Firm Description
AIM is a Missouri limited liability company. Prior to January 2014, the Adviser was registered with the
SEC as Catholic Healthcare Investment Management Company (“CHIMCO”), a Missouri non-profit
corporation, using “Ascension Investment Management” as its primary business name. In order to
effectuate a change in the Adviser’s form of organization, substantially all of the assets and liabilities of
CHIMCO were transferred to AIM and AIM succeeded to the registration of CHIMCO in January 2014.
There were no changes to the Adviser’s ownership in connection with this transaction and the same
investment personnel continued to be responsible for the day-to-day management of the advisory
business.
Ascension Health Alliance, a Missouri nonprofit corporation (“Ascension”) organized for charitable,
religious, educational and scientific purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), is the ultimate parent company of AIM and Ascension
Health, a Missouri nonprofit corporation. As such, AIM is affiliated with Ascension Health, a leading
non-profit Catholic health system. Before 2011, employees of CHIMCO (now AIM) were employed by
Ascension Health’s Treasury Services and Investment Group. The rationale for creating CHIMCO was to
use existing in-house investment management expertise to manage directly the assets of its affiliates
rather than relying solely on external asset consultants and to offer investment management expertise and
access to independent money managers to other selected institutional investors.
AIM is managed by its executive officers, who are subject to oversight by a board composed of
Ascension’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Ascension Capital’s President/Chief Executive
Officer, Ascension’s Executive Vice President/Chief Financial Officer, and Ascension Capital’s
Executive Board Chair.
Principal Owner
AIM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ascension Capital, LLC (“Ascension Capital”), a Missouri limited
liability company. Prior to July 2019, AIM was a wholly owned direct subsidiary of Ascension. In July
2019, the ownership of AIM was restructured so that Ascension Capital became the sole owner of AIM.
Ascension Capital is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ascension. Ascension remains the ultimate parent
company of AIM and the same personnel continue to be responsible for the day-to-day management of
AIM’s advisory business.
Types of Advisory Services
AIM provides investment advice and consulting to institutional investors through a commingled
investment vehicle as well as through the use of separate accounts. Adviser serves as manager and
primary investment adviser to a private fund organized as a Delaware limited liability company (the
"Fund"). In its capacity as manager of the Fund, Adviser initiates new investments in the Fund and
manages the affairs and investments of the Fund. Adviser also provides non-discretionary asset allocation
advice to Fund investors upon request. Entities that are accredited investors and qualified clients may be
solicited on a private basis to invest in the Fund according to the terms of the Fund's confidential private
placement memorandum.
AIM has three primary areas of focus:
1) Investment advisory services, which can be utilized by the client as follows:
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a. AIM accepts full discretion with authority to make investment decisions on behalf of the
client,
including asset allocation, due diligence and selection of investment managers and
private funds, and rebalances to established risk and return targets;
b. AIM accepts discretion to manage client assets within long-term asset allocation
guidelines and ranges established by the client;
c. AIM accepts discretion to manage assets within certain asset classes selected by the
client. For example, a foundation that desires to invest in hedge funds may elect to invest
in a portfolio of hedge funds selected by AIM, which avoids the duplicative costs and low
transparency of a typical fund of hedge funds; or
d. The client retains full discretion over all asset allocation and investment manager
decisions, and AIM provides advice with respect to the selection of investments or
managers within the scope of work set by the client. In certain circumstances, AIM may
be able to provide economies of scale and access to investment managers at a lower cost
than typically would be available to the client individually.
2) Administration, which can be helpful to an institutional client’s finance staff as follows:
a. Monthly reports of investment transactions;
b. Assistance with accounting disclosures;
c. Managing cash flows and rebalancing (for example, using transition managers or
derivative instruments to hedge or maintain exposure during a transition);
d. Investment manager administration and liaison;
e. Custodian bank administration and liaison; and
f. Investment performance reporting.
3) Socially Responsible Investing (SRI): AIM manages clients’ assets by selecting investments
that conform to an SRI policy that AIM believes promote Catholic values. AIM typically applies
an SRI policy to investments through its ability to establish separate accounts with independent
managers who agree to invest subject to the SRI policy, through its ability to “opt out” of private
investments that do not meet the SRI policy on a case-by-case basis, or through its ability to
engage managers who are willing to create new SRI share classes of private funds for AIM
clients. AIM has the resources and the commitment to monitor and follow the managers’
adherence to the SRI policy on an ongoing basis using AIM’s internal staff. The universe of
acceptable investments for investors who apply an SRI policy will be reduced as a result of
investments that are excluded because they do not comply with the guidelines set forth in the SRI
policy.
Under AIM’s SRI policy, AIM performs an initial screen of potential new managers as part of its
due diligence process and monitors clients’ portfolios periodically on an ongoing, best efforts
basis. AIM may permit a manager to continue to hold securities that no longer meet its SRI
criteria while corrective action is being taken (such as, for example, if AIM believes that the
issuer is taking steps to address its non-compliance or to allow the investment manager adequate
time to sell the security in a commercially reasonable manner at an attractive price). In addition,
a commingled investment vehicle in which AIM clients and outside third parties invest may hold
up to 10% of its portfolio in securities that do not meet individual security or country restrictions
in the SRI policy.
Assets Under Management
As of June 30, 2023, AIM managed $24,386,690,486 in assets on a discretionary basis and
$15,673,493,043 in assets on a non-discretionary basis.
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