are treated fairly and equitably with
respect to trading and sharing of information among Advisory Affiliates. More information about how we identify,
mitigate and manage conflicts of interest can be found throughout this Brochure, and in particular, under “Our Approach
to Conflicts of Interest” and “Other Conflicts of Interest”.