Englewood, CO, May 16, 2018 – Wakefield Asset Management, LLLP, is pleased to announce that our Wakefield Small Cap Equity Portfolio was named as a Top Gun in 16 categories by Informa Investment Solutions’ PSN manager database for performance returns for the quarter ended March 31, 2018. The Small Cap Portfolio is managed by G. Todd Gervasini, the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer for Wakefield Asset Management, LLLP.

The awards for the Small Cap Equity Portfolio include:

• Bull/Bear Master within the Small Cap and Small Cap Core Universes based on Upside/Downside Capture Ratio over the prior 3 years
• Top ten performer within the Small Cap and Small Cap Core Universes based on 3-year rolling performance, 5-year correlation to the benchmark, below average standard deviation among peers and information ratio (6 Stars)
• Top ten performer within the Small Cap and Small Cap Core Universes based on 3-year rolling performance, 5-year correlation to the benchmark and below average standard deviation among peers (5 Stars)
• Top ten performer within the Small Cap and Small Cap Core Universes based on 3-year performance and 5-year correlation to the benchmark (4 Stars)
• Top ten performer within the Small Cap Core, Small-Mid Core and Small-Mid Cap and US Core Universes based on 3-year performance return (3 Stars)
• Top ten performer within the Small Cap Core and Small-Mid Core Universe based on one-year performance return (2 Stars)
• Top ten performer within the Small Cap Core Universe based on most recent quarter performance (1 Star)

Wakefield Asset Management, LLLP is a bottom-up research driven firm offering a unique investment strategy that stands apart from the mainstream investment community. Focusing on proprietary investment techniques, Wakefield captures inefficiencies over time using a highly disciplined and technologically advanced process for research, security selection, implementation, and monitoring. Headquartered near Denver, Colorado, Wakefield is a 100% employee owned SEC registered investment advisor managing separately managed accounts, primarily for high-net worth individuals, family offices, and institutions.

Past performance is not indicative of future results. Investing involves multiple risks, including but not limited to the risk of the permanent loss of capital. Adviser makes no guarantees or promissory representations as to the performance of any investment. Wakefield Large Cap Equity composite returns are used in the PSN investment manager questionnaire. Actual results may differ from the composite results depending on the size of the account, investment objectives, restrictions, transaction and related costs, the inception and date of the account and other factors.

About Informa Investment Solutions’ PSN Top Guns List: Utilizing a proprietary blend of Informa Investment Solutions’ top priority performance screens, PSN Top Guns ranks products in six proprietary star categories in over 50 universes. This is a highly anticipated quarterly ranking and is widely used by institutional asset managers and investors. The complete list of PSN Top Guns and an overview of the methodology can be located on http://www.informais.com/resources/psn-top-guns. For more details on the methodology behind the PSN Top Guns Rankings contact Ruth Calderon at ruth.calderon@informais.com.

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The Large Cap Core Equity universe is comprised of 210 managers with 358 strategies.

The Large Cap Equity universe is comprised of 556 managers with 1228 strategies

The US Core universe is comprised of 314 managers with 779 strategies.

The peer groups were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and uses only gross of fee returns. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim that they are GIPs compliant.

6 STAR CATEGORY: Products must have an R-Squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the recent five-year period. Moreover, products must have returns greater than the style benchmark for the three latest three-year rolling periods. After that they select only the products which standard deviation for the five-year period is equal or less than the median standard deviation for the peer group. The top ten information ratios for the latest five-year period then become the TOP GUNS.

5 STAR CATEGORY: Products must have an R-Squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the recent five-year period. Moreover, products must have returns greater than the style benchmark for the three latest three-year rolling periods. After that they select only the products which standard deviation for the five-year period is equal or less than the median standard deviation for the peer group. The top ten returns for the latest three-year period then become the TOP GUNS.

4 STAR CATEGORY: Products must have an R Squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the recent five year period. Moreover, products must have returns greater than the style benchmark for the three latest three year rolling periods. The top ten returns for the latest three-year period then become the TOP GUNS.

3 STAR CATEGORY: Top ten performers are strictly based on returns for three-year period.

2 STAR CATEGORY: Top ten performers within their respective universes are strictly based on returns for the one-year period.

1 STAR CATEGORY: Top ten performers are strictly based on returns for the most recent quarter.

Bull & Bear Masters: Products must have an R-Squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the recent three-year period. Moreover, products must have an Upside Market Capture ratio of 100 or more for the latest three-year period, and Downside Market Capture ratio of 100 or less for the latest three-year period. The top ten Ratios between Upside Market Capture Ratio and Downside Capture Ratio became the PSN Bull & Bear Masters products.